Red screen/Crash in BF4 - all the time

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I build a PC for a friend last week. With a 4670k, Asus R9 290, 8gb ram, Asus Z87-A, ssd and hdd.
I myself had no time in testing the PC with any game, I did a overclock to 4.6Ghz that runs perfect when stresstesting it. (Prime,x264 etc) So thats what I did. I havent overclocked the GPU, it came with an fabric OC.
When my friend is playing BF4 he is now getting red screens after 2min every time. And the PC crashes and restarts.

I have read this could be anything from bad ram, bad drivers, bad OC etc. So I am going over to him tonight and try to fix this. What should I start with?

I am going to try to run it with no OC at all to start with ofc. But if the error still occurs? I did install the latest amd beta drivers. And my friend tryed to install other drivers that did not work either.

BF4 itself seems like a very crappy game regarding stability.
 
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First question: Is it only this program which crashes, or do other programs crash like this too?
A: No, only this program crashes: Possible memory leak, reinstall the program.
B: Yes, other programs crash too: See Step 1

It definitely either sounds like driver corruption or Vram corruption.
1. Try completely uninstalling the driver and video card through the Device Manager and re-installing the graphics driver.
2. That is one hell of an overclock, make sure it's not going over the temperature threshold TJMax.
3. You can try checking the VRAM using this tool:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest/
4. Check your RAM while you're at it with Memtest.
www.Memtest.org
 
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Thanks for that, when stresstesting the temps where pretty awesome to be honest. Not even over 70 degrees. The CPU seems like a beast to overclock. Much better then my own 4770k.
From what Ive seen, its only BF4 that crashes, bu havent really tryed other games etc, just stress testing.

Will try memtest as well, thanks.
 
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No problem, be sure to write back if it works, or does not work!
Another handy tool to have on your Bat-belt is the "sfc /scannow" command. It's useful for general runtime errors, but takes a long time to complete, and requires the install disk to make repairs.
 
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Ah, okay, will look into that too. Can I see temps while playing BF4 too? Like Hw monitor on top or something? Other solution is just to log to file I guess. But just want to make sure the temps are okay when he is playing to.

Btw, what amd drivers are recommended?
should I also maybe disable the integrated graphics in BIOS?
 
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Download the latest ATI drivers for the chipset directly from the ATI website.
You can try to disable integrated graphics in BIOS. The "hybrid" mode has been known to cause errors. Also make sure the monitor is connected to the graphics card, and not to the integrated display out on the motherboard.
 
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Problem solved. This is what I did
1. Repaired game. From Origin.
2. Uninstalled Avisynth 2.5 (from stresstest x264) - Controlpanel/add/remove
3. Restarted into BIOS, changed muliti from 47-45, changed my cstates to auto.

Im/he is now running BF4 on Ultra with 100-140fps - NO RED SCREENS! :)
CPU/GPU load on 98-100% (hope thats normal) - temps all good, around 65-70 degrees on both
 
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