Freezing / locking problems

[Tsumi]

I recently had a similar issue and tried everything to fix it. It ended up being directX 11 crashing my wows. All I did was enable 9 and problems went away. I also have as similar computer setup as you so this may be your problem.

[dancook]

I recently had a similar issue and tried everything to fix it. It ended up being directX 11 crashing my wows. All I did was enable 9 and problems went away. I also have as similar computer setup as you so this may be your problem.

Thanks, is that a setting in ISBoxer?

[MiRai]

Thanks, is that a setting in ISBoxer?

It's a setting in the game.

For some reason I thought you had a GTX 580, not a 480. The 480's run real hot and are notorious for
overheating. If you have inadequate cooling for that card or bad airflow in your case you might be pushing the
thermal limits. Also, depending on your video settings you might be on the border of your 1.5GB VRAM usage
while in DX11. Switching to DX9 might actually fix your problem (if you're not already in DX9).

[dancook]

I just this moment took my pc apart to fit a different graphics card - and older ATI - but still good.

Actually I was going to have both vcards at once but it didn't come to that, my realisations after last time I did that - the only place for my sound card was in between them!.. and so it was still right next to my GTX480...

I THINK.. the GTX480 - being only millimetres from the sound card was overheating it .... time for the test.

[dancook]

argh.....i wish that was the fix. maybe it's still hot - i'll continue this line of enquiry.

ok not only did i blow out my nvidia - i put the ati in to take some load off the card.. will see what happens.

[dancook]

Ok what has happened now.

Before - Single Nvidia card - periodic freezing of active WOW clients - ie. if I'm running 4 dks in BG and the Paladin is standing stormwind - the Paladin doesn't freeze - until I switch and try to do something significant (like open the map!).

Now - Nvidia Card primary and ATI card secondary. The primary screen goes blank periodically, I can still control the character and the slaves are still moving.

The first time the screen went blank it came back after 40 seconds or so. The second time it didn't come back, after a couple of minutes I forced wow to quit, and when on the desktop the screen came back in about 20 seconds.


The Nvidia graphics card was sitting at 76 Celsius at this time... the ATI runs constant at 78 C.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm any thoughts?

[dancook]

I formatted the o/s and install the bare minimum, bare drivers etc - and it's still acting in the same way.

I'm running the ATITool which is used to stress the graphic card, when it gets to about 4 mins of stressing - my browser stops responding, for 30-40 seconds.

This is the same as when I play wow.