Oh yeah? I had never heard of it before. Thanks Wizard, I was a little leery of it, but it seems solid. Apparently the trick for fixing my hard freezes lies in complaining on a forum about them, I can't repro it now.. Maybe cosmic rays.
I'm installing this, will see if heat is the ultimate issue. I thought I had freezing at night too, but I'm recovering from a nasty head concussion so my memory is suspect. http://www.evga.com/precision/
This is the GPU, http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3066/evga-gtx-970-superclocked-acx-2-0.html SO yeah it is overclocked. Hm. the plot thickens. One thing I did do is profile my game + VLC + deskscapes running a dream: It doesn't appear that
Huh hadn't thought of that, the OC from the vendor. I've tried to reproduce the hanging tonight, and been tracing for about 30 minutes just for giggles, no interruptions. I am almost starting to wonder if you guys are onto something with GPU and heat and maybe it has been hanging during the day (when its warmer in my room) than in the night time... Isn't there some nvidia monitor for heat? Time to hit the interwebs...
Well its interesting, to be stable, all I have to do is click "pause deskscapes" and then i can game on one monitor (typically LOTRO or Pillars of Eternity, so DirectX11) and watch a movie on another monitor just fine (and have an RDP session into work on a third monitor) Its only when the animation is actively running that it seizes, and usually takes 15 minutes or so. I'm actually a windows performance instructor at Microsoft (search for "Jeff Stokes Micro
Nah I don't OC GPUs. I hadn't considered the chipset of the MB. I think I'll configure for a ctrl+scrl lck+scrl lck memory dump and capture tonight. It'll give me something fun to blog about at least. Everyone watch their heads tonight! http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/out-of-contr
If anyone can reproduce this I'll walk you through collecting the data and do a debug of it. As long as I can anonymize your data and make a blog post out of it anyway. My blog is http://www.windowsperf.com/blog, and I'm a Microsoft employee. Posts my own, blah blah.
Deskscapes running while playing a directx11 game windowed in monitor 1 and watching VLC (movie) in monitor 2 causes my machine to hard freeze. Nvidia 970 video card, blah blah. Link is my machine specs. It happens in about 15-20 minutes. no memory dump is left and I have forgotten to configure ctrl+scrl lck+scrl lck for a memory dump on a hard lock. If I got a dump of this could you read it? I don't know if that would help... The dream I am running is usually "Ali