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Whatchioosit? Driver crashed and restarted...but didn't
1ddqd
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So I've been having some video card problems lately. I've updated my graphics drivers since December (I say December b/c that's the last time I reformatted) and yet this problem still persists.
I have a BFG 8800 GTX 768MB OC with the latest drivers. Here's a screenshot of the error I get:
Completely wiped and reinstalled the drivers - no change. This usually happens when I load TF2 or L4D (the only source games I have installed), and I think it's related to the overlay it uses. Please tell me someone else has had this issue and knows how to fix it!
I have a BFG 8800 GTX 768MB OC with the latest drivers. Here's a screenshot of the error I get:
Completely wiped and reinstalled the drivers - no change. This usually happens when I load TF2 or L4D (the only source games I have installed), and I think it's related to the overlay it uses. Please tell me someone else has had this issue and knows how to fix it!
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Reboot and a couple hours later, bad artifacting and resolution @ 800x600 16-bit color.
The video card is a BFG and lifetime warrantied, but man, it's a pain to pull it out of my watercooling loop.
Then again you have watercooling.... Not sure brah.
Temps never top 42C under full load, no OC (on my part, card comes OC'd).
I've already checked, the block has full contact on the card as well. And I'm using a combination of CoreTemp and GPU-Z for temp monitoring.
I think it is related to something you have running in the background. Search the steam forums to see if there are any known conflicts between something you have running in the background and source games. I know if you have AVG installed it can fuck things up.
Good idea, but before I did my last test, I ended every process that wasn't essential (only had anti-virus and sound card/mouse driver programs running). Absolutely nothing else. Still had a crash.
I specifically remember that ending the process for AVG didn't help - you had to uninstall it or stop it from loading at all I think.
I know you're not using AVG, but it could be a similar conflict with another process. I did some more searching and it looks like it has something to do with applications that use alpha blending.