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Good evening all,
Firstly, Id like to say that I built my own computer here. So I cant hold any companies accountable for what I have inside except for the separate warranty Ive received form each part purchased. That out of the way I can get on to what my actual problem is here.
A couple of weeks ago I was playing Crysis 2 and I realized that it ran a little slowly so I decided to see if there were any new drivers available for my graphics card which would make the game run better and smoother. I looked on the ATI website and lo and behold there was indeed an update available. I quickly downloaded and installed said update.
Now I don't know if you're all familiar with the ATI Radeon cards but my specific one ( I cant speak for all since Ive never owned all of them) comes with a program called Catalyst control center. This program allows you to tweak your cards settings and other qualities. The important aspect of this program being the overdrive function of the Catalyst Control Center. Anyway, I look in this program and under the pull down menu on the right Under "Performance" I click this selection called AMD Overdrive which leads me to a screen that shows, among other things, the current temperature of the card its activity and its fan speed. From here I pressed the button auto tune which allowed the computer to test the limits of my graphics card and to find out exactly how far it can push it. Upon realization of how far the card can be pushed my card will have a setting for OverDrive which I can check off if I want the card to run at its full potential.
However, the whenever I enable this AMD Overdrive my computer crashes. This never used to happen before, with prior updates but it is now occurring constantly. Of course I dont leave it on at all times maybe an hour at most when Im playing graphically intense games.
I can give you anything you want to know about my computer hardware as long as you put your terminology in laymans terms as I am not entirely familiar with the inner workings of computers.
Thanks in advance all.
Firstly, Id like to say that I built my own computer here. So I cant hold any companies accountable for what I have inside except for the separate warranty Ive received form each part purchased. That out of the way I can get on to what my actual problem is here.
A couple of weeks ago I was playing Crysis 2 and I realized that it ran a little slowly so I decided to see if there were any new drivers available for my graphics card which would make the game run better and smoother. I looked on the ATI website and lo and behold there was indeed an update available. I quickly downloaded and installed said update.
Now I don't know if you're all familiar with the ATI Radeon cards but my specific one ( I cant speak for all since Ive never owned all of them) comes with a program called Catalyst control center. This program allows you to tweak your cards settings and other qualities. The important aspect of this program being the overdrive function of the Catalyst Control Center. Anyway, I look in this program and under the pull down menu on the right Under "Performance" I click this selection called AMD Overdrive which leads me to a screen that shows, among other things, the current temperature of the card its activity and its fan speed. From here I pressed the button auto tune which allowed the computer to test the limits of my graphics card and to find out exactly how far it can push it. Upon realization of how far the card can be pushed my card will have a setting for OverDrive which I can check off if I want the card to run at its full potential.
However, the whenever I enable this AMD Overdrive my computer crashes. This never used to happen before, with prior updates but it is now occurring constantly. Of course I dont leave it on at all times maybe an hour at most when Im playing graphically intense games.
I can give you anything you want to know about my computer hardware as long as you put your terminology in laymans terms as I am not entirely familiar with the inner workings of computers.
Thanks in advance all.