Crashes!

[food158]

I have a GTX 960 from Gigabyte. When I play cod aw, cod crashes and a windows pops up saying that my GPU has been suspended.

[EthanTheFrogMan]

did you check how much VRAM you are using, it may be above 2gb

[food158]

did you check how much VRAM you are using, it may be above 2gb

How do I do that. I thought my GPU has gddr5.

[Tedster]

How do I do that. I thought my GPU has gddr5.

Yes, any modern day card will have GDDR5.

 

Download a program like MSI AfterBurner (link http://gaming.msi.com/features/afterburner go to the top, downloads, top left), install it, load up your game, play for a bit then go back into the program and scroll until you find the VRAM usage indicators. Can you tell us how many megabytes of VRAM are being used with the game running as it would be when it crashes?

[Tom is a Door]

How do I do that. I thought my GPU has gddr5.

GDDR5 is kind of like how we classify the type of memory it has like DDR3 or DDR4(RAM), check the box of the Video Card or just download something like CPUZ ID or GPUZ

[food158]

The problem is I can't play. However, when I go to my settings I did see something that said 1966 mb.

[Blackie Sheen]

did you check how much VRAM you are using, it may be above 2gb

A game will not use more VRAM than the graphics card can so that cannot be the problem

[EthanTheFrogMan]

A game will not use more VRAM than the graphics card can so that cannot be the problem

it can crash due to this, I have a friend with a 960 2GB card, he ran GTA5 and it crashed from too much VRAM usage, texture lowered=problem solved, in his case

[ManIkWeet]

If your graphics card runs out of memory, DirectX will be friendly enough to AUTOMAGICALLY use your system's RAM, continuously copying over the RAM data when needed on the GPU. Insanely slow but stable...

[food158]

it can crash due to this, I have a friend with a 960 2GB card, he ran GTA5 and it crashed from too much VRAM usage, texture lowered=problem solved, in his case

Hmmm.

[EthanTheFrogMan]

If your graphics card runs out of memory, DirectX will be friendly enough to AUTOMAGICALLY use your system's RAM, continuously copying over the RAM data when needed on the GPU. Insanely slow but stable...

ONLY in the case that you have enough system ram available 

[ManIkWeet]

ONLY in the case that you have enough system ram available 

Yeah, this includes the paging file too!

[AlexWJD]

Did you overclock your card at all? I doubt the 2GB would be getting overrun, COD AW runs at around 80 FPS for me on Ultra, no problems.

[food158]

Did you overclock your card at all? I doubt the 2GB would be getting overrun, COD AW runs at around 80 FPS for me on Ultra, no problems.

Nope, I did not overclock.