AMD Radeon HD 7950 Problem

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Hello, recently I started to get lots of "AMD video driver stopped responding and have been restored". I've this card for half a year by now and never had these problems. They just started to appear recently.
Windows event viewer shows these errors as "Videodriver amdkmdap stopped responding and was successfully restored."
When this happens:
Unreal tournament 3, it appears every 2-3 minutes.
Sometimes in Dragon Age 2
Over some time when Using VMware Workstation
Photoshop got program sniffer_gpu which (as far as I understand) detects gpu. This is launched during photoshop launch and crashes video driver (note: only if I launch 64 bit ps and it wasn't happening before)
Now some info about system:
Asus rampage iv extreme
Intel i3930k
32gb ram @ 2133 (Corsair Dominator GT)
Corsair PSU HX1050 1050-Watt
I didn't overclock GPU, all stock settings.
Display driver version 12.104.0.0 (latest) (or 13.4 as amd site lists it)
Also, heard it can be because of ram, ran memtest86 yesterday - no errors.
Doesn't look like overheat either
Screenshot from CPUID HW monitor (was launched before crash, screenshot taken after crash caused by sniffer_gpu)
Some time ago, none of things mentioned above caused these problems.
If you need any more info, please let me know.
I hope you can help me fix this.
 
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hhttp://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_5_beta_2_download.html

I've been using this driver for a while now without issue. Just make sure to follow the steps I lay out below or you can expect problems.

IMPORTANT: Uninstall your current drivers first and use atiman uninstaller, or driver sweeper to clean out the leftover files before installing the 13.5 beta 2 driver. Others have had issues that didn't take these steps, according to the posts in the Guru3d forums.
 
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Have you tried reinstalling/updating flash, java? Are you running anything else that may be using the gpu at the same time of the driver fails? Are you overclocking the card? Does it happen when you lower clocks? You could also try reseating the gpu as well.

What are your settings in the CCC? I run "let application decide" for everything in the catalyst control center. I also turn off, "surface format optimization". I don't know if it will help at all, but it's something else to try.
 
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Flash is latest.
As for conflicting soft, can't think of any. Running at the moment of crash are one of above mentioned programs + kaspersky internet security 2013, opera and aimp2 (audio player). Tried with these turned off, still crashes.
I didn't overclock GPU, all stock settings.
Click to expand...
As for ccc, I don't even have it installed. I only installed display driver.
As for reseating, http://i42.tinypic.com/2zdon49.jpg , current place is marked with green, if i move it lower, won't it touch thing marked with red which is kinda bad?
What seems weird to me, is it was working fine some time ago and I haven't installed anything but windows updates lately (though I doubt windows updates can be reason to this though).
Actually, UT3 didn't have these crashes 3 days ago, then 2 days ago it suddenly started to crash.
What I also find weird, is that 32bit version of this sniffer_gpu executes just fine, while 64bit one causes videodriver to crash.


 
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Some weird thing, if I launch let's say UT3 in compatibility mode with win xp sp2 it won't crash.
32bit doesn't crash too.
This problem becomes more and more confusing =/
 
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In Catalyst Control Center > Clock Controls > AMD OverDrive...

Uncheck "Enable Graphics OverDrive"
Uncheck "Enable manual fan control"

Had the same problem. This fixed it for me.
 
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