In this article, we discuss an issue we have been seeing with triple or quad NVIDIA GPU configurations. When running a GPU and CPU heavy workload, it will cause the system to crash and give the DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION error or “blue screen of death”. We have outlined a work around we have found to resolve this issue.
Article covering pros and cons of upgrading a GPU along with what to consider before performing an upgrade.
Introduction We have discovered what appears to be a bug within recent Nvidia driver packages that is leading to hard-locks or VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL blue-screens in certain rendering and encoding workflows. Issue When using an affected driver and the graphics card’s VRAM is 100% utilized, systems consistently freeze or blue-screen. So far, our testing has shown that
Monitoring your GPU temperatures is important. We would like to cover a few applications we think provide the best solutions and easiest usability.
If you are encountering an OpenGL crash due to kernel exception error code: 3 (subcode 2), then check out this article for a solution!
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