GPU usage spiking to 400000%

[mr_blastman]

So I've noticed that Supcom randomly black-screens my computer in the midst of mid to late game, often when I click on an object, and about 99% of the time it leads to my video card disconnecting from the system(i.e. crashes with a hardware disconnect noise) while the rest of the machine runs fine. Rarely does it disconnect and nothing works at all, but, in a nutshell, no matter which of the ways it disconnects, I have to reboot to get video again. Supcom, however, stays running until reboot...

Well, today I survived such a crash. And I had monitoring running. And I noticed something peculiar... my GPU usage spiked to 400000% for a second. Somehow it didn't nuke the device, probably because the AC is running full blast and I had my GPU fans set to run at maximum. Whatever the reason, it survived and I saw what happened.

What the heck could be causing that sudden GPU spike? That's the culprit! Something in Faforever or Supcom is nuking my GPU.

Specs:
3770k overclocked to 4.2 Ghz
Nvidia 670 GTX
16 gigs of RAM
Windows 7

[Uveso]

Are you sure with 400000% ?

Your gfx card has about 980 Mhz.

100% = 980 Mhz

100% = 0.98 Ghz
1000% = 9.8 Ghz
10000% = 98 Ghz
100000% = 980 Ghz
400000% = 3920 Ghz

400000% = 3.92 Thz

"Quantum cascade lasers" are operating at 3.9 thz. The radiation would burn a nice hole to your GPU, PC, house and garage.

So we can say that the 400000% are not true.
Maybe your GFX card driver was rebooting and got a wrong timestamp from the last CPU % reading.

[mr_blastman]

I put all my engineers on it????



Jokes aside, it's what EVGA Precision showed on the real-time graph and I was like, O_O, but yeah, the screen went black, almost disconnected the card and somehow it recovered. It did it again tonight, but no extreme spike, and somehow it recovered again, so maybe cranking up the AC and fan is saving it now.

Still, I don't know why this is happening?

[Uveso]

I don't know why your GFX card driver is crashing.

Some older 640 and maybe also the 670 GTX had some problems with powersaving mode.
There is not enought power to switch from low to hight power state.
This can only be solved with older nvidia drivers (version 314.22) or disable the powersaving mode in your gfx card.
(Set your GPU clock to a fixed value)

Instead of EVGA Precision you can use the MSI Afterburner. Its the same program but newer.

Here is the latest Afterburner version (4.4.0 beta 16):
http://office.guru3d.com/afterburner/MS ... Beta16.rar

Just to be sure, reinstall directx9c:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/downloa ... x?id=34429

[mr_blastman]

After two months of no problems... black screen crashes are back!

And they began after the latest update. What gives?

[Uveso]

How do you fixed the crashing for the last 2 month ?

Maybe its possible to provide us the latest game.log and forever.log ?

[mr_blastman]

Where are those log files at?

[mr_blastman]

Well, looks like I have to bid FA Forever adieu. I can't play the game anymore, it seems, as I get a video driver crash now about 90% of games I play. It doesn't matter if it is late game with a lot of units or early game--it happens whenever, and when it does, the screen goes black, I hear a device disconnected noise, yet the game is still running, I can type to other players, everything... else... is fine.

I have tried the following:

Turned power management for system to high performance - no effect
Turned off anti aliasing in game - no effect
Turned power management to balanced - no effect
Set game to windowed - no effect
Set game to full screen - no effect
Uninstalled my video drivers completely using DDU, rebooted, then installed the latest Nvidia drivers - no effect (was using two year old drivers) - no effect
Cleaned all dust out of my GPU - no effect
Checked PSU - no effect
Checked all power cables to make sure they were secure - no effect
Shut down all background applications - no effect
Reinstalled faforever client fresh - no effect
About the only thing I haven't done is a complete reinstall of Forged Alliance. I will do that now.

Bottom line - my game is fucked. I can't play anymore, and it makes me sad. I don't know what else to do. It was crashing last summer, went away for three months, and now the problem is back with a vengeance after a faforever update installed a month ago.

Sigh.

I want to play this game. I really do. Such an awesome community. But, alas, I'm getting angry now everytime I play because of this nonsense.

Someone, somewhere... please help.

[Uveso]

There are still some things you can do ^^

You are ocerclocking your system. If you not only overclock your CPU, maybe you have done something bad to your FSB or PCI-E clock ? This could also disconnect your 670 GTX.
So try it without any overclocking just to be sure.

You have a 3770k CPU. There is a HD Graphics 4000 on it. Try to use the CPU grafic card for SupCom!

No one want this, but reinstall Windows. This can and has often solved problems

At the moment i am using different Nvidia Cards with driver version 388.00.
At least i can say this driver version is stable for SupCom.

[Katharsas]

Sounds like a Hardware/Power issue if you ask me. How old is your PSU, is it a quality one?