OK, I reproduced the same issue with old Crysis 1 by idling during my
late lunch. It looks like I need to clear my out dusty computers too. :/
How hot does it get?
Earlier today, my video card got up to 90C/194F degrees earlier with its
fan to the max (5K) in my ~85F degrees room. I made RivTuner graph the
temperatures.
Ouch, too hot. Amazingly, it didn't crash quickly like
yesterday. I was playing Steam's free weekend of Dead Island game before
it crashed. :P
Yes, if you haven't cleaned the dust out of the card in a long time,
that's not so good.
Also, you could verify speed changes while it's open.
It doesn't change automatically. I have to force it.
Maybe it has a fan and heatsink under a cover? You might have to take it
out and blow through there with compressed air, or better, take the
cover off and dig out all the junk.
I am still using the same fan and uhh plastic cover that came with this
MSI video card. I know the fan is loud and blow hard at 100% (5K RPMs)
for this fan when I force it through ATI's CCC software.
And maybe put a fan in front of it blowing into it. Or get a zalman
bracket. It looks like this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000292DNG/...viewsofbo0a-20
Might be discontinued but they have one here, just the bracket, and you
use your own fan:
http://www.xoxide.com/zalfanbrac.html
Yeah, I need to clean this computer and fix the cooling.
If the card is still crashing. I think I will just get a new PCIe video
card since this is so old. It might have damages too like seen with
those stickers.
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