Best (non-crashing) driver ver for GTX460 2GB card in Win7 64-bit for D3?

[VirtualLarry]

Friend has a Core2Quad rig with 8GB RAM and a GTX460 2GB card I hooked him up with cheap.

Now he's getting NV driver error recovery. Trying to diagnose.

I've heard that modern NV drivers are unstable on Fermi cards. If this is true, which drivers would you recommend?

 

[96Firebird]

Is everything stock? Did it start happening out of the blue or was it right after a driver update?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yes, everything is stock. I don't know if the GTX460 has any factory OC on it. I think it might be a Palit. It's a semi-rare 2GB model.

My friend had me clean out his PC with some canned air a few months ago. He had some major dust bunnies in the CPU and GPU heatsink. So it's possible he cooked his card.

I don't know if it was after a driver update. He has GFE installed, and probably installs whatever the newest driver is.

His PSU is an off-brand, but it has two PCI-E power connectors on it. I think it's a 600 or 650W.

(I'm pretty sure it's not a Raidmax / PowMax / DiabloTek PSU though.)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Next time I get a chance to go over to his place, I'm going to see if he'll let me do a memory test on his RAM, and maybe re-seat it for him.

Edit: I also ordered a 600W EVGA PSU off of Newegg to test, to see if maybe he has a flaky PSU.

 

[nurturedhate]

I have had issues with GFE when playing SC2 and D3. SC2 especially, crashes at the loading screen. D3 locked up randomly. Could never find anything concrete on the issue or other people saying the same thing on the D3 side but stopped having the issues with D3 once I removed GFE to fix SC2. It's worth a shot.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I have had issues with GFE when playing SC2 and D3. SC2 especially, crashes at the loading screen. D3 locked up randomly. Could never find anything concrete on the issue or other people saying the same thing on the D3 side but stopped having the issues with D3 once I removed GFE to fix SC2. It's worth a shot.

Now that's interesting. Your post is the first that I've read, that suggests that GFE itself is the problem, and can cause crashes.

I should also mention though that my friend gets the GPU recover sometimes watching videos, and not just gaming.