graphics driver A swede needs help with troubleshooting!

[Kungen]

Hello guys! 

 

I am a swedish person(excuse my english)who considers himself to be quite handy when it comes to computers but I am at an impass with this problem, so I need your help!

 

I recently upgraded my computer, and when I say that I mean I bought everything except a new graphics card. Details below:

CPU: i7 6700k with corsair H75

MOBO: asus z170 pro gaming

RAM: Corsair vengeance DDR4 2x8GB

GPU: geforce GTX 770 gainward phantom

PSU: Fractal Design EDISON M 750W

HDD's: Samsung 120GB SSD and a 1TB drive

Windows 10

 

Now, it seems that anytime I do anything thats "graphic intense" such as witcher 3 and Rust, yes I know, but not CSGO or dota. I will get a message saying the graphics driver has stopped working and been reset. I have tried everything I can think of, completley wiping graphics drivers, downclocking the card(worked on my old rig when I was playing rust)made sure the drives are ok aswell as RAM to be sure. So here I am, a lonley swede who might be on the brink of a serious meltdown(which means hitting my pillow and not talking about it alot in swedish)

 

So please some kind soul, help meeeee!

 

Thanks, il provide any info you need if I missed something.

 

EDIT: new to this site, did not know what topic to put this in so if its in the wrong one, im sorry

 

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Kungen said:

 

mhm. did you use ddu?

how are the temps?

maybe something went wrong with the windows installation?

maybe the psu cant deliver enough power at full load. better check the connnectors.

when you get a driver report its probably not the gpu beeing instable because otherwise you would get artifacting or crashes.

 

welcome to the forum by the way.

[Kungen]

1 minute ago, ChrisCross said:

mhm. did you use ddu?

how are the temps?

maybe something went wrong with the windows installation?

maybe the psu cant deliver enough power at full load. better check the connnectors.

when you get a driver report its probably not the gpu beeing instable because otherwise you would get artifacting or crashes.

 

welcome to the forum by the way.

Yeah, I used DDU

the temps are fine, monitoring with MSI Afterburner

Yeah, thats where I am at basically, hoping it wont come to that.

Yeah, il check it now.

Well i kind of failed to mention that the game always crashes and some small artifacting can be observed right before the crashes.

 

Thanks, been watching Linus content for a long while, figured I could get some help here.

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Kungen said:

 

it would be very weird if the chip was unstable after just 3 years. maybe try to raise the voltage a little and decrease the clockspeed at the same time. if this helps your chip is in bad condition.

maybe your gpu is telling your to get a rx 480  

[Cyracus]

try reseating the graphics card if you haven't already, and clean the contacts on the card with a pencil eraser, might be that it's just not making proper contact and when it gets a heavy load it freaks out because of that

[Kungen]

7 minutes ago, ChrisCross said:

it would be very weird if the chip was unstable after just 3 years. maybe try to raise the voltage a little and decrease the clockspeed at the same time. if this helps your chip is in bad condition.

maybe your gpu is telling your to get a rx 480  

Yeah, well, thing is, I donw know if MSI Afterburner clock is actually taking, since the numbers are not changeing after i press "apply"

[Kungen]

2 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

try reseating the graphics card if you haven't already, and clean the contacts on the card with a pencil eraser, might be that it's just not making proper contact and when it gets a heavy load it freaks out because of that

Yeah, if by resetting you mean deleting the drivers with DDU etc then yes.

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Kungen said:

Yeah, if by resetting you mean deleting the drivers with DDU etc then yes.

no he mean taking the card out and cleaning the contact points.

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Kungen said:

Yeah, well, thing is, I donw know if MSI Afterburner clock is actually taking, since the numbers are not changeing after i press "apply"

maybe contact the support of gainward. sometimes those guys are incredebly helpful.

[Kungen]

40 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

try reseating the graphics card if you haven't already, and clean the contacts on the card with a pencil eraser, might be that it's just not making proper contact and when it gets a heavy load it freaks out because of that

He meant that aswell I think, freaky thing is, I took the card out, put it back in, and Rust did not crash, gonna do more testing tomorrow. Dont want to get my hopes up just yet!

 

[rattacko123]

TURNIP (geddit? Swedes are cross between turnip and cabbage so...k nvm) /s

Try downgrading to Nvidia drivers 362.00 as nvidia drivers have been pretty bad recently, I have had a few problems myself with the new drivers.

 

 

[Kungen]

8 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

TURNIP (geddit? Swedes are cross between turnip and cabbage so...k nvm) /s

Try downgrading to Nvidia drivers 362.00 as nvidia drivers have been pretty bad recently, I have had a few problems myself with the new drivers.

 

 

Well, it seems I was wrong about the temp thing, at 80c I start to see artifacts and it soon crashes, this is however new, the card did not get this hot in my old build.

[rattacko123]

2 hours ago, Kungen said:

Well, it seems I was wrong about the temp thing, at 80c I start to see artifacts and it soon crashes, this is however new, the card did not get this hot in my old build.

Thats rather odd, 80C should be fine for your graphics card. Maybe try an aggressive fan profile in MSI Afterburner?

[Kungen]

17 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

TURNIP (geddit? Swedes are cross between turnip and cabbage so...k nvm) /s

Try downgrading to Nvidia drivers 362.00 as nvidia drivers have been pretty bad recently, I have had a few problems myself with the new drivers.

 

 

 

Well, it seems I was wr

 

6 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

Thats rather odd, 80C should be fine for your graphics card. Maybe try an aggressive fan profile in MSI Afterburner?

Well, I tried that, and it seems to do the trick, atleast in rust. I ran furmark aswell but it did not go over 80c and it went smoothly. This is seriously starting to wreck my brain... If this is the problem raising the fan profiles seem to be a temporary solution, I dont want a card that seem to crash at 80C obviously