I recently bought some new pc parts to update my rig for Witcher 3, including a GTX 980 FTW ACX 2.0 running with the latest drivers.
 
I've been playing Witcher 3 with no problems whatsoever for almost 30 hours, but then I arrived at a cave in the game with some cold weather effects (no spoilers) and it started crashing my computer over and over again in the same spot. After I reset the computer and re-start Windows, the error is always BCCode 116.
 
The computer does not crash when running the 3DMark (demo) tests, any other game, or any other outdoor or indoor place in Witcher 3, it's just here.
 
I've tried setting my fans to max speed and it is not working. I have a suspicion that my current (old) PSU might be the issue, but according to the math I made when I reassembled the rig with the new parts it shouldn't be bothering, and if it was, it would have also failed on other stress tests like 3DMark. It is a Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 700W PSU.
 
If you all could give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it.
 
-Alex

It is :(

I did the Skydiver test 3 times in a row, and nothing happened, it's only inside the Witcher 3.
 
Then, I downclocked the card by 105Mhz per the guides, and now it has not crashed at all, and I've been playing for a couple of hours in the same place.
 
¿Is it an RMA thing?
 

MasterGohan
--It's possible to solve these types of issues with a voltage bump too, but that's only if you're comfortable with that as a solution.  I'm sure that EVGA would be happy to help you with your options.

Provided your card's voltage control is not hardlocked like the 980 FTW for example.
 
Only real option here for him, me and everyone else who got a 980 FTW which has black screen issues, is RMA. 
Of course You need to pray that You actually get one back that works. lol
 
Read some stories here and there of people already being on their 3rd card through RMA and stuff like that. 
 
 
Edit: Only just realized that he maybe doesn't have the same issue as me as it seems. If Your PC shut's down completely my bet is on the Power supply being faulty. How old is Your PSU? @Psytech
 
If Your screen goes black with signal lost and You have to reset Your PC to get it working again its the same issue as me and Your only choice is RMA.
 
Edit2: What resolution are You playing at? 
Edit3: Faulty GPU pretty much from what i have found on BCCode 116. RMA it. 

MasterGohan

wickedwayne
Provided your card's voltage control is not hardlocked like the 980 FTW for example.

Wasn't aware, that makes me glad that I didn't opt to get a FTW though.

Oh You have no idea what a crappy bullet You dodged. :D
I wish i hadn't bought it but i thought "hey its only 20€ more so, why not?" :\
 

MasterGohan
 
EDIT: Per multiple RMA's, might want to check if you can get a cross-ship setup.  If you express concerns of it perhaps this is something EVGA might consider doing, where you can ship back the replacement rather than your current card and hold onto the current card until you get a working one.

 
I will keep that in mind, thanks. Still on my original purchase though. Will cross RMA early next week.
No money for it until then.

MasterGohan
 
Sounds like it, LOL.
 
But yeah every factory OC'd card that I've ever bought has been unstable [at stock voltage & clocks] in some game until I've done 1-2 RMA's of it.
 
 
-The worst luck that I've ever had was with one of my ASUS 580's, because I didn't go the cross-ship route and it took them "8 weeks" to return me a replacement, after forgetting to ship it twice and telling me that they already did ship it.  The game that caused me troubles back then was Metro 2033 (OF COURSE).
 
 
I pretty much didn't RMA my two EVGA 580's (3-way SLI'd with the ASUS), and instead opted to give them a tiny voltage bump.  Metro was the only game that ever gave me issues with the 580's.

The only other real issue i had with graphics cards up until now was with and MSI680 Lightning. It was pretty much the same issue as OP had. Played Guild Wars 2 for hours and everything ran fine until i came to a boss fight in a huge cave. After i defeated it a in-engine cutscene would play and every time 5 seconds into it my PC would crash. Turned out to be the PSU for me.
 
I also had to adjust the voltage on that card from the get go to get it stable so yeah. I happens often with Factory OC's but not being able to adjust voltages to be able to do something about just drives me nuts and makes no sense to me why they would restrict that.

It's not just EVGA..Gigabyte and others are having issues too, especially with GTA V and Witcher 3..Probably due to game coding/driver issues..Doubt there's an inherent issue with some 900 series cards because other card series are having a few issues too and ManuelG says (NVIDIA Customer Care) in post #479 "We discovered a couple of issues in regards to Kepler GPUs and are working on driver updates", and that was on May 25 even after 352.86 was released on May 18..You can poke around in the GeForce Forums and the game developers support websites/forums where some possible fixes are mentioned here and there..Search..I wouldn't rush into an RMA just yet (unless it's pretty certain the card is borked) and then come to find out it's a driver/game issue..Maybe go back and try an older driver (maybe one from sometime last year) after uninstalling with Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU), then a Custom (Advanced) install of only PhysX along with the Graphics Driver.

Psytech
Any chance the new driver fixes anything?

I played W3 for a good 4 hours yesterday with the new (latest) driver and had two TDR's.  So this driver doesn't seem to be much (if any) better than the last one in that regard.