Joined: Nov 18, 2009
Posts: 15
Location: Arkansas
I havn't been able to play for the past week because my video card is going out. It works fine during normal use but anytime I try to play a game CoD or any other my computer locked up. I downloaded "Video Card Stability Test" and when my video card would get over 300fps it would crash. Not to worry, I have a new one on the way. It should arrive tomorrow, I hope.
Joined: Dec 16, 2009
Posts: 1091
Location: North Carolina
hmm fps shouldn't matter much; sounds like it might be a temperature problem :)
btw 300 fps? you must be running the program on bare minimum settings XD
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Last edited by WannaB on Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:52 pm; edited 1 time in total
Joined: Nov 29, 2009
Posts: 177
Location: Texas
The program is designed to stress the card and give a benchmark result, could be a heat problem or card failure. Its a great way to check a video card out. Sounds if almost was correct to replace the card.
I have used similar Burn In programs on new builds, to make sure to the system is stable. I have let them run for a few hours, and man they can stress a system.
Joined: Mar 13, 2009
Posts: 1686
Location: Iowa
You could throttle that puppy down and quit working it so hard with so much anti-aliasing and anistropic and high resolutions and other optional settings. You need not be faster than 90 fps anyway. It might not crash then. You might just uninstall the driver and reinstall directly from the website. It doesn't take but one byte to be corrupted and then nothing but troubles. Incidentally, I had a 260 go bad and the company replaced it. If it truly is a bad video card you can get it replaced via RMA. Most have a 5 year warranty.
Joined: Jul 26, 2007
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI
I would turn down your FPS most people do not get over 100 FPS and play the game just fine.
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Joined: Nov 29, 2009
Posts: 177
Location: Texas
Guys unless i misread what he wrote, he is getting up to 300 fps in the stress test
when it crashes. My guess and I could be wrong the 300 is not fps but the benchmark number.
Which would be low for this program depending on the card