NVIDIA Investigates TDR Issues, Requests Sample Cards

[qubit]

Originally Posted by EarthDog

Ive run with MSI Afterburner on in the back round and saw my clockspeeds stay the same throughout the gaming session (GTX580). That dude in the video needs to post some proof of this actually happening. I dont buy this at all. In fact, I can post up evidence to the contrary even after I get home tonight. I call shens on that shyte until some actual proof is posted.

What cards is it 'overclocking'? Why is it selective (slower cards only?)? Proof of clockspeed changes?


Something.

Yes, it sounds very strange and unlikely that a game would overclock a card and then hide the fact it's doing it. This could potentially land them with lawsuits for damaged hardware.

Heck, I've never heard of a game doing any overclocking, ever.

[Bo$$]

Originally Posted by Nibrok

Guys, I had this issue with my factory OC'd Gigabyte GTX570. If your experiencing issues try LOWERING your clock speed. BF3 has a automatic GPU overclocker for supported GPU's which is causing issues. I downloaded MSI afterburner and lowered my clock speed from 780 (factory) to 730 and have not crashed since. Until NVIDIA releases a driver, try this as it fixed my issue. Hope that helps....

have the same card as you, please prove it or you are trollin

[Nibrok]

Guys, I know it sounds retarded but the only thing I've done different was down clock my GPU and remove the "tm" from the registry entries and once I did that, I haven't crashed. I'm not saying this is the answer to all your prayers, all I'm saying is this did work for me.

EDIT: Here is the link where I found it, it's a ways down and one user (Arturas) posted it. I tried it and it worked for me.

http://www.gamemunition.com/guides/b...d-3-crash-fix/

[qubit]

I believe you.

Anyone experiencing these problems care to give this a go?

[stefanels]

In case of BSoD when i watch a movie/surfing net in Firefox my GPU is automatically downclocked to 51 core/100 mem what i shoul do?! How i said before i didn't experienced slowdowns or crashes in BF3 with the factory GPU clocks (900/2050)...

[EarthDog]

I buy the solution, but don't buy for a second that its changing the clockspeed of the videocard. There may be something borked in tv dx11 path or something along those lines...no clue. The only thing im confident in is that its not changing clockspeed...LOL!

[EarthDog]

Sorry for the double post. But it seems Nvidia has been listening. There is a new beta driver out. Check out the release notes...

Includes several bug fixes and performance improvements for Battlefield 3.
Fixes cases of irregular performance (stuttering) primarily seen on DirectX 10 GPUs. The fix improves the performance of both DX10 and DX11 GPUs.
Fixes shadow map corruption seen with DirectX 10 GPUs.
Fixes cases of black corruption lines/triangles with DirectX 10 GPUs.
Fixes black screen during playback using Windows Media Center.
Added or updated SLI profiles for the following games:
Aion v3.0
Anno 2070
Assassins Creed: Revelations
Bastion
Need for Speed: The Run
Payday: The Heist
The Adventures of Tintin
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
Added or updated the following 3D Vision game profiles:
Airline Tycoon 2 – rated Fair
Assassin's Creed: Revelations – rated Good
Batman: Arkham City – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – rated Excellent
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – rated Excellent
FIFA 12 – rated Good
Hard Reset – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
inMomentum – rated Fair
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Smash Cars – rated Fair
Two Worlds 2: Castle Defense – rated Good
Zombie Driver – rated Excellent
Other Details

Includes HD Audio driver 1.2.24.0.
Includes PhysX System Software 9.11.11.07.
You can read more about this driver on GeForce.com.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

[stefanels]

I hope this Beta driver it solves many problems... I HOPE

[Nibrok]

Gonna clock my card back and try out the Beta drivers. I'll post back in a few hours...

Thanks for the link

[EarthDog]

Try the drivers first without clocking back. Dont believe that crap about the game overclocking the card as its unsubstantiated at this point in time.

Wait wait wait... you said you did that already:

Guys, I know it sounds retarded but the only thing I've done different was down clock my GPU and remove the "tm" from the registry entries and once I did that, I haven't crashed.

[Nibrok]

Ok, so I tried the new drivers and they are indeed better. I was able to play for almost 3hrs with no crash. I finally had my first one. Not so much of a crash really. It kicked me to the desktop with the game running in the background but you can't get back to the game no matter what you do. You have to kill the process from within the task manager... Sooooooo,,, it is a beta driver but is better than nothing at this point.

[stefanels]

I use the new beta driver for a couple of hour and NOTHING bad so far... I played every demanding game that i own and everything run smoothly...

[Nibrok]

This time I made it almost an hour....

Gonna try and down clock my GPU and see how long I make it....

Took the day off from work,

[Nibrok]

So far after down clocking my GPU I've had no crashes of any sort....

[EarthDog]

Thats good. Doesnt prove its overclocking anything, but thats good.

Try just adding .05v to your stock clocks now...

[rangerone766]

i've been getting random lockups aswell. the screen will go black, and computer will freeze. it does not recover, i have to force a reboot with the psu switch.

running a EVGA gtx285 vanilla, 285.62 driver

this happens in BF3 and silkroad online

[stefanels]

Originally Posted by rangerone766

i've been getting random lockups aswell. the screen will go black, and computer will freeze. it does not recover, i have to force a reboot with the psu switch.

running a EVGA gtx285 vanilla, 285.62 driver

this happens in BF3 and silkroad online

Try to update to the new 285.79 BETA drivers http://us.download.nvidia.com/Window...ional-beta.exe

[Nibrok]

Update. I've been playing all day with my GPU down-clocked to 730 from 780 and I haven't had one crash. Not sure what the real issue is but hey, for now it works.

[qubit]

Originally Posted by Nibrok

Update. I've been playing all day with my GPU down-clocked to 730 from 780 and I haven't had one crash. Not sure what the real issue is but hey, for now it works.

Perhaps you have a faulty card? If the heatsink isn't on properly, or the thermal paste isn't good, you can get a hotspot that causes this. There could be lots of other things wrong with it too, of course, but this you could potentially fix.

Have you checked the running temp of the card. There's various utilities for this, including nvidia's own system monitor.

[Bo$$]

Originally Posted by Nibrok

Update. I've been playing all day with my GPU down-clocked to 730 from 780 and I haven't had one crash. Not sure what the real issue is but hey, for now it works.

is your card a REV1 or rev2??

[Nibrok]

Originally Posted by qubit

Perhaps you have a faulty card? If the heatsink isn't on properly, or the thermal paste isn't good, you can get a hotspot that causes this. There could be lots of other things wrong with it too, of course, but this you could potentially fix.

Have you checked the running temp of the card. There's various utilities for this, including nvidia's own system monitor.

Nope... I've never had a problem with any other game and still don't, ONLY BF3. It looks like Nvidia is trying to fix the issue though. The beta driver does work better but still not 100%

[qubit]

Originally Posted by Nibrok

Nope... I've never had a problem with any other game and still don't, ONLY BF3. It looks like Nvidia is trying to fix the issue though. The beta driver does work better but still not 100%

Ok, driver issue it is then. I remember how Duke Nukem Forever screwed up horribly, unless I installed the driver released at the same time.

[largon]

Got TDR problems in Rage with GTX465@470, 285.38 drivers.

[scaminatrix]

Damn, I get the problem with my MSI TFII GTX470 at stock speeds. Mostly, I get it when playing APB Reloaded and I just hear the "du dum" sound that Windows makes when you disconnect something. That's the only way I know that it's happened.

Sometimes, I get it when opening MSI Afterburner, GPU-Z and HWMonitor at the same time.

[stefanels]

Today i got the biggest problem with my card... After switching on the PC (in the morning) i got a black screen (no signal detected on monitor), i switched the cable from 1st DVi to 2nd DVI and tried the mHDMI as well, nothing happened. After this, seeing that nothing happening, i cleared the CMOS (BIOS) and still nothing happened... I switched the GPU to onBoard (ATI HD4250) and everything was OK this way (this way i seen that the problem isn't from the cable or monitor)... I uninstalled the new nVidia drivers 285.79 BETA, and entered in BIOS, switched over the display at pci-express an VOILA, the GTX 560 Ti come ALIVE.... Now i using the old drivers 280.26 and for a couple of hours everything is OK for now...

STRANGE... NO ?!