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2020/09/10 06:45:38 (permalink)
Hello, 
 
I have a  GTX 1070 FTW for 3 years, and now I've been getting crashes with every game when it reaches 100% usage. I'm not sure if it is the usage or the VRAM because I also noticed that when it get to around 3.7GB it crashes. 
 
I've tried every obvious thing listed  but could't solve it, any ideas?
  • Update driver with clean install and with DDU
  • reroll driver (tried versions 446.14 and 451.67)
  • Tested with GPU Scheduling on and off
  • Updated Windows
  • Checked Event Viewer, but there's no error there
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GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW DT Gaming ACX 3.0 8GB DDR5 256 bits PCI-E 3.0 08G-P4-6274-KR
CPU: I5 9400f
MB: B360M aorus gaming 3
RAM: 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance at 2666MHz
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    Cool GTX
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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 09:54:08 (permalink)
    Welcome to the EVGA Forums
     
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    What does the screen look like when your PC crashes ?
     
    What are the Temps you are seeing ? Room, CPU, GPU
     
    Which Monitor & settings do you use ?
     
    Have you tried lower settings in the game or different resolution on your monitor ?
     
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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 12:30:40 (permalink)
    Does the card also crash at 100% when tested in another known good working system?
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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 13:31:07 (permalink)
    Would second what everyone else said, try in a different system if possible.
     
    You can try the automatic artifact scanner built into OCCT https://www.ocbase.com/ but it sounds like the card is very unstable already. You can also use OCCT to test your CPU and general system stability, just keep an eye on temperatures if you use it. 


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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 14:29:09 (permalink)
    Cool GTX 
    What does the screen look like when your PC crashes ?
     

    The game freezes and some colored spots show on the screen, just tested it and olny one showed up, but sometimes there are more. I couldn't insert the image here and the link is beeing blocked, I'll but a space to send: imgur. com/S5Jk5j6
    In Shadow of the tom raider I got an error message, see attached.
     

    Cool GTX 
    What are the Temps you are seeing ? 
     

     
    Temps in Celsius:
    Room: ~30º
    CPU: ~ 60º
    GPU: ~70º. With the GPU I did try to crank up the fan to 100%, I think it droped to 60º but it didnt change anything.
     
    Cool GTX 
    Which Monitor & settings do you use ?

    I use a Philips TV, 1080p at 60Hz
     
     
     
    Cool GTX 
    Have you tried lower settings in the game or different resolution on your monitor ?
     

    Well, yes, but thats the point, It only crashes when the GPU is at 100%
     
     
    Which:
    game(s) & settings in your games
     
    to check for the crashes I cranked all the settings to the max and released the fps and got the same results with:
    XBOX launcher: FFXV, Flight Sim, Gears 5, 
    Steam: Shadow of the tomb Raider, Dishonored 2, Monster Hunter, Destiny 2
     
    are you playing online - No
     
    which game host -(steam ...) Or are you playing standalone on your PC: Steam and XBOX app
    web browser: What? 
    post edited by BrunoLosse - 2020/09/10 14:35:36

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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 15:10:21 (permalink)
     
    kougar
    Would second what everyone else said, try in a different system if possible.
     
    You can try the automatic artifact scanner built into OCCT  but it sounds like the card is very unstable already. You can also use OCCT to test your CPU and general system stability, just keep an eye on temperatures if you use it. 





    Cool, I didn't know this software... It crashed in less then a minute, said there are 72 errors but doesn't tell me the errors. I googled it and it seems there is no log?
     

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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 15:12:12 (permalink)
    Sajin
    Does the card also crash at 100% when tested in another known good working system?



    Like Linux? I didnt. Do you know the easiest way to create a bootable device and not have to format my system? And I'll have to redownload the games?
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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 15:33:52 (permalink)
    Tested with STR monitoring with OCCT, half the screen got black, didn't show any errors but crashed.
     

     

     
     
     
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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 15:41:04 (permalink)
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    Tested with STR monitoring with OCCT, half the screen got black, didn't show any errors but crashed.
     

     

     
     
     




    What was being asked before, was if you had an entirely different PC you could test the card in. Not the same PC with a different OS.  Your GPU is exhibiting all the signs of failing. It could also be the PSU. What happens if you manually underclock both the GPU memory and the GPU core by 200mhz? If it is more stable that pretty much confirms it is the GPU.

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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 16:02:46 (permalink)
    HeavyHemi
    What was being asked before, was if you had an entirely different PC you could test the card in. Not the same PC with a different OS.  Your GPU is exhibiting all the signs of failing. It could also be the PSU. What happens if you manually underclock both the GPU memory and the GPU core by 200mhz? If it is more stable that pretty much confirms it is the GPU.



     
    Oh I see, I don't have acces to any other hardware to test.
     
    Just tried it, started at what you said and went all the way down to -1000MHz with the memory, it felt a bit more stable but still crashes. The difference is that it was crashing immediately but this time it took ~2 minutes.
     
    With these results, are we sure there is nothing I can do? I'll have to sell a kidney and buy a 3070 lol... Prices are crazy with the pandemic here in Brazil, this is the last thing I needed....
     
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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 16:46:00 (permalink)
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    What was being asked before, was if you had an entirely different PC you could test the card in. Not the same PC with a different OS.  Your GPU is exhibiting all the signs of failing. It could also be the PSU. What happens if you manually underclock both the GPU memory and the GPU core by 200mhz? If it is more stable that pretty much confirms it is the GPU.



     
    Oh I see, I don't have acces to any other hardware to test.
     
    Just tried it, started at what you said and went all the way down to -1000MHz with the memory, it felt a bit more stable but still crashes. The difference is that it was crashing immediately but this time it took ~2 minutes.
     
    With these results, are we sure there is nothing I can do? I'll have to sell a kidney and buy a 3070 lol... Prices are crazy with the pandemic here in Brazil, this is the last thing I needed....
     




    Okay what about reducing the core clock?  If the GPU is actually failing and out of warranty there's no much you can do.

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    Re: GTX 1070 crashing when reaching 100% usage 2020/09/10 23:59:15 (permalink)
    Ok try this maybe, uninstall evga precison if you have it installed, install MSI Afterburner, its much more stable, while keeping Hemis suggestion for the small reduction in clocks of -200 on the memory AND the gpu..... reduce your in game settings like shadows, AA, and textures to more like a medium, or high medium instead of everything pegged out max. Go into Nvidia control panel and go to your manage 3d settings section, then setup specific settings for your game under the program settings tab, just add one for now to try with. It may be under the list already or you may have to manually add it, either or. Set the Vertical sync to adaptive for now, the max pre-rendered frames to 3, DSR to off and power management to maximum power. For now, just turn off the AA, Anisotropic, ambient occlusion, texture filtering to quality should be fine, and leave the vr off or use the 3d app setting. Save those settings and go to the global tab and set that up too with very basic settings cause this setting is for everything that could reference your gpu for work, so you can do adaptive power setting, no AA, no Anisotropic, AO, etc...Ive found over the years its better to set each game up from the nvidia control panel and turn off these same settings in game and just let the nvidia driver run those settings direct. The only other issue may be the cards having issues with heat after running so warm for so many years, that will wear them out waaayyy faster. Heat is your number one enemy with electronics.....well, and pricing. Did you setup your windows power management options in the windows o/s itself? Anyway, i hope this helps some.

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