Seanchaoz

It's the gold rated one. I know it's getting up there in age, but like I said, no issues up until the Windows reinstall a week ago. In addition, I saw forums posts from another user having the exact same problem, and they upgraded their PSU to a better one and the Power Usage problem still persisted on the GPU. PLUS... a new PSU means tearing the entire PC apart and rebuilding it all again with new cable management, for something that might very well not even be the issue. Not too keen on that unless absolutely the only solution Another user with also the same problem even RMA'd their GPU and got a new one, only to still have exactly the same issue. So I'm far more inclined to suspect it's a software problem. Why, where and what though has me stumped. Regardless, using Asus GPU Tweaker to reduce the Power Usage from 100% down to 90% has solved my problems. Haven't had a single crash after several hours game play in multiple different games that previous crashed within minutes. I'm not seeing any noticeable loss of performance either so... happy days I guess. I'm still irked at not understand why it happened in the first place, but new graphics drivers could be a culprit I guess, as I obviously installed new ones along with the Windows re-install. Or maybe my PSU really has lost capacity enough for it to finally be unable to supply the GPU with all it needs just as I do a system reinstall. Seems a bit too coincidental though, but can't rule it out. Either way, to those who run into similar issues, try reducing the Power Usage for your GPU slightly with whatever overclocking program you have. I didn't touch any of the other options, core clock, memory clock etc. remain default. I tried 80% at first, worked fine. 90% worked just as fine. 98% however did not, and caused a crash within less than a minute. So just go down/up incrementally until things go stable.

Oooookay… revelation. Saw another forum post talking about similar issues and mentioning power consumption. I just tried setting the Power Target % in GPU Tweak down from 100% to 80% and now my test game has been running for 10 minutes straight without crashing, the same game that was consistently crashing within 2-3 minutes before. So seemingly my GPU isn't getting enough power anymore. Which might be tied to the BIOS Overdrive feature I'm guessing? Seeing as how this hardware has worked for years up until now. I'm so confused but at least I have something to go on now.

PSU: Corsair 650TX CPU: Intel i7 6700k Board: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Things I've tried to no effect: - Update drivers (and downgrade drivers to older versions) - Set Windows Power Plan to High Performance - Set GPU to prefer Maximum Power in the Nvidia control panel - Reinstall Windows, including different copies of Windows - Physically removing the GPU, cleaning it and re-socketing it firmly, checking cables etc.

Edit: I just downloaded the Asus Overclock program and tried downclocking as much as possible, reducing the overall core clock load down to around 1835 MHz instead of the 1900+ It still crashes after a couple of minutes, although now there are pixelated artifacts all over the monitors and I get the error D3D Device Lost (REMOVED) instead. I'm stumped. Is my card suddenly just f***cked?

Hey folks, turning here for desperation help. Windows 10 64bit GTX 1080 TI Over the past week or so, nearly all 3D games I start will run for a couple of minutes (rarely more than 2-3) before getting a screen freeze and crash with the D3D Device Lost (HUNG) error a short while later. Windows does not crash, I can just tab out and kill the process, no restart required, no BSODs. Going back roughly a week or so I only had a single crash (freeze) once every hour or so if I was unlucky, but over the past 2 days it has escalated to being every couple of minutes, making most of my games unplayable. Now! … 2 weeks ago I did a Windows re-install because my old installation was 2+ years old and was due for a cleanup. Take note that I had NEVER had any crashing issues during those years, my system was super stable and no games ever crashed (like almost literally, nothing ever crashed). The issue slowly started after the re-install I did roughly 2 weeks ago. I've tried re-installed Windows 3 times tonight in hopes it was just a faulty installation, I even tried 2 different copies of Windows, but the result is always the same. 2-3 minutes in, games crash, regardless of drivers or settings or anything else. When just operating windows normally there are no issues what-so-ever. It is strictly tied to running 3D games - so far Killing Floor 2 + the SDK, Deep Rock Galactic, Borderlands 2 and Doom 2016 have been tested and they all freeze within minutes. They all ran perfectly fine only 2 weeks ago on my old Windows installation. I'm not sure what could have caused it, although I did turn on Asus Optimizer in BIOS roughly a week ago I believe, which I believe is some form of overclocking. I think that's roughly when the crashes slowly started to happen (not entirely sure as I didn't pay much attention to the timing as I wasn't expecting this to happen.) I've since reverted the BIOS overclock back to normal but the problem still persists. So I searched around the net for the issue and after a long while I saw some forum thread talking about Boost 3.0 and clock speeds. That prompted me to monitor my GPU while running games, and the clock speeds get boosted all the way to 2000 MHz, then drops down to around 1930-1970 MHz. Now again, I don't know if this is normal or not, and I did not deliberately overclock my GPU. I'm not sure if the Asus BIOS boost thing could have done so - nor how to revert the GPU boost if that is the case. Another thing to note is that my GPU temperatures are seemingly fine. Even at 2000 MHz running at load the temperature stays around 62-65 degree Celsius at the time of crash, so it doesn't seem like overheating problems? I'm pretty damn stumped as to what to do and even more so as to what has actually happened? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as my PC currently is effectively useless for gaming, which is... not desirable.