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11 years ago
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Mass Effect 3 No Longer Stable

I am returning to ME3 after a break. It used to play really well, but now is extremely unstable. After a minute or so (windowed mode) or about five minutes (full screen) my PC BSODs (0116 I think). ...
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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    @EA_Barry

    I have done some more thinking and digging and feel I now have a solution.

    I recalled your comment about over clocking and I dug out the old invoice. I found the part was labelled 'super clocked'. I had never given much thought to this as it is otherwise a stock part from mainstream vendor (EVGA). Further digging showed that my part is clocked a bit faster than the same hardware that was sold without the 'super clocked' label.

    I downloaded EVGA's Precision X16 application and used it to slow my card down slightly. (You get a 'Wrong Way' achievement. 😕mileyvery-happy🙂

    For the record I have:

    1. installed EVGA Precision X16
    2. reduced 69MHz of GPU Clock Offset
    3. reduced 99MHz of Mem Clock Offset

    This has rendered ME3 stable enough to play. Its not perfect, but decent length sessions are possible.

    With thanks,

      Chris

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EA_Barry
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11 years ago

@CChrisA

Thank you for the detailed info. I think at this point we need to consider the possibility that this is a hardware issue. You should maybe look into initiating a warranty replacement of your video card. Not great news but at least we have made some progress here.

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
11 years ago

@EA_Barry

I have done some more thinking and digging and feel I now have a solution.

I recalled your comment about over clocking and I dug out the old invoice. I found the part was labelled 'super clocked'. I had never given much thought to this as it is otherwise a stock part from mainstream vendor (EVGA). Further digging showed that my part is clocked a bit faster than the same hardware that was sold without the 'super clocked' label.

I downloaded EVGA's Precision X16 application and used it to slow my card down slightly. (You get a 'Wrong Way' achievement. 😕mileyvery-happy🙂

For the record I have:

  1. installed EVGA Precision X16
  2. reduced 69MHz of GPU Clock Offset
  3. reduced 99MHz of Mem Clock Offset

This has rendered ME3 stable enough to play. Its not perfect, but decent length sessions are possible.

With thanks,

  Chris

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    EA_Barry
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    11 years ago

    @CChrisA

    Excellent! More experimentation with lowering your clocks may allow you to get to a place where you can have a fully stable play session. Thanks for posting your positive reults. +XP for you.

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