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EVGA 970 FTW PhysX problem

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I am having an issue with my Evga 970 ftw that I got yesterday. I was playing BF4 on ultra for about 10 minutes running at 110-140 fps and then had to do something else for a bit. So I closed the game and when I came back and relaunched the game I could only get 30 fps if I was lucky on medium settings. I launched msi afterburner to look at what the card was doing whilst running some benchmarks. The fps I was getting was good except when I started the physx 3 fluids. The fps would start at 96 ish and hold for about 5 seconds and then start to drop and after 20 seconds I was running at 27 fps. During the benchmarks the GPU power usage starts to climb and gets to 70% and drops down to 50% and the same happens with the GPU usage, goes up to 100% and then drops down to 15% and all the time the GPU does not go above 45c. All the other benchmarks I did worked fine and the card performed as expected. On the upside no coil noise. I am have rolled back my nvidia driver and done a clean install. It has not helped. The card performs beautifully on other games and I am not sure what to do.

 

Case: Corsair Air 240

CPU: i7 4770k (OC to 4.5Ghz

Motherboard: Gigabite G5 m

GPU: Nvidia Evga 970 FTW(no oc)

Ram: 16gb HyperX

PSU: Corsair 600W 80+ 

CPU Heat sync: Corsair H100i

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Do you have physx in the driver set to run on your cpu instead of your 970?

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In nvidia control panel i have the physx set to auto and below that it says Geforce gtx 970. In my BIOS I have im Intel disabled because I thought that the cpu could be the problem. How do I check if the card is in 2D mode?

To check if it's stuck in 2D mode, check the clocks and post them here.

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 The clocks speed of my GPU? 

Yes, as we doubt it a cpu clock issue.

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So you didn't mess with precision x or anything right? That's just the "base" clock. Run a benchmark and check cpu usage just to be sure.

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Reinstall your drivers.

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Only thing I have changed with precision x is i created a custom fan curve because i did not like the fans not spinning. I have reinstalled my drivers 3 times and still no change. The cpu is fine. I reinstalled my old 670 as I needed to do some some work for I client (Using AfterEffects and Premiere and rendering videos for 5 hours last night)  and I did not want the 970 messing it up so I would need to redo it all and the cpu worked like normal. \\\\\the cpu was pinned at 100% while I was rendering and did not exceed 78 degrees Celsius.

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Only thing I have changed with precision x is i created a custom fan curve because i did not like the fans not spinning. I have reinstalled my drivers 3 times and still no change. The cpu is fine. I reinstalled my old 670 as I needed to do some some work for I client (Using AfterEffects and Premiere and rendering videos for 5 hours last night)  and I did not want the 970 messing it up so I would need to redo it all and the cpu worked like normal. \\\\\the cpu was pinned at 100% while I was rendering and did not exceed 78 degrees Celsius.

Have you tried playing other titles?

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Other titles run as I would expect with no problems along with other benchmarks other than the the physx 3 fluids in msi kombuster 3.0. a few of the games I have tried are NFS shift 2, Alice: the madness returns and the vanishing of ethan carter and they all ran at 60 fps (v-sync on) 

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Problem solved. It was an issue with the Physx engine I did a clean install of all the drivers but this time I clear the drivers first using DDU while in safemode and then did a custom installation and deselect all but the main display driver and check Perform Clean Install. Then i installed the rest of the drivers separately :)  

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