GTX 660 Graphic Driver Issues - Looking for suggestions

[maTyaR]

Crazy artifacts! You may try using the videocard on another computer (if you have one). If you don't, try playing another game and see if it causes the same issue to make sure it's just not the game itself.

A more possible error could be your videocard VRAM itself that is defective.

Hope you find a solution!

[stuntdubs]

55 is actually really cool under full load for a 660. Anything under 70 is considered fine, 70 - 80 is pushing it, and 80+ is too hot.
I play at1080p high quality on my 660 and it hovers around 65-70. never have any problems though.
It certainly looks like a classic heat problem. As said above could be faulty ram.

What are the rest of your system specs? (specifically motherboard, cpu and powersupply)
I see you mentioned playing LFD2 and shogun 2, are you able to try somemore graphically intensive games, max them out and see if you get the same problems. Something like one of the crysis games/battlefield 3 etc would do the trick.

Reseat your gfx card intoyour motherboard.
Try dial back your core and memory clocks on the card slightly.
Drivers you've obviously tried.
If possible run the game on a different system with your gfx swapped into it (alot of trouble I know)
Don't run in windowed.
Manually set your GPU fan to max before playing (75 I think)
Check your CPU temps
Disable all system monitoring software (precision x, afterburner etc) if you have any.

Good luck

[Rautzen]

I have a GTX 660 too and I was actually having problems with the 314 driver while playing. The driver would stop responding and recover frequently so I went ahead and did a clean install of the 326.80 driver and its been running fine so far.

[Segraine]

Another update:

I reseated my RAM and the GTX. Cleaned up various old programs and killed some services that snuck up on me. Darn Apple software anyway. - Crash

Turned off and cleared the Swap file. Restarted. Turned it back on. Restarted - Crash.

I downloaded the Crysis demo and cranked the settings to max. Ran just fine with multiple play throughs. I am generally not a FPS guy, but the game is pretty. I like the vegetation. Rebooted and loaded up FF14. Played for about 20 minutes and crashed. Now I am trapped in 3102. However, it seems isolated to FF14. Nothing else causes any problems. Windows runs all day without a hitch; all games I've ran so far work fine at max settings for hours a time. This has me stumped.

Next on the agenda, uninstalling FF14 and re-installing it.

I have to say, I am getting a little frustrated because the log in issue prevents me from properly testing.

[Eldaru]

Another update:

I reseated my RAM and the GTX. Cleaned up various old programs and killed some services that snuck up on me. Darn Apple software anyway. - Crash

Turned off and cleared the Swap file. Restarted. Turned it back on. Restarted - Crash.

I downloaded the Crysis demo and cranked the settings to max. Ran just fine with multiple play throughs. I am generally not a FPS guy, but the game is pretty. I like the vegetation. Rebooted and loaded up FF14. Played for about 20 minutes and crashed. Now I am trapped in 3102. However, it seems isolated to FF14. Nothing else causes any problems. Windows runs all day without a hitch; all games I've ran so far work fine at max settings for hours a time. This has me stumped.

Next on the agenda, uninstalling FF14 and re-installing it.

I have to say, I am getting a little frustrated because the log in issue prevents me from properly testing.

I was doing some googling this morning and it seems there are a lot of other people out there with 600-700 series cards with problems, myself included. I was fine during beta 3 and 4 and even early access. For me, the crashes started off seldom at first but have become frequent, and I can easily cause a crash in under 2 minutes just by standing in Limsa looking out to sea. I can also reproduce it while streaming video on my second monitor, something that has never been a problem with any other game. My entire system freezes up and the screen either goes white or display output stops completely. It seems unlikely to be anything other than a GPU problem, and one I can't reproduce in any other game or stress test I've tried.

I've already tried various drivers, but I have a couple more to try as well as a couple other things (turn off Afterburner, unplug second monitor, etc.). I uninstalled and started downloading the game again earlier this morning, but I won't know if that worked until I get home later today. I'll report back if I can get anything to work, but I'm not hopeful. There seems to be a driver problem, but I'm not going to try anything older than 314.22.

[Colyo]

try turning off CUDA

[Rukurai]

I was having issues with lag in the game but realized it was not my video card. Turn off anything like malewarebytes or advanced system care that run auto checks daily. Sometimes when that kicks in, if you have it scheduled, it won't warn you but will use system resources to do its job. Only thing I leave running while playing is Comodo. The same can be said for antivirus scans scheduled during your play time. I changed all my settings to run when I'm asleep even if I stay up later than normal.

[Dremic]

did you turn your frame limiter off?


i had similar issues with SLI 670s because i turned frame limited / vsync off and when i would get 120+ fps on the login screen or dungeons the visuals would go fuckin crazy

[Segraine]

@Dremic

I haven't turned off the frame limiter. Last time I tried it, the game was very unstable and crashed more often. I would get 300+ fps on the login screen.

[Dremic]

@Dremic

I haven't turned off the frame limiter. Last time I tried it, the game was very unstable and crashed more often. I would get 300+ fps on the login screen.

turn off the frame limiter in the game, force adaptive vsync and triple buffering through nvidia control panel.

also make sure you have power managment set to prefer maximum performance over adaptive.