NVidia 5xx series and ArmA 3

**Kill8ox** · 05-21-13, 04:02 AM

^^ Fresh copy of Windows 7 and no luck

**dreaddman** · 05-21-13, 01:14 PM

I only run afterburner to monitor. Same issue before ab. Did just use it to drop clock speeds by 5%. Seemed to run better. Lqsted close to 2 hours before crash. Actually put them closer to nvidia reference design speeds; msi musta been overclocking. Odd that I didnt have these probs until recently.

Did experience same failure in bf3. Maybe once every month or so tho.

Dont remember on memory. Will have to look.

Did take a look at the arma 3 report. In close to 2 hours, there were 6-7 errors due to physx. Last one was at the very end of the file.

Hub- have heard both good and bad things about that app. Am holding off for now.

**dreaddman** · 05-23-13, 06:25 AM

Did 2 things and it ran for 3+ hours with no crash, which it hasn't done in a quite a while.

Directed Physx (thru nVidia control panel) to only use GPU for Physx.
Rolled back drivers to 310.90.

EVGA forum indicated that artifacting, which is the symptom in my crashes, has been an issue with randon nVidia boards for drivers past 311. No common thread, it just seems to affect a random sampling of GeForce GPUs, regardless of motherboard, CPUs, etc.

Not sure which did it, or both. Might try to find out.

**Sqyrel** · 06-19-13, 09:46 AM

Hell you say 570s are good, but my 460 is still dominating the games i play, to include Arma.

**dreaddman** · 06-19-13, 10:01 AM

I ended up getting a 670 FTW from EVGA, and it's running like a champ. Highly suspect my 570 was breaking down. Be aware that the CPU does have an effect on FPS. When installing my new card, accidentally knocked loose the CPU fan and didn't reseat it right (didn't realize at the time). Was getting similar performance to the 570, sometimes worse. Once I installed a HW monitor proggie and saw my CPU was HOT HOT, properly reseated the fan with new thermal paste. WOW. Bigg diff.

**Ace22** · 06-19-13, 12:08 PM

You were probably getting thermal throttling happening on your processor. Thus running far below spec. Yes, Processor has been key for me as i'm bottlenecked with my oc'd i7-950 @ 4.2ghz. My 7970 vid card is heavily under utilized. Problem is what i'm reading about Haswell so far doesn't have me overly excited. Waiting on some more reviews of the chipset b4 making a plunge.

**Sqyrel** · 06-19-13, 12:31 PM

Ace how has your processor been running since you OC'd it to 4.2 and also what was the ghz before you clocked it. I have been considering OC'ing my i7 as well.

**Nuckle** · 06-19-13, 01:11 PM

I oc'ed my CPU from 3.6 to 4.1 and upped the clock speed on my dual 570's by 15%. I see 10 more frames at restart but no change later in the mission.

Restart - 50fps
3 hours in - >30 to 20 at times.

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**Ace22** · 06-19-13, 05:32 PM

i7-950 stock is 3.0gzh. 4.2 is a pretty ambitious OC (especially with keeping hyperthreading on). 4.2 has been somewhat of the upper limit for most people without having to spike voltage to extremely high levels. 4.4/4.5 have been achieved on good watercooling but the voltage jump is so high I don't feel it's worth it.

Nuckle are you gpu limited? you're running a 3770k Ivybridge correct?

**SpecOpsScott** · 06-19-13, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Sqyrel

Hell you say 570s are good, but my 460 is still dominating the games i play, to include Arma.

How the hell do you get any kind of performance in ArmA III? I run 460 Fermi, 8GB of RAM and an AMD 2.7ghz Hex Core and cant get much above 25FPS. Drops like a rock in city areas especially if there is any action going on.