Random, hard freezing in Firefox and Second Life. Hard reset required.

Azure Prower said:

But you say it's network connection that links SL and Firefox together? What about when it happens during video editing software that doesn't use the network connection?

Sorry. I missed the part about the video editing software.

What happens if you don't run SL in windowed mode?

Mellon Head said:

Azure Prower said:

But you say it's network connection that links SL and Firefox together? What about when it happens during video editing software that doesn't use the network connection?

Sorry. I missed the part about the video editing software.

What happens if you don't run SL in windowed mode?

Tested full screen mode out. Left the program open and sitting there. Eventually the system crash with last picture frozen and hard reset was required. So basically no different.

It basically doesn't matter what I do in Second Life. As long as the program is open, logged into the game world and running. The issue occurs after a random period of time. This time it was an hour and 15 minutes.

I believe the same thing occurs with Firefox when hardware acceleration is enabled and a you tube video is playing.

Go into SL and go to your graphics settings. Try turning off (un-tick) "Basic Shaders" and run the game again. That may or may not help, but it's what I got from the SL technical forum.

Also, according to the copy of SL's GPU support table, the 980 ti is not supported yet, though I don't know why it wouldn't be.

Here is a little wiki page from Firestorm about freezes and what to do about them:

fs_freezing [Phoenix Firestorm Project - Wiki]

Mellon Head said:

Go into SL and go to your graphics settings. Try turning off (un-tick) "Basic Shaders" and run the game again. That may or may not help, but it's what I got from the SL technical forum.

Also, according to the copy of SL's GPU support table, the 980 ti is not supported yet, though I don't know why it wouldn't be.

Here is a little wiki page from Firestorm about freezes and what to do about them:

fs_freezing [Phoenix Firestorm Project - Wiki]

Though the reason why I upgraded to the 980 ti is because the GTX 670 was doing the same thing. So I don't believe the graphics card itself is the issue.

I have been pointed towards that webpage before. But like disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox. All of these are band aid work arounds rather than finding and fixing what the true problem is. Which is what I am seeking. Else this is going to keep becoming a problem in future.

Hopefully final update.

Heard certain Nvidia drivers were causing similar issues with other users.

I used Guru3D's DDU to wipe clean the drivers on my computer and found that it was detecting my other two older cards before I used the program to wipe them clean. Installed the most known and latest stable drivers 362.00.

Been trying the problem programs for a week with no restrictions placed on them. No more crashing thus far. Seems my problem is fixed.

Thanks every one for helping out. Special thanks to Indianatone for pointing out my CPU's over heating problem. That would have become an issue later down the track for sure.


Edit:

Hours later. The freeze and system crashing returns. Looks like I'm never going to find and fix this problem.