Ok, so like many peoples, my game was crashing at irregular intervals, and I was getting this message "Display Driver stopped Responding" with a note mentioning my driver version. I tried the driver rollbacks suggested on many help site to no avail, until I read a similar problem happening to players playing another company's game (which I will both not mention) on a gaming forum and found this solution. I'm truly sorry, I didn't took the guy's name on the forum (but if you ever read this : thanks a thousand times man) !

So, here goes. Download NVidia Inspector, install & run it. The thing is to adjust your "Boost default clock value" below or equal to your "Estimated max" of your current clock. Use the "Base clock offset" to do so.

I didn't crashed a single time afterward, even running it with the newest driver available for my card, and didn't had to adjust my graphic quality to 8-bits grade : everything is somewhere around high & ultra-high. Though I'd still recommend to not go overboard and adjust your settings according to your card's capacities.

The only issue I met was that my game screen froze for a second about 2 times on a three hours long gaming session, which was a godly improvement to every 15mins !! (I may try lower my default boost value a few MHz later to see if it completely stop thoses.) Actually, my new main problem is that times flies way too fast and I play for way too long now...

Hope this helps you out guys!

~Keirbz

SOunds like your forcing the card to stay at a consistently lower clock?

Not quite : you make sure it doesn't try to get over it's estimated maximum capacity, hence no crashing by going too high. I suspect those rare 1 seconds freeze to be moments at which it tries to get over that set value and readjust.

The boost card should always be <= to the Est Max clock. The estimate maximum clock is... like it states the estimated maximum clock before being thermally limited.

Boost clock are a slight oveclock (factory) above the default clock (operating, not idle).

For example. My 980Ti is Default Clock: 1140MHz, Boost Clock: 1228MHz, Est. Max (clock): 1354MHz.

Making the Boost clock the same as the Default Clock, may increase stability, but most modern cards will automatically adjust clocks properly.

*Edit* Note: The Boost clock is ignored if you manually overclock the GPU.

If your Est. Max clock is below the Default clock (if that is even possible), it probably indicates that your graphics card is overheating or has been configured incorrectly.

So, it's a case of over clocking to high, or having a factory over clocked card that's clocked to high out of the box then?

Interesting and it does make complete sense.

Default factory OC should run stable. Otherwise I would RMA the product. I m running my card at default OC.

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There is no need to downclock or overclock a GPU under normal circumstances.

The GPU should work as intended out of the BOX.

Actually, I've found that's not always the case. From personal experience as well. Some factory over clocked GPU's are borderline stable out of the box. And some factory over clocked GPU's face decreasing stability over time.

When you RMA it you run the chance it'll be stable enough to pass the manufacturer's tests.

Though I agree that a product should always work as advertised.

I must be lucky, had 2 EVGA Superclocked nvidia cards in a row work without any issues.

Well, guess mine was badly overclocked as it got out of the box because I never modified it. (And I agree it should be stable as you get it new, but seems it happens often, considering there were a bunch of positive reply on that other post I read.)

Anyway, I'm still happy, because it fixed my problem, and if it can help others, the better !

I should note I've only bought the ones with ACX cooling, which are better than stock fan.