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    GPU problem

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Megacharge, Aug 15, 2009.

  1. Megacharge

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    Was playing crysis wars with my usual SLI settings all gamer with objects on enthusiast, and in the middle of my game it froze for 3 seconds then started back up but very choppy. So I did some testing and running crysis in windowed mode with GPUz in the background continuously refreshing shows my 2nd GPU is not going into 3d clocks when games or apps start while the first one does.


    The fan seems to be working, but I'm not sure whats up with my second card, both cards have worked fine until now, and I actually had them both at stock clocks while I was playing.

    Neither card has ever gone past 75c during gaming so I really doubt its a heat issue, and I've made sure SLI is enabled also I'm using Dox 182.46.what do you guys think?
     
    Megacharge, Aug 15, 2009
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  2. kreda

    kreda Notebook Guru

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    Your AC unplugged by accident? Happened to me a few times, on other games though.

    Edit: nevermind, reading the whole post ftw =)
     
    kreda, Aug 15, 2009
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    Have you tried a different drivers yet? 182.46 is a bit old. Try the latest Dell driver to see if it happens.
     
    Mandrake, Aug 15, 2009
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    Yeah I've installed the Dell beta drivers, and the problem has gone away so far, but I'm not 100% convinced that it is a driver issue, I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens.
     
    Megacharge, Aug 16, 2009
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