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For quite some time my video drive has been randomly crashing. Windows tells me the driver stopped responding but was recovered. it doesn't seem to crash when i'm ingame or anything but it's really annoying. I do fold on my computer and I have overclocked my videocard in the past but even at stock settings I get problems. i don't think my videocard is defective or damaged but it keeps happening even after i reinstall Windows. I don't know if it's a software problem or a hardware problem.

 

Also i have a gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming and one of my DVI ports doesn;t work and it never has so idk if I have a defective card or what. I've also put a custom BIOS on my card with a increased power limit but I think I had problems with the driver crashing even before i did that.

 

I may RMA the card if I can't fix it but I'd rather not have to do that if I don't have too.

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For quite some time my video drive has been randomly crashing. Windows tells me the driver stopped responding but was recovered. it doesn't seem to crash when i'm ingame or anything but it's really annoying. I do fold on my computer and I have overclocked my videocard in the past but even at stock settings I get problems. i don't think my videocard is defective or damaged but it keeps happening even after i reinstall Windows. I don't know if it's a software problem or a hardware problem.

 

Also i have a gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming and one of my DVI ports doesn;t work and it never has so idk if I have a defective card or what. I've also put a custom BIOS on my card with a increased power limit but I think I had problems with the driver crashing even before i did that.

 

I may RMA the card if I can't fix it but I'd rather not have to do that if I don't have too.

MANY of the latest drivers from Nvidia are doing this...

I've reverted to Driver 347.52 because most of the ones after it, are FUCKED (other people are having lots of these GPU restarts as am I)

/Some of the numbered 350 drivers may be okay, but the ones after that....nope.

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yeah, it's the nvidia quality drivers. I'm on 353.06 with 760.

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MANY of the latest drivers from Nvidia are doing this...

I've reverted to Driver 347.52 because most of the ones after it, are FUCKED (other people are having lots of these GPU restarts as am I)

/Some of the numbered 350 drivers may be okay, but the ones after that....nope.

I'll try older drivers because my card didn't do this when it was new.

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Can anyone confirm it's a driver problem?

Go to Nvidia forums, and the GTX 970 user thread on here.... the 970 thread has a few posts regarding this over its previous pages.

Try their older drivers previous to 350.##.

 

 

 

 

Power management to "prefer maximum performance" in the nvidia control panel. Fixed it for me. 

Yeah but thats no cure,..and you should not have to,.. doesn't that force clocks to stay at their highest 3D clock all the time..? No declocking in idle?

That's not feasible for many users to use.

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Power management to "prefer maximum performance" in the nvidia control panel. Fixed it for me. 

I'll try that.

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It is a cure, just not feasible for laptop users. Your card still clocks down when it's idle btw. Try that setting, it fixed the driver crashes completely for me.

The point is that you shouldn't have to do that nvidia shoudl release drivers that don't suck. I'll try your solution and see if ti works but since the driver crashes are random i won't be able to know for some time.

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It is a cure, just not feasible for laptop users. Your card still clocks down when it's idle btw. Try that setting, it fixed the driver crashes completely for me.

It's not a cure, due to you should NOT have to do anything like that whatsoever...

It should work as intended, without ANY changes to software.

 

 

Regardless,..if the OP does not wanna change drivers and this works, all for it.

 

My 780s have been doing this occasionally too.  Thought it was something I had done...

Nvidia forums are rife with this problem of GPU resetting on many of its latest driver releases...

Reverting to an older driver set,... issues seem to be gone..

/Dunno if the above proposed MAX performance fix works for all...

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