Guild Wars 2

Hello,from the second day of palying i get problem with video. I have GTX560 ti 2gb. When i playing with best graphic settings,after 5-10 minutes,sometimes i can play 1h and only then client stop working,and i get this message what you can see in attachment. I tryed many drivers,now i have 306.xx. But problem is same. So i must play with low graphics.. But yesterday client stops works when i hade low graphics.. Another games works fine. i7-2700 3.5 MHZ quad core,gtx560ti 2gb,8gb ram. I hope this issue will be fixed soon..

Downclock your card by 10-20% and you’ll be able to play just fine.

How to downclock it ? And I didnt overcloked her.

When the display driver stops responding that is a sign of a driver fault. This can come from numerous different causes. When I had this occur in GW2, the end result was RMAing the card to EVGA because it showed a memory fault in the card, that GW2 happened to illustrate because it’s very memory intensive. Other games were fine, because they don’t use as much texturing & VRAM. Your description sounds identical in behaviour to mine, even down to low settings.

I’d strongly recommend running a heavy benchmark on the card like Unigine Heaven that can really push the card to maximum for an hour in DX11 and see what happens there.

As Grammarye said these issues are driver related. I’ve had it with ATI cards in the past and it was generally solved by doing a complete uninstall of the current drivers before installing another version.
There are programs out there that can help with this , as files are still left behind if you simply uninstall from Add/Remove programs.

Also in case it helps, currently I have a GTX 460 running the 304.79 Beta drivers at about mid – high settings with no issues, so if you haven’t you may want to try those drivers.

Ok,I’ll try Unigine Heaven.And what must happen? If will be same problem,what to do then? Which program you can recomend for deleting drivers ?

So,I i run Unigine Heaven on max settings and get the same problem.. You can see in attachement. Instaled 304.79 driver. What i must do ? Problem is in video card or i must wait for new upadates or nvdia drivers ?

That’s conclusive at least that there is a problem with your system. I would try completely uninstalling & wiping your graphics drivers (try something like Driver Cleaner, Driver Sweeper, there are guides out there on the internet on how to do a full uninstall) and putting on the latest that you knew worked, and try the benchmark again.

If it’s still doing that, consult your card’s supplier, because it may be indicative of a fault in the card.

I would start with a complete clean reinstall of your graphics card driver:

step 1: install a driver cleaning utility like Driver Sweeper or Driver Fusion

step 2: go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features and uninstall Nvidia Physx, Nvidia Graphics Driver (and anything else related to the graphics that might be in there)

step 3: reboot into safemode (hold F8 while starting up, then select the most basic safemode) and use the driver cleaning tool to clean Nvidia and Nvidia PhysX (don’t select Nvidia chipset, that’s only for motherboard drivers)

step 4: reboot again, let the computer boot normally and then run the driver installation – select the advanced / custom install mode and untick everything except the Graphics Driver and Physx, only install those 2 for now.

step 5: reboot again and re-run the Unigine Heaven benchmark

If the same problem still occurs you might have a problem with your card or there’s some other weird conflict going on.

Since you have an i7 2700 (non-K version) I assume you probably have a basic motherboard, aka one with an onboard graphics chip? If so, have you double-checked that it’s disabled? You might have to go into the BIOS to turn it off, or it may be possible to do it through the Device Manager (Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager is on the left). Look for an Intel HD 3000 or HD 4000 graphics chip (can’t remember which one comes with what, but it’ll be one of the two) and make sure it’s disabled. It’s the only other thing I can think of that might be conflicting – otherwise you might have a hardware issue.

For what it’s worth I have the same type of issue on my GTX 470 but it seems to be heat related for me because if I use EVGA Precision to ramp up my fan to 72% speed I don’t crash at all with driver stopped responding errors. If I don’t ramp it up I will between 10 and 20 minutes of play get artifacting on the screen then the display driver will reset(this doesn’t stop me playing but it’s one of those DOH forgot to run Precision before I started playing moments)

Yeah heat is also an option, though usually that just causes downclocking, freezing or spontaneous rebooting – I’ve not often seen it crash the driver, but it’s certainly a possibility. It’s definitely a good idea to monitor temps as GW2 pushes the hardware hard.

Drintar.1246:

For what it’s worth I have the same type of issue on my GTX 470 but it seems to be heat related for me because if I use EVGA Precision to ramp up my fan to 72% speed I don’t crash at all with driver stopped responding errors. If I don’t ramp it up I will between 10 and 20 minutes of play get artifacting on the screen then the display driver will reset(this doesn’t stop me playing but it’s one of those DOH forgot to run Precision before I started playing moments)

I have a GTX470 myself and what I’ve done is I used EVGA Precision to set up a custom fan profile which ramps the fan up automatically as the temperature increases – you can customize the curve exactly to your liking, which means you can have it ramping up aggressively during high loads and still have it be relatively quiet at lower loads. Once you then set Precision to start up automatically with Windows it basically means it’ll just get on with it and do everything for you automatically.

I’ve been running my card like this for about a year and 8 months now and it’s working really well. I can game with my card at full tilt for hours without any worries, since even if it were to run a little hotter all of a sudden (hot summers day or whatnot) the fan would just scale to adjust and it stays nice and quiet when idle (well as relatively quiet as these cards ever get when they don’t downclock fully because you’re running 2 monitors off it).

Amarinth.8534:

Yeah heat is also an option, though usually that just causes downclocking, freezing or spontaneous rebooting – I’ve not often seen it crash the driver, but it’s certainly a possibility. It’s definitely a good idea to monitor temps as GW2 pushes the hardware hard.

Drintar.1246:

For what it’s worth I have the same type of issue on my GTX 470 but it seems to be heat related for me because if I use EVGA Precision to ramp up my fan to 72% speed I don’t crash at all with driver stopped responding errors. If I don’t ramp it up I will between 10 and 20 minutes of play get artifacting on the screen then the display driver will reset(this doesn’t stop me playing but it’s one of those DOH forgot to run Precision before I started playing moments)

I have a GTX470 myself and what I’ve done is I used EVGA Precision to set up a custom fan profile which ramps the fan up automatically as the temperature increases – you can customize the curve exactly to your liking, which means you can have it ramping up aggressively during high loads and still have it be relatively quiet at lower loads. Once you then set Precision to start up automatically with Windows it basically means it’ll just get on with it and do everything for you automatically.

I’ve been running my card like this for about a year and 8 months now and it’s working really well. I can game with my card at full tilt for hours without any worries, since even if it were to run a little hotter all of a sudden (hot summers day or whatnot) the fan would just scale to adjust and it stays nice and quiet when idle (well as relatively quiet as these cards ever get when they don’t downclock fully because you’re running 2 monitors off it).

Just a quick question is the Precision Auto profile more aggressive than the normal? I ask this because without running precision it does ramp up but not over probably 45ish% (based on sound difference) I think

Drintar.1246:

Just a quick question is the Precision Auto profile more aggressive than the normal? I ask this because without running precision it does ramp up but not over probably 45ish% (based on sound difference) I think

Not by default, no.

Essentially how it works is as follows:
By default your card’s fan is being regulated by the automatic fan controller on the graphics chip (hardware fan control). This “autofan” will ramp up the speed of the fan depending on the temperature, but it can be rather lazy and often doesn’t ramp up the fanspeed a lot until the graphics card gets really hot.

If you’re not running EVGA Precision then your fan is always being controlled by the hardware. If you do have EVGA Precision running then it depends on the settings within EVGA Precision whether your fan is controlled by the hardware or by the software (Precision).

When the “auto” function is turned OFF the software will be running your fan at a fixed speed determined by the fan speed slider.

While the “auto” function is turned ON your fan will be running on the hardware autofan by default – however you can change this in Precision’s settings panel on the “fan” tab. If you turn on “enable software automatic fan control” you are changing the autofan to be controlled by EVGA Precision instead of your hardware and you can customize the graph on that tab to tweak the fan profile to your preference. The software fan control only regulates your fan whilst the program is running and can be disabled at any time to switch back to the hardware-controlled autofan.

Im having the exact same problem as you Artur, you are not alone lol Whenever i tried to completely remove my drivers, my comp would always automatically install drivers when i rebooted (even in Safe Mode), is this normal?

I have an ASUS card can i still use EVGA Precision? or do i have a similar programme like it?

Retzie.9018:

Im having the exact same problem as you Artur, you are not alone lol Whenever i tried to completely remove my drivers, my comp would always automatically install drivers when i rebooted (even in Safe Mode), is this normal?

I have an ASUS card can i still use EVGA Precision? or do i have a similar programme like it?

The drivers Windows installs after you reboot are some basic VGA drivers that Windows probably pulls from the hardware itself (similar to the way Windows will install basic plug-and-play drivers for a lot of USB hardware).

Officially I believe you’re supposed to deinstall those through the device manager before running the driver cleaner and then reinstalling your new ‘proper’ drivers, but I’ve never bothered with that step myself. I’m sure there are several other steps I probably shouldn’t be skipping if I were really doing things by the book, but my main concern has always been with the leftover files from Nvidia, since I know those have caused me conflicts in the past with my previous setup.

And I believe both EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner should work for other branded cards as well – it’s possible there might be some settings which are exclusive to EVGA / MSI cards only, but for temperature monitoring (and probably fan control as well) it should work for any card.

There are some other programs out there like Riva Tuner if they don’t work for you.

I have the same problem. Issue is the card down clocks itself and the driver crashes. I find the issue only happens to me though if I leave my PC on for 3+ days in a row. I’ve just got in the habit of shutting my PC down every other night and I haven’t had the issue since. Been doing this 3-5 months now.

I can’t officially say but I think it is motherboard or power supply related. I had the same issue with my ATI 5770, everything hardware wise for myself is the same between when I had the 5770 and now my 560Ti.