Crashes? 6800 GT? Possible Solution here

funkybside

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Story time!

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Like many users of the 6800 GT I experienced frequent crashes, and nasty ones at that. Not the nice friendly crash-to-desktops people know about, but those pesky total system failures requiring a hard power cycle to recover from.

Many users of the 6800gt posted similar problems, so I chalked it up to a driver problem and tried rolling it back with no dice. Ok, no problem, I'll just wait for the next patch.... waiting.... waiting.... geeze, I'm tired of waiting....so,

I went out and purchased CoD2 only to run into the same problem. WHAT? More crashes? Battlefield 2, Doom 3, and Quake 4 all run fine at high settings, what's happening here? I have a great system, all high end specs, totally rips on BF2 and Quake 4.

And then it hit me, I'm a smoker. I haven' cleaned out my box in quite a few months have I? Hmmm, I wonder what my vga chip temp is right after rebooting from a crash.

115 C!

No kidding, 115 C, holy crap that's HOT (and I'm using a thermaltake case & fans, vga cooler, etc..) I made a b-line for CompUSA and purchased a BOX of compressed air cans, then went to town on my heatsinks and fans. Man it was dirty in there after only 5-6 months...I've got to quit smoking.

And that did it. No more crashes on CoD2 or Civ4, finally. Box runs at a cool 56 C, and noticably more stable. :D

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This post was written because I spent several nights searching for a solution to my problems with Civ4, and read many threads here in that time. It appears MANY people are having similar problems, and nowhere is this solution suggested. (We're not going to talk about multiplayer bugs here, okay?) If this thread helps even one person, it was worth it.

-FunkyBside
 
Sorry that's a no go. Many have speculated that it might have been an issue, HOWEVER, it has since been proven to not be the case. Both the developer, nvidia, and at least one manufacturer of the cards have already told those of us that have it that there is an issue between the card and the game's software. Supposedly this is fixed in the next patch to the game (whenever it finally passes the testing and is released). I direct you to this thread. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=149899 Read the whole thing please and make note of the various and wide variety of possible solutions that have been tried and failed. Card temperature and the possible cooling of it was once such remedy that has not worked for everyone (if it did for anyone). Glad to know you're trying to help us out though.
 
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