Hardware & Technical power saving issue

[clippo]

having a right nightmare with this... game has been working fine albeit I've had to use precision x to dial back a bit to stop the screen going black. I also had issues with my Dell 1440p monitor going into powersaving but also fixed that... or so I thought. After working fine for several weeks I'm getting the same issue with the game causing the monitor to go into power saving. Started when I looked at the galaxy map after just a few seconds in the game. I had a right faff trying to download the latest driver for my Zotac GTX970 but now it seems to be OK... when I go into device manager it lists the latest driver. Problem now though is that it crashed out on the load up screen and I get the error in the pic attached. I have a suspicion that the fan or the PSU may be dodgy as a couple of days ago I did smell a definite burning aroma for a couple fo minutes but couldn't pinpoint it. Does this sound like a possibility? The computer seems to run other programmes fine... web, excel, photoshop...


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by the way my sepcs are

Processor Intel Core i5-6500 Skylake CPU at 3.2GHz - 3.6GHz 6MB L2 Cache Asus H110M-A Motherboard (Intel H110 Chipset) Memory 16GB DDR4 2133MHz Configuration 2 x 8GB Dual Channel Support on 2 DIMMs 2 x DIMM Slot Hard Drive 250GB SK Hynix SATA III Solid State Disk 1000GB 7200rpm SATA III Seagate Hard Disk Optical Drive 24x DVD-RW Drive Software Operating System: Windows 10 64bit (Pre-installed & Disc Included) Display Monitor Not Included Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Graphics Card Audio On-Board 5.1 High Definition Audio Input Devices Keyboard and Mouse not included Networking LAN: 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Power Supply Aerocool 500W 80+ Power Supply Dimensions Width 187 mm Height 371 mm Depth 447 mm Interfaces 6 x USB 2.0 3 x USB 3.0 1 x RJ45 LAN Port 1 x DVI Port 1 x HDMI Port 1 x DisplayPort 2 x PS/2 3 x Audio Jack Expansion 1 x PCI Express 1x Slot 1 x SATA ports Warranty 5 Year Standard Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 5 Years Labour) Lifetime Tech Support by Chillblast (Tel: 01202 068 333

 

[Morbad]

That error is usually the result of an unstable GPU. Many pre-OCed parts have shoddy clock/power profiles that result in insufficient voltage being supplied at less than full load. This is often most noticeable if you use vsync as anything that caps frame rate is also likely to cause the card to work at a lower power state.

I have a suspicion that the fan or the PSU may be dodgy as a couple of days ago I did smell a definite burning aroma for a couple fo minutes but couldn't pinpoint it. Does this sound like a possibility?

I would definitely try to isolate the source of that smell and make sure all fans that are supposed to be spinning are.

The computer seems to run other programmes fine... web, excel, photoshop...

None of which typically demand much from the GPU.

Tried running any other games, 3D benchmarks, or the like?