3DMark Vantage passes, games crash

[trekie86]

All,

I have a EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 superclocked edition and I was slowly overclocking the speeds with RivaTuner. I haven't adjusted any voltage, just frequencies. My question to you all is, have many of you run into issues where the 3DMark Vantage test passes but when you try to run a game or even FAH, the VGA crashes? I don't have the speeds right in front of me, I will post them later when I get home. Does anyone have any suggestions on the cause or the solution on fixing this problem?

Can't wait for some replies. Thanks.

[dengyong]

Lower your memory clock, no need to push it.

What type of crash do you get ?

[trekie86]

I'll give that a try, like I said, when I get home I'll post my default and OC speeds. I get a driver failed error, during gameplay the game just dies, when folding the client locks up and I have to lower my speeds and restart the client.

[Spork!]

I have similar problems sometimes. I put it down to the fact that the 3d benchmarks in vantage run for 5-6 mins, gaming sessions (or folding) go waaaaay longer.

[trekie86]

I had the issues with the OC settings almost immediately. Less than 5 minutes.

Here are my frequencies

Default: 626/1350/1053

Overclocked slightly: 680/1466/1101

Overclocked more: 700/1509/1225

At all of these settings I can pass the 3D Vantage Mark tests but once I start folding or gaming (BOOM!). I'm pretty new at overclocking in general so if someone can give me some advice on what to adjust where, I'd really appreciate it. Like I said in my earlier post, I haven't touched the voltage.

[dengyong]

Have you tried a different driver ?

[Hondacity]

if you didn't know gpu folding ranks in the top for gpu stress tools....

[jcool]

Use ATITool artefact test to check your GPU OCs. It's old, but it sure works like nothing else to date.

[Chumbucket843]

bump up your volts and it should be stable at those clocks.

[Ket]

I would start by locking your shader clocks around 1400, then finding the max stable frequencies for your GPU and memory one at a time.