Memory goes from 8gigs to 4gigs playing Swtor

[proxos666]

@kev01

I have seen this issue with EVGA cards one link  and another here

Short answer use precision and downclock by -25MHz and increase the voltage by 12mV

Long answer is email EVGA and request a Firmware update

What is occurring is the card is unstable under Directx 9 with the overclocks used by the EVGA card

[kev01]

@proxos666

Is there a way to download a firmware by my self or do I have to go through evga? 

[proxos666 · Accepted solution]

@kev01

officially evga firmware is by email , I have seen sites storing the firmware updates but not an official location.

in the short term if you downclock manually things will stabilize and stop this occurring , whilst waiting

Firmware does the downclock instead of manually doing it

example firmware update details , first two are what is occurring as listed in my previous post

reduces the 3d boost ( -25MHz )
increase the voltage on some power states
fixes the display port
fixes DSR with more than one monitor.
fixes EVGA PRO bridge LED ( fix was already in 84.04.2F.00.80 )
fixes SLI red screen flickering in very high resolutions with some monitors ( fix was already in 84.04.2F.00.80

[kev01]

@proxos666

Oh ok that does make complete sense. Evga must have overclocked the cards too much. I wonder if this means I cant overclock the card anymore or maybe its just because dx9 games?

In any case thank you very much for your help!

[proxos666]

@kev01

They are already overclocked from reference , so wouldn't overclock more

nVidia designed the GPU to run at 1126Mhz with 1216Mhz boost

While we are talking firmware ensure your 840 EVO has its firmware updated to fix a nasty performance issue

See here

 Edit - will amend the name of this post to make it more identifiable for others if same issue

[Hs0j]

This is essentially what is pretty much happening to me in my own thread I made.

Wondering if underclocking it will help but I have no idea wtf I'm doing in that department. ;/

[kev01]

Well I went through the whole process of updating my gpus bios and its still doing the same thing so I have no idea what else to try. It just keeps popping the swtor loading screen up like it has to load in stuff because its not fast enough...