Windows 7 64-bit Freeze/Hang
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So a few days ago I started having freezes/hangs during playing, mostly in PVP.
The game would lockup, sound would freeze on the sample it was currently playing, after 3-5 seconds screen would go black and then I would be back in action.
Looking at my event viewer I see the culprit is nvlddmkm, a graphics issue as I suspected. It creates a warning only, with no data at the time of the freeze.
So clearly thats a TDR.
A TDR for those who don’t know is a graphics driver reset once the system detects something that’s jammed up (like a printer) and resets the graphics driver.Only I get no balloon telling me so, just this cryptic warning.
I am wondering how I can try and diagnose what it is, and what is causing it. I have only recently began to play properly so I guess try previous drivers? Hack it (there is a way to disable it) This probably get a BSOD with fault codes to try and diagnose it.
My main question is has anyone experienced this recently or before?
My drivers are always up to date.
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Could be a failing graphics chip or something else of your hardware. If you have nothing else changed it might be it. Also check your temperatures, if they get to hot this might also be it.
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It’s definitely not heat related, not playing Freelancer, when I can play Overwatch at 1440p on Ultra at 144fps with no issues. But, I will monitor this the next time I have the issue just incase.
It’s a GTX 980 Ti. I highly doubt the fans even feel the need to turn on playing it.
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It can absolutely be heat related. Freelancer by default does not use v-sync and there’s no option to toggle it on, so it’ll pump as many frames as it possibly can.
Starcraft 2 was notorious for frying GPUs because the main menu wasn’t framerate capped, so it’d draw thousands of frames per second.
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It has one on bases but not in space, or at least it’s high enough that mods have had to implement their own caps to prevent multiplayer problems.
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I was playing some last night, didn’t get the hang, but my GPU never went above 60 degrees, the hottest I have had that card is 74 degrees.
Going to keep an eye on frame rate and temps.
But yeah I might cap it via exe hack, but I’m unsure of how to actually adjust that number based on what I saw in the 1.1 offsets thread.
