Driver keeps crashing and i'm lost

[HardBaller]

Hey guys.

So i woke up this morning. Started gaming and all of a sudden both screens went black, then back to normal and i got that balloon popup saying that my Nvidia driver kernel crashed and recovered.

After this happened i figured ok. Well lets see if there is a new driver so i updated to the latest driver shown for my GTX 1070, restarted my system and after that the problem keeps happening.

I have no problems doing "normal" things on my system. I can use my browser without issues, watch movies, stream video's, use discord etc. But as soon as i start any game launcher what so ever. Be it Battle.net or Black Desert Online's Launcher for example. This happens again. Launcher loads in bad, screens go all black and then back showing that same balloon popup of the crash & recovered. And this happens over and over.

I checked it with MSI afterburner running as well. GPU max temp is only hitting 35C wile launching the game launchers and my CPU temp maxed out at 44C. So it couldn't be overheating.

I also used DDU in safe mode (on normal mode it had the same issue as the game launchers) and did a fresh install of Geforce experience and the latest driver. But the problem keep happening.

I run a pretty normal system. MSI GTX 1070 gaming (stock), I5-3570k (stock) with the hyper 212 evo. 8GB RAM and an AsRock extreme 6 Z77 mobo. So aside from my GPU the rest is about 5 to 6 years old.

Oh and i use a XFX core edition pro 750watt (bronze) PSU. 6 years old as well. But didn't think that would matter a lot.

In all fairness everything but the GPU are going to be upgraded but i still have to wait months to do that. Reason i already got the GPU is because my last one died on me.

So yeah i'm a bit lost. I have no experience at all with Nvidia GPU's as i've been using AMD for the past years.

Hope you guys can help me as i'm as far i what i know will get me.

Looking forward to your responses. And thank you in advance.

Edit: forgot to mention in case of "wear and tear" of my system. My system is almost always on. like 24/7. Of course not always under load. And i know it's not the best. But that's just how it's been for the past years.

Edit 2: I did also use DDU again and tried using an older driver. 375.95. But unfortunately it gave me the same issue so i'm back to the latest driver atm.

 

[RobCrezz]

How did your old GPU die? Its possible your PSU is going faulty

 

[HardBaller]

How did your old GPU die? Its possible your PSU is going faulty

Hey Rob. Died might've been a bit of an overstatement. It was the old HD4870. It just couldn't get propper frame rates in games anymore and i don't know why but the fps seems to have been slowely crawling down. To the point where i was playing games at 11 fps. even WoW got 14 fps on medium.

 

[RobCrezz]

Its also entirely possible your card is just faulty.

Try underclocking the card by 50mhz and see if its more stable.

 

[the_nephilim_dominant]

Impaired ram or graphics card ram.

 

[HardBaller]

So i also got a suggestion from a clan mate over the phone to use DDU again to clean my system of anything and then seseat the card. So i did that and moved the card over to the 2nd PCIe 3.0 slot on my mobo. After that i did a fresh clean install. Unfortunately as soon as i tried launching any game it happened again.

So far the browser (and everything in it inc. youtube etc.), wondows explorer, cmd, control panel all seem to work fine. Anything else that needs to "launch" something seems to crash my driver kernel. And i mean anything. Game launchers, DDU launcher, VLC player you name it.

@Rob i'll give unclocking a try. Guessing i can just tweak it in afterburner right?

If that doesn't work @the_nephilim_dominant any idea how i could possible test the ram?

 

[RobCrezz]

Yeah just drop the GPU core clock by -50mhz and hit apply.

 

[HardBaller]

@Rob i wasn't sure which one so i lowered both the core and mem clock by 50mhz. That seems to (for now at least) do the trick and i was able to succesfully launch WoW and Black Desert without any problems. Strangest thing is even that in Black Desert it "feels" like the performance is better and gameplay smoother.

Now i'll raise the mem. clock back to the stock speeds and hope it hold up. But this shouldn't be right i'd guess. Like should it actually send the card back (it's barely 2 months old) or take it for what it is?

 

[RobCrezz]

Yeah if it cant run happily at stock clocks, send it back for a replacement. These issues are rare but not unheard of.

 

[HardBaller]

Awesome. Thanks a lot Rob for the help.

And also Nephilim for thinking along

 

[RobCrezz]

No problem. Hope you get a replacement in good time.