So here's the specs: i7 960 3.2ghz OC'd to 4ghz 12gb DDR3 1600 OC'd to about 1800 GTX 570 stocked at 797mhz OC'd to 820mhz Windows 7 1000w power supply EVGA x58 FTW3 mobo Water cooling on the CPU, and stock cooler on the GPU. I've ran numerous stress tests to ensure stability, and everything has turned out great. Ran the EVGA OC scanner for roughly an hour without a single artifact - the GPU gets up to the mid 80's (celcius), but this is pretty standard for a GTX 570. As far as the CPU goes, a day of prime95 and I didn't break 70 celcius under full load. I'm thinking it might be the textures that planetside is loading, but for some reason I'll get in, play for about ten to twenty minutes, and then the screen will go black - As if the GPU were simply shutting down. I know its not running hot, as I'm running the software fan control and I can hear it when it spins up due to heat. Any ideas?
I had strange blackouts a while ago like that and it ended up being the RAM. You could try changing it out to see if it's a specific stick.
Well, I feel confident in saying that it isn't a hardware problem. Today I ran furmark for about an hour, played about three hours of Mafia II, and ran 3dmark11 without a single problem. The problem only occurs when playing planetside. I'm lead to believe, based on all this, that the problem lies in the old graphics data that the game uses.
Seems likely. Every once in a while I have weird problems like that going back to play old games (Like Deus Ex)
I had the same issues with playing FF7 on my computer as well and having graphical issues. The 5xx series aren't suppose to run as hot as the 4xx series did (obviously) but 80 C, while it still is in the "safe zone", is a little on the hot side, at least based on what I read about on all the "cool" tech sites. Going to put that baby under water soon too? If its just issues with 1 game and no other problems elsewhere, then as you have concluded - its probably just that one game/software.
You could try to disable the physics engine via nvidea before playing or how about load the profile for planetside before playing an see if that helps.
I'd like to put the GPU under water, but I'm trying to find a stand alone cooler for the GPU's as I'm running the H70 on the CPU, meaning no room for water expansion.
Water cooling = hehe But seriously, sounds hardware to me [no matter how much you want to try and refute it, its screaming GPU is dying (not matter how long you have had it)]
Ewww Mafia 2, terrible game. That is a good stress on the hardware though. I still think it is a driver issue with the old game or just something with the old game.
ehhh, I'm actually kind of enjoying mafia 2. I've always been a mob movie fanatic, and I enjoy the original mafia.
This sounds like the same issue I have had with Bad Company 2. It stems down to the driver for me after a few updates it seemed to fix it even though I haven't played it for a while. It definitely doesn't sound like hardware because the computer would react differently then just turn the screen black while in game. Have you tried re installing the game? and re installing GPU drivers?