Hey.
Sometimes when I play games, the screen flickers black and the game crashes. Windows is still running fine. There is an error message that the display drivers failed. On rare occasions there are graphical artefacts remaining on the desktop after the game has crashes.
I'm wondering if this is because my Power Supply is just a tad underpowerd, or if it's my cards fault. This only happens sometimes as well, but it happens often.
I've tried clean install of graphics drivers, this is a fresh install of windows etc etc.
Specs:
CPU: i7 860
GPU: GTX 260
Current PSU: 550w
The PSU is about 1year old, and it isn't a generic brand one.
post temps
[url]http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php[/url]
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[url]http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php[/url][/QUOTE]
Pretty sure it isn't a temperature issue. I have a nice case (brand new so no dust), clean heatsinks. Neat cabling etc.
This was taken about 5mins into playing Crysis on full settings:
[IMG]http://imgur.com/6di0d.png[/IMG]
When the games crash, it always happens straight away. The moment you load them, they flicker black, and then I am returned to the desktop. If they don't flicker black when loaded, they are normally completely fine.
Your PSU is fine, the volts seem in check, drivers failing is a driver problem obviously, the problem is around the graphics card itself or drivers
Check if you have the latest drivers, if not update, if you do have the latest download DriverSweeper and remove the driver, restart PC and install the latest one.
I have similar issues but with an ATI card. I'm quite sure, it's because of (my) card is damaged (It got OCed by the vendor I bought it from - I clocked it down - still happens but not that often).
You may try underclocking the card then. Maybe it fixes the problem. Go in steps of 10-20 MHz.
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