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Originally Posted by SAS
so just running of gpu monitoring programs helps you with "driver stopped responding" issue?
or you changed some of you card settings, like core voltage or core clock or memory clock, etc?
i have some trouble as you with my gtx570 card... no luck with finding cure for now...
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the card is stock clocks, vanilla version. i have not bothered to overclock it yet.
what i noticed is that evga precision was set to apply settings at startup, even though the startup during windows boot was NOT enabled. i figured the program would not even launch. but when i was in the process of changing gpu drivers i noticed that evga precision was attempting to start up and hook the gpu driver by giving an error message saying it could not do so. so this told me that evga was in fact starting up despite not having it set to during windows boot.
i did have evga eleet tuner at windows startup but i manually close it. since that program can also alter gpu settings, maybe it tried to do something that it should not have.
msi afterburner is the gpu tuner of my choice so i always have that running and starting with windows because it allows for voltage control when overclocking. so maybe, just maybe that something was screwing with the voltages of the card all these months since i got it. and that even closing the programs did not help out because they hooked into the gpu drivers during their initialization process. so this led to confusion on my part thinking that if the program closed it should not still be affecting the gpu, but it appears it still does until you reboot the computer and ensure teh programs do not launch on windows boot.
anyway, i only ran the game once since. i have to leave the game running for 4-6 hours to ensure that it does not crash the same way it did. if it still does, even though i completely disabled / un-installed these programs i will rma it.