- Jan 17, 2014
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I've been having an ever more frequent problem with my new R9 270X. I got it about this time in December and it had a few stability issues but was generally alright. Now I can't run any Source Engine based game without the graphic driver crashing and having to recover. And Source can't survive these periods so I have to restart the game and get it working again.
Sometimes it doesn't happen for hours, sometimes it'll happen every 10 minutes. It's completely random and it's the most aggravating thing ever. I looked up multiple solutions to the problem, none of which worked.
I tried increasing the driver timeout period, it didn't help at all, I tried underclocking my card to see if it could run more stable at a lower clock setting, it didn't help. I tried fresh installing all drivers to the new beta drivers that came out this month, nothing changed. So this leaves me with only conclusion: The card itself is faulty.
I just came here to ask if anyone had any final ideas as to what might be causing this before I RMA my card?
Also general PSA: Don't buy AMD. I've never had problems like this with my old Nvidia card. It wasn't as strong but at least it ran stable.
Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
AMD FX-8320
8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 803MHz (11-11-11-28)
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 990XA-UD3 (CPU 1)
2048MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 270x
Sometimes it doesn't happen for hours, sometimes it'll happen every 10 minutes. It's completely random and it's the most aggravating thing ever. I looked up multiple solutions to the problem, none of which worked.
I tried increasing the driver timeout period, it didn't help at all, I tried underclocking my card to see if it could run more stable at a lower clock setting, it didn't help. I tried fresh installing all drivers to the new beta drivers that came out this month, nothing changed. So this leaves me with only conclusion: The card itself is faulty.
I just came here to ask if anyone had any final ideas as to what might be causing this before I RMA my card?
Also general PSA: Don't buy AMD. I've never had problems like this with my old Nvidia card. It wasn't as strong but at least it ran stable.
Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
AMD FX-8320
8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 803MHz (11-11-11-28)
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 990XA-UD3 (CPU 1)
2048MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 270x
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