- Nov 29, 2020
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My main game, World of Warcraft, crashes and restarts my PC during cut scenes. After running a bunch of stress tests, I was able to reproduce the behavior with FurMark. When I run FurMark stress test with 8x MSAA and turn on post-FX my PC crashes immediately.
What I find strange is that only this combination of settings crashes my PC. I can run the test with post-FX on low MSAA, or high MSAA with no post-FX, and it runs fine. However, when I do both (8x MSAA and post-FX), my PC crashes the moment I press the hot key to enable post-FX.
The two usual culprits are faulty cooling and faulty PSUs. I don't think it's cooling. I ran a battery of other tests on my CPU/GPU, and both run fine with 100% load for extended periods of time. The temp, even under 100% load, doesn't exceed 50C on the CPU and 70C on the GPU. These successful tests run at full TDP, which I assume also rules out the PSU as the source of the problem.
The interesting tidbit is that during FurMark, my rig crashes immediately once I turn on post-FX. Does this mean there is some driver issue?
The card I am using is 1080TI. The PSU is 650W and nearly brand new (~3 months). I am using the latest Nvidia drivers. I have dual boot (Win7, and Ubuntu 18), and I have had games crash on both operating systems. I am really confused as to whether this is a hardware or software problem. At the moment, it feels like this is some sort of a controller issue having to do with anti-aliasing.
Let me know if you have any thoughts and thank you!!
What I find strange is that only this combination of settings crashes my PC. I can run the test with post-FX on low MSAA, or high MSAA with no post-FX, and it runs fine. However, when I do both (8x MSAA and post-FX), my PC crashes the moment I press the hot key to enable post-FX.
The two usual culprits are faulty cooling and faulty PSUs. I don't think it's cooling. I ran a battery of other tests on my CPU/GPU, and both run fine with 100% load for extended periods of time. The temp, even under 100% load, doesn't exceed 50C on the CPU and 70C on the GPU. These successful tests run at full TDP, which I assume also rules out the PSU as the source of the problem.
The interesting tidbit is that during FurMark, my rig crashes immediately once I turn on post-FX. Does this mean there is some driver issue?
The card I am using is 1080TI. The PSU is 650W and nearly brand new (~3 months). I am using the latest Nvidia drivers. I have dual boot (Win7, and Ubuntu 18), and I have had games crash on both operating systems. I am really confused as to whether this is a hardware or software problem. At the moment, it feels like this is some sort of a controller issue having to do with anti-aliasing.
Let me know if you have any thoughts and thank you!!