Did I just burn..

.. my GPU?

So, I have this 4y old pc (no laugh, OK?)

i5-3570K
Z77 Extreme 4 MOBO
Nvidia GFX Zotac 670 2GB
8GB 1600 DDR3

This thing has served me fairly well for the past 4 years, haven't had any real troubles with it.
Anyway, I got this game Total War: Warhammer, which can be pretty taxing but due to optimalisation of the game I was still able to churn over 30 FPS on mostly HIGH settings - which to be honest is pretty something.
As with all new games Nvidia had a day one driver up so downloaded that.

I played the game like a real no-lifer as of Tuesday until yesterday - that's 28hrs per your info. I had the week off, except for today.

Anyway, no issues, all fun and giggles. Now today I loaded it up again and screen went black. I still could hear background so pc was still running, just no visual.
I rebooted, screen froze everything got stuck.

Rebooted again in safe mode, no issues there. Figured might be a drivers issue. Did a system restore back to 05.23.2016, no luck.
Manually installed new Nvidia drivers (yea, the correct ones) - pc restarted.

Native resolution (1080p) is gone. Went to check upon my 'devices'.
There's an exclamation mark on my GFX reading:

Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)

When troubleshooting, it wants to instal new drivers, but after doing so it needs reboot. After reboot it's back to the exclamation mark and wants to reinstall them once again.

I deleted the GFX from the devices, did hardware scan. Reinstalled, but same issue persists.

Any tips and tricks?

1070 isn't out for another month .. ..

rekt.


never play games at max res unless you got latest gfx card.

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Originally Posted by OrdinoArcalis

rekt.


never play games at max res unless you got latest gfx card.

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It wasn't at ULTRA yet :[ and been running pretty smoothly past couple days.

Hmmm prob rekt GPU :l
that is why i always go for MoBos with integrated gpu so if my gpu blows up i haz backup.
:)
No but seriously man too bad :(

RIP beloved GPU.

Condolences below.

Murdererererererererererer!

Man, I'm so miffed right now lol. If it was now midweek or summat, but the weekend has just started. What am I gonna do with my time D: weather's all fk'd up.

Looks like I'll pick up on this MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 4G for just under 200 EUR (199 to be exact >.>) for the time being :( They better get their drivers on point.

It doesn't support dx12 though o:
But it'll do the job for now ^^

Edit: Nvm, it does xD yah, wait for the update. They shouldn't take tooooo long (I hope)

Edit2: To get the time run faster: Install a GBA / GBC emulator on your smartphone. Pokemon all the way! xD

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Originally Posted by knuffl88

It doesn't support dx12 though o:
But it'll do the job for now ^^

Edit: Nvm, it does xD yah, wait for the update. They shouldn't take tooooo long (I hope)

Edit2: To get the time run faster: Install a GBA / GBC emulator on your smartphone. Pokemon all the way! xD

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Yeah, even though the gtx 970 (also €100 more expensive) is faster than the amd one, this amd still supports dx12 which the 970 doesn't. Plus, for 200 bucks can't go too wrong (i hope).
Don't feel like spending much more than that - since new architectures etc. are coming out in just a few weeks (for crying out loud).

Hoping it will bridge me till 1070's are fully out by MSI/Zotac and the likes along with the full dx 12 drivers and shizzle - depending on how this might run I can wait bit longer still, idk. 4GB isn't too little either and mind you, i'm only at 1080p.

Might upgr. to 144hz in future but meh.

Also, stop laughing :[ I bet rohan still runs on this i5-3570k integrated graphics >.>

I can now watch my bot playing for me for the whole weekend. Awesome!



FML.

http://www.msgking.com/wp-content/up...03/tuzki14.gif

Sounds like a plan :D

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Originally Posted by EaglePhoenix

Yeah, even though the gtx 970 (also €100 more expensive) is faster than the amd one, this amd still supports dx12 which the 970 doesn't. Plus, for 200 bucks can't go too wrong (i hope).
Don't feel like spending much more than that - since new architectures etc. are coming out in just a few weeks (for crying out loud).

Hoping it will bridge me till 1070's are fully out by MSI/Zotac and the likes along with the full dx 12 drivers and shizzle - depending on how this might run I can wait bit longer still, idk. 4GB isn't too little either and mind you, i'm only at 1080p.

Might upgr. to 144hz in future but meh.

Also, stop laughing :[ I bet rohan still runs on this i5-3570k integrated graphics >.>

I can now watch my bot playing for me for the whole weekend. Awesome!



FML.

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Not sure where you got that the gtx 970 doesn't support dx12. I run one and it supports dx12 just fine. But yeah, get yourself something cheap until that 1070 is available.

And yes, Rohan on a i5-3570k's integrated graphics is just fine. There's nothing about Rohan that taxes graphics, integrated or cards, in the least.

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Originally Posted by PenguinJoe

Not sure where you got that the gtx 970 doesn't support dx12. I run one and it supports dx12 just fine. But yeah, get yourself something cheap until that 1070 is available.

And yes, Rohan on a i5-3570k's integrated graphics is just fine. There's nothing about Rohan that taxes graphics, integrated or cards, in the least.

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What I meant was that Nvidia 9xx series and below only support dx12 on a driver's basis - whereas AMD's hardware is far superior than Nvidia's. Only AMD lacks sincerely (as in near non-existent) on their drivers and Nvidia has always been able to get (far) ahead of them purely on their drivers.
Now, dx12 doesn't need all them drivers as much as dx11 did. You can already notice this with current gen cards and dx12.

AMD cards, whereas they'll get far behind on dx11 benchmarks, get extreme performance boosts with dx12 and surpass many of their Nvidia equivalents (dx12 only). Nvidia on the other hand, does not get these extreme performance boosts with dx12 at the moment. They still get some increase, but not near as spectacular as AMD gets and there's nothing Nvidia can do about that since drivers cannot fix that issue. A new architecture can, however.

Which is also the reason I'm pretty miffed having to resort to a buy 2 cards in a fairly short timespan, since Nvidia does indeed release new gen cards momentarily.
It's not all that black and white as described per above, but you get the general idea.

Mind, I'm neither an AMD or Nvidia enthusiast - I just go for whatever is best for my (gaming) needs.

You would think I would be an AMD booster since I worked about 1 km away from AMD/ATI Canada's headquarters before I retired. For quite a long while I was prior to the NV GTX 9xx (Maxwell) series. But as I have already said my GTX 970 has been working flawlessly with DX 12. Afaic as long as it plays all my games nice & smooth at 2540 x 1440 & high quality settings, I'm happy. I've left benchmark burning behind a long time ago.

I really don't need my viddy card to have hardwired DX12 support. I am more than happy with the driver handling it as long as I have my playability.