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    witcher 3 - crashes to black

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by anarky321, Apr 28, 2016.

  1. anarky321

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    im having to underclock my core and/or raise voltage to prevent the game from crashing to black screen after about an hour

    anyone else have issues like this?

    no other game gives me trouble with an OC'd 980m

    it's not overheating past 75C
     
    anarky321, Apr 28, 2016
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    Witcher 3 is most demanding game (for a reason) on the market. It uses gpu at 100% constantly and CPU too.
     
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    yes but that doesn't excuse the issue...its not an overheating problem
     
    anarky321, Apr 29, 2016
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    Its not a overheat. If game uses 100% GPU constantly then it can become unstable after hours of gaming. try lowering overclock very slightly.
     
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    it crashes at stock clocks that's the problem, i have to UNDER-CLOCK it to prevent crashing
     
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    Ah sorry, I thought that you have it overclocked. I suggest changing driver then.
     
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    everything newer than 353 throttles for me
     
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    Im still using 353.06 and I didn't got single crash in Witcher 3 but I have 880M
     
    GodlikeRU, Apr 30, 2016
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    ive been playing other games for the last week and haven't had a single issue with the driver crashing....so its a witcher-only issue thank god..i thought my GPU was dying
     
    anarky321, May 3, 2016
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