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MrMadmonkeyy

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Hello everyone,

since some time I've had issues with games that makes my pc crash, no crash report just a reboot.
This mostly happens after 30 seconds on ultra graphics or like 2 minutes on low graphics.
This only happens to some games, such as elder scrolls online, skyrim, borderlands and some others. Note: I installed enbboost for skyrim and adjusted my vid memory to be allocated to the game to 3 gig and I didn't have any crashes anymore. I also don't have problems with games such as bf 4, thief ect on ultra 60 fps.
Any idea how if I'd be able to fix ESO with allocation more memory in some way?
Help me please :(
Drivers are updated and I've had this problem over a lot of different versions of the catalyst software, can't be a driver issue.
my gpu is HD7950 XFX DD
and a i5 3570k on clock speed
I have a PSU with enough wattage and it's from corsair so I don't think that'd be a problem.
update: ESO is fully playable on minimum settings, this looks terrible but it's playable. From low to ultra it keeps crashing after some time
Thanks in advance
 
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OK, you would think that having the latest driver should be a good thing but that is not always the case. You have a new game (actually a series of games) that try to use some advanced functions but they don't work quite right. It could be the driver or the game's graphics engine that's actually causing the problem but there's no way for the user to tell. If adjusting all the settings doesn't resolve the issue then there's nothing you can do about it except roll back to a driver that is old enough to not have the troublesome feature. That's what we mean when we say roll back the driver.

Typically, everything is working fine, you update the drivers, and something stops working so you roll back to the last working version. Here you have...
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OK, you would think that having the latest driver should be a good thing but that is not always the case. You have a new game (actually a series of games) that try to use some advanced functions but they don't work quite right. It could be the driver or the game's graphics engine that's actually causing the problem but there's no way for the user to tell. If adjusting all the settings doesn't resolve the issue then there's nothing you can do about it except roll back to a driver that is old enough to not have the troublesome feature. That's what we mean when we say roll back the driver.

Typically, everything is working fine, you update the drivers, and something stops working so you roll back to the last working version. Here you have a game engine that doesn't play well with one of the features. The feature has likely been around for a while so you will probably need to roll back to a driver that's a couple of years old. When the game engine asks the driver what functions it can do, the driver needs to be old enough to say it can't do the offending function.

It's not a great solution but it can get you by until the problem is actually fixed.

UPDATE:
I did some more testing on a machine with the same problem and using Windows XP Compatibility mode solved the problem and allowed me to keep the latest drivers.

Right click on the shortcut icon that launches the game and choose Preferences.
In the Compatibility tab, choose Windows XP (Service Pack 3) and check the box for Run as Administrator.

That should solve the driver issues.
 
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