TOOL: 3Booter, the Incooperative Game Kicker
Rockermonkey:
Aha, I see. I was wondering why it was scattering then going up so quickly. Usually when I saw a framerate drop before, it would stick. Before the fpslimiter by the way. But now like in the instance I said when I drag a full pattern to a new object in drops down and flies back up.
:D Thanks
witch:
Quote from: jordi on 2009 August 08, 11:03:47
And too much work for the GPU can cause it to overheat and lock.
I had a gpu crash which scared me back to fpslimiter. I haven't had any problems since.
Valcorian:
Was suggested to use this fpslimiter by someone because of my problem.
Here is a quick rundown of my computer:
Intel Core i7 920 Octo-Core Processor 2.67ghz
EVGA x58 SLI Classified Motherboard
12 Gigs DDR 3 ram
Nvidia GTX 295 GPU
1000 Watt PSU
All drivers up to date. Games that I have on this computer that run perfect on highest settings - Oblvion, Fallout3, CivIV
Games that crash: Spore, occasionally. Sims 3 - CONSTANTLY crashing to a blackscreen which it recovers from sometime, error message from windows is that my video driver failed and was rebooted.
I have been working with EA tech support until they finally gave up on me and offered me a free downloadable game from their store, which I refused.
I have been through all sorts of troubleshooting, my GPU temp never goes above 55c when playing, so I don't believe it is an overheating problem.
When I run this fix, my game freezes and stutters after playing for less than a minute. The only way to get it to work again is to short bar and bring it back up, it will run for another 30 seconds or so then freeze again.
This is the same thing that happens to the game if I try to force VSYNC on with the Nvidia control panel for this game. Also noted that the game runs using a SINGLE GPU, tried to force it to multiple GPU like all my other games, but that doesn't work. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Rockermonkey:
Well Sims 3 isn't compatible with the i7 so I believe that would be your issue.
Rockermonkey:
I don't remember where I heard this but someone sent an email to EA asking why the i7's aren't on the supported list, EA then responded and told them it hadn't been tested. So it's not unsupported but rather not on the supported list. Also i7's usually fail the 'canyourunit test', which sucks anyway, but still.
That was the only reason I could think of as to why this dudes computer was flipping out for no reason.
Oh and what drivers are you using? I've heard of some of the newer drivers being crap at the nvidia forums.
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