I've seen this before,  I think Andreas was on the right track, and you should try to turn off the screen saver in display properties,   or at least change it to not come on for a long time.  Some of these Aquarium screensavers are actual 3D programs and use a lot of graphic card power.

 

This brings back memories of an "Energizer Bunny" screen saver from a number of years ago.  The Everyready Battery Energizer Bunny would come marching across the screen, over and over again, beating his drum.  Was amusing, but as opposed to many screen savers, it progressively ate up memory like PacMan eating dots, leading to a not so distant memory crash.  I'd suggest sending the screen saver to the recycle bin and then seeing what happens.  It could always be restored.

This brings back memories of an "Energizer Bunny" screen saver from a number of years ago.  The Everyready Battery Energizer Bunny would come marching across the screen, over and over again, beating his drum.  Was amusing, but as opposed to many screen savers, it progressively ate up memory like PacMan eating dots, leading to a not so distant memory crash.  I'd suggest sending the screen saver to the recycle bin and then seeing what happens.  It could always be restored.

Just followed all that advice about the S/s and done just that----ditched it. Let's see how we go from now onwards. KInda intrigued why the same S/s on a EVGA GTX460 Ti SE did not do that.

Rick

I think the reason why it didn't affect the GTX 460 was possibly given by Ron above, ie a combination of card change and possibly a driver issue, and hence the call for removal and reinstall.  Do you have "themes" activated by any chance?  Might be worth a try without them.

Regards

pH

Rick

I think the reason why it didn't affect the GTX 460 was possibly given by Ron above, ie a combination of card change and possibly a driver issue, and hence the call for removal and reinstall.  Do you have "themes" activated by any chance?  Might be worth a try without them.

Regards

pH

Thanks for that. Will try removal and re-seat tomorrow as it's way past crow time now. No, no 'Themes', one of the first things I got rid of.

 

Good Night and Many Thanks for all the help received here. That's why this Community is today celebrating its 16th Birthday. How many Forums can boast that?

Good Night and Many Thanks for all the help received here. That's why this Community is today celebrating its 16th Birthday. How many Forums can boast that?

Not too many that's for sure.

Good luck Rick

pH

Thanks for that. Will try removal and re-seat tomorrow as it's way past crow time now. No, no 'Themes', one of the first things I got rid of.

 

Good Night and Many Thanks for all the help received here. That's why this Community is today celebrating its 16th Birthday. How many Forums can boast that?

I know a virtual airline that has been alive longer than that, but not as one site.  I know of no other general flight simulation site.  Nothing comes close as far as I know.  And I am an "old guy" in regard to this...

i think you have a fried gpu (i hope not) how old is it anyway?

vc10man, on 24 Mar 2013 - 21:48, said:

Edit:MSI Afterburner GPU temperature running at 21C with FSX running

Sorry I didn't spot your edit earlier, your GPU temperature doesn't seem right I know it's been cold here in the UK but my 560Ti is idling at 29c and after a couple of minutes test in FSX it rose to 46c. If your card is not properly reporting it's temps then the fan won't spin up when it starts to get hot, your card will overheat which will then cause the freezing you describe. This will happen when running any 3d application including your screensaver.

 

If Gigabyte have their own monitoring software it would be worthwhile uninstalling Afterburner and installing Gigabyte's version in case Afterburner is not monitoring the correct sensor. I'd then test again to see if the GPU temp rises and the fan increases speed under load, if not you've identified your problem.