GTX 980 Ti Keeps Crashing I've just upgraded my graphics card from a EVGA GTX 780 Ti to a KFA2 GTX 980 Ti HoF. With the 780 I could play Far Cry 4 for hours but with this new card I can only manage around 20 minutes until the game freezes and the screen goes white. I did a clean install of the Nvidia drivers when I installed the card. I've also tried previous drivers but get the same result. My PC has been rock solid up until I changed the card. I'm not a tech savvy person so I am at a bit of a loss as what I should do. Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Cheers. Just installed the latest Nvidia drivers and now GeForce Experience is saying it can't optimize my games and there's a picture of a graphics card with a circle with a line through it. This has never happened before.
Have you tried other games? Have you tried benching? Is the card otherwise stable? Is the 980ti brand new? If not, previous owner might have messed with it's bios maybe?
Use Nvidia inspector to check temps while gaming. Quit game early and look at temp graph (search how to do this). Also, set game to lowest settings and see if that changes anything. There have been long standing reports the game will start to crash after certain parts of the game are started/completed. Card re-install; With power-off, try removing the card (carefully), clean pci-e slot and re-insert the card. Check cabling aswell and re-insert power connectors. If that doesn't fix it, then, go into control panel, uninstall and remove everything Nvidia related (DDU also works good) and do another CLEAN install of latest Nvidia driver. Also, try reinstalling chipset drivers. Test other demanding games to see if it happens with those games. If that doesn't work, you need to try the card in another system or take it to nearest computer shop to test the card. If the card is working, then, potentially something else in your system is going wrong. We start different process.
In my experience, Far Cry 4 is a crash-prone mess on my own system and I suspect it is because of the GameWorks features. I simply cannot play the game for more than 20 minutes without it crashing, no matter what driver I use. Even if I turn off all the GameWorks settings the game will still crash. However, Far Cry Primal, which incidentally does not have ANY GameWorks features, has ran perfectly for the 20+ hours that I have been playing it maxed out at 2560x1440. I have not have a single crash even when I played it for hours. Coincidence? I'll let you decide...
Read what he said! Far Cry 4 was working perfectly with his 780TI. The first and easiest thing to try is to use DDU to properly remove previous drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html
I had the same card. Both the original one and the replacement was overheating (around 90 degrees). I returned it in the end. So like someone else said above, check the temperatures in game.
I've been using the GPU app Afterburner to monitor issues (available on this site). You can try using the detached monitor and come back to it and see what the card is doing while you play FC4 or after it crashes. As far as GFE showing a line through your GPU, that's odd. I do know that I personally just had major issues with this latest driver's release of GeForce Experience (using all my available system ram) so I uninstalled it. Perhaps try an older driver like 3.65?
I did read it. We both have crashing issues with Far Cry 4 on the same graphics card which is why I replied as I have never been able to get the game to run stable for any longer than 20 minutes on my current card, the same as mookie. I also seen other posts from people who have issues with the game crashing. I run the game unmodded/untweaked by the way and I am not even forcing anything via the NVIDIA per-game profile either. Like mookie, I am also unable to optimise the game settings using GeForce Experience, though that does not particularly bother me. I obviously cannot comment on whether the game is stable with other cards, only that Far Cry 3 ran absolutely fine on my GTX 980 or GTX 780, whichever one it was I owned at the time I was playing the game, and Far Cry Primal is 100% stable across the various v3xx.xx drivers I've been using.
If anything else fails back-up some stuff on a usb stick, then format your ssd or harddrive and see how it goes then.
Just ran GPU-Z. On the main page it says: GPU Clock 1190 MHz, Boost 1291 MHz. On the sensors tab the GPU Core Clock reads 1392.2 MHz. Is that right? I haven't overclocked anything.
^ yeah the GPU Boost feature usually boosts the clocks higher than what's reported by BIOS. However, that's a pretty high default boost clock if right. What's the VDDC voltage shown as? Also like said monitor temperatures too, your issue could be due to overheating.
VDDC = 1.0120 V Just noticed the GPU Core Clock reading has gone down to 1189.7 MHz. I guess this is the correct reading for when the graphics is not under stress. I clicked on the render test and the GPU Core Clock has gone up to 1404.4 MHz and the VDDC has gone up to 1.1870 V. GPU Temp is around 76 C just after a few minutes. I wonder if my previous graphics card was tweaked by the people who made my PC (Scan). Maybe something in the computers BIOS?
Hello, You should use DDU in safe mode and reinstall driver to test if it fix Geforce Experience and game crashing...
Ok, try playing FC4 for 10/15mins and look what at what the highest temps reported were. FC4 is known to have crashing issues with GTX980Ti, but, there is potentially an over-heat problem on your system aswell.
Voltages seem legit but the temperature seems highish if that is by the render test alone. Like suggested above leave GPU-Z running minimized and play a game for a while. Go back to GPU-Z and click on GPU Temperature and select Highest Reading. This will tell you the peak temp during gaming.
Played for about 15 minutes and got the following max readings: GPU Core Clock 1417.5MHz, GPU Temp 84 C and VDDC 1.2120 V.
A little high, but, normal for the default fan profile. Could you go into uplay and disable the in-game and desktop notifications and then play it for as long as possible and report back with results?
That's hot, Im at same boost clock and it never goes above 65-67C, usually ~55-60C or even lower if vsynced.. What if you raise fan speeds a bit? Although you're the 2nd or 3rd user who reported high temperature with this HOF model.
Yea temps are too high I think, the GPU starts throttling after 83 C by default. As other users have reported high temperatures with this card too, maybe try for a replacement.