Any known issues between 8120 and r9 280x? (Possible Directx Issue)

SargantHartman

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Hi all,

Got a problem with gaming online in general since upgrading to a Radeon R9 280x. First got the common direct x error "getdeviceremovedreason" from Battlefield 4, then noticed it again in Battlefield 3, but was not there before this card. After following all "advice" from EA, I just called its quits and got a refund, but since I've noticed on other games, like Dead Island, Left for Dead 2 and some others that i can play all day on singleplayer and have no problems and even as online co-op if no one joins me, but the about 10-15 after I join someone else or someone joins me, the whole pc locks up and makes a weird continuous buzz noise until i hit reset. I think that they could be linked and have searched for weeks, but no answer. Can anyone tell me if there are any known compatibility issue with my hardware please?

AMD FX Series 8120 8-Core Processor
Asus ROG Crosshair V Formula-Z Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 RAM 1866 MHz
Asus ROG Matrix R9 280x Graphics Card
Samsung 830 128GB SSD
Cougar 1000W Power Supply

All latest drivers for Audio, Chipset, LAN etc from ASUS support site - UK version.
Latest Graphics Driver from AMD - Happens across multiple driver versions.
Antivirus Disabled, Firewall in Game Mode, Latest BIOS and all power saving BIOS and Windows are disabled
Happens on Win7 Spk1, Win8 and Win8.1

Thanks
 

SargantHartman

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OK, finally through more testing found the cause lol but not the solution yet.

Anyways for anyone else suffering this, the problem is caused by Skype, both desktop and app versions. I had a mic going to the mic in socket on the on board audio card, and the audio out going through the graphics card audio out to an external sound system.

Apparently this is a huge problem for Skype and it will continue to crash during online gaming unless you have both input audio and output audio going through same audio card. Been online testing through headphones on front panel for a few days now, and so far no problems... didn't seem happen before Microsoft got there hands on it.

Microsoft please stop "fixing" things
It was just fine ;)