Determine if GPU has "gone bad"

[NCC10281982B]

I have been getting a lot of failed F@H work units on both my GTX970 & GTX660. Driver & fah reinstalled do not seem to help.

 

The 970 seems to play just cause 3 just fine. There are some odd lighting issues in game. Hard to describe its like shadows behind buildings g\flash white rapidly. No other issues.

 

So I need to determine if the card is actually failing before I commit to spending money.

 

Screenshot:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683034001

[road-runner]

I have never tried it but there is a FAH gpu bench stress test utility

 

https://folding.stanford.edu/home/fah-bench-fah-coreopenmm-based-benchmark-for-your-gpu/

 

furmark there are others I am sure

 

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

Edited May 13, 2016 by road-runner

[NCC10281982B]

As an update. I got one of these "GPU driver has crashed and recovered" errors. Not looking forward to spending $.

 

This is what MS has to say. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2665946

[road-runner]

I have never run the test so no clue on the results, might try OCCT I think it has a gpu test also

[SpikeSoprano]

Nividia's latest drivers are a bit wonky lately with some cards, especially factory oc'ed ones, when I play fallout4 with my 660 which is factory oc'ed by only 13 mhz I have to downclock it to the stock nividia clock or I will get the error ypu get. You might want to try downclocking your cards to see if that helps.

[NCC10281982B]

Thanks gang. No Idea if this is good or bad.

[NCC10281982B]

I implemented the MS fix. I have had one instance of "Just cause 3 has stopped working" but no Driver crashes. F@H seems fine as well.

[Waco]

The easiest fix is to drop your GPU clocks by 20-50 MHz and see how it goes.  Factory OC'd cards always seem to flake out after a few rounds of driver updates since they're being pushed harder by better drivers.