Time Spy is crashing

[ZenMonkey]

have a GTX 1080 overclocked to +182MHz GPU and +1012MHz memory, which puts it at 1815MHz and 11,106MHz respectively. The GPU will max out around 2115MHz, but then fall into the 2075MHz range once it warms up. Fire Strike, Unigine Valley, Heaven, and Superposition, Passmark Performance Test, and the Ashes of the Singularity benchmarks all run fine, but Time Spy will run the introductory demo and then crash loading the first Graphics Test every time. Any ideas?

[MoonlightSylv]

OC not stable.

[WereCat]

Same for me when OC is not stable enough. You can make it work after many tries but it is not stable regardless. Lower the clock by 13MHz and try again.

[ZenMonkey]

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

Same for me when OC is not stable enough. You can make it work after many tries but it is not stable regardless. Lower the clock by 13MHz and try again.

 

Welp, that did it. Not sure why that 13MHz crashed Time Spy but everything else ran fine, but now Time Spy ran and finished so it looks good across the board.

[WereCat]

1 hour ago, ZenMonkey said:

 

Welp, that did it. Not sure why that 13MHz crashed Time Spy but everything else ran fine, but now Time Spy ran and finished so it looks good across the board.

Because Pascal clocks in steps and one step is roughly 13MHz and it can greatly affect stability.