Rennn Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) Okay, I was running Skyrim at 45-55 fps with mods. That's tolerable, though it'd be better if I could cap it. Normally I cap my games at 30fps, but I can't do that in Skyrim, because capping in Skyrim causes other problems. I wanted to get my framerate to 60 since I can't cap at 30, so I followed a guide online to overclock my GTX 460. I went from 700mhz to 850mhz, and also increased the shader clock by 300mhz, from 1400mhz to 1700mhz. I started playing Skyrim, and for about twenty minutes it worked perfectly. My framerate stayed between 56-60 without any problems. My temperature never rose above 50c. However, after about twenty minutes, my framerate suddenly dropped to 28-34 fps and stayed there. Restarting Skyrim didn't fix it. Returning my video card to its factory speed didn't fix it. Starting a new game didn't fix it. Finally I was able to fix it by restarting my PC. This has happened twice now. I use MSI Afterburner for the overclock. I also tried a speed of 800mhz instead of 850, but that caused the same problem. What could have caused this, and how can I fix it? It doesn't seem to happen when I don't overclock my graphics card, as I played Skyrim for a few hours yesterday without this happening.I'm using the ATTK Power Loader, if that would have something to do with it. My paging file is 13GB, which seems excessive for 8GB of RAM, but that's what Windows recommends. Also, when I overclock my gpu use randomly moves between 51, 450, and 850mhz. That seems like it could be a problem, but I have no idea what's causing it. Edited January 8, 2013 by Rennn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetdrive Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Overclocking causes the card to work harder and will therefore produce much more heat. Make sure your card is getting enough air to cool it down. This extra heat can also adversely effect other components within the box such as the CPU, which also plays a hand in how many frames you'll get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 The temperature of my graphics card and cpu both stay below 50c under load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason2112 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) When you set your overclocking you start low and step up till it crashes ...then you step it back a few settings and that's your new overclock speed.All normal for setting overclocking. Your page file is way to big. that is your problem atm. Get that figured outand install the new ATTK v5.0.1 and toss out my old junk. You're gonna be fine. ATTK will not hurt anything - It just steals cycle time.Overclock will blow your rig up! Overclocking is a thing of the past,don't fall for the hype. No overclocked computer could hold a candleto computers now. Totally and completely unnecessary. The second you start in overclocked mode the "your done timer" starts.If you set it well that may be hours away. But it will come at some point.Why even push systems that are now made to be more stable then ever,to be unstable in anyway ? The best overclocking I have ever seen was a rig in a mini fridge (for real) Edited January 16, 2013 by Jason2112 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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