Computer hard resetting playing New Vegas after upgrade (GTX 1080 TI)

[Hank Crocker]

Hey Guys,

Been awhile since I made a thread on here. I'm having an issue ever since I made a hardware upgrade. I recently made the upgrade from an EVGA GTX 960 SSC Edition to an ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 TI. I'm loving the card right now but my issue is a bit more specific as I am not able to replicate the problem with other games. I'm playing through Fallout New Vegas with a ton of Graphically intensive mods such as ENB, NMC Texture packs, Wasteland Lighting and more. In game I don't really have any issues performance wise running it at 4k resolutions and near maximum graphics with 60 FPS consistently. Every once in a while however, I get a hard reset on my desktop when I'm playing it. It's completely random and it has only happened so far with Fallout New Vegas. I've been playing other games such as Arma 3, STALKER, and the Metro Series with similarly programmed graphics but I'm not getting the same issues. I played through Metro 2033/Last Light all day and it only gave me one CTD. I'm convinced it's an issue with my PSU. My PSU is powerful enough for what my system demands but it is quite old. It's a Corsair HX 750 that I bought about 5 years ago that hasn't reach it's full power potential up until this point in terms of supplying power (And even then with the system I have I don't think it's getting anywhere close near 750 watts). I also ran memtest86 and am not getting errors on that memory end and my temperatures for both my GPU and my CPU never go above 75 C under load (Max for GPU was 71, Max for CPU was about 68). The strange part was the first time this happened, other appliances in my house flickered power wise (lights and humidifier behind me in the room flickered off and then back on) but it only happened that first time. My bet is still on my PSU but I'm wondering if my system could be causing power surges only when I'm playing Fallout New Vegas.

My Specs are below:
ASUS Maximus VII Hero
Intel I7 4790k @ 4.4Ghz
Hyper 212 EVO
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 TI Overclocked w/ 11GB of Memory
Corsair HX750 PSU
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD

EDIT:
Here is also the information from what I gathered with Event Viewer

- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}
EventID 41
Version 6
Level 1
Task 63
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000400000000002
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2018-06-28T01:43:12.481429000Z
EventRecordID 5613
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8
Channel System
Computer DESKTOP-QSB8MMG
- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-18

- EventData
BugcheckCode 0
BugcheckParameter1 0x0
BugcheckParameter2 0x0
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0x0
SleepInProgress 0
PowerButtonTimestamp 0
BootAppStatus 0
Checkpoint 0
ConnectedStandbyInProgress false
SystemSleepTransitionsToOn 0
CsEntryScenarioInstanceId 0
BugcheckInfoFromEFI false
CheckpointStatus 0

2ND EDIT:
Also forgot to mention that I tested my PSU and the voltages are all within acceptable parameters.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Thoughts.

Maybe a mod conflict?

Did you install the mods especially the ENB when you had the old card? It's possible that some of the ENB settings are configured for the GTX 960 and that's causing the errors.

Is Steam on a different drive from your OS? Some mods don't like the Windows UAC. I use a separate drive for Steam just for that reason.

Did you do a clean driver install when you got the new card?

 

[Hank Crocker]

Thoughts.

Maybe a mod conflict?

Did you install the mods especially the ENB when you had the old card? It's possible that some of the ENB settings are configured for the GTX 960 and that's causing the errors.

All of the mods that have I used on the old card and were from scratch installs. I didn't carry anything over from the 960 when I used it in terms on esps and the such.

Is Steam on a different drive from your OS? Some mods don't like the Windows UAC. I use a separate drive for Steam just for that reason.

No. I have everything stored on one drive.

Did you do a clean driver install when you got the new card?

Yes the drivers I installed came with the disc that came with the card.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Yes the drivers I installed came with the disc that came with the card.

Never use those. They're somewhere between months to even a year outdated. Always get the latest driver from the Nvidia site.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

So this is a new install of New Vegas and mods? You didn't swap cards mid game?

If it only happens with modded New Vegas it's a mod issue almost certainly.

 

[Hank Crocker]

Yes the drivers I installed came with the disc that came with the card.

Never use those. They're somewhere between months to even a year outdated. Always get the latest driver from the Nvidia site.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

In terms of drivers, the driver version I have currently is 398.36 which is up to date according the NVIDIA.

So this is a new install of New Vegas and mods? You didn't swap cards mid game?

If it only happens with modded New Vegas it's a mod issue almost certainly.

So far it has only happened with New Vegas. I played through Metro 2033 and Last Light last week for about 16 hours daily and I had only that one CTD.

I've read that Bethesda games w/ ENB can suffer from some heavy memory issues and can cause reboots especially at higher sizes of combined VRAM and RAM memory (My combined VRAM and RAM according to ENB is close to 20GB! Jeez!). I also have a dual monitor setup where I will watch videos on my small monitor while playing games on my Main screen.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

398.36 was released yesterday so you're not using the one that came on the disk with the card. :lol:

I'm not 100% sure about New Vegas but Skyrim ( original ) was a 32 bit game so it could only address about 3.5GB of memory total. That's graphics card and system memory combined. One of the reasons for the remaster was make it 64 bit. That allows people with higher end systems to actually make use of their power.

I've played modded New Vegas but not with an ENB. Skyrim in particular ( with mods ) needs to not be installed on your C drive because Windows UAC ( user access control ) can interfere with them. Moving Steam to another drive fixes this. NV may be the same way.

Either way I'm pretty sure the crashes are mod related and not your card or anything.

 

[Hank Crocker]

398.36 was released yesterday so you're not using the one that came on the disk with the card. :lol:

I'm not 100% sure about New Vegas but Skyrim ( original ) was a 32 bit game so it could only address about 3.5GB of memory total. That's graphics card and system memory combined. One of the reasons for the remaster was make it 64 bit. That allows people with higher end systems to actually make use of their power.

I've played modded New Vegas but not with an ENB. Skyrim in particular ( with mods ) needs to not be installed on your C drive because Windows UAC ( user access control ) can interfere with them. Moving Steam to another drive fixes this. NV may be the same way.

Either way I'm pretty sure the crashes are mod related and not your card or anything.

Okay Phew. I just did the upgrade to 398.36 today and I went through a Windows update as well. I went through reinstalling ENB for New Vegas as well just to be safe. I think it could just be an optimization issue like you said but I'll mess around with other games and see if I have the same issue.

 

[Hank Crocker]

Well I'm pretty sure your explanation was the issue anort3. I'm now dealing with the strange issue where if I step away from my desktop for a little the computer will shut down on its own. This is the 3rd time so far where I leave my system on for a little while and then it shuts down before I come back. I checked event viewer and and it was a Kernal Power issue again. Before it shut down on it's own, I had STALKER opened as well as Chrome but I wasn't doing anything on the system for around 45 minutes. I'm wondering if it could be a power issue. It hasn't reset/shutdown when I'm busy on it only when I'm away.

 

[Hank Crocker]

Update for anyone who is interested. I'm not dealing with reboots while I'm playing graphically intensive games. I've turned off automatic reboot, but every once in a while I'll get a Crash where the audio stutters and I'm forced to reboot using the reboot button.

My event viewer states that it's a kernal-power problem.

Here's the details for anyone that is interested.

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}

EventID 41

Version 6

Level 1

Task 63

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000400000000002

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2018-07-16T23:02:18.787660700Z

EventRecordID 3357

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8

Channel System

Computer DESKTOP-QSB8MMG

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-18


- EventData

BugcheckCode 30
BugcheckParameter1 0xffffffffc0000047
BugcheckParameter2 0xfffff800cab91778
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0x0
SleepInProgress 0
PowerButtonTimestamp 0
BootAppStatus 0
Checkpoint 0
ConnectedStandbyInProgress false
SystemSleepTransitionsToOn 0
CsEntryScenarioInstanceId 0
BugcheckInfoFromEFI false
CheckpointStatus 0

I'll probably move this thread to a better location or make a new thread for my issue.