Every one of them.
Well, except for some older games like Source Engine ones or so...
But modern games, yeah...
GTX670 SLI
2500K @ 4.5GHZ
128GB SSD
8GB 1866MHZ RAM
W7 64-bit
850w Corsair Platinum rated PSU
335.23
Now, I don't know what causes this. It's really queer. It happened, a year ago, for some time, but generally fixed it self? or I don't know, it didn't happen in EVERY game.
Like, hell, I played Max Payne 3, maxed out, 99% GPU usage on BOTH and it ran fine for the 12 hours I played it, but let us take for example, the game I was recently playing, FFXIV ARR. This also happens with GW2. Some others.
GPU usage is around 40-50%. Temps are 55c or under. Sceen goes black, audio plays, but I am forced to reboot, nothing works. Event manager says that the NVIDIA driver failed to respond.
Now, what I have tried:
Cleaning the entire system out. Taking it apart, re-adjusting screws, everything.
Using one of the GPU's at a time. I've tried both, took one out, put the other in, and ran some benchmarks such as Uniengine for 15 minutes on max, not exactly a scientific test, but both went fine, 99 GPU usage, 65-67c in temp, but not a single issue on either one. So...maybe not the cards, because both work fine by themselves.
They worked fine when I first got them, it started happening sometime around November 2012, when Far Cry 3 released and I played that, it happened then, but I ended up fixing it due to some issue with my resolution. That was taken care of it and worked fine aftwards.
I've tried various drivers. I always do a Clean Install using the GUru3D program designed for removing drivers.
I've run Spyware removals, adware, CCCleaner for registry. I've done it all. My system is clean as far as I can tell, or any virus cleaner.
I had the issue in Diablo 3 also. SLI crashed it. This was just recently, very recently. With RoS release. For some reason, it never happened after the first three times, it ran clean as a whistle the next 100.
I have a Catleap 2B Pro. A 120HZ monitor. At first, I thought it was related to this, though not many games had problems with it. So I tried disabling my custom resolution. No go. Still happened. It was also crashing in BioShock Infinite, til I replaced the SLI connector.
But can those suckers really go bad in one year? I mean my first lasted a year, but I thought that was a -fluke- , do they really go bad in a year? And if so, why do some games, even games using them to their full extent not crash, while others do?
It vexes me, making me FEEL it's driver related, but then at times, I don't know...
I'm at a loss here. This whole thing has convinced me to never go SLI again. But I also can't justify a new GPU purchase. I am waiting til a GPU that beats my two 670's by 50% come out, then I'll probably buy that one. I know it's ignorant as a person on a sight like this, but SLI just sucks. Waiting for profiles, issues such as this, the extra heat...ect
Tried re-seating the cards, cleaning the bridge, switching the side the bridge is on.
Any help? I need it...
Maybe software related? But what...
Well, except for some older games like Source Engine ones or so...
But modern games, yeah...
GTX670 SLI
2500K @ 4.5GHZ
128GB SSD
8GB 1866MHZ RAM
W7 64-bit
850w Corsair Platinum rated PSU
335.23
Now, I don't know what causes this. It's really queer. It happened, a year ago, for some time, but generally fixed it self? or I don't know, it didn't happen in EVERY game.
Like, hell, I played Max Payne 3, maxed out, 99% GPU usage on BOTH and it ran fine for the 12 hours I played it, but let us take for example, the game I was recently playing, FFXIV ARR. This also happens with GW2. Some others.
GPU usage is around 40-50%. Temps are 55c or under. Sceen goes black, audio plays, but I am forced to reboot, nothing works. Event manager says that the NVIDIA driver failed to respond.
Now, what I have tried:
Cleaning the entire system out. Taking it apart, re-adjusting screws, everything.
Using one of the GPU's at a time. I've tried both, took one out, put the other in, and ran some benchmarks such as Uniengine for 15 minutes on max, not exactly a scientific test, but both went fine, 99 GPU usage, 65-67c in temp, but not a single issue on either one. So...maybe not the cards, because both work fine by themselves.
They worked fine when I first got them, it started happening sometime around November 2012, when Far Cry 3 released and I played that, it happened then, but I ended up fixing it due to some issue with my resolution. That was taken care of it and worked fine aftwards.
I've tried various drivers. I always do a Clean Install using the GUru3D program designed for removing drivers.
I've run Spyware removals, adware, CCCleaner for registry. I've done it all. My system is clean as far as I can tell, or any virus cleaner.
I had the issue in Diablo 3 also. SLI crashed it. This was just recently, very recently. With RoS release. For some reason, it never happened after the first three times, it ran clean as a whistle the next 100.
I have a Catleap 2B Pro. A 120HZ monitor. At first, I thought it was related to this, though not many games had problems with it. So I tried disabling my custom resolution. No go. Still happened. It was also crashing in BioShock Infinite, til I replaced the SLI connector.
But can those suckers really go bad in one year? I mean my first lasted a year, but I thought that was a -fluke- , do they really go bad in a year? And if so, why do some games, even games using them to their full extent not crash, while others do?
It vexes me, making me FEEL it's driver related, but then at times, I don't know...
I'm at a loss here. This whole thing has convinced me to never go SLI again. But I also can't justify a new GPU purchase. I am waiting til a GPU that beats my two 670's by 50% come out, then I'll probably buy that one. I know it's ignorant as a person on a sight like this, but SLI just sucks. Waiting for profiles, issues such as this, the extra heat...ect
Tried re-seating the cards, cleaning the bridge, switching the side the bridge is on.
Any help? I need it...
Maybe software related? But what...
