DX/Nvidia Driver crashes. Some causing pink squares that flash

[Xeon]

What you're saying isn't out of realm of possibility. But to break a KPE card is something because those cards are built well, very well. Sorry about it breaking. I'd be pissed too, believe me. But unfortunately SE never posts on these forums, at least I've not seen it in the entire 6 years I've been with FFXIV. It stinks. I'll be the first to admit that their support is very lackluster, and their game is one of the poorer designed games out there.

This has basically always been a peer-to-peer forum, unfortunately. I believe that one of the VRMs are faulty, even before you mentioned it. Buying another 780ti KPE isnt worth it, unless you are running a pair in SLi. But if you were using a single card, I wouldn't buy another. There are faster options at $500. Not sure if there's a 1070 or 1080 KPE.

You might be better off having someone replace that VRM than trying to buy another. There are people who would offer a repair service, however, I would never have anything like that repaired by anybody online, especially anybody off eBay. From experience, I know that they mostly dont / cant do what they claim. IE claiming to be able to lift & reball a chip when in reality they're running a a janky hot air rework machine and only attempt to melt the solder to bridge any cracks, and 50% of the time, they will ruin what was a perfectly fixable piece of hardware. I've seen them advertise this on craigslist using a janky setup using a heat gun from home depot. I'd try to see if EVGA might do a repair on it, or maybe find a qualified electronics tech and have them replace the VRM.

I had this exact thing happen on an old 290X, and ironically, it was used for FFXIV 90% of the time.

[Asrah]

What you're saying isn't out of realm of possibility. But to break a KPE card is something because those cards are built well, very well. Sorry about it breaking. I'd be pissed too, believe me. But unfortunately SE never posts on these forums, at least I've not seen it in the entire 6 years I've been with FFXIV. It stinks. I'll be the first to admit that their support is very lackluster, and their game is one of the poorer designed games out there.

This has basically always been a peer-to-peer forum, unfortunately. I believe that one of the VRMs are faulty, even before you mentioned it. Buying another 780ti KPE isnt worth it, unless you are running a pair in SLi. But if you were using a single card, I wouldn't buy another. There are faster options at $500. Not sure if there's a 1070 or 1080 KPE.

You might be better off having someone replace that VRM than trying to buy another. There are people who would offer a repair service, however, I would never have anything like that repaired by anybody online, especially anybody off eBay. From experience, I know that they mostly dont / cant do what they claim. IE claiming to be able to lift & reball a chip when in reality they're running a a janky hot air rework machine and only attempt to melt the solder to bridge any cracks, and 50% of the time, they will ruin what was a perfectly fixable piece of hardware. I've seen them advertise this on craigslist using a janky setup using a heat gun from home depot. I'd try to see if EVGA might do a repair on it, or maybe find a qualified electronics tech and have them replace the VRM.

I had this exact thing happen on an old 290X, and ironically, it was used for FFXIV 90% of the time.

EVGA said it failed their testing. They didnt state what exactly failed what sort of tests, but i figure it was the VRM going wonky due to FF14 crashing the driver. Im not sure what exactly happened, but probably something along the lines of pushing voltage during driver recovery, cooking the VRM (i honestly have no alternative ideas given the context of the situation. Thats a really mild situation to cause a full on VRM fry, especially given no other games i played for 2-12 hours a day ever so much as made it hiccup). Ill receive a replacement of the exact same model on Tuesday, well see how it goes. I got one for $220 off Ebay, and it actually works really well. Its significantly cooler than my original, and in PVP the FPS doesnt drop, like with the original. I actually think the original was just a ticking time-bomb waiting for an error. Still doesnt change that SE could do more to monitor how they program things.

It was either spend $500 on a 1070 SC, or $220 and have SLI. I play at 2560X1080@75HZ. I might upgrade to 144HZ at some point, but honestly i dont play any of the new games right now. Im far more likely to play MMO's than AAA single player titles. Plus, the 780 TI's binned for KPE, that ive had in hand, have stomped on benchmarks posted on youtube and the like. So im not missing anything besides DX12.


Update: Brand new win 8.1 install, verified stable (have not OC'd it) 780 TI KPE, and i just got another system lockup. This time in a PVP match. So, SE, your game messes up a second card, i slap a lawsuit for reparations on you so fast youll need to pick the forms out of your teeth. One more crash im dropping this game like the trash it's acted like, and getting a refund through VISA due to a non functional product for which no possible fix is apparent.