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kev01
10 years ago
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EVGA 980 - Grey / Red Screen and Driver Reset when playing SWTOR

I have 8gigs of Ram in my Computer and I've noticed when I am playing Swtor it drops to 4gigs available and I'm using 3.9gigs. I think its whats causing the random loading screens while playing swtor...
  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    10 years ago

    @kev01

    officially evga firmware is by email , I have seen sites storing the firmware updates but not an official location.

    in the short term if you downclock manually things will stabilize and stop this occurring , whilst waiting

    Firmware does the downclock instead of manually doing it

    example firmware update details , first two are what is occurring as listed in my previous post

    reduces the 3d boost ( -25MHz )
    increase the voltage on some power states
    fixes the display port
    fixes DSR with more than one monitor.
    fixes EVGA PRO bridge LED ( fix was already in 84.04.2F.00.80 )
    fixes SLI red screen flickering in very high resolutions with some monitors ( fix was already in 84.04.2F.00.80

kev01's avatar
kev01
10 years ago

@proxos666

Is there a way to download a firmware by my self or do I have to go through evga? 

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proxos666
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10 years ago

@kev01

officially evga firmware is by email , I have seen sites storing the firmware updates but not an official location.

in the short term if you downclock manually things will stabilize and stop this occurring , whilst waiting

Firmware does the downclock instead of manually doing it

example firmware update details , first two are what is occurring as listed in my previous post

reduces the 3d boost ( -25MHz )
increase the voltage on some power states
fixes the display port
fixes DSR with more than one monitor.
fixes EVGA PRO bridge LED ( fix was already in 84.04.2F.00.80 )
fixes SLI red screen flickering in very high resolutions with some monitors ( fix was already in 84.04.2F.00.80

  • kev01's avatar
    kev01
    10 years ago

    @proxos666

    Oh ok that does make complete sense. Evga must have overclocked the cards too much. I wonder if this means I cant overclock the card anymore or maybe its just because dx9 games?

    In any case thank you very much for your help!

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
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    10 years ago

    @kev01

    They are already overclocked from reference , so wouldn't overclock more 🙂

    nVidia designed the GPU to run at 1126Mhz with 1216Mhz boost

    While we are talking firmware ensure your 840 EVO has its firmware updated to fix a nasty performance issue

    See here

     Edit - will amend the name of this post to make it more identifiable for others if same issue

  • Hs0j's avatar
    Hs0j
    10 years ago

    This is essentially what is pretty much happening to me in my own thread I made.

    Wondering if underclocking it will help but I have no idea wtf I'm doing in that department. ;/

  • kev01's avatar
    kev01
    10 years ago

    Well I went through the whole process of updating my gpus bios and its still doing the same thing so I have no idea what else to try. It just keeps popping the swtor loading screen up like it has to load in stuff because its not fast enough...

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