Video Card Driver Crash

[glorybound]

What causes a video card driver to crash? Who is to blame, the video card or 3DS MAX? When the card crashes I get a task bar message saying it has crash and recovered, however, MAX never does.

[JezUK]

If my experience is anything to go by, other factors may actually be causing your machine's gpu to crash.

I'll explain.

I'll admit that this current machine I have has taken me a LONG time to finally iron out all the issues I had with it, and during that time I used to get a lot of GPU instability issues (among other things). I had enough, and decided to spend whatever time was necessary to iron out all of the faults I had. Turned out that when I uninstalled the Asus AI suite (Asus' Windows based OCing software) that all the issues I had with my OC'd machine simply vanished, including GPU failures.

Who'd have thunk it ?

I know you and I have very different machines (and now I purely OC my machine via the BIOS *only*), but I'm just saying, you may be getting GPU failures, just be aware that it may not actually be the GPU's fault.

PS - in your instance, if you are getting GPU failures within Max, I know what AD would say; "your GPU isn't on our certified list of approved hardware"....... (don't know if it is or not, I'm suspecting it might not be).

[glorybound]

It only happened once on my new machine, but happened often on my old machine. I have the GTX 980Ti