DVI no signal

bbdowns124 · 13 Nov 2013

When playing Call of Duty Ghosts, anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes into the game my screen goes black, the comp freezes and either one of these 2 messages are displayed:

1 - DVI no signal
2 - ASUS out of range

Soemtimes I don't get a message and the game just closes and the comp freezes.

I have and EVGA GeForce GTX nvidia 660Ti graphics card,
ASUS VG248QE monitor,
Windows 7 64 bit home premium,
and a verizon fios fiber optic IPS.

I have to restart my comp after this happens and then all is well again. I performed temp. tests and it ran from 49'c to 77'c while playing the game. The only other program that this happens to me is Battlefield 4. Otherwise, I never have a problem. All cable connections are fine. I even tried using different cables, plus I also tried an HDMI cable and still had the same problem. I lowered the settings way below what my setup is capable of and it still doesn't help. Last video settings used - 800x600 res, @ 60hz. Any help is greatly appreciated.

AddRAM · 13 Nov 2013

Re install the video drivers, and make sure you do a custom/clean install.

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

And do you have Geforce Experience installed ?

http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience

And is your monitor set to it`s native resolution ? Why are you using 800 x 600 ?

bbdowns124 · 13 Nov 2013

I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them already. I do have/use GeForce Experience.
The 800x600 was only temporary, thinking it might help solve the problem. I also receive "ASUS out of range" messages upon freeze up occasionally. I put the res setting back to native res which is 1920x1080

JoshKaye · 13 Nov 2013

what can happen is higher end games like this are running alot of shaders. this can overload the video card. i have a GTX 660 SuperClocked. So i see this happen to me sometimes.

if you dont have Precision X EVGA here it is >> EVGA | Software | EVGA Precision

Make sure if your running these games that you have voltage at 100% or even 110%
you can also set max FPS -- 120

if this doesn't fix you can mess around with over-under clocking your card.
- Warning - dont go over 50 your GPU offset or 130 on memory clock -

and if your card is getting up to 77'c that's pretty high, i would recommend turning your graphics card off of auto fan speed, and up to 70% or more. I usually never let my card get higher then 63'c.

lastly when playing games like ghosts or BF4, turn anti-aliasing off and the option thats called HBAD all this does is increase small settings like plants on the ground or small rocks etc.

bbdowns124 · 13 Nov 2013

Thanks Josh! I'll do all these things and post the results...

bbdowns124 · 14 Nov 2013

Did all those things Josh but still have the problem. I filed a support ticket with Activision and even they don't know why it's happening. Their answer, "we have a patch coming out (no date) and maybe that will help". REALLY?

JoshKaye · 14 Nov 2013

Assuming you have a gtx 660 ti your computer must be custom built, I would recommend going inside and looking at the PCI E. Port and making sure it's in the x16 port not x8 or x4. Also make sure you have the 6-pin power connector in fully. Also let me know how much RAM your running and how many hrz and your processor and how many ghz. Last problem I could think off the top of my head would be your power supply, let me know the wattage of that if your running one 660 ti I would recommend a psu of atleast 650 wt. if you can't get any of these just give me the serial #'s and we can figure out your configuration to see if these games can be stablized with your system at all.

bbdowns124 · 15 Nov 2013

All the connectors are secure and inserted properly. I have 18gigs of ram with the CPU - 940 @2.93ghz.
Power supply is 800 watts. The Nvidia GeForce Experience has optimized this game but I lowered all the settings to see if that would help, and it hasn't. I also adjusted my GPU with EVGA Precision as suggested by another responder above.