Game crashes when using an old, stable card that has been swapped out for a new one.
Game crashes when using an old, stable card that has been swapped out for a new one.
Hello! Recently I've been having trouble with an OC'd (overclocked) GPU in games. My computer specs are EVGA GTX 1070 FTW, i5 6600K running at 4.5GHz, 16GB of RAM, and the driver is version 452.06. Last month I had to reinstall my operating system, which was Windows 10 x64 Home edition. Before that, everything worked perfectly. I used OC presets from MSI Afterburner with core speeds set to +150MHz, power at 112%, and temp allowed at 88C. I never needed to increase voltage because the preset was already right for my system. With this setup, games like RDR2 and Witcher 3 ran smoothly with great frame rates when I used the OC presets. After reinstalling Windows 10, I stopped using those games and didn't do any overclocking on my GPU.
Recently, I wanted to play RDR2 again and decided to use the same preset from before in MSI Afterburner. But now, whenever I launch any game with an OC preset—even just increasing the core frequency slightly, like 20-50MHz plus—after loading into a game and starting gameplay, it crashes with errors related to the GPU. RDR2: after loading, there were lots of visual glitches, and in 1-2 seconds I crashed completely with ERR_GFX_STATE error. Launched World of Warcraft using the same preset, it crashed right away after loading with "Error 3D-accelerator." This problem happens for both driver versions (452.06 and 451.67) and even if HAGS is on or off in Windows 10. Has anyone else had this exact issue? Can someone explain what's causing it? Any help with fixing the problem would be appreciated! Thank you so much in advance!!!