Hello guys n' gals,
I've been through most of your threads here to try and resolve the issue already, but no luck.
I bought a new gaming rig a few days ago and assembled it on Thursday, just in time for that sweet sweet Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase headstart. Needless to say, I was devastated when, despite the high-quality graphics that I was receiving, my video kept crashing and flickering to black, followed by the message "Display driver AMD driver has stopped responding and has recovered."; At first, I got these every 10-20 minutes or so, but now I can't play for 5 minutes without getting one, sometimes a whole chain one straight after the other. I've been searching for a solution for several days now, but I can't seem to find anything that works. I now humbly turn to the internet to see if anyone can suggest something.
The parts I bought:
RAM - Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
PSU - OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
MB - ASRock Z77 Pro4-M Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
Processor - Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
Video Card - HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
A couple of my own parts, reused:
An old 300GB HDD An old DvD/CD Drive
So far, I have tried the following fixes, nothing works:
Installing motherboard drivers.
Installing/updating AMD drivers.
Complete uninstall (using driver sweeper) of AMD drivers, then a fresh install.
Disabling realtek onboard sound drivers.
Disabling hardware acceleration for firefox/adobe flash.
Disabling antivirus software (MSE).
Increasing TdrDelay in the registry from 2 to 8.
Underclocking my GPU. Overclocking my GPU.
Temperature check (everything running great).
Increasing idle clock settings. Disabling Cataclyst Control Center.
Switching my RAM (tried with only 1 stick, switched RAM to slots 2 and 4 from 1 and 3).
Checking wire connections.
Disabling forced antialiasing.
Disabling AMD overdrive.
Disabling tessellation.
Turning game graphics to low.
Probably some others I've forgotten.
Possible solutions I've not tried yet.
Power supply is too weak? - I've been told this could be a cause, but it's difficult to test this without getting hold of a new PSU.
About the occurrence:
Only happens when gaming (Videos, etc. work fine), usually in graphically demanding areas, but not always. It is not confined to 1 game (I've tried it with both WoW and Guild Wars 2 and it appears in both).
I tried disabling TDR through regedit (TdrLevel set to 0). This resulted in hard crashes.
I have tried playing with the monitor plugged into my motherboard and thus using native graphics, and the problem did not appear. However, native graphics are awful. This makes me think that it is GPU related. (hardware or software?)
That's pretty much it. If anyone has any questions/suggestions/anything I could try, please post them. Thanks!
I've been through most of your threads here to try and resolve the issue already, but no luck.
I bought a new gaming rig a few days ago and assembled it on Thursday, just in time for that sweet sweet Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase headstart. Needless to say, I was devastated when, despite the high-quality graphics that I was receiving, my video kept crashing and flickering to black, followed by the message "Display driver AMD driver has stopped responding and has recovered."; At first, I got these every 10-20 minutes or so, but now I can't play for 5 minutes without getting one, sometimes a whole chain one straight after the other. I've been searching for a solution for several days now, but I can't seem to find anything that works. I now humbly turn to the internet to see if anyone can suggest something.
The parts I bought:
RAM - Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
PSU - OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
MB - ASRock Z77 Pro4-M Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
Processor - Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
Video Card - HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
A couple of my own parts, reused:
An old 300GB HDD An old DvD/CD Drive
So far, I have tried the following fixes, nothing works:
Installing motherboard drivers.
Installing/updating AMD drivers.
Complete uninstall (using driver sweeper) of AMD drivers, then a fresh install.
Disabling realtek onboard sound drivers.
Disabling hardware acceleration for firefox/adobe flash.
Disabling antivirus software (MSE).
Increasing TdrDelay in the registry from 2 to 8.
Underclocking my GPU. Overclocking my GPU.
Temperature check (everything running great).
Increasing idle clock settings. Disabling Cataclyst Control Center.
Switching my RAM (tried with only 1 stick, switched RAM to slots 2 and 4 from 1 and 3).
Checking wire connections.
Disabling forced antialiasing.
Disabling AMD overdrive.
Disabling tessellation.
Turning game graphics to low.
Probably some others I've forgotten.
Possible solutions I've not tried yet.
Power supply is too weak? - I've been told this could be a cause, but it's difficult to test this without getting hold of a new PSU.
About the occurrence:
Only happens when gaming (Videos, etc. work fine), usually in graphically demanding areas, but not always. It is not confined to 1 game (I've tried it with both WoW and Guild Wars 2 and it appears in both).
I tried disabling TDR through regedit (TdrLevel set to 0). This resulted in hard crashes.
I have tried playing with the monitor plugged into my motherboard and thus using native graphics, and the problem did not appear. However, native graphics are awful. This makes me think that it is GPU related. (hardware or software?)
That's pretty much it. If anyone has any questions/suggestions/anything I could try, please post them. Thanks!