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People with GTX 970 (mini hdmi & display ports), what are your results with adapters?

Pantz
Explorer
You can see the ports here:
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/images/stories/galleries/reviews/2014/gtx970-roundup/palit-gtx970jetstrea...
1 dvi, 3 mini displayports and 1 mini hdmi.

Being that there is no where to stick the full size HDMI, I bought the one Oculus suggested in their support help page:
Accell B086B-005B UltraAV Mini DisplayPort 1.1 to HDMI 1.4 Passive Adapter
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DUTIYOC/

I have monitor in dvi port and Oculus in displayport via adapter.

My results:
Good:
- Setup Complete no problem
- Movies, Photos, no problem
- Lucky's Tale in high graphics, no problem for long playtime
- Farlands in medium graphics, no problem
Bad:
- Farlands in high graphics, after 3-5 minutes screen will flicker a bit to black and then stay black. No message about hdmi losing connection. If i put Oculus down and close the game then I can put it back on again and see the home screen without having to unplug the hdmi. (No whiiring from GPU).
- Steam VR Project CARS, Start race with other cars and Oculus goes black before it loads the track. Windows gives error saying hdmi lost connection. Only way to fix is exit game and unplug hdmi then plug it back in. Starting race solo I can drive around for a minute or two before Oculus goes black, errors and fix is the same. Additionally GPU is making whiiring sound until cord is unplugged and is fine after putting back in.
- Steam VR VROOM: Aerie, Same thing happens after a few minutes Oculus will go black. Playing with the toys sometimes seems to trigger it. HDMI connection loss message given, need to unplug and plug back in to fix and GPU whiiring until done.

That's all I have tested so far. I'm guessing here that my Oculus is not the problem since it can play Lucky's Tale for a long time with no problems. It seems like the more strain on the GPU the quicker it drops to black screen.

What are your 970 adapter results?
Anyone have complete success?
Does a hdmi mini - hdmi adapter work successfully?
Do you have a dvi - hdmi adapter that works better?
Is it another problem all together?
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Goobers
Adventurer
People really need to start listing their complete PC specs for tech issues.

But ultimately, I think your 970 is being overworked.

Pantz
Explorer

Goobers said:

People really need to start listing their complete PC specs for tech issues.

But ultimately, I think your 970 is being overworked.


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Goobers
Adventurer
Yay for copy & paste (though, not sure what you want me to do with info about stuff you don't have or accent colors... other than to muddle the more useful info).

Anyway... from a performance standpoint, I would suggest adding some more RAM... but honestly, it most likely isn't related to you losing the HDMI (technically possible, just not sure how probable).

That aside, losing an HDMI connection sounds like a hardware fault. But at the same time, it could be a driver or software INITIATED fault. If it's straight hardware fault, then there's a chance the card or some other component is going bad or simply incompatible. But need hardware to swap-test. And repair/replace as necessary.

If it's a software/driver initiated fault, then you might be able to get away with just changing a setting or what not without paying more $$$.

How full is your 250 GB SSD?

How full does your RAM get?

Is your Corsair power supply compatible with any of Corsairs PSU monitoring software?

These are some of the things I can think of, off the top of my head that might trigger a fault.

For the time being... I suggest you download a program called MSI AfterBurner. It's a pretty decent hardware monitoring program (namely for GPU/CPU/RAM info). Then log the data into a file as you play and exam the log afterwards and see if there's anything in particular that occurs around the time the issues pop up.

Pantz
Explorer
Hey thanks for the help 🙂
20gb free space 250 is sooo small. Not sure on the other stuff I'll have to try that program out. I'm a novice when it comes to hardware.

Well, I'm happy to report that I tried the 2 Steam VR games again and they worked! Project CARS in high graphics for around an hour with full 20 car races and no problems. VROOM: Aerie worked great too with no problems except for my cat. I was watching the banana lady dance (guess what, she's not wearing any underwear!!) and my cat jumped on my back then tried to jump on the high ledge above me and ended up hitting me in the head with a yoga mat and a shoe. You really just have to accept your fate to what will fall on you when you are in VR. It's the future!!!


Goobers
Adventurer
If you're lucky, that might've just been a "parts getting to know each other" kinda deal. I know that doesn't really make sense, but initially, I had issues with Elite Dangerous rebooting my system after setting up the Rift and it stopped after the next day.

But yea, that MSI AB is useful if you're encountering things like stutter/lag (looks like a slide show for a moment) and you use the app to see if something like the CPU or GPU is maxing out and then you can go from there.
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