Nvidia Driver Problems: 28x.xx and later

B.From.Acc

TD Admin
has anyone else been having issues with playing flash videos or what i'm more concerned about, when playing battlefield 3?

here are some screens taken from my iphone since it bricks the computer most of the time:
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when these screens appear the sound continues but eventually stops, sometimes if i'm fast enough i can press ctrl-alt-dlt to go to desktop and then an error pops up by the clock saying something like "nvidia 285.xx kernel has stopped responding".

video card is running a max of ~85 degrees under load.

on nvidia's forums they say they will have it fixed for the november driver release. any suggestions for the meantime?
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another issue i've had is my screen will sometimes flicker green. anyone else?

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Cock

Cockilicious
Staff member
Never seen shit my 6870,

Sucks you're having that kind of problem Bob :( Hope nvidia gets on it soon.
 

47

TD Admin, Chicken Licker, Top Shelf Sleeper
@ bob: try new drivers. if already done/didnt work, try the beta bf3 drivers
 

Spinny

TD Admin / Giant Faggot
bob I have a 6870 as well....

I had similar problems for almost a year, whenever I would watch videos online it would crash my computer, my sound would stay for a few seconds but my screen would go black, or some other colour.... I never got those crazy little things on my screen tho.... luckily for me the latest video drivers fixed my problems and since then I barely crash....
 

B.From.Acc

TD Admin
hmmmm, yeah i think i might just do that 47, people who have been having the same problems say that going back to 27x.xx drivers fixes the problem. might just do that. but won't have the "optimized" drivers for bf3?

i have a zotac gtx 570 amp (factory overclock). and ~85 is the highest recorded temp, with all the case fans turned up it will sit around 75. still hot but so loud with all the fans turned up :s
 

Pyro

TD Admin
sucks man. you may want to recheck that the card is plugged in correctly. even if it is likely this driver issue, you never know for sure.
 

TurboTaco

TD Admin
i just got the asus gtx 570 direct cu 2 and it runs great (except for all the crashing/PB issues with BF3 *tear)

the design has 2 fans directly on the card as well as the exhaust fan and it never goes beyond 35C on Load. The fan speeds never have gone past 30% either so I have a feeling 75-85C temps must be a problem
 

B.From.Acc

TD Admin
hmmm... well maybe its my case then? or my cpu gets to hot and heats the case too? cause my 4870 had the same temps too...

i have a i7-940.
 

TurboTaco

TD Admin
my q6600 with stock fan runs around 40C idle, up to around 50C on load

im using an antec 900 case, so there is ample fan and space

Is your case small? Try cleaning the fans, hd decks and case out with a duster. If your hardware is really heating everything up inside the case, you should look into getting more ventilation/fans into your comp.

You didn't OC anything and increase voltages on your CPU, RAM, or GPU right? increasing voltages really can incr your temps
 

OG buckshot jr

TD Admin
@ TTwP - 35 on load? Ninja please, you reading the wrong instruments mang lol (I love the 570, and I know it runs cool, but not 35. More like ~50-something in a good case.)
@ bob - may be drivers, may be a certain incompatibility with some other software on your computer (Event Viewer may give you some insight to this), or it may just be plain heat. I say the easier to test is cool the bitch down and see what happens. Only start fucking with drivers/software if you really have to.
 

$alvador

TD Member
75-85* is totally normal. core temp on the fermi cards is ok up into the 90* range, well, as long as the fan noise doesn't bother you. the problem is these "superclocked" cards vary in the amount of juice they draw and even a small voltage increase translates to a lot more heat being put out by the voltage regulators under load, and that heat gets pumped into the same heatsink dealing with the GPU which diminishes the thermal transfer and keeps the GPU-only temp sensor reading higher.

Basically, the VRs need just as much cooling as the GPU but without a dedicated temp sensor they need to be connected to the GPU's temp sensor in some way which is why all the heatsinks from all the manufacturers are fairly similar one-piece designs.
 

Leroy

2012 Troll of the Year
yeah, I'm fully expecting to reach 85 degrees, which is why I went batshit crazy on my cooling solution... here's to hoping....
 

TurboTaco

TD Admin
@ BJ, I'm reading the info from Asus Smart Doc which was the software that came with my card. I dunno, the history has never shown it peak over 37C when playing Crysis2/Witcher2 for a couple hours and BF3 when I can play without it crashing. I Swear man, the Asus GTX 570 Direct Cooling 2 is a fantastic card and really does run super cool. I am pretty sure stock designs of the GTX 570 run much higher temps than this one.
 

B.From.Acc

TD Admin
@taco: yeah i have the same case as you, antec 900 v2. great case, and i clean it about every 4 months, my case really is spotless, no packed dust on any thing.

at idle right now its sitting at 33 degrees...

i think it should be normal, phewph; heres a chart i found for stock cooling.
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47

TD Admin, Chicken Licker, Top Shelf Sleeper
they are all mehhh, leroy. ppl glue on little heat sinks on the memory modules, otherwise, the stock fan is as good as any other.
 

$alvador

TD Member
@ BJ, I'm reading the info from Asus Smart Doc which was the software that came with my card. I dunno, the history has never shown it peak over 37C when playing Crysis2/Witcher2 for a couple hours and BF3 when I can play without it crashing. I Swear man, the Asus GTX 570 Direct Cooling 2 is a fantastic card and really does run super cool. I am pretty sure stock designs of the GTX 570 run much higher temps than this one.

It looks like it's running super cool because something is wrong. Chances are your voltage regulators are not connected well to the heatsink and holding onto more heat than they should be. You'd have no idea because they are hidden under the heatsink and not registering on the GPU's temp sensor as they should [indirectly] be if they're properly connected to the heatsink. I've seen a few instances of them exploding violently on 570s, so in your situation I'd rip the heatsink up and make sure everything is fixed because RMAs are a total pain in the ass.

@ Leroy: hit up NCIX for one of these bad muthas!

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