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2021/11/17 10:22:41 (permalink)
My PC is about a year old. My specs are: Ryzen 5 3600X, 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz, EVGA RTX 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra.
 
Up until the last week, it was working great. I was playing all sorts of games at max settings or near to them flawlessly. All of a sudden a few nights ago it started acting up. I’ve had mid-game crashes in Splitgate and Halo Infinite, glitchy cutscenes and crashes in Forza Horizon 5, and crashes in Doom Eternal; all of which worked fine before.
 
I tried rolling back the NVIDIA driver and then updating to the newest (496.76), reverting to older versions of Precision X1, and doing a Windows refresh; none of which have worked. I also tried reverting to default settings in PX1 without improvement. My max GPU temp has been 64.4C (hot spot 75.9C), and event viewer shows the error: "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
 
Anyone have any suggestions for what might be wrong and how to fix it? Thanks!
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    staypuft
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    Re: 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra Crashing 2021/11/17 10:53:41 (permalink)
    What are your complete PC specs?  Specifically your PSU.
     
    Try testing your card in another PC as the best first step.  Eliminate the GPU as the problem.
     
    Next thing to check when suspecting PSU issues at high current draw is running with on board graphics (no GPU), or an older GPU that draws less power.  These may not run your games though...
     
    You might also try under-volting the card at a fixed low voltage and clock (like 0.925V/1865MHz) to see if it helps.  This could narrow it down to a finnicky GPU or limitations on your power supply.
     
    Other typical things to check
    - Main memory.  Reseat the memory.  Try running with just one board at a time, test all the boards.  Run MemTest.
    - BIOS.  Reset motherboard BIOS, boot to load defaults, reset your settings. (make sure you write down those custom settings first)
    - Reseat all power connections at motherboard, GPU, PSU.
    - Check HDD/SSD for errors.  chkdsk or other manufacturer app.
     

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    Re: 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra Crashing 2021/11/17 11:00:25 (permalink)
    I have a Seasonic FOCUS GM-650 (650W; 80+ Gold). I don't really have the luxury of having another PC readily available for testing unfortunately. 
     
    I don't have on board graphics, and my brother has my old EVGA 1050 Ti. I can ask him to bring it with him when he comes to visit in a few weeks.
     
    I don't have a lot of experience with under-volting, overclocking, etc. Is that under-volting easy to do with PX1?
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    Re: 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra Crashing 2021/11/17 11:50:52 (permalink)
    Undervolt with Afterburner.  Hunt around google for videos how to do this.  Methodology varies quite a bit.  I just enter -250MHz into the core clock box, click the check mark to apply, then open the curve editor, move one point up to desired setting (pretty safe low power setting for you to start would be 0.925V and 1865MHZ).  Click the check mark to apply.  Should drop you at least 60W, if not more.  It's a good way to check if you are pushing a bit too much power or if the factory OC is unstable. 

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    Re: 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra Crashing 2021/11/17 12:07:22 (permalink)
    Thanks for the advice! In limited testing, it seems like setting a lower FPS cap within in-game settings results in less frequent or no crashing. Does this, in and of itself, suggest a specific culprit or problem? Could under-volting and reducing the clock speed paradoxically allow for higher FPS without sacrificing graphical quality or would doing so necessarily also limit performance?
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    Re: 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra Crashing 2021/11/17 12:48:38 (permalink)
    Framerate cap definitely reduces load on the card, depending upon the situation.  I would say that this points to either a power draw issue or unstable factory GPU core clocks.  Expanding upon this, power draw issues could be related to graphics card power circuitry or an unstable PSU... and to a lesser extent the motherboard (if we assume the power draw through PCI-E slot could also cause an issue).  Undervolting would be a good way to validate this.

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    Re: 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra Crashing 2021/11/17 13:19:47 (permalink)
    If you have a riser cable on your system, remove it and connect directly into PCI-E. Happened to me with my new 3080 FTW
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