Display Driver has Stopped Responding and has Recovered, Windows 8.1

Rock Lee

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This problem i am having is very similar to the on here: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1974008/display-driver-stopped-responding-recovered-windows.html
But I have an AMD Radeon HD 8400 graphics card, and i have windows 8.1 and its 64 bit. So, as to what my predicament is, after playing a Dota 2 (a game on steam), my computer suddenly freezes for a few moments before responding again, and giving me the message "Display Driver has Stopped Responding and has Recovered", sound will play and i can click on the screen and it responds and all, but if I haven't Alt-Tabbed, the screen is frozen, and if i have it stays black, thus making it near impossible to play any decent length of time. I am not overclocking my computer and i am pretty sure there is no factory overclock or anything of the sort. This issue has persisted for quite some time, but i can play other games that are more resource demanding than Dota 2 with no issue (minecraft for example). Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks for your time reading my wall of text too.
 

Rock Lee

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Do you mean i have to uninstall the drivers every single time i restart my computer? Also, how do i reach the "Catalyst controller"? Thanks for the help, in any case though.
 

Kashif Malim

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Actually, this won't help. I tried a fresh install of Windows, as well as proper removal of the drivers before I reinstalled them. It isn't working. This seems to be an issue with Windows. Rock, did you get some Windows updates a few days before your GPU started acting up?