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AMD Radeon HD 6870 + AMD 13.6 Drivers= Games crashing

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July 18, 2013 3:36:12 PM

I am having some troubles whenever I want to play ANY Steam game. I've been really excited about all the new games I will be getting to play, but for some reason my graphics card doesn't want me to! I recently updated my drivers to 13.6 because in the previous drivers (13.2) I was having the same issue and thought this would fix it. Apparently not. Here is what happens. I launch a game, start playing, and about 3-5 minutes into playing the game, my screen goes black, comes back on, but when it comes back on, it goes to my desktop instead of the game. On the taskbar it shows the game is currently running, however, clicking on it does not get me back into the game, but I can hear the sounds. Then, the only way for me to close it is Ctrl+Alt+Delete, then open the Task Manager and close it from there, I am not able to access anything after the screen crashes either, except the Task Manager. If anyone has had this issue or knows a solution, I would love to hear it. Thanks. If you need a screen shot, I could provide one.

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July 18, 2013 3:45:57 PM

13.6 is a beta. Betas have bugs. You seem to be experiencing a bug. The obvious solution would be not to use a beta driver. Ie. rollback to 13.4.
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July 18, 2013 3:54:01 PM

Ok I will give that a try, thanks!
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July 18, 2013 3:59:28 PM

Ok, so it turns out im actually in 13.4. My bad. So is there anything I can do to fix this now that I know its 13.4 and not 13.6?
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July 18, 2013 4:01:19 PM

Are you overclocked?
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