Guest Posted March 28, 2018 Posted March 28, 2018 The other day I installed a mod called "Beyond Skyrim: Bruma" or something very similar. It worked fantastic, until my videocard showed bright stripes across the screen, and would not wake up after a reboot (the computer wouldn't even reboot, but did do a normal power-down-up). I happened to have a spare videocard, but the first one started working again, temporarily. Now it's been days, "Furmark" says the card is fine, so that leaves me with some obscure memory-leak possible problem. Regardless, I am only mentioning it in case anyone else still using loverslab had this problem, and if they found a tweak for ENB. I am thinking that I had my memory limit set way too high, but that was not a problem until a mod actually tried to use that much memory, and overwrote system memory.
Sarge Misfit Posted March 28, 2018 Posted March 28, 2018 I had no issues with Bruma on my nVidia GeForce 720GT 1Gb. And was running 255 plugins. I don't know Furmark, but every time i had those same symptoms, it was due to hardware failure. The card was overheating. My experience is that this happens more with ATI cards than with nVidia, but that's purely subjective.
Guest Posted March 28, 2018 Posted March 28, 2018 8 minutes ago, Sarge Misfit said: I had no issues with Bruma on my nVidia GeForce 720GT 1Gb. And was running 255 plugins. I don't know Furmark, but every time i had those same symptoms, it was due to hardware failure. The card was overheating. My experience is that this happens more with ATI cards than with nVidia, but that's purely subjective. Thanks. I did not mean to impugn the mod or the 99% running it fine, I only wondered if a memory-mistake could cause problems like the ones I described. Because if not, like you said, it's a hardware problem, and I'm really-really hoping it isn't.
Sarge Misfit Posted March 28, 2018 Posted March 28, 2018 I didn't interpret your post that way. I will bet 400 quatloos that something on your card is overheating and failing. The lines and failing to reboot show the failure and the temporarily working symptom indicates that the component cooled enough to be usable, for a short time, then it would have overheated again.
Guest Posted March 30, 2018 Posted March 30, 2018 I've played vanilla-skyrim now for a few days flawlessly ("vanilla" meaning pre-Bruma). It's been warm, at least in the room where my computer and I live. OK *Tonight*, I'll enter Bruma to see if all the memory advice I've gotten was for naught (The front page of "More nasty critters", I think, was very helpful.) If I don't come back to edit this, you'll know why. This is important to me. It'll prove (to me) a person doesn't need a gtx1080 just because a program won't run the one I have now. It'll also prove I can trust all those freebie hardware-testing programs telling me stuff is great. But to be on the safe side I'll run a video-card monitoring program, which I won't be able to look at if the card goes wild again (maybe it has a log??)
Guest Posted March 30, 2018 Posted March 30, 2018 Whatever it was its gone tonight. BTW most of my mods are requirements of other mods.....critters, more nasty critters, nude crit...well anyway stuff works for now. I'll assume whatever I did fixed it. cleaning didn't help but adjusting something in skyrim.ini did help. Not sure why I'm bothering to record that...maybe it'll help someone way down the road.
Nazzzgul666 Posted April 6, 2018 Posted April 6, 2018 Memory glitches might cause graphic glitches, but in no case they could cause physical damage or "overwrite system memory". Heat would be my best guess, if you want to use the card some longer you could try to use better or more case fans for overall cooling. That might give it a chance to survive some time.
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