Nvidia driver recovery...sets GPU clocks very low...

[AndroidVageta]

Well, Ill try to make this short and sweet.

My Asus G72GX has the GTX260m in it...awesome card and all however its underclocked compared to the standard 260m (500,800,1250 vs. 550,950,1375).

I overclocked it to stock speeds and the machine runs great with no problems what so ever (GPU barely tops out at 86C running Furmark).

So I started playing Borderlands today and the game is cause that "driver has stopped responding and has been recover" whatever BS...but when it does this the clocks are reset to 383, 300, 766! No matter what I do I cant even get speeds back to the defaults...nothing short of restarting the machine.

My problems are that I cant raise the clocks after this happens and it only happens when playing Borderlands...no other game, not even Crysis or benchmarking software causes the driver to crash at normal GTX 260m clocks...so I know the GPU isnt overheating or anything...only started with Borderlands...anyone know how to fix this? Am I doomed to just accept it?

 

[Lonyo]

Have you tried playing Borderlands at stock clocks? Does it still crash, and if so, does it still exhibit the changed clocks issue?

 

[melek-taus]

hmpf

i never heard of this isue before.

First of the driver bla bla problem means the gpu is overheating and shuts itself of or it encountered a problem with the gpu. But normally when this happens the clock speeds shouldnt go down. Havent seen something like that happen before. What u could do is reinstall the gpu drivers. And the ati tools. Try if u can clock it after that if not pls call our service department or apply for rma.

The service department will prolly say recovery or new drivers or bios update. But recovery and biosupdate seem strange to me as this is a gpu failure problem. So both those wouldnt help ur problem.

 

[ViRGE]

The post-recovery clocks are actually rather normal. Driver recovery is so that you can properly save your work and do a reboot. It's not so you can pick up from where you left off. My 5850 has done the same thing.

 

[melek-taus]

oe ty virge

i never knew about this. Learned something new. As i used to have this problem with my ocd 3850 top and after it happend my games always started lagging.

So a restart should fix the problem. Will remember this for the next time i get it with my sapphire 4890 vaporx

 

[AndroidVageta]

Well, I can almost say for sure 99.9% that its something wrong with Borderlands. I installed the newest drivers last night (197.54 from laptopvideo2go). This is a problem ONLY with Borderlands, which when compared to Crysis or 3DMark Vantage is HARDLY pushing the GPU in comparison. I like to run at 550, 950, 1375 as its quite a nice little boost over what Asus has the GTX 260m clocked too in the G72GX...and again, it runs perfectly stable with every other program I have and IS NOT over heating at all (as per SpeedFan). The GPU never goes above 88C at 550, 950, 1375 when running Furmark with the laptop cooler I have...its usually around 75C or lower when actually gaming, so heat is not the issue here nor is it any other hardware issue as far as I can tell due to the laptop being rock solid with any other game.

So I know for sure that its something wrong with Borderlands...it really is the only answer in my eyes. However, I would think that due to the games age and maturity of Nvidias drivers that a problem like this would have been ironed out LONG ago.

 

[TC91]

I think the gpu might not be completely stable at those clocks - Asus may have underclocked (and possibly undervolted it) to keep temps/power consumption in check; it is a laptop after all. You could also try cleaning out the drivers with driver cleaner/sweeper to see if there are any older drivers causing some conflicts.

 

[AndroidVageta]

I think the gpu might not be completely stable at those clocks - Asus may have underclocked (and possibly undervolted it) to keep temps/power consumption in check; it is a laptop after all. You could also try cleaning out the drivers with driver cleaner/sweeper to see if there are any older drivers causing some conflicts.

I beg to differ...the GPU has no issues EVER once overclocked...not in any benchmarking tool (let Furmark run for an hour last night with no overheating or anything) and Ive played Crysis at most maxed settings for hours on end...never once with it crashing or over heating or anything...it really is JUST Borderlands that causes this.

I dont know, I guess Ill just live with it...its not that good a game anyways

 

[AzN]

my card does this all time in 2D mode. Recover bla bla. nvidia drivers have been more fidgety lately.