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180.48 Driver problem.

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Casper312

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So i just basically installed em on my 9800gtx from evga and my fan is not being detected, meaning it says n/a on fan in the control panel and in evga precision tool, this happened right after i installed the 180.48 drivers. im about to reinstall the drivers and see if that fixes it, otherwise, back to the old ones.

anyone else get this?
 
Go to EVGAs site and download the newest Precision utility. It fixes the problem.
 
I don't think this is necessarily driver related because I was getting this a few times on the previous drivers 178.43 or whatever that was:

http://i.nconspicuo.us/2007/02/13/d...ing-and-has-recovered-nvlddmkm-nvidia-driver/

^^ I'm getting this in Far Cry 2. I'll be playing great and then it freezes, stops, and the game shuts down and I get that message.

I grimace to suggest this, but when I was using my 8800GT in this game I never saw that but I've had a new GTX280 for a couple of weeks and now I'm seeing it. This is the only game I've seen this in FWIW, so I'm hoping it's nothing real serious.

Everything on my machine is fully up to date. Vista 64 Home Premium.
 
looks like pretty much i lost quite a few fps in gears, it might of been overheating so im a try and see if the random lock ups are still there.
 
im getting the same sort of thing, random lockups in left 4 dead

havnt tried other games right now and its late and ive called it a nite after fiighitng the drivers, and going back to the last whql version which didnt do this for me.

not sure whats up, could it be a fan over heating deal?
 
rivatuner dude, always works for me no matter how new the drivers are
everyone should really be using this

you can have a set amount or tell it when to kick in via the scheduler
ive got

70% @ 50c
80% @ 53c
90% @ 56c
100% @ 61c
100% @ 85c (FAILSAFE)

Also you can make shortcuts via rivatuner that auto overclock/fan speed when you run a game for example and set it back to normal when you exit, the amount of automation you can make is amazing i have no idea why people use precision and nvidias tools.

though i wish there was an "on idle" option in the scheduler so i could tell my card to downclock after 10 mins :)
 
Ye download Evga precision 1.3.3. Adds driver support for all 180.xx drivers.

P.S I just joined and this is my first post. Hello!
 
Acoustique said:
rivatuner dude, always works for me no matter how new the drivers are
everyone should really be using this

you can have a set amount or tell it when to kick in via the scheduler
ive got

70% @ 50c
80% @ 53c
90% @ 56c
100% @ 61c
100% @ 85c (FAILSAFE)

Also you can make shortcuts via rivatuner that auto overclock/fan speed when you run a game for example and set it back to normal when you exit, the amount of automation you can make is amazing i have no idea why people use precision and nvidias tools.

though i wish there was an "on idle" option in the scheduler so i could tell my card to downclock after 10 mins :)
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wow you run your fan settings pretty high, although it probably depends on the card.

video cards are supposed to be good up to way above cpu temps, and work fine at 70 degrees. My fan gets obscenely loud above 50% duty cycle

as for idle, i downclock when it is not in use / in 2D using hardware acceleration and DD
 
Q-BZ said:
I don't think this is necessarily driver related because I was getting this a few times on the previous drivers 178.43 or whatever that was:

http://i.nconspicuo.us/2007/02/13/d...ing-and-has-recovered-nvlddmkm-nvidia-driver/

^^ I'm getting this in Far Cry 2. I'll be playing great and then it freezes, stops, and the game shuts down and I get that message.

I grimace to suggest this, but when I was using my 8800GT in this game I never saw that but I've had a new GTX280 for a couple of weeks and now I'm seeing it. This is the only game I've seen this in FWIW, so I'm hoping it's nothing real serious.

Everything on my machine is fully up to date. Vista 64 Home Premium.
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The error: Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered.

Happens in the course of a perfectly normal game session. Game freezes, screen goes black for a second, I see the desktop, and I see that message in a bubble in the lower right hand corner.


I'll run more games and such, but I'm not sure how/why precision tool would affect this one way or the other. I feel like this problem is only isolated to Far Cry 2...or at least I hope so.

The 8800GT 512 mentioned was EVGA and the GTX280 SSC I have now is also EVGA. I've changed NO settings whatsoever in Precision. I don't mess with that stuff. ;)

Anyone else have this error? Does it mean anything to anyone?
 
"Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered." Commonly happens to me when my clocks are too high on my card, and on my old 9800GTX it would do that when it overheated. You have a 280 right? I would watch your temperatures while playing Farcry and see what happens. Usually 90c+ is the danger zone for "Driver" failure.
 
see i never get the display driver error

just during game itll kinda skip and lock up and then come back to normal, and its random, it can be simply walkin down a hallway or when a bunch of monsters are on screen.
 
SDMorris said:
"Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered." Commonly happens to me when my clocks are too high on my card, and on my old 9800GTX it would do that when it overheated. You have a 280 right? I would watch your temperatures while playing Farcry and see what happens. Usually 90c+ is the danger zone for "Driver" failure.
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I'll look into this and monitor it. I was pretty confident that I had a good enough cooling situation, even though it's air and not water, but I will most certainly get on top of this.
 
I wouldnt doubt your cooling solution, like many others with a 280 you may have a great air setup, but a lot of the 280's came from the factory with the heat sinks all screwed up which caused a lot of heat problems for many people. I cant guarantee that is your problem, but its work looking into.
 
SDMorris said:
I wouldnt doubt your cooling solution, like many others with a 280 you may have a great air setup, but a lot of the 280's came from the factory with the heat sinks all screwed up which caused a lot of heat problems for many people. I cant guarantee that is your problem, but its work looking into.
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It just crashed again and my temperature was 72 degrees Celsius.
 
Q-BZ said:
It just crashed again and my temperature was 72 degrees Celsius.
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Just fired up Dead Space and played into it a little bit. I didn't crash but I kept seeing kind of...flashing artifacts every so often that I know have nothing to do with the game. My best guess...those kinds of artificats remind me of what people complain about if there's a little heating issue going on.

When I closed the game I was around 76-78 degrees Celsius. Think there's anything to it or is that something else going on there perhaps?

I guess I'd better call EVGA...
 
Sounds like its heat getting to you, most definitely. If your car is an EVGA card, enable the on screen readout of the temperature of your card in precision, so that way you can see exactly what it is during game play. Check that out real quick, and if its getting real hot like 90c+ in game, then thats your problem.
 
SDMorris said:
Sounds like its heat getting to you, most definitely. If your car is an EVGA card, enable the on screen readout of the temperature of your card in precision, so that way you can see exactly what it is during game play. Check that out real quick, and if its getting real hot like 90c+ in game, then thats your problem.
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Will do...



http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1033343580#post1033343580

Feel free to chime in there, too.


EDIT: Peaked and held at 78 degrees Celsius before yet another crash.



EDIT again: Dead Space was climing. I saw it go to 83 and I just decided to shut it down. Maybe Far Cry 2 is more sensitive, but that seems like it's getting a little hot to me. What say you all?

EDIT: Going to troubleshoot as if there were an overheating issue. Fan at 100 percent in EVGA precision. We'll see what this does...


EDIT: My problem may be solved. I think I was headed towards a little overheating/stability issue. I just set the fan to 100 percent in EVGA Precision and went from flirting with 80 degrees Celsius to mid 60's in Far Cry 2 and about 70 degrees in Dead Space. No more artifacts or crashes. Kind of odd that Dead Space makes the card run hotter than Far Cry 2...
 
Ok, as long as you keep your fan up you should be fine. With my 260, when I set the fan to 100% it usually never even goes above 60c. If it starts acting up again though, I would call EVGA.
 
SDMorris said:
Ok, as long as you keep your fan up you should be fine. With my 260, when I set the fan to 100% it usually never even goes above 60c. If it starts acting up again though, I would call EVGA.
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I will.

I can't believe that Dead Space runs hotter than Far Cry 2...and we're talking with 1920x1200 and all the eye candy maxed out across the boards. Far Cry 2 cruised around 62-65 C and Dead Space still flirted with 70. Go figure.

Minor complaint: Dang, is thing loud at a 100 percent fan but it's worth it if it means no problems and great performance.
 
Yeah, games can be weird like that at times. When I play old ass 18 Wheels of Steel games on my rig, I get temps up to like 58c with my fan cranked, then I go play GT-R Evolution which just came out and it stays around 50c. Whatever I guess.

Yes, they make TONS of noise. With my 260 at 100%, the 6 120mm fans on my Twelve hundred cranked, and the top 200mm fan cranked, my machine sounds like a jet engine.
 
This is a known issue with the 180.xx driver. It killed fan control for me too with nTune. I got the latest precision from Evga and I'm back in business.

For those that don't have it you can download it from guru3d.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/EVGA-Precision-1.3.3-download-2112.html

I didn't DL it from Evga because they wanted me to jump through a bunch of hoops to access it.

I usually run my fan @ 70-75% when gaming. It's loud and nothing like 100%.
 
Blacklash said:
This is a known issue with the 180.xx driver. It killed fan control for me too with nTune. I got the latest precision from Evga and I'm back in business.

For those that don't have it you can download it from guru3d.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/EVGA-Precision-1.3.3-download-2112.html

I didn't DL it from Evga because they wanted me to jump through a bunch of hoops to access it.

I usually run my fan @ 70-75% when gaming. It's loud and nothing like 100%.
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I'll try inching the fan down. 75 percent's sound is WAY less atrocious than 100 percent. If I can get away with that, I'll be real happy. ;)
 
I cant benchmark Crysis Warhead with this driver, it crashes every time after about 10 seconds in.
Crysis and 3DM05 work ok and give almost exactly the same performance of 180.43 driver.
I havent tried Fallout 3 yet but I dont anticipate I will notice any difference as there isnt a benchmark tool.
 
DoomzDayz said:
wow you run your fan settings pretty high, although it probably depends on the card.

video cards are supposed to be good up to way above cpu temps, and work fine at 70 degrees. My fan gets obscenely loud above 50% duty cycle

as for idle, i downclock when it is not in use / in 2D using hardware acceleration and DD
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yeh 70% drops temps heaps on an nvidia & is really quiet actually @ 80 / 90 / 100% dont make that big of a diff afterwards unless the load starts getting really heay

i dont like my GPU cracking 60 (i dont like anything cracking 60c) and 70 load is out of the question for me it may be safe but iam just fussy

+ you can kill alot of noise with extension cables and moving the com away from you
 
75 percent so far seems to have ended all of my problems. :) Lord knows that sounds way better than the small lawn mower I had going for me at 100 percent. ;)

If need be I can inch it up to 80 but I think I'm going to be alright. :)
 
It couldn't be the memory overheating, but even factory oc'd memory has always given me problems. I had an 8800gtx acs3 when it 1st came out, and it exhibited oc'd and unstable memory issues. I'm currently on my 2nd 8800GT SC b/c the 1st one couldn't handle the factory mem oc. I flashed the bios to stock clocks the first time I started windows with this one, and I've not had any problems.

I could probably get a 100mhz core/250 MHz shader oc out of it, especially with the fan @ 100%, which I always have it set to.

I know this sounds retarded, but leaving memory oc'd is asking for trouble. Sometimes they clock it past what it's rated, if I'm not mistaken.
 
I/m having a slightly different situation with these new drivers. My card is An XFX8800GS. In Precision tools with the 178,24 drivers, I can't access and change the fan speed on the GPU. With thr new 180.48 drivers, I can change the fan speed. But since I installed the new drivers, I have been getting lockups in various places (Windows Media Player trying to view a video, in Freecell, etc.) I am not overclocked and not playing games. This is happening in normal use. I have gone back to the 178.24 drivers for now to see if the lockups stop. With the 178.24 drivers, I can control fan speed with Riva Tuner.
 
Acoustique said:
yeh 70% drops temps heaps on an nvidia & is really quiet actually @ 80 / 90 / 100% dont make that big of a diff afterwards unless the load starts getting really heay

i dont like my GPU cracking 60 (i dont like anything cracking 60c) and 70 load is out of the question for me it may be safe but iam just fussy

+ you can kill alot of noise with extension cables and moving the com away from you
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i use mine in a home theater setup so mine is pretty far away with wireless mouse/keyboard. however, I got an antec 300, so I kinda wish i got a solo or p182, since i can hear it above 50%, but it still doesn't go above ~65c overclocked so i guess that is fine. I was pretty shocked to see the idle levels of 60 with the default fan, but then read about how its fine for gpu's. my cpu and motherboard never go above 45c even with IBT and I like it that way.. for now. i wish the mobo could supply move voltage to the cpu fan because that thing is way quiet.
 
Just chiming in to say my evga gtx 260 was overheating bad due to the lack of fan control from and 180.xx drivers, but downloading the latest evga precision tool solved that problem.
 
You guys have a high tolerance for noise

I run my GTX 260 fan as follows:

< 60 C - 40%
62-72C - 55%
75-88C - 70%
> 90 C - 86%

So my fan is essentially never over 55% when I am not gaming, and usually 40% which is very quiet IMO

I game with headphones, so if it gets really hot it doesn't bother me.
 
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