Artifacting Problems with EVGA GTX 285 Video Card

[BRIANinDIGITAL]

I just installed my new EVGA GTX 285 Video card yesterday on my Mac Pro and started to play Crysis when a minute into the game it starts artifacting. Right when it happens the cards fan stops spinning fast. My computer doesn't shut down though I can blindly exit the game and go into windows with the display being fine as soon as i exit. I called EVGA techincal support and at first they told me to uninstall and reinstall the video card drivers. When that didn't work they asked me what motherboard I had and when I told them I had a mac pro they immediatley stopped offering support. I looked on their forums and found that this problem is known with no real solution except for running driver sweeper, which i did with no luck. The power configuration i have is one cable running from the optical bay and one from the logic board. I am awaiting delivery of my ati powercord tomorrow so i can run two from the logicboard and that is the last option before i return it to buy.com. If anyone has any suggestions on what might be the problem it would be greatly appreciated. If not I hope this will inform people about the problems the EVGA are having with their video cards. Going to try BFG next.

 

[Eidorian]

Nasty that they cut off support since you were using a Mac Pro.

Are you using the latest drivers? What does GPU-Z show about the temperature while in a game of the GPU?

 

[macz1]

it sounds like a software problem, because a Mac pro booting windows should not differ from a PC. The card is probably overheating as the fan stops... Anyway, it's safe to use good power cables as this card is quite power-hungry when under load. Perhaps the supply voltage drops under a critical value when the card is highly stressed, causing this error... Have you tried any other games besides Crysis, does the card always react like that?

 

[BRIANinDIGITAL]

Thanks everyone who responded, i appreciate it. From what i am reading on the forums it is a software issue, specifically a faulty evga driver. Seems like some people got some luck reformatting hd which i am unwilling to do. i read somewhere that asus video cards are known for reliability. Anyone got suggestions on what brands to buy?

 

[Sharangad]

Have you tried using the standard nvidia reference drivers from nvidia.com?

 

[nanofrog]

Thanks everyone who responded, i appreciate it. From what i am reading on the forums it is a software issue, specifically a faulty evga driver. Seems like some people got some luck reformatting hd which i am unwilling to do. i read somewhere that asus video cards are known for reliability. Anyone got suggestions on what brands to buy?

Assuming it is a driver issue, switching to the ASUS may not solve the problem. At least if both are the same design. If not, who knows, but it's a gamble.

See if you can track down drivers directly from nVidia first, as Sharangad posted.

Good luck.

 

[jons]

What kind of temp are you getting under load?

What the Fr@k would EVGA discontinue support for installing in a mac pro? Just tell them you're using it in an EVGA board...