poplap
Senior Member
Hi guys. I have been having an annoying problem with my Zotac AMP edition 6gb gtx 1060. The problem started about 2-3 months ago and it involves me getting constant crashes with the "display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error message. The funny thing is the card/driver crashes only happen when I let my PC idle for a while. In other words, I can play Fallout 4 and The Witness for hours on end without a single crash, provided I am actually inputting commands into the game by moving around, looking around, etc., but when I leave the games idling for 5 minutes (sometimes less), the nvidia driver crashes as soon as I try to resume where I left off. This crashes the games to desktop and any application open in the background that also uses the gpu, like Photoshop, will also crash.
I have tried all suggested solutions on the internet, which have included installing new/different drivers, changing the power management of the card to "prefer maximum performance", turning 'linked state power management settings' to off, etc. Nothing has helped. The issue can't be the power supply, as I get no crashes and errors while I am busy playing, instead they exclusively occur while I am idling in a game. I have a Corsair TX950W psu which I bought in 2011. I have tried different 6-pin cables but all give the same issue.
The card is factory overclocked and runs at a boost clock of 1772 MHz. I have not done any custom over-clocking. I don't have any technical knowledge about power management, but it seems like the card powers down when idle and then crashes when it is required to start performing again... I don't know. Maybe the power to it is being incorrectly throttled.
I was wondering if anyone here has any suggestions, before I contact Wootware for to let me return the card.
I have tried all suggested solutions on the internet, which have included installing new/different drivers, changing the power management of the card to "prefer maximum performance", turning 'linked state power management settings' to off, etc. Nothing has helped. The issue can't be the power supply, as I get no crashes and errors while I am busy playing, instead they exclusively occur while I am idling in a game. I have a Corsair TX950W psu which I bought in 2011. I have tried different 6-pin cables but all give the same issue.
The card is factory overclocked and runs at a boost clock of 1772 MHz. I have not done any custom over-clocking. I don't have any technical knowledge about power management, but it seems like the card powers down when idle and then crashes when it is required to start performing again... I don't know. Maybe the power to it is being incorrectly throttled.
I was wondering if anyone here has any suggestions, before I contact Wootware for to let me return the card.