Guild Wars 2

From launch I have problem with display driver crush 2-3 times by day. This happen in very different situation(city, open world, WvWvW, gpu over 50% or lower etc.) Use many suggestion from tech forum but the problem still exist for me. My rig:
MSI B75A-G43 bios v.10.3
Intel i5-3450 3.1 ghz
GTX 460(factory OC by 15%) whql – 306.97
DDR3-1600 8gb
Chieftec – 550W
Windows 7 Ultimate sp1(all up to date)

Back the factory overclock off. its probably been barely stable this entire time and the new driver working the hardware harder is pushing it over the edge.

I don`t have any problem with such games like Skyrim Diablo 3 Batman: AC and GPU temperature in GW2 never goes higher then 63 by C.

It doesn’t matter what games don’t cause the Card to TDR. A TDR is always an instability in the Driver or the Hardware itself. Since many others are using that driver with that card (at reference clocks) then that only leaves the differences between them.

Do you know how many times a person has posted to a random forum on the internet that random game a pushes their gpu over the brink while random game b c and d all work fine.

I could link you to a thread full of people getting this sort of problem in new games on the nvidia forums on their vendor overclocked graphics cards. The underclock rule always applies if a game is unstable on newer(or older) drivers.

Wanna to see customer support post.

Dethmond: they have asked people to back their factory overclocks down many times for these kind of issues, some oem’s pushed the 460 and 500/600 series cards to the brink of stability you can google it, its well known.

its not the gpu temps that are the issue, its the voltage regulators(vrm’s or fets) that are in question here, they cant deal with the load and overheat then become unstable and give unclean voltage to the chip, causing errors that then cause a driver reset.

this isnt giving you crap, or saying you got a bad card, just a suggestion that Customer Support have posted a good number of times before, even during the beta.

different games push the gpu in different ways, for example starcraft2 burned out alot of gpu’s at the menu screen because it was using the gpu at 100% to do busy work, the temps skyrocketed and cooked the chips, amd and nvidia, they patched in an fps limiter to fix that after it happened….and no other games caused that effect.

whats it gonna hurt you to install evga percission or msi afterburner and set the card to default 460 specs?

if its going to hurt your ego then thats no excuse to not try it…..i mean if the card turns out to not be stable at factor clocks but is at ref clocks for the chipset, you can always try contacting the oem and get a repalcement(by now they probably are sending out 500 series rather then 400’s)

also never been a fan of Chieftec psu’s, seen boxes of them failed in my years working at computer shops……

there are alot of good choices that dont cost much for a psu….so in this case that could even be it, the cpu+gpu load could be pushing that psu over its real limits(its rated at 550 but that dosnt mean it can really sustain 550watt )

If some of the other suggestions like underclocking, cleaning the fan/heatsinks from dust, re-seating the heatsinks with new thermal paste, etc don’t help, try this, I had the same problem and nothing worked until I used this tool.

http://www.guru3d.com/content_page/guru3d_driver_sweeper.html

Follow the steps as instructed. Won’t hurt to try even if it isn’t the fix. Make sure to run it as administrator if on Vista/7. After you’re done, reboot to normal Windows mode and reload the current newest drivers.

Found some solution for me…meybe this help somebody others. So after log in game I use Alt+tab and wait 10-15 minutes (make tea/coffee etc) then I use Alt+tab again and from now I can play GW2 without Display Driver crush(and meybe PC freeze for somebody)

Deathmond.7328:

Found some solution for me…meybe this help somebody others. So after log in game I use Alt+tab and wait 10-15 minutes (make tea/coffee etc) then I use Alt+tab again and from now I can play GW2 without Display Driver crush(and meybe PC freeze for somebody)

Then that would definitely be an overclock issue IMHO. Doing what your described all your doing is removing the load off the GPU for that time your alt-tabbed outta the game. You could just as easily clock your GPU back a bit and not have to worry about alt+tabbing outta the game for 10-15 minutes.

shrugs But hey, whatever works for you.