game goes invisible glitch??

cianw1 · Post by **cianw1** » September 30th, 2011, 11:34 pm

Sometimes when i am in a game (its happened with a few different games) the game will freeze for a second and the screen will flash black,then i will just be on my desktop but the game is still running and its still open but i cant move mouse or anything so i have to press alt+tab or task manager to quit the game and then restart it, its really annoying im sure you can imagine when you are in the middle of a game and then this happens. does anyone know whats causing this and how can i solve the problem?

Moustache · Post by **Moustache** » October 1st, 2011, 10:07 am

Added something new (software, hardware) before it happened the first time?

cianw1 · Post by **cianw1** » October 1st, 2011, 6:04 pm

Hmmmm no no really the only thing i can think of is that i overclocked my graphics card but then i toned it down after it happened the first time so its barely overclocked now and yet it still happens. Its quite rare but when it happens its annoying.

Post by **[SoE]_Zaitsev** » October 1st, 2011, 6:29 pm

Yeah heating problems seem to be it. I've had something like this happen before with my older graphics card.

cianw1 · Post by **cianw1** » October 2nd, 2011, 6:04 pm

Yeah i did think it could be overheating is why i then clocked down alot, and ive been doing some temp readings with speedfan and when playing most games my GPU is at about 70C but then when i was playing the BF3 beta it got to 82C which was quite alarming but i then found out on nvidia forums that the GTX 560 Ti's max temp is 97C but to keep under 85C is best so im not too sure about that.

Post by **[SoE]_Zaitsev** » October 2nd, 2011, 6:50 pm

Do you have a timeframe once it happens? Like does it happen every 30 minutes?

cianw1 · Post by **cianw1** » October 2nd, 2011, 7:43 pm

no it is quite rare i think its only happened about 3 times in 2 weeks. 2 times in cod4 and once in BF3 beta

cianw1 · Post by **cianw1** » October 2nd, 2011, 9:30 pm

its just happened again now in arma 2 operation arrowhead. i minimized the screen exactly as it happend though and saw in the bottom right 'nvidia display driver has stopped working but recovered' i remember getting this before and i updated drivers and since then i have reinstalled my current driver. also in case it was overheating i have upped my fan speed in msi afterburner and now i can play arma2 max settings and its only reachine about 65C

cianw1 · Post by **cianw1** » October 2nd, 2011, 9:59 pm

i got a printscreen of the error.

cianw1 · Post by **cianw1** » October 2nd, 2011, 10:22 pm

updated drivers/reinstalled etc and also my directx is latest

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