Given the subject of this post, this has been happening for about six months now. I would really appreciate it if someone could provide me with some new ideas.
Setup info:
I have dual monitors, and play the game in borderless windowed.
This only happens when playing ffxiv. It's probably the most graphic intensive game I play, though.
This only happens when SLI is enabled.
I have two GTX 570's, one purchased in 2011, one in 2013.
i7-4790k
16GB RAM
Res: 1920x1080, 60Hz
Windows 8.1 Pro
Current driver: 353.38, though like I said it's been happening for awhile, so I've been through a few drivers.
I always do a clean boot.
I always do a clean install of drivers, and have Nvidia audio drivers disabled.
Things I've tried:
Changing settings. It happens whether set to min or max. Crashes after about an hour, sometimes less.
Switching card positions on mobo.
Seems to happen more often when I swap window focus, so I've tried just playing the game and not using Chrome or anything, but it still happens.
Like I said it only happens when SLI'ed, can go all day without a crash when SLI is disabled.
When I tried playing fullscreen, every other frame lost all red and green colors. So it was bluescale (like greyscale, but blue). Idk how else to describe it lol.
Tried using a different SLI bridge, and tried both bridge ports on the cards.
So yeah, it's kinda weird. I'm thinking it's something going bad on my older card. Though when I bought the 2nd card, it died within 60 days and they sent me a refurbished replacement, so I suppose it could be that one too. I'm hoping it's not hardware though, which is why I thought I'd ask here. Thanks in advance for any help.
post edited by Ryndael - 2015/07/01 15:07:24