When I'm gaming, my video card driver randomly crash in most games, sometimes I even get BSOD. This issue seems rather common from what I've looked up but most fixes are basically "re-install your drivers" or "check your power supply". The thing is: I running on a Dell XPS L502X, so the latest driver provided by the Dell website here is from March 2013, which might be a little bit too old, but most websites tend to tell me to get from the drivers from the manufacturer's website, so when I want to re-install the driver, I don't know which one to use. And since this is a laptop and I don't really have the knowledge about the subject, I don't know how to check the status of the power supply. The problem might not e directly related to temperature since this happen almost all the time with Battlefield 2142 (about 75-80ºC) but doesn't happen with GTA IV (80-90ºC). I also don't really know which driver should I downgrade to since the problem happens on most games that I didn't own back in the day.
Speccy just in case it's useful:[t]http://puu.sh/8fz5Z.jpg[/t]
Also, when I searched I didn't find any thread about this issue, so sorry if anything like that has been posted here.
List of games that this happens:
Battlefield 2142 (Really common)
Warframe(mostly after a while but sometimes it's almost instant)
Far Cry 3 (after about 20 minutes)
Burnout Paradise (usually after 4 races)
Warhammer40K: Space Marine (from instantly to not happening at all)
Source engine games (really rare on most, but CSS and Blade Symphony have it more often)
Killing Floor
Quake
ArmA Cold War Assault
Ok, so after these two months, this thing have gotten worse, now games that never had this issue like Battlefield 3 or Killing Floor or, hell, even League of Legends([B]on fucking low[/B]) are getting this shit. And games that are really fucking old like ArmA Cold War Assault get this issue. I run everything on low since my specs aren't really all that powerful and even still games like Quake Live crash this machine. It's aways like this, first the screen freezes (causing the audio to go apeshit or not), then black screen, then the message pops up and the game crashes.
It's pretty obvious your card is dying and no amount of software tinkering will fix it. (Maybe? I could be missing something)
If you're desperate enough you can reformat entirely and start from scratch, but I doubt that will be a long lasting fix.
If your laptop is still under warranty, send it back, replacing a graphics card yourself in most laptops is very difficult and nigh impossible. In my experiences opening laptops, they've all been directly soldered onto the motherboard.
Fuck, my laptop is like, 3 years old, warranty only lasted up until march of last year. Still, why does that happen on old games, but when I played ArmA III during the free weekend this didn't happen? I think one session of me playing was abot 3 campaing missions long, and that is a lot considering it's ArmA and I'm a bullet magnet.
[QUOTE=kisaraji;45030537]Fuck, my laptop is like, 3 years old, warranty only lasted up until march of last year. Still, why does that happen on old games, but when I played ArmA III during the free weekend this didn't happen? I think one session of me playing was abot 3 campaing missions long, and that is a lot considering it's ArmA and I'm a bullet magnet.[/QUOTE]
You could try using a can of air, or taking apart your laptop and replacing the thermal paste on the Cpu/Gpu. it could help.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45035887]You could try using a can of air, or taking apart your laptop and replacing the thermal paste on the Cpu/Gpu. it could help.[/QUOTE]
But he said temperature has little to no correlation.
OP: The fact that it's getting worse is because whatever is physically wrong with the GPU is worsening with more wear. However the issue with old games doing it and not newer ones is quite odd. Perhaps some rendering method used by older games not used in newer ones is tripping something.
I would almost say it's a cracked solder but since you're not having any artifacting that's hard to say...
What is weird is that I have this problem with CSS, but this almost doesn't happen on HL2, TF2, Gmod, Portal and L4D. Actually, I can count on my fingers how many times that happened with those other games, and they all share the same engine. It's absolutely random as it seens.
That really is strange...
But overall, it's obvious that it's GPU failure.
As a last ditch effort you could reformat your hard drive and start from scratch after backing what you can up, but other than that your only hopes is to SOMEHOW replace the GPU by yourself or paying someone to do it, or just buying a new computer.
Word of advice, though. Laptops are not the best for playing games. They (usually) don't last as long as most desktops, have a wider range of heat related issues, harder to get dust out of and the only real interchangeable parts are just RAM and the hard drive. You CAN get a laptop again, and if you're lucky it will last you a long time, but I seriously recommend you get a new desktop instead if you plan on buying a new computer.
But keep the laptop you have now for browsing the internet abroad :v:
Well, it's not like it's up to me(I'm 16), and my father surely won't care that I can't play games. Welp, I guess that all I have now is a fucking Pentium 4 desktop. :suicide:
Did I mention that we have the same desktop ever since 2005-ish?
Hey, at least I can still play a few games that don't have this issue for some reason.
[QUOTE=kisaraji;45038231]Well, it's not like it's up to me(I'm 16), and my father surely won't care that I can't play games. Welp, I guess that all I have now is a fucking Pentium 4 desktop. :suicide:
Did I mention that we have the same desktop ever since 2005-ish?
Hey, at least I can still play a few games that don't have this issue for some reason.[/QUOTE]
Roll back the drivers to the release before last. That might help especially considering it's in legacy games. It might be a directx problem too.
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[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45041100]Roll back the drivers to the release before last. That might help especially considering it's in legacy games. It might be a directx problem too.[/QUOTE]
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[url]http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/75992/en-us[/url]
Make sure to run a clean install because it really sounds like a heat or directx problem.
Also try the directx runtime, as well.
I already did try rolling back and forth with the drivers and using a clean install, I forgot to give an update on that, sorry. I used both the latest, the beta latest, and the one on Dell's website.
Just tried installing the latest DirectX runtime, didn't work.
[QUOTE=kisaraji;45037881]What is weird is that I have this problem with CSS, but this almost doesn't happen on HL2, TF2, Gmod, Portal and L4D. Actually, I can count on my fingers how many times that happened with those other games, and they all share the same engine. It's absolutely random as it seens.[/QUOTE]
Welp, nvm. TF2 just had the crash issue right now.
I have the exact same problem after doing a windows reinstall. Worked fine before that, Skyrim seems to set it over the edge.
exact error
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 331.65 stopped responding and has successfully recovered
[editline]9th June 2014[/editline]
okay stupid ass me didn't have my cooler plugged in so that probably will fix it there
You should still try replacing the thermal grease with mx4 our mx2 to see if that helps
it actually didn't fix it, it happened again. I'm pretty sure its just skyrim though.
I turned AA off in skyrim having learned that from an online forum, and no more crashing.
Well, the GT 525M is a very low-end laptop GPU and it's about three generations old now. No wonder you were having trouble using technologies like AA. In my opinion, you should leave regular anti-aliasing off, but enable FXAA in the Skyrim launcher. It's like an effect that is applied after the GPU has rendered an individual frame that reduces jaggies without a huge cost to your performance (in contrast to other forms of anti-aliasing such as MSAA, in which jaggies are smoothed out while the frame is being drawn by the GPU, which takes up a lot more power and can significantly slow your game down if your graphics chip isn't strong enough for the task). It won't outright remove them and it doesn't look as nice as MSAA, but it's very performance-friendly and it gets the job done. If you still experience crashes when using FXAA, however, just disable it and don't bother with it anymore.
It's happening again, different games now. This is a pain in the balls, I googled everywhere..
Apparently, on the Y580, the graphics is overclocked if you put it in lenovo dynamic mode. change it to high performance, and it stopped so far.
My problem was heat.
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