So I overclocked my card… It was fine all night for SF5. I booted up League of Legends, played 2 games and my card crashed on the 2nd game(screen turned into a tan screen)
It’s totally normal that some games are more sensitive like that. Some people use special stress test programs to test the stability for that reason. Other people think that if the games you are actually playing are stable, that’s enough.
Ok I have an update:
My system was first not using the Nvidia card at all (not seen in NVIDIA gpu activity taskbar display) and ran slow always.
I messed with the extended display hack and it would work for a few mins at full speed, then gradually slow down.
Today i did two things: In NVIDIA control panel i switched PHYSX to only use the NVIDIA card, secondly i went to intel’s website and downloaded current graphics drivers for my Intel 4700mq.
This has made SFV run on the NVIDIA card WITHOUT the extended desktop display. Everytime i run SFV now it starts on the NVIDIA card and i can see that in the NVIDIA GPU display.
Now the problem is, it still gradually slows down after a few mins til i restart the game and it works beautifully temporarily again.
CPU, GPU, Temperatures and memory look fine, nothing noticeably drastic happening (I expected memory leaking) so i am at an absolute loss.
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But atleast it’s using the dedicated GPU!! Could everyone update their INTEGRATED drivers and post results? **
@everyflowerflow does yours slow down gradually? and did you get the nvidia card to run SFV? If not perhaps try my method of forcing NVIDIA physX and updating intel graphics driver? I’m interested to know if the gradual slowdown is a consistent thing for people who’s Dedicated GPU previously wouldnt run…
so far V performs flawless only if i have it on max settings. i can lower other things like AA and Post Processing and it still performs fine. however, i try lower modes and for some poor optimization reasons, the game starts to stutter.
EDIT
forgot to mention i’ve tested with the Steam client and the game is always 60fps except it drops on character intros to 37-50. it’s not noticeable though. however during the entire match it’s 60fps.
Can anyone with the gradual slowdown issue post their RAM? I have 8 gb and wondering if it’s some hidden memory related problem that might be solved with an upgrade to 16gb?..