Guild Wars 2

I build a dirt cheap build not too long ago with some old parts given, brought etc. Moving out money being tight and all.

specs:
coolermaster case
FX 6100
8gb 1600mhz ram
m5a97 pro mobo
GTX 285 (currently using gt 430)

I got the GTX about a year ago for a dirt cheap price of like £40ish its an old card but still reasonable.

now to the need of help when playing GW2 or other games / apps I get a driver failure but it watching shows etc doesnt cause this problem. I first read up that the 306 drivers mess with the gtx 285 so I rolled back to the 29×.xx driver. but the problem was still there from 5 mins to a few hours.

the spare card I had from a different pc I relised there was random lag spikes, googled it all found out that power saving on the mobo messes with gaming so I’ve now turned it all off and got like an extra 20fps and 100% smooth.

Now that all the power saving is off on my motherboard could it be that it was restricting the Voltage to my GPU so when under load caused it to crash etc?

thank you in advance

hello here are some pieces of advice.

First i had the same problem with an I5 3570K i had to rma the processor because it is it that controls the pci express slot. now that it has been replaced i have no more problem with it.

Try replacing your gpu by another one and see if it works. If it work it can be either the gpu or the cpu but i am sorry to tell you that but driver failure is mainly an hardware problem.

What you can also try is a increase in the registry value for the TDR delay and see if that helps. google it and you’ll surely find how to do it in your registry.

If that doesn’t help then it is probably an hardware problem so check your gpu by replacing it by another one and see if it works you must determine if the problem comes from the gpu, the pci express slot or the processor but it can only be one of those 3 things.

I hope it can help you and apologize for the poor english but mothertongue is french