Team Fortress 2 PC freeze GTX 980

[TOExHEAD]

Very often while playing Team Fortress 2, and no other game does this, it will crash my display driver and sometimes I have to restart it. But even more often it crashes my entire PC and requires a hard restart. When it crashes the last sound heard just loops and nothing I press or do does anything to stop it. My drivers are up to date, my gpu is not dead, I verified integrity of game cache, and some other small fixes I've seen, nothing worked. Note that if my gpu is overclocked it works fine in most games except ones that are not very GPU intensive like TF2 and other Source engine games, where it crashes the display driver really quickly. But all these crashes are happening without any overclock whatsoever and seem to happen randomly.
Thanks to those who respond with advice.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I'm gonna assume you have tried deleting ALL local files and registry entries, and re download everything. What are the settings of the game?

 

[TOExHEAD]

I'm gonna assume you have tried deleting ALL local files and registry entries, and re download everything. What are the settings of the game?

No, I don't want to lose all the custom maps and stuff from the servers I play on. But you reminded me of another problem, my in game graphics settings seem to be bugged, and whenever I change them, when I start the game next they are back to what they were. And when I change 1 setting, I think it resets the rest to default, its just kinda confusing.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

You can back up all the custom maps. Do that, then uninstall, delete the tf2 folder from the steamapps/common folder, and reinstall from steam. That should fix it.

 

[pete_101]

Before deleting, have you verified your game files? (right click on game in steam library, "properties", "local files", Verify integrity of game cache")

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Op states that that has been done. I assume that the steam verification missed it. I've had the problem with Warframe and A.V.A

 

[TOExHEAD]

You can back up all the custom maps. Do that, then uninstall, delete the tf2 folder from the steamapps/common folder, and reinstall from steam. That should fix it.

will try

 

[TOExHEAD]

You can back up all the custom maps. Do that, then uninstall, delete the tf2 folder from the steamapps/common folder, and reinstall from steam. That should fix it.

still crashing my pc after full re-install

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Can you go into launch options for tf2 and put up these tags, without quotes:
"-novid -dxlevel 90"

See if that will crash the game.

 

[TOExHEAD]

Can you go into launch options for tf2 and put up these tags, without quotes:
"-novid -dxlevel 90"

See if that will crash the game.

just curious, with -dxlevel comands, is there a way to make it not reset all my graphics options every time I open the game

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Can you go into launch options for tf2 and put up these tags, without quotes:
"-novid -dxlevel 90"

See if that will crash the game.

just curious, with -dxlevel comands, is there a way to make it not reset all my graphics options every time I open the game

I've not had that trouble when I messed with that command a while back...

 

[TOExHEAD]

Can you go into launch options for tf2 and put up these tags, without quotes:
"-novid -dxlevel 90"

See if that will crash the game.

just curious, with -dxlevel comands, is there a way to make it not reset all my graphics options every time I open the game

I've not had that trouble when I messed with that command a while back...

I have always had trouble with it, have to reset all my settings ever launnch, or add all these commands to launch and its difficult to find a site that lists them all.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

You didn't mention whether you completely uninstalled the graphics drivers and reinstall them with the latest stable release?

 

[TOExHEAD]

You didn't mention whether you completely uninstalled the graphics drivers and reinstall them with the latest stable release?

haven't yet but I will try

 

[TOExHEAD]

although I have not had to hard restart my PC after the clean driver install, the display driver is still crashing and I suspect I eventually will need to hard restart some more.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

At this point, I think the GPU is faulty. All variables have been ruled out. You could try and see if a COMPLETE Windows Reinstall will fix it...

 

[TOExHEAD]

At this point, I think the GPU is faulty. All variables have been ruled out. You could try and see if a COMPLETE Windows Reinstall will fix it...

The gpu works fine in every single game, so i think it's an issue with team fortress 2

 

[Turb0Yoda]

derp, i forgot lol. Long day, my bad

 

[TOExHEAD]

derp, i forgot lol. Long day, my bad

all good, I did mess with tdrdelay in the past so I could take super high res screenshots in spaceengine, could that be a problem.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I mean, I'm was playing tf2 not five minutes ago with a crusty dual core and a gt 740, so I'm also thinking its tf2...

 

[TOExHEAD]

I mean, I'm was playing tf2 not five minutes ago with a crusty dual core and a gt 740, so I'm also thinking its tf2...

I also have a 750ti, can I run tf2 on that but all other games on the 980, or is that insane to think...

 

[Turb0Yoda]

If it runs fine on the 750 ti, then it basically comes down to the 980.
That would be insane though

 

[TOExHEAD]

If it runs fine on the 750 ti, then it basically comes down to the 980.
That would be insane though

darn

 

[Turb0Yoda]

you could try it...

 

[TOExHEAD]

you could try it...

My question is how, with both gpu's in my system is it possible to run certain games on either or, not just the main one the display is plugged into.