GTX 1080 TI. games freezing hard reboot required

[McManny]

About 6 months ago I purchased two Galax GTX 1080 TI cards.

Installed with no issues and benchmarking works without an issue and stress tests are fine.

What I am finding is that on high end games such as Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Dishonored 2 and now Wolfenstein 2. I get random lockups.

The problem seams to be at random sometimes I can play for a couple of hours without issues then other times it will happen within 10 minutes or whilst the game is paused or in the menu or during cut scenes.

The game freezes with the audio stuttering and or looping.

Controls freeze and the only solution is a hard reboot shutdown.

The case has good air flow and temps are within normal pramaters.

I have tried changing power settings and googled almost every solution I can think of.

Swapping the cards around didn't change anything.

Nothing is OCed.

Any ideas as to what's causing this.

Before these cards I had 3 way sli gtx 980 cards and no issues whatsoever.

Specs :
I7. 4790k
Evga z97 classified
2 x Galax gtx 1080 ti in sli with Evga hb bridge
Cooler master 1000w gold moduler psu
32gb of Kingston 1600 ram
250gb Samsung ssd running windows 10

If anyone has had this problem please let me know how you fixed it.

 

[Adrian Ocampo]

Have you tried updating/reinstalling your drivers? What are your temps while gaming? have you tried gaming on each of the cards separately and see if the same issue happens?

 

[lumineZ]

- Could be the VRM that get to hot on one of of the cards.

- Might be the PSU that is starting to fail.

- Might be the SLI since that alone reports several problems...

- PSU cables faulty.

- Faulty drivers.

- One card damaged.

- RAM damaged (memtest it)

- PCIe slots on the motherboard faulty.



Pick your poison

 

[McManny]

Thanks for the replies.
Brand new PSU got it when I got the cards.
Driver updated monthly. Custom install with clean option ticked.

Temps don't get past 80 whilst gaming I use cupid to monitor.

All components are less than 12 months old.

Tried single cards should have mentioned that. Problem didn't seam to manifest itself but again the fact that it randomly happening it may still happen.

 

[lumineZ]

Then try to run with 1 card over an extended period of time so see if it will crash or not.

 

[McManny]

Will give it a go cheers

 

[Adrian Ocampo]

You might want to try each PCIE slots as well as it can also be a factor of 1 being good but the other being busted.

 

[McManny]

I recently tried a combination of all different slots and configurations. My personal opinion is that this is something software and or windows based but who knows really.

 

[McManny]

Tried all the suggestions. It doesn't seam to happen with just one card that being said I have to dial it down a bit as 4k isn't as smooth with just the one card. Tried them both individually at a lower setting.

So is this an sli coding issue or?

 

[lumineZ]

Tried all the suggestions. It doesn't seam to happen with just one card that being said I have to dial it down a bit as 4k isn't as smooth with just the one card. Tried them both individually at a lower setting.

So is this an sli coding issue or?

Could be... Its known that SLI does not work flawless sadly...
You could try running in 1080p and 1440p for awhile since that will not put so mutch stress on the GPU`s and see what happens then.

 

[McManny]

So just an update ran memtest 64 and got a freeze after a few hours. So now it's a process of eliminating which stick it is out of the 4. Looking on ebay for some new ram probably time to upgrade anyway on that. I will let you know if that solves the issue. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[McManny]

OK so I have installed new ram and sadly that didn't fix the issue. Reversed the top exhaust fan so now it blows on the cards bringing them down a few extra degrees.

Increased virtual paging and storage. Cleaned out the driver with DDU reinstalled. Now that was interesting it ran without issue for half the day after that then borked up again a few hours later.

Tried just about every solution I can find and has been suggested.

Only conclusion I can come up with is Windows 10 and Nvidia drives don't like playing together.

I have another mobo around running windows 7 might do an experiment and install the cards in that see if the issue manifests itself.

Will post tonight the results.

 

[lumineZ]

What you could try is to take the sidepanel off and place a powerfull tablefan so it blows air straight at the GPU`s

You will not get better cooling than that, and then see if you freeze up.

 

[McManny]

Good thinking brother thanks will give that a crack.

Though I have been considering water cooling might lash out and grab some see if that might work.

 

[lumineZ]

Try the table fan first. Just make sure it is an powerfull one. So it moves ALOT of air.

If that works, then you can consider going water after that.

 

[McManny]

Driver roll back seams to have fixed the problem.

 

[Adrian Ocampo]

Driver roll back seams to have fixed the problem.

Good to hear that! Dont forget to choose an answer to close this thread.

 

[McManny]

OK driver roll back only lasted a few days before the problem resurfaced. I'm finding a complete reinstall of the driver will give me a few hours of uninterrupted play before something goes wrong.

It's always the same issue without warning , games freezing can't do anything but hard reboot. Latest drivers, change the power settings change the registry do this and that.

I tried windows 7 for a few days on an old ssd I had and not once did it give me grief.

Half considering sending the cards back and getting a different brand.

Ran gpuz and the log is showing Temps below 65o no spikes in power ect.

Is there anyone out there who has had this and fixed it?

 

[McManny]

And the solution was...... Busted mobo. Ordered a new one went back to my old one hasn't skipped a beat. Thanks for all the help.

 

[lumineZ]

Was it the PCIe slots? or what was broken?

 

[McManny]

Yeah I think the top pcie slot had an issue. I'm pretty sure a power flow issue.

 

[lumineZ]

Well good to know you fixed it and look at the first post I made bottom point 😉

 

[sczvanguard]

Trends to pay going liquid cooled cards in sli, amazed your not bottlenecking with x2 1080 Ti's they are so fast compared to your cpu, check to see what percentages of optimizing the cards are running, if it's only 50% or so when your cpu is flat out, then your bottlenecking, however I had x2 zotac 1080 sli and they simply could not stand the heat, lodged practically on top of each other it became a problem. Ah I see you fixed it, well good luck with your build.