nVidia GTX 5xx series owners with crashes - I have the fix!

[Spork3245]

NOTE: If you don't have a GTX 570 or 580, this thread is not for you and probably won't fix anything.

Apparently nVidia GTX 5xx series cards are shipped with low voltages. It's assumed nVidia did this due to the 4xx series having all of those heat and power consumption complaints, as such they wanted to minimize the power consumption of the 5xx series. In DX9/10 games, being undervolted didn't seem to affect anything (since only DX9/10 games were available when the 5xx series launched, it's understandable why nVidia didn't catch the issue), however games that make use of DX11 features/shaders such as Deus Ex:HR, Crysis 2 w/DX11 patch and now Assassin's Creed III, the cards are not getting enough power when running the shaders and what-not, thus it's causing crashes.

Thankfully, this is easily fixed. Download an nVidia OCing program such as MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X - Both are free and are UNIVERSAL (meaning it doesn't matter what brand your video card is). For GTX 570's the general consensus for the "correct" mV setting is 1025mV. For GTX 580's it's 1050mV. (NOTE: If you have a pre-OC'd card and the voltage is already up to 1050mV for a 580, you can safely go to 1100... Some OCer's go as far as 1150 with the GTX 580, though I do not suggest going that high)

After doing this all of my crashes stopped and I was able to (finally) play the game without issue for over an hour straight.
If you do not believe me on this and are scared it will hurt your video card (it won't hurt it), you could also underclock (drop your clocks down) your video card and it will fix the problem as well (but your performance will drop in applications, with the voltage trick it will not affect framerates)... Also feel free to google "Voltage for GTX 580 for DX11" and read some of the links/threads regarding Deus Ex and Crysis 2

Now go get your Assassination on! :D

[Spork3245]

BTW - I'm also running the latest beta drivers from nVidia and it's fine, no need to roll back to older, crappier drivers.
I'm not sure if this will help 6xx series owners with crashes (the 660 series may be undervolted as well - though I don't think the 670/680's are), use at your own risk.

[em_t_hed]

those 'crappier drivers' as you call them actually have some nvidia control panel options available to previous games which the current beta driver do away with.

for example: borderlands 2 doesnt have fxaa available within nvidia control panel with the 310.xx drivers and does with the 306.xx drivers. this was a big problem as the ingame fxaa was absolute ♥♥♥♥♥ compared to the control panel fxaa...

one might ask 'why not get an fxaa injector?' because i dont want to go thru having to turn off my anti virus software for a game mod. the logic in that is just inane!! going thru so many game forums with people talking about why their games are causing hits on their anti virus programs... and then they finally mention all the mods they're running.... its a no effin brainer...

you look on youtube of people giving tutorials on writing code for 'injectors' for games, they tell you exactly what the injector is doing and why the anti virus software detects the ♥♥♥♥...

which brings me back to the nvidia drivers and support for fxaa on current games such as borderlands 2.... 'crappier drivers' you say... depends on the game in question.

[Spork3245]

I'm talking about rolling back to the 301.xx's as some people are suggesting doing. Also, the performance in AC3 leaps by almost 20% with the current betas, so yes, for AC3, the older drivers are *unarguably* crappier. But hey, thanks for your completely irrelevant post.

PS: This fixes the issue regardless of what driver you are using was my point. There was absolutely no need or relevance for your absolutely ridiculous post.

[Vic]

You're a saint, I have a GTX 580 and the fix worked for me.

[em_t_hed]

you fail to mention all the flickering the sli support is having with snow textures with the current betas. or how on nvidias site they say the current beta mentions 'not recommended' when using 3D vision for this game...

[Spork3245]

*shrugs*
I'm not having any problems with them.
The drivers are not the concern of this thread bro.

[naomha]

Originally posted by Spork3245:

NOTE: If you don't have a GTX 570 or 580, this thread is not for you and probably won't fix anything.

Apparently nVidia GTX 5xx series cards are shipped with low voltages. It's assumed nVidia did this due to the 4xx series having all of those heat and power consumption complaints, as such they wanted to minimize the power consumption of the 5xx series. In DX9/10 games, being undervolted didn't seem to affect anything (since only DX9/10 games were available when the 5xx series launched, it's understandable why nVidia didn't catch the issue), however games that make use of DX11 features/shaders such as Deus Ex:HR, Crysis 2 w/DX11 patch and now Assassin's Creed III, the cards are not getting enough power when running the shaders and what-not, thus it's causing crashes.

Thankfully, this is easily fixed. Download an nVidia OCing program such as MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X - Both are free and are UNIVERSAL (meaning it doesn't matter what brand your video card is). For GTX 570's the general consensus for the "correct" mV setting is 1025mV. For GTX 580's it's 1050mV. (NOTE: If you have a pre-OC'd card and the voltage is already up to 1050mV for a 580, you can safely go to 1100... Some OCer's go as far as 1150 with the GTX 580, though I do not suggest going that high)

After doing this all of my crashes stopped and I was able to (finally) play the game without issue for over an hour straight.
If you do not believe me on this and are scared it will hurt your video card (it won't hurt it), you could also underclock (drop your clocks down) your video card and it will fix the problem as well (but your performance will drop in applications, with the voltage trick it will not affect framerates)... Also feel free to google "Voltage for GTX 580 for DX11" and read some of the links/threads regarding Deus Ex and Crysis 2

Now go get your Assassination on! :D

THAT was already covered HERE: http://steamcommunity.com/app/208480/discussions/0/864951657841551554/

AND HERE: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/697120-Solution-for-GTX580-crash-display-driver-stoped-responding-but-has-recovered

But thanks for trying to take credit for it there brother. Appreciate that.

[Spork3245]

lol I'm not trying to take credit for anything, I am trying to help people - I felt as though it deserved it's own thread so people didn't have to search though 15 page long ones for an answer, besides I didn't get the info from either of those threads, I remembered issues with DX:HR and started googling.

[Killt9000]

Worked great for me. FINALLY. Now if only I could connect to multiplayer. Hopefully they'll have that fixed up by the time I get through the single player.

For the record, I have 2 EVGA GTX570s running in SLI. I set the voltage to 1026 using EVGA PrecisionX and I was able to play without issues so far. I do have a good case with good air flow (Silverstone RV02) and my temps appeared to max out around 85.

Thanks for the help Spork3245. While I had already seen the fix on Ubi forums, I hadn't tried it yet and it was nice to see a good detailed post with nice information.

[AltF4]

GTX580 - seems to work just fine. Thanks for the tip!

[Azuryn]

The fix working fine for me up until one cut scene that I keep crashing on. (Possible Spoiler: The one where you head to Manhattan in the van.) I just cannot seem to get past this seen no matter what.

[Harbi]

Thank you so much!

I noticed the crashing with DX11 games... Crysis 2 on DX11 crashed every 3 seconds after loading any map... I didn't want to touch the voltage so I lowered the Core Clock at the cost of 3 FPS... no more crashing :)

& now AC3 needed more downclocking! I couldn't do it so i upped my voltage from 1025 mv to 1075 mv... no more crashing :)

Thanks again.

[ᕙ( ͡◉ ͜ ʖ ͡◉)ᕗ]

I will try it now, have a gtx 570

[ᕙ( ͡◉ ͜ ʖ ͡◉)ᕗ]

It seems to be working now, thanks