Hey everyone,
I've spend the last 3 days battling with my new EVGA GTX 770 FTW 4GB card and am not having a single bit of luck with it. Keep in mind, this is a factory-overclocked card.
Back-Story
I just built this computer (listed in my signature) about two weeks ago. While I was waiting for my 770 to come in, I threw my two 470's in there for the time being. Everything worked like a charm. I was using the 326.80 BETA, and life was good. I was playing Tomb Raider with no issues.
770 comes in the mail
I took my 470's out, and installed the 770 card. So far so good. System boots up fine, and Windows 8 recognizes the card perfectly.
In utter excitement, I loaded up The Witcher 2. About 10 minutes into playing, the game completely froze and I had to manually restart my computer. Once I did, I opened the Event Log and saw a TDR. From there, I made sure to check and monitor my temperatures. Loaded up TW2 again and the very same thing happened.
Knowing that it isn't the temperatures (it's staying under 80 C like it should), I decided to investigate further.
Here's what I've tried to resolve the issue so far:
Drivers—
* 314.22 with INF hack
* 320.18 WHQL
* 320.49 WHQL
* 326.80 BETA
* 327.24 OPENGL
and finally 327.23 WQHL which came out today.
And of course, all clean installations before using the next version.
Other Tweaks—
* BIOS update to 1405 (latest for my mobo)
* NV Control Panel: Power management mode: Performance (instead of Adaptive)
* Windows Power Mode: High performance (instead of Balanced)
* Uninstalled Realtek Audio Drivers, let Windows install default drivers
* Installed official Realtek Audio Drivers
* Removed NVIDIA Audio devices
* NV Control Panel: Disabled HDMI sound (for my HDMI monitor)
* Set BIOS PCIe Speed from Auto to Gen2
* Verified memory timings in BIOS, using XMP and are correct
* Double-checked PSU connections, +12V Amp ratings, etc.
* Reseated GPU
* Formatted and reinstalled Windows 8
- I haven't tried underclocking. EVGA PrecisionX seems to limit this quite a bit. How would I go about trying this?
After all of this, I am still getting the same TDRs with my GTX 770.
What's strange is... immediately after installing 327.23, I played Tomb Raider for about 25 solid minutes without any issues--much longer than the usual (5-10 min). Then when I exited the game, the game crashed, and alas, I see another TDR in the Event Log. Now when I launch any game, it crashes and throws a TDR, until I restart, and it will work for another short period of time.
I am not experiencing any TDRs while web browsing, watching videos, using Windows, etc. Only when I do anything 3D-related.
NVIDIA, what's going on? The card is working just fine when I'm playing. No artifacts, no stutters. Just pointless TDRs. If anyone has other ideas to try and troubleshoot this with me, I would love the help. There's GOT to be something we can do about this. I didn't spend $460 on this hardware to play my games 5 whole minutes at a time.
I will note too, I have sent a Watchdog dump to the driver feedback email that NVIDIA has provided with a detailed description of what is going on.
Thank you!
Specs:
ASUS Z87-Plus — Core i7 4770K 3.5GHz — 8GB G.Skill Riptide DDR3-1600 CAS7 — EVGA GeForce 770 FTW ACX 4GB — Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD — Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 HDD — NZXT H230 Black Case — Corsair AX860 PSU — Windows 8.0 x64 RTM