mehungry Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Randomly, my card just shuts off... I can play BF3 on ultra settings (low shadows, 4x AA, ambient occlusion on med) for literally hours without issues while maintaining 50+ fps, I played SW:TOR for like half a day, and used to play WoW on ultra without issues... but i take an arrow to graphics card with skyrim Edited January 12, 2012 by mehungry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iv000 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 What does exactly happen?The game freezes? CTD? PC restarts? Also, could you post your PC specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) If your PC is overheating you have two alternatives: 1 - Increase the air flow in any possible way, if possible get better coolers for the devices 2 - avoid applications which taxes them that much. Skyrim is in fact demanding on both graphic card and CPU, that is not something as one running cooler, both + hard drives + mobo's chipset are the main factors toward overheating (PSU too if under dimensioned). But if is already that bad with Skyrim I advise you to keep far away from The Witcher 2, at least I can play Skyrim under native resolution of 1920x1080 and to have decent FPS. Edited January 11, 2012 by nosisab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehungry Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) I have optimized my air flow in my case as much as I could possibly do... load temps CPU 50-60C (65 max in prime95 after 1hr), GPU has never gone beyond 85C (furmark 15min torture test). I have front 200mm intake, 120mm intake, 120mm side intake for HDDs, 140mm side intake for GPU, 200mm top exhaust, two 120mm rear exhausts... Please don't tell me its a temperature issue... because its not. I'm sorry but everyone keeps saying this and NO its not a temperature issue... if my computer can run more demanding games without issues, it must be skyrim. as far as taxing my computer with other applications, I have firefox running with this site and UESP wiki. SPECS: i5 2500k 4.8ghz16gb ddr3 ram, stock voltage/speeds (1.5v 1600mhz)ati radeon hd 6870 oc'd 950/1170 (I have a GTX 470s from my old computer, and I get the same issue with it... single card or SLI)*** GPU turns off with or without OCcurrently using my dad's SSDs, he had two spare so I put em into raid 0... error happens with these or with my normal spinning HDD(EDIT) corsair TX 750 power supply So basically, this happens randomly. It can happen about 5 minutes into playing the game, or maybe after two hours. My GPU fan is at 35%, which is quite loud as my card is a reference design and has that blower type fan... Suddenly, my screen will shut off. My monitor will display a message like "NO INPUT FOUND" and I can't hear my graphics card fan anymore because the card itself has shut off. I can hear skyrim in the background and I'm forced to restart my computer. Now I've logged my card info as I play. Power to the card is constant. There are no spikes in power consumption or lack thereof. The error only happens when I play Skyrim. Temperatures are also normal. Now these are the games I've been played on my computer in order of most graphically demanding to least: BF3 > Dirt 3 > Skyrim > SW:TOR > WoW > League of Legends I have had NO issues with any game BUT Skyrim. Obviously my card can't handle games like BF3 or Dirt 3 on the most demanding settings, but it should run Skyrim without issues... I mean my friend's got a GTX 550 that runs Skyrim without any issues.... I'm sure its some coding error on their end, because here's what I believe the culprit is... My GPU usage on Very High 8x/8x is about 65 to 75% on average. Randomly, it spikes to like 95%+ and I've noticed that sometimes it stays at 95%+ and the card shuts off shortly... I am not sure if this is the issue or not. My FPS are around 50-60. I've limited FPS to 40, which I have 100% of the time and leads to a very fluid gameplay. Again thsi error happens whether or not I leave fps alone or not... Edited January 12, 2012 by mehungry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 If it were a coding error we would have seen this problem before now. There's no doubting that Skyrim isn't efficiently coded which is why so many people with so many different problems report their other games work fine. Skyrim brings out the tiniest flaw in any rig. If your GPU is crashing out regardless of which card you're using than I'd have to say it's a mobo issue, perhaps your PCIe slot itself or your BIOS or chipset drivers. First try putting your vid card in a different slot and if that doesn't work then try reinstalling your BIOS and chipset drivers. If that doesn't work then it may be time for a new mobo. Test your PSU as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehungry Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 If you go on google and type in "Graphics card turns off skyrim" you'll see a LOT of people are having this issue, and there's a huge thread on this very forum called "monitor turns off" Its an issue affecting a lot of people. One of my friends from back home has a similar issue where his GTX 560 ti turns off as well... but its only happened to him like 4 times since he bought the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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