GTX 460 card crashing/freezing in games

[tautology]

Basically what happens sometimes in-game is I get either a crash where the screen goes black and then a message saying the graphics driver recovered successfully, or I get freezing up with fps drops every few seconds until I quit the application.

I haven't had this issue before I OC'd my AMD Phenom II X6 1090T CPU from 3.2 to 3.6 GHz. The temperatures of the card are perfectly fine (it's usually around 62-67 degrees) and I also ran some stress tests through furmark, which gave me results consistent with my card's rating, and I had no errors.

I was under the impression that overclocking the CPU didn't affect the graphics card. Also, I'm 100% certain the card is getting enough power because I specifically bought a new power supply a few months back to make sure I would never worry about power issues. The GPU drivers are up to date (I even tried using beta drivers) and I've checked the card physically and got the dust out.

edit: just got another error in Starcraft 2 - "your computer has run out of paged pool memory". I have 12 gbs of ram and with starcraft 2 open i have about 8.5-9 gbs being used.

Does anybody know what is the problem? Thank you for any help.

 

[Fluffy]

First off, try re-installing the graphics drivers, if that doesnt work make sure the card is seated properly and the PCi-E molex plugs are properly seated.

 

[tautology]

Thanks for the reply. I have tried reinstalling drivers and even using beta ones. Physically everything seems to be fine with the card, I've taken it out and put it back in. It's really weird since it's passing the stress test without errors.

 

[nostaw5]

Mine does the same with my HD 7770 download either MSI Afterburner ir HIS iTurbo (or any other overclocking program) and disable ULPS. Give it a try.

 

[nostaw5]

edit: just got another error in Starcraft 2 - "your computer has run out of paged pool memory". I have 12 gbs of ram and with starcraft 2 open i have about 8.5-9 gbs being used.

Does anybody know what is the problem? Thank you for any help.

Could you please set the Paging File to Automatic

Start--> Control Panel --> Performance Information and Tools.--> Adjust Visual Effects (left toolbar) --> Advanced--> Virtual Memory and set the drive with Windows 7 to Auto.

Hope that helped

 

[tautology]

It's set on "automatically manage paging file size for all drives". I don't see any other auto option there. Also from what I've read this is only an issue on XP.

 

[tautology]

Mine does the same with my HD 7770 download either MSI Afterburner ir HIS iTurbo (or any other overclocking program) and disable ULPS. Give it a try.

I can't find a ULPS option anywhere and nothing in the registry either so I think this only applies to dual gpu setups? However I noticed in afterburner that I still had slightly OC'd settings so I reset them back to default. Will see if that changes anything.

 

[nostaw5]

Mine does the same with my HD 7770 download either MSI Afterburner ir HIS iTurbo (or any other overclocking program) and disable ULPS. Give it a try.

I can't find a ULPS option anywhere and nothing in the registry either so I think this only applies to dual gpu setups? However I noticed in afterburner that I still had slightly OC'd settings so I reset them back to default. Will see if that changes anything.

The ULPS is not just for dual gpu. Premium HIS support knows that I have a single card too.

I have successfully changed it in registry by doing the following.

Go to start--> Regedit --> in the left table chart click Computer --> Ctrl+F (find) and input EnableULPS. When you find it change it to 0. I might be able to upload screenshot later

 

[slurp812]

You said you overclocked the CPU. In doing so, did you up the bus speed?

 

[tautology]

Mine does the same with my HD 7770 download either MSI Afterburner ir HIS iTurbo (or any other overclocking program) and disable ULPS. Give it a try.

Mine does the same with my HD 7770 download either MSI Afterburner ir HIS iTurbo (or any other overclocking program) and disable ULPS. Give it a try.

I can't find a ULPS option anywhere and nothing in the registry either so I think this only applies to dual gpu setups? However I noticed in afterburner that I still had slightly OC'd settings so I reset them back to default. Will see if that changes anything.

The ULPS is not just for dual gpu. Premium HIS support knows that I have a single card too.

I have successfully changed it in registry by doing the following.

Go to start--> Regedit --> in the left table chart click Computer --> Ctrl+F (find) and input EnableULPS. When you find it change it to 0. I might be able to upload screenshot later

I did search for it and I didn't find it. I also tried downloading a utility program designed to turn it off or on, and it also couldn't do anything.

You said you overclocked the CPU. In doing so, did you up the bus speed?

Nope, I only changed the ratio.

 

[chrysalis]

running out of pool memory suggests an OS resource issue.

There is a tweak that stops the driver stopped responding issue as some people think thats down to a over agressive drivery recovery system so the tweak increases a threshold making it harder for that to occur. However if you getting game freezes and such as well I suspect that solution wont do anything for you.

 

[Layback Bear]

Exactly which GTX-460 card do you have?

 

[tautology]

The 1GB one (not hawk).

 

[Layback Bear]

Can you post a website of the exact video card you have. Example, my card.
MSI Global ? Graphics Card - N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC

 

[tautology]

Does this work? I didn't know there could be so many versions of the same card.

AnandTech - NVIDIA

edit: This is probably better, there's a specs tab http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-460-oem-us.html

 

[Layback Bear]

The reason I asked is because I doing some research about my 460 (in my specs). If by chance they were the same I might come across something to help you. I'm testing some different drivers so far so good but they are from MSI. for their O/C card.