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BSOD's while playing Battlefield 3 (Usually Driver IRQL Error code)
Hello, I have had this problem for around a month now and it's seriously way overdue of fixing. I tried another forum but noone gave me any real answers.
The main point is, I play Battlefield 3 and at some point it will just BSOD on me. Usually the driver IRQL less than equal. I have tried reinstalling drivers, not using overclocks and so forth.
There's a few parts to this which could be interesting. I used to get a lot more BSODs, I noticed my CPU temps were oddly out of line and installed a new cooler. The cpu still runs pretty damn hot under load even though my aftermarket cooler is massive. (Grand Kama Cross)
56-63c or so. Idle it's 36-42. The CPU is only mildly overclocked by 0.2 ghz and it's been stable for a long time, makes me feel a little iffy on the possibility of it crapping out on me now? I don't know.
The 2nd thing is that these started occuring after I got my 2nd monitor IIRC(I'm not sure, sorry). My original monitor was a normal 1920x1200 60hz one and then I got a 1920x1080 120hz next to it. I didn't notice at first that my card wasn't downclocking because of this and you could only override it by forcing the 120hz monitor to 60hz and then use nvidia inspector to use power saver. Needless to say this whole ordeal isn't always in my mind and I idle with full clocks. Whatever.
By the way when I used the SF Diagnostics tool, I noticed the even log kept saying "The NVIDIA OpenGL driver has encountered an out of memory error." A lot. What is up with that?
You can find my components in my profile I think.
Oh and I have not done any stress testing aside from memtest which gave no errors. Other games (90% of the time less intensive, and even Witcher 2) have not given me these BSOD's.
Last edited by Protozoa; 30 Jul 2012 at 18:58. Reason: More information