Crashing Trying To Play Most Games - AMD RADEON HD7970

Coron56

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Nov 6, 2013
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Hello,
So this is my first post, normally if i find a problem Google has redirected me to this site and i have found an answer. But this time no such luck!
In short, When I try to play Most video games They crash either 5 mintutes in, in a cinematic or as soon as gameplay starts. The screen will freeze often go black and i find myself having to control alt delete my way out!
I'm not sure what else Information to give other than my specs so all questions are more than welcome and any help or advice even more so.
Processor (CPU) AMD FX-9370 Eight Core CPU (4.4GHz-4.7GHz/16MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard ASUS® CROSSHAIR V FORMULA Z (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX/SLI, RoG)
Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (2 x 8GB KIT)
Graphics Card 3GB AMD RADEON™ HD7970 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
2nd Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
Power Supply CORSAIR 850W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ MODULAR TXM-850 V2-80 PLUS®
Processor Cooling Corsair H80i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Extra Case Fans 2 x 12CM Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Zx 5.1 PCI-E Soundcard
Wireless/Wired Networking DUAL-BAND WIRELESS 802.11N 450Mbps PCI-E CARD
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
 

clutchc

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You might have too much other stuff running at bootup and causing conflicts. Look in your Tray and see how many items are running. Disable as many as possible.

You might also need to clean the system of junk files, registry errors, and other resource wasting crap. Run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry both.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Run it again, until it comes back clean.

Did you uninstall any previous gfx driver before doing a clean install of the AMD driver? You may have some Registry conflicts between drivers,
1) Uninstall your existing driver and then run Driver Sweeper from Safe Mode: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4266-driver-sweeper.html (use this link. some other links will install a bloated version)
2) Have DS find any AMD, ATI, and Nvidia graphic driver remnants it can and clean them out.
3) Re-boot and install the latest driver for your card and OS.