I've got a Geforce GTX 660Ti
It's been running fine for 5-6 weeks. Today I launched Left4Dead2 and got 7-8 FPS (usually a rock solid 300 even at the busiest moments).
In case of driver/software issues, I reinstalled Steam, applied all outstanding windows updates, reinstalled the graphics driver (clean install) and finally (after validating local files) reinstalled L4D2.
Now, I've got a slew of problems...
- Launching a 3D app (Anything vaguely modern) causes an immediate crash
- Viewing a site which uses WebGL works fine (http://lights.elliegoulding.com/ works fine)
- GPU-Z works fine (GPU load < 5%)
- Nvidia System monitor crashes after a couple of seconds
- L4D2 crashes immediately
- Tropico 4 crashes immediately
- The longest journey runs fine
- Skype works fine until I turn on my webcam, then crashes immediately
- VLC crashes after 10-20 seconds
- Win7x64 aero glass works fine
Looking at the event viewer, provides a number of problems associated with the crash...
Skype
Faulting application name: Skype.exe, version: 6.6.0.106, time stamp: 0x51c414b3
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18229, time stamp: 0x51fb1116
Exception code: 0x80000003
Fault offset: 0x00013219
Faulting process id: 0x748
Faulting application start time: 0x01cec5fcd7006ca4
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 73d21ec0-31f3-11e3-abde-1c6f65cec842
L4D2
Faulting application name: left4dead2.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x52262a0b
Faulting module name: tier0.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x52262908
Exception code: 0xc0000417
Fault offset: 0x00022264
Faulting process id: 0x23cc
Faulting application start time: 0x01cec60004dfe146
Faulting application path: D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2.exe
Faulting module path: D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\bin\tier0.dll
Report Id: 475ab7b2-31f3-11e3-abde-1c6f65cec842
Nvidia Monitor
Faulting application name: NVMonitor.exe, version: 6.2.13.1, time stamp: 0x48a9a323
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000200000000
Faulting process id: 0x1200
Faulting application start time: 0x01cec5feb3eb4ce7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA System Monitor\NVMonitor.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: fbfc9425-31f1-11e3-abde-1c6f65cec842
How can I diagnose what is causing the problem? Is it definitely a graphics card problem?