Just changed my graphic card to Nvidia 970 GTX and X-Plane 10.45 keeps crashing after about 30 mins.

Question

Hi,

Just installed a new Nvidia 970 GTX graphic card upgrading from a 670 GTX and have not yet adjusted any rendering options. After about 30 minutes of running XP10.45 the program crashes with a black screen and I get this message:

I also use P3D and do not have an issue at all or any other software that I use. I have the latest driver for the 970.

CPU: i7-3770K @ 3.50 GHz

GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 4096 MB

I would be much obliged if you could point me in the right direction to resolve this issue.

I've included my latest Log file.

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Regards.

Answer 1

Good day,

I have a similar CPU and I have the same card as you, a GTX 970 with 4 gb VRAM. I have the same issue as you but I get Display Driver errors, Kernal Errors, and TDR's errors even though I changed it in the registry folder. If you are running Windows 7, I believe 347.88 fixes the issue. I got 10, so I stuck with the error even though I've tried all the drivers. You also could go into Nvidia control panel and change power management mode to Maximum Performance Mode. I believe this is a Nvidia problem-all their drivers are broken in some way.

Let me know if this solves your issue

-Rishi

Comments

I tried this and it's still giving me the same problem.

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Any chance that you can go back to Win 7 or are stuck with 10. When I was with Win 7, 347.88 solved the issue but in 10, that driver isn't there. There are numerous requests for Nvidia to release a patch but they aren't listening for some odd reason. They are continuing to release broken drivers. I've had the problem for 7 months now and it's ruining my XP experience. I'm slowly going back to FSX cuz of this. It isn't an XP related issue, a Nvidia driver related issue. You could file a bug report to the developers of XP to see if they can do anything but I doubt that would help.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1GN7UB6zX0

Go to the end of the video and he goes through the setting of Nvidia Control Panel. I tried this but with no luck. I'm not sure about you :)

-Rishi

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The video worked for me, just put the settings in and I rolled back my driver to .39. MAKE SURE you do it for X-Plane and not global settings.  My X plane works like a charm.

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Glad that worked out for you

-Rishi

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Wait what driver did you use?

-Rishi