AMD driver problems any ideas why?

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Going to try keep this short and simple: My amd drivers keep crashing, i dont know why... It doesnt crash when i run FurMark or Run a game like Dark Souls 3 on the high preset for 6 hours straight. but it crashes if im just browsing randomly or when im on twitch or youtube.

Ive tried setting up a tdrdelay, that didnt work.
removed my amd drivers and reinstalled the latest version, didnt work either although it did fix a problem where it crashed after i played 2 videos at once with vlc player. so a little progress.

Any ideas? im out of ideas i cant tell if my gpu is buggered or if i have something installed thats conflicting with gpu drivers. My theory is i have something on my pc thats messing with the drivers. since it performs fine in a stress test or while playing games for a really long time.

Specs(if it helps at all):
Sapphire R9 270x gpu
Core i7 4790 cpu
8GB dd3 @1600 ram
Asus Z97-K mb
hunkey 700w psu
 
Have you overclocked, undervolted, enabled powersafe mode, etc.

Sounds like your GPU is not getting enough voltage at low frequencies. It could also be that your PSU is providing very unclean power (high variance in voltage) this could cause the card to not get the required voltage when at low frequencies.

Possibly download a GPU overclocking tool and up the voltage by 25mA and see if the same problems occur.
 
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What version of windows are you running? Is it up to date?

Also, when you reinstalled the drivers, did you remove the old ones with DDU first?
 
Any errors present in the event log ?



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Vaughan said:
Have you overclocked, undervolted, enabled powersafe mode, etc.

Sounds like your GPU is not getting enough voltage at low frequencies. It could also be that your PSU is providing very unclean power (high variance in voltage) this could cause the card to not get the required voltage when at low frequencies.

Possibly download a GPU overclocking tool and up the voltage by 25mA and see if the same problems occur.
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nothing is overclocked, i dont mess with overclocking because im not experienced with overclocking so i dont even try because im scared i break my gpu and i bought the i7 4790 because from what i understand the 4790 is locked and cant be overclocked, i would have to get the 4790k if i wanted to overclock.

My PSU is pretty new though, i had a pc freezing issue due to a little mistake i made building my pc few months ago when i got my asus Motherboard and new intel cpu... the retards at matrix computers told me it was a psu problem so i bought myself this new huntkey psu. which wasnt needed at all but i decided to keep it since it was black and i prefered how it looked in my case over my old aerocool psu.

as for the error message i just get " your display drivers have stopped responding and has recovered now" no black screen no freezing or BSOD.. it will just go black for a sec come back i can continue playing vids or if im in a game i just need to close it and restart... in some games like diablo 3 or LoL still works dont need to reopen the game.
 
Megamuffin said:
nothing is overclocked, i dont mess with overclocking because im not experienced with overclocking so i dont even try because im scared i break my gpu and i bought the i7 4790 because from what i understand the 4790 is locked and cant be overclocked, i would have to get the 4790k if i wanted to overclock.

My PSU is pretty new though, i had a pc freezing issue due to a little mistake i made building my pc few months ago when i got my asus Motherboard and new intel cpu... the retards at matrix computers told me it was a psu problem so i bought myself this new huntkey psu. which wasnt needed at all but i decided to keep it since it was black and i prefered how it looked in my case over my old aerocool psu.

as for the error message i just get " your display drivers have stopped responding and has recovered now" no black screen no freezing or BSOD.. it will just go black for a sec come back i can continue playing vids or if im in a game i just need to close it and restart... in some games like diablo 3 or LoL still works dont need to reopen the game.
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Sounds like it could be a driver issue for the Graphics card .
(could also be the card itself going wonky )
Try remove the catalyst drivers completely and do a clean reinstall of the latest drivers.
 
i did that yesterday still got the driver crashes... actually ever since they released these new crimson amd drivers ive been getting these driver crashes...

but i just took a look at my event log im getting: Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

i really hope my gpu's not dying on me now because i dont have the money to replace it atm but the wierd thing is it doesnt crash on gaming 90% of the time usually just when im browsing if ive got 2 seperate windows open. or if im working on photoshop or illustrator while watching something in a different window... but when i 6 hours straight in dark souls 3 no crashes it makes no sense to me..
 
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You never said what OS you are using. I'd start with a fresh win install & latest amd drivers.
 
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update: i upped the voltage on my GPU and i also uninstalled my drivers with Display driver uninstaller and put the latest driver on...
one of the 2 seemed to work because i havnt crashed all day yesterday or today.

also thx rickster for showing what a dick you are ^^
 
Megamuffin said:
update: i upped the voltage on my GPU and i also uninstalled my drivers with Display driver uninstaller and put the latest driver on...
one of the 2 seemed to work because i havnt crashed all day yesterday or today.

also thx rickster for showing what a dick you are ^^
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Interesting. I have the same card and also got the dreaded messages. The way I fixed it was to 'underclock' the card a bit (using msi afterburner).
 
Megamuffin said:
update: i upped the voltage on my GPU and i also uninstalled my drivers with Display driver uninstaller and put the latest driver on...
one of the 2 seemed to work because i havnt crashed all day yesterday or today.
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Restore the voltage to normal & see what happens.
 
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Restore the voltage to normal & see what happens.
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ill give that a try, i didnt set any specific gpu voltage since the gpu is locked from editing that.. i went into the msiafterburner cfg to unlock it didnt seem to work

So i downloaded Sapphire trixx and i saw theres a power limit slider so i bumped that up to 15% i assume that ups the voltage limit
 
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plz dont turn this forum into a nvidia vs amd war if i could afford a gtx 970 i would have one in my pc my budget decides what gfx card i get
 
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