Sup Forums, my computer crashes if I don't leave Minecraft running. I'm not joking. If any of you are into CUDA then for the love of god help me out, but even if you're not I hope I can bait one of you poor bastards into being as intrigued by this problem as I am.
Let me explain.
I have a 970 GPU running archlinux. (I've tried other distros but not Windows) Ever since I got my GPU, my computer has randomly frozen. No kernel panic, no dmesg, no errors, no display artifacting, just completely freezes. Video stays the same, caps lock doesn't enable, networking instantly stops.
EXCEPT when I have a video game running. Through testing of various games I have no shit found that Minecraft will give me the lowest chance of my computer crashing (though it still happens sometimes). So every day I launch Minecraft in a separate workspace, spin around so all the chunks load, and then leave it in the background all day. If I could have this happen automatically somehow then that would be fine, but I can't.
I'm on a mission to find some way to recreate whatever load Minecraft is creating on my GPU in some CLI application I can load as a systemd service. I am familiar with C++ but not at all familiar with CUDA, but here's what I've tried:
>Cryptocurrency mining
Works when I run at 100%, but my computer becomes unusable. I edited the source of some miner to run at about the same load as Minecraft, but that causes it to crash
>VRAMdisk
Doesn't work at all. I load up a 2GB video memory ramdisk and put random garbage in it, still crashes.
>CUDA float stressing
I found an application called gpu_burn that stresses with floats using CUDA, and I edited the source of that to run about 2x of the load and memory that Minecraft uses, but it still crashes.
>Video Card firmware
flashed multiple versions multiple times. Still crashes
>Video driver versions
More than I can count.
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