Launching GPU-Z or MSI Afterburner causes system to freeze

leianonyme

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Hi TH,

A couple of days ago, I ran Afterburner prior to launching a game which resulted in an immediate screen freeze. I thought it had something to do with the version of Afterburner I had (I had the latest one) so I uninstalled it and did not bother.

I then downloaded GPU-Z to investigate something (always max GPU memory clock issue when using dual monitors) then the same kind of crash happened again.

This seems to occur randomly. Running GPU-Z right now with no issues.

Any ideas what the cause may be?

Thank you in advance.

MSI Z97 Gaming 5
MSI R9 290 twin frozr
Catalyst version 14.4
GPU-Z 0.7.9
MSI Afterburner latest version afair
Running 2x Dell S2340L direct to GPU. One HDMI to HDMI and one HDMI to DVI-D.
 

leianonyme

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No antivirus installed apart from the built-in Windows Defender.

Also forgot to mention, OS is Win 8 64bit.