Blackout disabling Graphics Driver

So, when my pilot blacks-out in the Spitfire, my entire Graphics driver shuts down and my Monitor throws up an error message saying that it is no-longer connected to any graphics input device.

This lasts until the pilot "recovers" and the GPU / Monitor start talking to each other again.

Is anyone else getting this?

Surely the code isn't designed to just shut the Graphics down when the pilot blacks out?

So, when my pilot blacks-out in the Spitfire, my entire Graphics driver shuts down and my Monitor throws up an error message saying that it is no-longer connected to any graphics input device.

 

 

This lasts until the pilot "recovers" and the GPU / Monitor start talking to each other again.

 

 

Is anyone else getting this?

Surely the code isn't designed to just shut the Graphics down when the pilot blacks out?

Is your graphics card set at its maximum clock speed all the time, or does it throttle up and down with the varying workloads ???

I would suggest that when you blackout the graphics card has little to render and throttles back to a very low mhz speed and voltage which is causing the GPU to stall / fail. When the graphics come back, it has a bigger workload and ups the voltage and speed to cope.

I had similar issues when I first got my GTX-780 years ago, I locked the GPU to max when playing DCS, and went as far as to reprogram the GPU's bios to not go below a certain voltage and mhz when throttled down.

Regards, Ian.

MadDog,

Thanks, that could be what is going on. However it seems odd that only DCS is doing this.

Presumably other low-workload applications (or even just the plan windows desktop) would have similar result, yet nothing else is causing the GPU to stop completely.

I need to test if other aicraft are also causing it, or if the issue is specific to the Spitfire. The pilot blackout behaviour in the spit has been rather perculia since relese (with sudden insta-blackouts occuring, different from the more gradual blackouts I get from other aircraft).

I am getting the same thing: Was thinking it must be all-of-DCS but actually it may just be the Spitfire as the M-2000C is OK.

I am using a VR Rift, cpu is i5-2500k at 4.2Ghz, gpu is 1080 GTX, 16GB ram.