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    Display Driver Crash - EVGA GTX680 FTW 4Gb

    Hi there guys.

    So a while back I asked about graphics cards and such and I have opted to go balls to the wall and went for two EVGA GTX680 FTW 4GB cards, They are awesome they run supper quiet and the gaming preformance is second to none. I do however have a little issue with the cards, well not the cards exactly hopefully but more the drivers.

    Sometime every now and then I will get a screen flicker with horisontal lines appearing over my three screens, and now and then the screens will go blank for a few seconds and the everythign will restore. Microsoft will then give a pop-up saying that the display drivers crashed and they it was succesfully recovered.

    At first I thought that the cards were overheating so I disabled the automatic fan controll and let the fans run at 60% (under automatic they never went above 40% with GPU temps of 60Celcius) this resulted in GPU temps of 45-50 degrees dependant on load. The rest of the system were running quite cool with Asus AI Suite reporting a MB temp of 32C constant and the CPU puncing between 35/40C... however this didnt fix the problem. I have also not been able to pin-point the cause of the problem.

    I then checked the driver to see if thee was an update from NVidia and there was, downloaded it played the game and it happned again.

    My cards are setup in SLI with the 27" running of the DisplayPort, and my two 22" monitors running on the DVI-I and DVI-D outputs on the card. SLI Settings are: Maximise 3D Preformance and PHysX setting is automatic. I am aware that my main game I play doesnt use SLI (EvE Online) but I have found that if I run one card supporting the 27" display and the other card supporting the two 22" monitors that the Frame Rates are poor, I get 60 FPS easy with all effects turned on when I run them all of one card in SLI.. a little less out of SLI but still pretty good.

    Has anyone seen anything like this before or have any ideas on what I may be able to do to prevent this?

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    Re: Display Driver Crash - EVGA GTX680 FTW 4Gb

    Does sound like purely software, ie drivers. They'll take a little while to mature, especially SLI profiles. Minority use cases like individual monitors supported by different cards might never be optimised all that well, so don't expect miracles - for multi-monitor stuff AMD cards tend to be much easier to deal with (they've just been doing it for that much longer). SLI and driving monitors via one card is the better way for nVidia cards (and AMD cards for that matter).

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