Battlefield 1 HATES overclocking

[Infrared_14]

I recently got GTA V on my PC (I would include system details, but I couldn't find where to key them in). I had OC-ed my GTX 960 to have a little more power over the grass and plants that were swamping my frame rates. I added 170 MHz to my core clock, and increased my power limit to 107% in MSI Afterburner. I also lowered my temperature target to 70C, since it was defaulted to 98C, the max temp of my card. I went on the play some GTA and discovered that I could now get decent frame rates, while at higher settings.

 

This morning (12/24) I got on my PC and decided I wanted to play some Battlefield 1. I Hopped in-game and started "pawning the noobs", as normal. Every now and then, I would notice that my screen would have a quick, blue, red, or blue and red sheen over parts of it. I immediately looked up what the problem is, making sure to look for details of this happening during OC-ing and I found someone that said this happens a lot with AMD card and to bump the lighting quality up to Ultra. I was curious, so I bumped all the settings up to the highest they would go. I had done this before, and only gotten 40 frames on average (no OC), but now, I was getting 67 for the short time I played.

 

However, this did not fix my problems, the flickers were still appearing. I would appreciate if this could be fixed, because I would LOVE to run this game on Ultra, as would many other overclockers on budget systems. If anyone has any information on this, I would appreciate the knowledge.

[Aytex]

Its not Battlefield its your card

Down clock it then.

My 1060 runs fine when OC'd to 2.1ghz

[ApolloFury]

What is your full system spec?

[Infrared_14]

Full system specs include:

MB: Msi Z170A sli plus

CPU: i5 6600k

GPU: GTX 960 (4gb) (single 6-pin power connector)

RAM: ADATA XPG DDR4 2800 (2X8gb)

Storage: SanDisk Ultra II (SSD) Toshiba DT01ACA200 (HDD) (BF 1 is on the SSD)

Let me know if you need more information. I actually wound up taking the overclock off of my CPU and GPU, because GTA V crashed on me today, so I figured I was experiencing some OC instability, even though I stressed tested my GPU for an hour with Heaven Benchmark. Since I have an Msi Motherboard, my RAM is defaulted to 2133 speed, I had the Extreme Memory Profile on when this nonsense was occurring (making my RAM run at its rated speed). I now have the RAM set back to its 2133 underclocked speed.

 

 

[Infrared_14]

I'm at 1080p, but my 960 is of the blower style, and was clocked below the average base clock on a 960. Plus, I have a pretty hot i5, anyways, and I was wanting to give it a little more to fight with. I'm going to re-OC and set the MHz to +100, I'll be back tomorrow to share the results. 

 

I also want to thank you guys for helping me during the holidays I really appreciate this kind of help since none of my friends or relatives know much about overclocking.

[Infrared_14]

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

I did some testing and found the game crashing even when the GPU was not OC-ed. I looked into it using Prime95 and found that my RAM was fine and my CPU was fine when it was running at 4.5GHz. I tested my CPU at 4.6GHz and my computer blue-screened in about 20 seconds. I went into my BIOS and lowered the clock speed back down to 4.5GHz. 

 

Normally, when OC-ing a i5-6600k, you set your voltage to 1.375 V, but Msi motherboards (at least the one I have) only allow you to apply 1.359 V MAX. That leaves the CPU slightly unstable in extreme work loads (at least on the particular hunk of silicon my CPU calls home), and will cause it to fail. This just goes to show that OC-ing can be very simple if you can eliminate the variables in failure. Thanks for the help, and have a happy holidays!