Graphics Card Problem

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You sound like you already know the problem. Time to buy a new card. You could always try it in another machine to make sure it's the graphics card. Or you could stick another gfx card in it.

sup?

Is the card bad or the power supply just not giving it what it needs?

Other games doing this too?

I've seen some cards do this when they are on the way out. It's likely the result of constant overheating and now the card is failing.

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There are tons of variables that could be effecting his performance in this fasion and NOT just a faulty over heating video card. BUT HEY! What do I know? Post around elsewhere and get a more indepth analysis to try and pin point the issue as opposed to a "Oh yeah thats probably THIS." when there is clearly not enough information to come to any conclusion.


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/

I disagree, I have personally seen the exact same thing happen with at least 4 different cards(over the last 15 years), all the same symptoms.
The quickest way to find out is to swap the card. Overheating may not have caused it but it is a common cause, these cards need to be pulled out an blown out with compresssed air every now and then to properly clean them and keep them operating at their designed temperature range.

L2k wrote:I disagree, I have personally seen the exact same thing happen with at least 4 different cards(over the last 15 years), all the same symptoms.
The quickest way to find out is to swap the card. Overheating may not have caused it but it is a common cause, these cards need to be pulled out an blown out with compresssed air every now and then to properly clean them and keep them operating at their designed temperature range.

Okay fine that would be one step in the troubleshooting process. And when and if that doesnt work? He asked what his options were and asked for relevant help. I've given him the tools to continue his troubleshooting when or IF swapping the vid cards doesnt work or blowing them out and doing low level maintenance.

Is hl2dm the only game that this happens in or is it all of them? And what do those blue screens say?

Remove every bit of the existing drivers and try again. If that doesnt help, the next step is isolating the card, the PC, the PSU. Start with swapping the card like Punk said.

Always start troubleshooting with the most likely cause and work out from there.

seanpyl wrote:There are tons of variables that could be effecting his performance in this fasion and NOT just a faulty over heating video card. BUT HEY! What do I know? Post around elsewhere and get a more indepth analysis to try and pin point the issue as opposed to a "Oh yeah thats probably THIS." when there is clearly not enough information to come to any conclusion.


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/

You could stop using caps. its annoying. You may have a valid point but it'll get overlooked because caps usually = a flame or someone being an asshat.

Use driver cleaner.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

Make sure you do it in safe mode. Then install the new drivers.

could be your hacks failing

Ohh no you didn't!

Edge wrote:

seanpyl wrote:There are tons of variables that could be effecting his performance in this fasion and NOT just a faulty over heating video card. BUT HEY! What do I know? Post around elsewhere and get a more indepth analysis to try and pin point the issue as opposed to a "Oh yeah thats probably THIS." when there is clearly not enough information to come to any conclusion.


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/

You could stop using caps. its annoying. You may have a valid point but it'll get overlooked because caps usually = a flame or someone being an asshat.

I'm sorry I didnt know you saw it that way. Thanks forum police.

It's overheating,
I had the same card and found out it had a chip nvidia admitted was faulty... failure on their part. I recommend either using ntune and manually increasing the fan speed to say 80 percent every time you play a game, or buying a new card.

seanpyl wrote:

Edge wrote:

seanpyl wrote:There are tons of variables that could be effecting his performance in this fasion and NOT just a faulty over heating video card. BUT HEY! What do I know? Post around elsewhere and get a more indepth analysis to try and pin point the issue as opposed to a "Oh yeah thats probably THIS." when there is clearly not enough information to come to any conclusion.


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/

You could stop using caps. its annoying. You may have a valid point but it'll get overlooked because caps usually = a flame or someone being an asshat.

I'm sorry I didnt know you saw it that way. Thanks forum police.

Not trying to be forum police. Just saying people might get annoyed if you keep doing that. Trying to help you out. No need to be a asshat about it is there? O.o

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Nutri-Grain wrote:Thanks for the help guys. I'll try cleaning the card and increasing my fan speed. If that doesn't work I guess it'll be time for a new card Oh well, she's been good to me, I'll give her a proper burial.

Oh and Edge and seanpyl, please don't start stupid little arguements in my thread, that isn't helpful.

Sure thing.

Nutri-Grain wrote:Thanks for the help guys. I'll try cleaning the card and increasing my fan speed. If that doesn't work I guess it'll be time for a new card Oh well, she's been good to me, I'll give her a proper burial.

Oh and Edge and seanpyl, please don't start stupid little arguements in my thread, that isn't helpful.

I'll start arguments with who I want in whatever thread I want Nutri. If that includes starting fights with you, then so be it!

Nutri-Grain wrote:Thanks for the help guys. I'll try cleaning the card and increasing my fan speed. If that doesn't work I guess it'll be time for a new card Oh well, she's been good to me, I'll give her a proper burial.

Oh and Edge and seanpyl, please don't start stupid little arguements in my thread, that isn't helpful.

my bad nutri lol >.<

Few things:

Edge I hate you.

Nutrigrain stop hacking.

Fuck the rest of you.

Download this http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner , if you need help setting it up let me now. Specifically you want to look at the hardware monitoring section. It will show your temps not just for your GPU core but also memory IO and shader cores. You can also use it to automatically adjust fan speed based on temperature if your card isn't doing it properly. A lot of times simply cleaning the dust out of the fan can fix overheating issues. Let me know how it goes.

voxtex wrote:Few things:

Edge I hate you.

Nutrigrain stop hacking.

Fuck the rest of you.

Download this http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner , if you need help setting it up let me now. Specifically you want to look at the hardware monitoring section. It will show your temps not just for your GPU core but also memory IO and shader cores. You can also use it to automatically adjust fan speed based on temperature if your card isn't doing it properly. A lot of times simply cleaning the dust out of the fan can fix overheating issues. Let me know how it goes.

Fuck you to. "VOXTEX".

voxtex wrote:Few things:

Edge I hate you.

Nutrigrain stop hacking.

Fuck the rest of you.

Download this http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner , if you need help setting it up let me now. Specifically you want to look at the hardware monitoring section. It will show your temps not just for your GPU core but also memory IO and shader cores. You can also use it to automatically adjust fan speed based on temperature if your card isn't doing it properly. A lot of times simply cleaning the dust out of the fan can fix overheating issues. Let me know how it goes.

Vox I <3 you. :] lawls.