FarCry 4 for stability testing OC?

[Kenmitch]

I'm tired of running the stupid e-peen canned benchmarks like Heaven, Valley, etc.

Is FarCry 4 decent to test OC'ing stability of my GTX 970? Seems somewhat demanding at times. It was the only pick your path game that looked somewhat interesting to me at least. Probably the most demanding game I currently own.

Trying to establish a max overclock that is stable during actual game playing.

Better to max out the eye candy? Go for fps? < for stability testing purposes.

 

[Rvenger]

Max eye candy, turn off VSYNC, highest resolution possible. Turn the Nvidia feature on too. Yeah, that will stress the GPU.

Turn on DSR while you are at it.

 

[litwicki22]

Yes Far Cry 4 will be ok. My previous card before Rma Asus Strix 980 was artifacting only on Far Cry 4. I guess that was because of high VRM temps. All other games was fine.

 

[Kenmitch]

Max eye candy, turn off VSYNC, highest resolution possible. Turn the Nvidia feature on too. Yeah, that will stress the GPU.

Turn on DSR while you are at it.

What I figured.

Dang I was just playing before I posted this thread. Fired it back up and a monster 1354MB patch....Version 1.7.0 now. Not sure what they changed/fixed as it looks to have just gone live....Glad I got FIOS

 

[Rvenger]

I am going to download this tonight. I have to play it before it hits the $5.00 bin.

Overclocks seem to be very forgiving on Maxwell. I was able to crank both GPUs to over +200 without an increase in voltage.

 

[Kenmitch]

I am going to download this tonight. I have to play it before it hits the $5.00 bin.

Too funny. Game looks decent to me so far.

Pretty much cranked it all up on my 970. Only have the reference design BB 970. Seems to clock pretty decent.

Currently mine is running at 1493/7602 @1.137v's at 64c during game play according to Afterburner....Using a custom fan profile.

Using DSR at 2560x1440 I think it is. Looks to go a little choppy at times but it's for stress testing my OC anyways.

 

[Rvenger]

I have the same card. Arguably one of the best 970s out there.

SLI temps stay below 75c and power consumption doesn't exceed 500w at the wall. I could technically get away with a third card in Tri-SLI on an 850w PSU!

 

[amenx]

I use Evga OC Scanner.

http://www.evga.com/ocscanner/

 

[Kenmitch]

I use Evga OC Scanner.

http://www.evga.com/ocscanner/

Is that a modified furmark?

Upping my memory to 8020 seems to have helped a lot with the choppiness.

 

[Termie]

I typically don't recommend using new games as stability tests. Do you have Crysis 3? It's a pretty good test of GPU overclocks. Far Cry 4 is known to still have some bugs, especially on Radeon GPUs. HardOCP has done some in-depth analysis of the issues, including scathing commentary, although my take is that they really WANT the game to work because it's got the eye candy they like.

I have the game, played it a bit, and didn't have any problems, but it wouldn't be my first choice for testing overclocks.

 

[sm625]

You should start stability testing with something like prime95. But yes, a game should be a part of the stability testing. Games do hit hardware in ways that a tool like prime95 wont.

 

[Kenmitch]

I typically don't recommend using new games as stability tests. Do you have Crysis 3? It's a pretty good test of GPU overclocks. Far Cry 4 is known to still have some bugs, especially on Radeon GPUs. HardOCP has done some in-depth analysis of the issues, including scathing commentary, although my take is that they really WANT the game to work because it's got the eye candy they like.

I have the game, played it a bit, and didn't have any problems, but it wouldn't be my first choice for testing overclocks.

Don't have Crysis 3.

FarCry 4 seems OK so far. Not the greatest but the eye candy is nice once it's cranked up.

You should start stability testing with something like prime95. But yes, a game should be a part of the stability testing. Games do hit hardware in ways that a tool like prime95 wont.

For my GPU my CPU is stable already. Only baby overclock to 4.2GHz on my 4690k.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Interesting error I got earlier today while playing this game. It just froze and I had to Alt-Tab out of it.

The description for Event ID 13 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\Video3
Graphics Exception: ESR 0x405840=0x82000200

\Device\Video3
Graphics Exception: Shader Program Header 9 Error

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Coulda been a bad OC/etc, dunno really.

 

[escrow4]

I had nvlddmkm errors too on my 780 Ti GHz. Latest drivers and the occasional crash. Never figured it out. Pretty sure this was the only game that died.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Max eye candy, turn off VSYNC, highest resolution possible. Turn the Nvidia feature on too. Yeah, that will stress the GPU.

Turn on DSR while you are at it.

Straight to the point. :thumbsup:

Max settings and vsync OFF is the way to go. Native resolution is fine but better if you use MAX AA or DSR.

 

[SPBHM]

lower res might be a better test with the higher framerate (if you are not CPU limited)

 

[KaRLiToS]

lower res might be a better test with the higher framerate (if you are not CPU limited)

Lower resolution will tax the CPU, not the GPU

 

[futurefields]

Yes Far Cry 4 will be ok. My previous card before Rma Asus Strix 980 was artifacting only on Far Cry 4. I guess that was because of high VRM temps. All other games was fine.

Far Cry 3 was the same.

So many people RMA'd perfectly fine video cards because of that game and it's horrific engine.

 

[SPBHM]

Lower resolution will tax the CPU, not the GPU

not exactly, if you don't hit the CPU limit you can load the VGA more with higher framerate and lower res, it's very easy to test checking the temperature.

 

[KaRLiToS]

not exactly, if you don't hit the CPU limit you can load the VGA more with higher framerate and lower res, it's very easy to test checking the temperature.

Very good point.

 

[Kenmitch]

Straight to the point. :thumbsup:

Max settings and vsync OFF is the way to go. Native resolution is fine but better if you use MAX AA or DSR.

I'm using the ultra setting. V-sync off

My monitor is 1080P but I bumped it up to 2560x1440 with DSR

I enable the following also

Soft shadows
HBAO+
TXAA2
Enhanced God rays
Fur set to simulated? Figure simulated was hardest hitting.

So far so good. Does get a little choppy at times but the gpu is 99% pegged running at 1493/8001 currently.

The game did lock up once on me. I was alt tabbing in and out of it quite a lot to check afterburner and read some threads here. Figured it was a combo of semi buggy game and overdoing the alt tabs.

not exactly, if you don't hit the CPU limit you can load the VGA more with higher framerate and lower res, it's very easy to test checking the temperature.

Temperature of GPU? Might have to try dropping res and cranking everything to the highest possible settings.

Did a quick 720p to see. GPU load dropped a couple percent, temps same, boosted to 1531....Edge of CPU limit? Only running 4.2ghz on 4690k.

 

[tweakboy]

Play the game for 10 hours, if it doesnt crash,, those benchies cant do it as well.