R9 280X Windforce often crashing ingame

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Hey, I got a completely new PC for gaming now, only parts I re-used are the GPU and my SSD's.

Now it often occurs that midgame the game crashes to dektop, before it crashes the video freezes while sound continues. I can sometimes alt+tab out which will immediately close the game (Witcher 3) or can't do so at all. Rise of the Tomb Raider gives me this error
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however I am using recommended settings.

I always get Event ID 4101 "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered." I've got no real idea as to why this keeps happening, my PSU has enough power, I didn't OC anything (other than the GPU, but it's still at factory OC).

Anyone know a fix?
 
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- Recommend DDU in safe mode to completely clean out all display drivers and their remnants followed by a driver installation using Radeon autodetect.

- If you did not clean install Windows 10 when setting up this new machine then this is recommended. Moving an OS drive from one PC to another can cause stability issues if a clean installation of Windows is not performed.

- Where did you get your graphics card? A lot of 200 series cards on the market are retired mining cards with a substantial amount of wear on them.
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It happens with several games... I got two games "fixed" with updating the driver, but I still can't figure out why it still gives me such a hard time.

EDIT: Played Witcher for another 20 minutes, crashed again like this... ID 4101
 
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geofelt

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Assuming you are on windows 10, set it to not allow driver updates.

Use a driver cleaner to clean out your driver and reinstall the nvidia driver downloaded directly from nvidia.
Windows 10 seems to have a penchant to update with less than optimum drivers.
When all works, take a system checkpoint s you can use system restore to get back to working if you later get a failure
 
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geofelt

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My bad for not noticing :(
The point still is that the ID1401 indicates a graphics driver failure.
Get a clean install of the amd driver and do not let windows update it; manage that yourself.
 
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I uninstalled all the driver-related software and rebooted my PC. Then I installed the drivers again, but let AMD detect what driver I "should" get. Couldn't it be that there is some sort of misunderstanding between the card/drivers and the OS, because these frequent failures seem to be pretty odd.
 
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- Recommend DDU in safe mode to completely clean out all display drivers and their remnants followed by a driver installation using Radeon autodetect.

- If you did not clean install Windows 10 when setting up this new machine then this is recommended. Moving an OS drive from one PC to another can cause stability issues if a clean installation of Windows is not performed.

- Where did you get your graphics card? A lot of 200 series cards on the market are retired mining cards with a substantial amount of wear on them.
 
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Rappa_

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the card was the old one of a friend who used it just for gaming.

Also, I am kind of afraid to make a disk wipe, I've had some issues and problems with that before... though if I know I won't run into any problems I will try that, too.
 
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