games crashing

lincsman

lincsman

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Hi there, me again! So I have a new build (signature) and am still using a gtx 770 2GB until I buy a new video card. I had issues with games crashing and took the motherboard assembly (CPU, RAM and motherboard) and got it tested and those components worked just fine, so that's not the problem. Then I reinstalled Windows 10 and installed all the drivers and everything. Now I go to play games and just like before, games crash. The 770 is not under warranty but the power supply is. I overclocked the video card under instructions given on a website for overclocking the exact model I have (Asus DirectCU OC edition) and the problem seemed to happen after that. So it is reasonable to think that it is likely the video card. I'm just wondering before I go and buy a new video card that I don't really have money for right now, is there anything I am missing? Did I maybe do something wrong? Does it sound like a video card issue, or a PSU issue?

A few more details: The games seem to chug a little and the sound clips in a way, then crash completely. Not just the game but the whole computer crashes where I can't even open task manager, and have to cold restart.
Thanks.
 
Not all cards overclock the same. You have probably damaged the card now. Time for a new one.
 
Could be the GPU. But that might not be the case. I have crashed my PC for GPU overclocking many times.
Do you have onboard graphics to test?
 
Unfortunately there is no warranty to speak of. I bought it used so at least I didn't have to buy it full price or buy a warrany, but yeah. It's not overclocked at all right now.
 
Try removing the overclock and add a little overvolt. Back in the day I had 580s that would crash unless 100mV was added to the core.
 
Okedokey said:
Try removing the overclock and add a little overvolt. Back in the day I had 580s that would crash unless 100mV was added to the core.
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Or downclock core slightly. My 7970 got roasted (95oC) due to a driver glitch and my card that I used to run overclocked couldn't even maintain stock clocks without crashes. Had to underclock it by about 50MHz on Core and Memory to get it to run.
 
Ok so not sure if it has anything to do with the functionality of my video card, but windows (not too happy with it) installed its default driver for the card and then I installed the Nvidia drivers after. I used DDU to remove all drivers and then installed the Nvidia drivers without the windows one, and it's working just fine so far.
 
lincsman said:
Ok so not sure if it has anything to do with the functionality of my video card, but windows (not too happy with it) installed its default driver for the card and then I installed the Nvidia drivers after. I used DDU to remove all drivers and then installed the Nvidia drivers without the windows one, and it's working just fine so far.
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Yeah Windows will do that. Once you're on a newer driver than what Windows Update gives you it usually won't overwrite it. Usually...
 
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