• New GPU. ATi 11.9 drivers continually crash
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Hello Facepunch, I recently purchased parts for an entirely new PC which I assembled about two days ago. Today I plug it in and load Windows 7 64-bit on it only to find out that my graphics drivers are acting pretty jank. Whenever I try to play a game, specifically League Of Legends, the screen gets covered in little messed up pixel specs and restarts my display and tells me that my drivers have crashed, and recovered. What I've tried: -Downgrading to 11.4, 11.5, and 11.8 (Same thing happens with each driver) -Checked PSU, cables are all good. Here's my specs AMD 955 @ stock clock Corsair A70 Heatsink Antec 550W Continuous modular PSU 4GBs DDR3 1600MHz G skills Rip Jaws Lian Li K57 Case ASRock M3A770DE [b]Powercolor 6790 GPU[/b] Now I know for a fact that my power supply is giving it enough power because it's a 550W Antec... Also I'm not illiterate in this stuff so throw whatever suggestions you got. I have no idea what to try now. I might try switching the card over the my second PCI-E slot to see if that makes a difference. I'm getting pretty desperate. I haven't played League in over a wee...:( Thanks in advance!
what PSU exactly? just wondering. Sounds like a temperature problem. What are the temps?
AMD's latest strategy on GPUs is to have them run as quiet as possible, so they've set the fan speed far too slow to adequately cool the card in both the drivers and the card's BIOS. Basically the cards are frying themselves when put under a load. The easiest way to fix this is to go into AMD overdrive in the CCC and manually override the fan speed while playing games to run at like 35-45%. It will be somewhat loud, but at least the GPU won't overheat and die.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;32773404]what PSU exactly? just wondering. Sounds like a temperature problem. What are the temps?[/QUOTE] Sorry, didn't have PC access for a couple days. It's the 550W Antec Basiq. The continous power and modular one off newegg. [editline]16th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=bohb;32775366]AMD's latest strategy on GPUs is to have them run as quiet as possible, so they've set the fan speed far too slow to adequately cool the card in both the drivers and the card's BIOS. Basically the cards are frying themselves when put under a load. The easiest way to fix this is to go into AMD overdrive in the CCC and manually override the fan speed while playing games to run at like 35-45%. It will be somewhat loud, but at least the GPU won't overheat and die.[/QUOTE] I am experiencing no overheating problems whatsoever. That was the first thing I monitored once the problem started. Right now it's really bad. It crashes every 10 seconds now, rather than every 5 minutes. [editline]16th October 2011[/editline] I'm going to try testing this in my brother's PC. If it doesn't work in his I'll probably just return the card and get a different model/brand. This current one is a PowerColor, which I owned cards from them before. I have a 5750 that's never had a problem....We'll see. I might end up buying a 6850 instead. [editline]16th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Shadaez;32773404]what PSU exactly? just wondering. Sounds like a temperature problem. What are the temps?[/QUOTE] Also, for an exact number my GPU is running at ~35C
I think you should Install 11.8 because I also have had problems with the 11.9 but those disappeared with the older driver.
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