BSOD problem and particular games

Hi All,

Maybe someone can give me some advice. My m11x specs are in my sig. As you can see in my list below I keep getting BSODs in some of my games but not in others. Some of the games that do give me BSOD are not very demanding games, like Rune Classic.

Games that BSOD:

Morrowind (MGSO mod, tried all flavors)
Oblivion (haven’t installed on this machine)
Skyrim (no mods, no high res textures)
Rune Classic
Slinter Cell: Chaos Theory (1 BSOD)
Unreal Gold

Games that do not BSOD:

Deus Ex: GOTY (13 hours)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution and The Missing Link (completed twice, no time as I played offline mode)
F.E.A.R. + 2 and the expansions (about 20 hours)
Half-Life 2 (77 hours)
Half-life Episodes (30 hours)
Homefront (6 hours)
Legend of Grimrock (36 hours)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series (50 hours)
Civilization IV and V (30 hours)
Two Worlds II (58 hours)

The BSODs come randomly, sometimes 1 hour into a game or sometimes 5 minutes into a game. My temps are never reaching over 70 C. I have tried the following nVidia drivers:

275.33
280.26
285.62
290.53
295.73
296.10
301.42

I have tried clean installing the drivers and running Driver Sweeper.

I am running Throttlestop 4.0, but am not overclocked. Overclocking my machine also results in BSOD. The games BSOD whether or not Throttlestop is running.

“WhoCrashed” tells me the BSOD is a result of the nvidia drivers. I ran disk cleanup this morning, so I don't have the WhoCrashed report.

Not sure what to do at this point.

 

You may need to down clock your GPU, look here for some tips.

Regards.

C.

 

I've been considering that. Unfortunately, where I am currently living, I cannot access youtube. I'll look for other instructions on how to do this.

One question: would down clocking have a noticeable impact on performance in gaming? I am not worried about playing the games at their highest levels, just playing smoothly. I'm happy enough to play on medium/low settings if I can get more FPS.

Thanks!

 

Slight down clock would show up in benchmarks or where games are borderline playable.

 

yes, i encourage you to downclock your gpu slightly with a tool such as msi afterburner and see if the problem persists. on my m11x r2 and many others' it's a necessity to run certain games reliably, for whatever reason...

 

Thanks for the replies so far everyone. I am downloading MSI Afterburner and will give that a try. Any suggestions for numbers? I've seen in the thread that CEUOTC linked to the core clock speed should be set to 425.


well, I downloaded the program and set the core clock speed to 425 mhz. I guess I'll just have to keep playing and see if I get a BSOD as they came randomly.

Questions: should I still be using Throttlestop? Can I just turn down the core clock speed whenever I want to play one of those games that happens to BSOD or should I run the computer all the time at that speed?

Thanks!

 

"Should"? Can't say. For testing I would make only one change at a time though.