Originally Posted by
Surealistic
actually turning the monitor on and off could get it working again cause of what the card is doing, the card is basically turning off and reseting itself, but with the game running and the way monitors work the monitor might not kick back in so turning it on and off will kick it back on
as for the fans, they may be running, but check them for dust, i myself did some system main. about a week ago, after cleaning out the dust from my case, cpu and gpu fans, i was able to drop my cpu temp from about 50 degrees celcius to about 42, and my gpu went from about 80 >.> all the way down to a cool 40 degrees (and cause my fans kick into overdrive when things get hot, in dynamis my gpu temps drop to about 38 lol)
now im not saying "this is the problem without a doubt" but its a possibility