- Joined
- Jan 19, 2004
- Location
- Tennessee
Situation: Replaced crippled 580GTX's that were overheating and causing the computer to blackscreen with 760GTX's. SLI in both configurations. Noticed the problem in newer games after upgrading to latest drivers. I did a clean reinstall of the drivers and the problem only got worse; the screen would go black and lose input and for about 3 seconds, sound would play that is very similar to the sound heard in Fallout NV's Sierra Madre expansion when you get close to a radio while the scarred girl is your follower.
The problem nearly went away altogether by adding the 760GTX's. Not only did I get a nice performance bump, but many of my games had a superior 3D experience and success loading larger textures because the vRAM more than doubled in capacity. It's very nice when your bottleneck is coming from the access times on a HDD.
Then it happened again on Dead Island Riptide. This time, I CTD'd instead of losing control altogether. BZZZZZZZZT-CTD. Once, this produced an error saying that the video driver had waited too long to sync (or something along those lines) and to ensure I was using the newest driver. To be sure, I did a clean install of my drivers.
Then I played Overlord in 3D and had to alt-tab. When I alt-tabbed back, the game started "freezing" every few seconds. The frequency increased until I got that telltale BZZZZZZT again and my screen filled with the squiggles of an old NES cartridge that needs to be blown out. I had to reboot to clear it.
Finally, I tried using 3D on STO in a window. This worked fine. I did it in fullscreen on a fresh login. That was great too. I tried to swap from Windowed Maximized to Full Screen in one go, though, and BZZZZZZT-CTD. Again, it was telling me that the video driver had waited too long to sync.
The cards play things that tax them far, far more than these games did, and perform flawlessly. I get no SLI stutter, no artifacts, etc. Temps are good and I stress-tested both cards just to make sure one of them wasn't individually problematic. The PSU is a 1200w PSU so I know I've got the juice coming down the rails. I see a lot of posts on the net lately about driver issues; are nVidia drivers starting to drop the ball?
The problem nearly went away altogether by adding the 760GTX's. Not only did I get a nice performance bump, but many of my games had a superior 3D experience and success loading larger textures because the vRAM more than doubled in capacity. It's very nice when your bottleneck is coming from the access times on a HDD.
Then it happened again on Dead Island Riptide. This time, I CTD'd instead of losing control altogether. BZZZZZZZZT-CTD. Once, this produced an error saying that the video driver had waited too long to sync (or something along those lines) and to ensure I was using the newest driver. To be sure, I did a clean install of my drivers.
Then I played Overlord in 3D and had to alt-tab. When I alt-tabbed back, the game started "freezing" every few seconds. The frequency increased until I got that telltale BZZZZZZT again and my screen filled with the squiggles of an old NES cartridge that needs to be blown out. I had to reboot to clear it.
Finally, I tried using 3D on STO in a window. This worked fine. I did it in fullscreen on a fresh login. That was great too. I tried to swap from Windowed Maximized to Full Screen in one go, though, and BZZZZZZT-CTD. Again, it was telling me that the video driver had waited too long to sync.
The cards play things that tax them far, far more than these games did, and perform flawlessly. I get no SLI stutter, no artifacts, etc. Temps are good and I stress-tested both cards just to make sure one of them wasn't individually problematic. The PSU is a 1200w PSU so I know I've got the juice coming down the rails. I see a lot of posts on the net lately about driver issues; are nVidia drivers starting to drop the ball?
