Graphics card running out of memory/ not able to run any programs

[KittenznOm]

Hi! I've been having issues lately with playing games and I'm not sure if I'm dealing with a GPU issue or not. I have a 3GB 480 MSI card, and about a month ago, I came back from work and most of my games would either not run, or would run at 3-4 fps. Applications like Chrome ran very slowly as well. I had an old 280 AMD card lying around and plugged that in. Games would run but obviously not as well. I was going to send the better card back for an RGA, but figured I should test it out once more to make sure it was bad before paying for shipping. I booted up the pc and it ran great! It's been going a solid 2 weeks now. When I came back from work today however, I've had the same problem. My games kick me out when loading saying that my rendering device has run out of memory. Everything i try to run crashes, and chrome is once again barely working. Is this actually a card issue, or is something else at play here? I'm not sure anymore since it was working fine again

 

[ddferrari]

Have you run the task manager when this happens and checked to see if another program is running in the background that you may not be aware of? Have you reinstalled the (latest) driver for it?

 

[KittenznOm]

Have you run the task manager when this happens and checked to see if another program is running in the background that you may not be aware of? Have you reinstalled the (latest) driver for it?

Nothing appears to be sucking my memory. It's just a bunch of small windows processes. When my games crash, everything crashes with it. I'm not the latest drivers

 

[bajgur]

Hi! I've been having issues lately with playing games and I'm not sure if I'm dealing with a GPU issue or not. I have a 3GB 480 MSI card, and about a month ago, I came back from work and most of my games would either not run, or would run at 3-4 fps. Applications like Chrome ran very slowly as well. I had an old 280 AMD card lying around and plugged that in. Games would run but obviously not as well. I was going to send the better card back for an RGA, but figured I should test it out once more to make sure it was bad before paying for shipping. I booted up the pc and it ran great! It's been going a solid 2 weeks now. When I came back from work today however, I've had the same problem. My games kick me out when loading saying that my rendering device has run out of memory. Everything i try to run crashes, and chrome is once again barely working. Is this actually a card issue, or is something else at play here? I'm not sure anymore since it was working fine again

is your pc on and connected to internet all the time?

 

[ddferrari]

Sounds like it's time for an exchange to me.

 

[KittenznOm]

Hi! I've been having issues lately with playing games and I'm not sure if I'm dealing with a GPU issue or not. I have a 3GB 480 MSI card, and about a month ago, I came back from work and most of my games would either not run, or would run at 3-4 fps. Applications like Chrome ran very slowly as well. I had an old 280 AMD card lying around and plugged that in. Games would run but obviously not as well. I was going to send the better card back for an RGA, but figured I should test it out once more to make sure it was bad before paying for shipping. I booted up the pc and it ran great! It's been going a solid 2 weeks now. When I came back from work today however, I've had the same problem. My games kick me out when loading saying that my rendering device has run out of memory. Everything i try to run crashes, and chrome is once again barely working. Is this actually a card issue, or is something else at play here? I'm not sure anymore since it was working fine again

yup, it's on basically all the time, although the latest crash happened about 2 hours AFTER restarting my pc. It's connected through Ethernet 24/7

is your pc on and connected to internet all the time?

 

[bajgur]

check your services and startup, disable anything that suspicious.
reset your chrome.

theres a possibility you have been infected by malicious script/something similar.