So I just got my new R9 280X Toxic from Sapphire thinking "Hey, time to play BF4 with real life graphics"
Oh, boy, how wrong I was. First, it was the artifacting, fixed after several attempts with a clean install of the Beta Drivers (you have to use Driver Fusion in Safe Mode for it to work completely).
Then, along came the Directx errors, fixed with a user.cfg file in Battlefield's main dir, which I suspect only replaced one error by another.
Now I randomly get the "Display dirver stopped responded and has recovered" error while in game (I mean really randomly, this could be with 30min into a map, or as soon as it finishes loading).
I've tried
-Running in Window Mode
-Rolling back to older drivers (many)
-Increasing power limit in CCC
-Underclocking
-Increasing VDDC to 1300mV
-Checking for overheating
-Creating the TdrDelay entry in the registry
-Reinstalling Windows
-Testing in another PC (same error on BF 4)
-Testing in stress test programs (no crashes)
My specs
CPU: AMD FX 8320 3.5GHz (125W)
MB: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 (970/SB950 Chipset)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 2x4GB
HDDs: Samsung 250GB SATA II
Maxtor 150GB SATA II
Seagate 500GB SATA III (Windows drive)
GPU: Sapphire AMD R9 280X TOXIC
PSU: Corsair TX650
Memtest says my memory is OK
chkdsk says no driver errors, but Speccy says the Samsung has a S.M.A.R.T. warning status
There is one detail, though, I switched to this MB from a M4A89GTD PRO/USB3, which had integrated graphics, when the M5A97 EVO does not and I didn't uninstall the previous MB drivers (couldn't find how to do it because everyone said it's too hard and formating is easier)
I really don't know what to do anymore...
Oh, boy, how wrong I was. First, it was the artifacting, fixed after several attempts with a clean install of the Beta Drivers (you have to use Driver Fusion in Safe Mode for it to work completely).
Then, along came the Directx errors, fixed with a user.cfg file in Battlefield's main dir, which I suspect only replaced one error by another.
Now I randomly get the "Display dirver stopped responded and has recovered" error while in game (I mean really randomly, this could be with 30min into a map, or as soon as it finishes loading).
I've tried
-Running in Window Mode
-Rolling back to older drivers (many)
-Increasing power limit in CCC
-Underclocking
-Increasing VDDC to 1300mV
-Checking for overheating
-Creating the TdrDelay entry in the registry
-Reinstalling Windows
-Testing in another PC (same error on BF 4)
-Testing in stress test programs (no crashes)
My specs
CPU: AMD FX 8320 3.5GHz (125W)
MB: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 (970/SB950 Chipset)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 2x4GB
HDDs: Samsung 250GB SATA II
Maxtor 150GB SATA II
Seagate 500GB SATA III (Windows drive)
GPU: Sapphire AMD R9 280X TOXIC
PSU: Corsair TX650
Memtest says my memory is OK
chkdsk says no driver errors, but Speccy says the Samsung has a S.M.A.R.T. warning status
There is one detail, though, I switched to this MB from a M4A89GTD PRO/USB3, which had integrated graphics, when the M5A97 EVO does not and I didn't uninstall the previous MB drivers (couldn't find how to do it because everyone said it's too hard and formating is easier)
I really don't know what to do anymore...