Hey there,
A week after my holiday I return, turn on my PC to play BF3, and it's running at 7FPS and worse.
MSI Afterburner shows the graphics card. I have a feeling it's not being used. Sony Vegas also crashes at start up when it says "initializing GPU acceleration" or something.
A restart seems to fix the problem, but then it comes back the next day. I just don't get it - why now? Why so suddenly?
Are there any tests I can run to diagnose if my GPU is being used and then what I can do to fix it?
There's a possibility my GPU Core clock is messing up like it sometimes did. It used to be stuck at 950MHz and never adjust when idle. Could it be the core clock is now not increasing as it should, thus causing frame rate issues?
BTW My card is the MSI GTx 560Ti HAWK which has a factory OC of 950Mhz.
Then again I have an Ivy Bridge CPU, what if the game is using the integrated graphics to play?
My monitor is plugged in via the graphics card though....
EDIT: I just did a FurMark 1080p test. I noticed the temperature on my GPU jump up from 41 to 46, but no higher. And the core clock was just 66MHz!! for the whole time! Why isn't the card adjusting clock properly? Is there a chance it is caused by interference caused by my Sound Card, since the microphone channel on my sound card gets crazy noise interference when I'm playing games (you can hear it in some of my videos).
EDIT2: A reboot at the idle clock is 51 (good, 66 was just weird). The same test sees the GPU throttle to 475Mhz for some strange reason. After the test ends (!) the clock ups to the full 950Mhz shortly, before stepping down to 405Mhz and thne idle at 51Mhz again. The question is, why did it clock up to 475Mhz when it did an intensive test? And what's to stop it from going wrong again?
A week after my holiday I return, turn on my PC to play BF3, and it's running at 7FPS and worse.
MSI Afterburner shows the graphics card. I have a feeling it's not being used. Sony Vegas also crashes at start up when it says "initializing GPU acceleration" or something.
A restart seems to fix the problem, but then it comes back the next day. I just don't get it - why now? Why so suddenly?
Are there any tests I can run to diagnose if my GPU is being used and then what I can do to fix it?
There's a possibility my GPU Core clock is messing up like it sometimes did. It used to be stuck at 950MHz and never adjust when idle. Could it be the core clock is now not increasing as it should, thus causing frame rate issues?
BTW My card is the MSI GTx 560Ti HAWK which has a factory OC of 950Mhz.
Then again I have an Ivy Bridge CPU, what if the game is using the integrated graphics to play?
My monitor is plugged in via the graphics card though....
EDIT: I just did a FurMark 1080p test. I noticed the temperature on my GPU jump up from 41 to 46, but no higher. And the core clock was just 66MHz!! for the whole time! Why isn't the card adjusting clock properly? Is there a chance it is caused by interference caused by my Sound Card, since the microphone channel on my sound card gets crazy noise interference when I'm playing games (you can hear it in some of my videos).
EDIT2: A reboot at the idle clock is 51 (good, 66 was just weird). The same test sees the GPU throttle to 475Mhz for some strange reason. After the test ends (!) the clock ups to the full 950Mhz shortly, before stepping down to 405Mhz and thne idle at 51Mhz again. The question is, why did it clock up to 475Mhz when it did an intensive test? And what's to stop it from going wrong again?
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