Retro laptop crash on PhysX-enabled games

[vorob]

Guys, i'm collecting and using retro laptops. Recently i bought ASUS ROG G60VX with geforce 260m. 3dmark06 runs fine, hour in battlefield 3 also went fluently. But when i tried several physx-enabled games i started catching driver crash or bugs.

I've tried alice madness returns, fluidmark and cryostasis. When i see fluid on screen it ends up ether in driver crash or fluid disappears.

Take a look:

Water just disappeared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TCDwMnElAc
Driver crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwBwWhL_3eU

I've tried different drivers and physx versions, all from 2010, 2011, 2013 or 2016. No luck. I even tried clean windows install, with only videodriver and directx, no luck.

The most bothering thing here is that i've got similar laptop, a year younger, alienware m11x from 2010 powered by geforce 335m, and there i didn't see any graphical issues in physx titles i mentioned.

Can gpu be partly dead? The part which is used for physx? Can i test it somehow?

[dlowoo]

Guys, i'm collecting and using retro laptops. Recently i bought ASUS ROG G60VX with geforce 260m. 3dmark06 runs fine, hour in battlefield 3 also went fluently. But when i tried several physx-enabled games i started catching driver crash or bugs.

I've tried alice madness returns, fluidmark and cryostasis. When i see fluid on screen it ends up ether in driver crash or fluid disappears.

Take a look:

Water just disappeared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TCDwMnElAc
Driver crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwBwWhL_3eU

I've tried different drivers and physx versions, all from 2010, 2011, 2013 or 2016. No luck. I even tried clean windows install, with only videodriver and directx, no luck.
tunnel rush
The most bothering thing here is that i've got similar laptop, a year younger, alienware m11x from 2010 powered by geforce 335m, and there i didn't see any graphical issues in physx titles i mentioned.

Can gpu be partly dead? The part which is used for physx? Can i test it somehow?

I don't know if your situation is similar to someone I encountered in https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/retro-laptop-crash-on-physx-enabled-games-geforce-260m.306107/

[vorob]

Actually it's my thread I'm attackin tech forums everywhere, but no luck so far...

I even wrote an email to fluidmark author (jegx@ozone3d.net), it was a week ago. But no answer so far.