I installed Arma 3 and Battlefield Bad Company 2. I had been playing Company of Heroes with no problems.
I played Arma 3 at super-high settings with long draw distances too.
Mid-game like 20 minutes into Arma 3 the video turned off but I could hear audio.
Since then the video switches off with the video card at the windows password screen like 98% of the time (except a few rare times when I let it sit for a long while and then it seemed to get past the windows password screen for like 2-3 minutes before switching video off again).
I turned the video to CPU graphics in the BIOS and I can be on the desktop for a long time now and it seems ok. But it will crash or not load the game even in company of heroes often and I haven't tried Arma 3 or Battlefield Bad Company 2 since.
If I can figure out the problem before then. I would be helped by having the video card working before Tuesday this week because I use Revit to make renders. With my workflow, I need the quick renders the video card was making possible. Otherwise the renders will take a long time to complete. It's still way faster without the GPU than it is from my laptop though!
I did a clean install of windows and reinstalled the video drivers for the GPU even though it is running video from the CPU right now.
So, that's the situation. What should I do? How can I troubleshoot further?
The system is:
PSU = Corsair CX500M
OS = Windows 10 Home
CPU = Intel Core i5-4460 CPU at 3.2 ghz 4cpus
RAM = 16GB (two RAM chips...one is Spektek and the other is Offtek)
GPU = GTX 780Ti 3GB
Motherboard = ASUS (says on it with directX 11 support ...I have DirectX 12 version is this a problem?
Further info that is relevant is that I worked out how to connect the power cable by figuring it out from guides/etc. It all worked great for a long while with many renders put out and games of Company of Heroes played. It went pear-shaped when I installed Arma 3 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 and hasn't been ok since. (been few days now)
+1 Also the fan goes really loud when it crashes in company of heroes now from the CPU with the GPU disabled (but when I switch off the advanced video settings it will be ok for company of heroes running on the CPU not the GPU)
Please help!
I played Arma 3 at super-high settings with long draw distances too.
Mid-game like 20 minutes into Arma 3 the video turned off but I could hear audio.
Since then the video switches off with the video card at the windows password screen like 98% of the time (except a few rare times when I let it sit for a long while and then it seemed to get past the windows password screen for like 2-3 minutes before switching video off again).
I turned the video to CPU graphics in the BIOS and I can be on the desktop for a long time now and it seems ok. But it will crash or not load the game even in company of heroes often and I haven't tried Arma 3 or Battlefield Bad Company 2 since.
If I can figure out the problem before then. I would be helped by having the video card working before Tuesday this week because I use Revit to make renders. With my workflow, I need the quick renders the video card was making possible. Otherwise the renders will take a long time to complete. It's still way faster without the GPU than it is from my laptop though!
I did a clean install of windows and reinstalled the video drivers for the GPU even though it is running video from the CPU right now.
So, that's the situation. What should I do? How can I troubleshoot further?
The system is:
PSU = Corsair CX500M
OS = Windows 10 Home
CPU = Intel Core i5-4460 CPU at 3.2 ghz 4cpus
RAM = 16GB (two RAM chips...one is Spektek and the other is Offtek)
GPU = GTX 780Ti 3GB
Motherboard = ASUS (says on it with directX 11 support ...I have DirectX 12 version is this a problem?
Further info that is relevant is that I worked out how to connect the power cable by figuring it out from guides/etc. It all worked great for a long while with many renders put out and games of Company of Heroes played. It went pear-shaped when I installed Arma 3 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 and hasn't been ok since. (been few days now)
+1 Also the fan goes really loud when it crashes in company of heroes now from the CPU with the GPU disabled (but when I switch off the advanced video settings it will be ok for company of heroes running on the CPU not the GPU)
Please help!
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