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Started by marcd455 | | 3 answers
AMD HD6870 card crashes drivers when during ONLY steam games
When playing ONLY STEAM GAMES with my AMD card in i will randomly experience a game freeze for about 8 seconds then screen goes black and then restores and shows display drivers crashed and recovered. Sometimes it happens every few minutes sometimes large gaps between sometimes it becomes unplayable. I have a 20$ cheapie nivida card i bought to troubleshoot with and this card resolves the issue but is too poor of a card to use for gaming (BY FAR LOL). When my AMD card is in i can do whatever i want on my pc, zero limit to graphics 100% flawless, BUT the second i play a game through the steam client i being to experience this crash. I can play other games not downloaded through steam and i have zero issues AND i can throw in the cheapie nivida card to also stop the display crashes. Anyone hear of this issue before?
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October 16, 2014 6:00:13 AM

Not necessarily, is the card clean and not overheating?
October 16, 2014 5:58:00 AM

rolli59 said:
Couple of times experienced this in the past and both times turned out to be failing Vram on the cards in question. Start by making sure the card cooler is clean.


started experiencing the issue while playing path of exile a game i downloaded through steam client this was about a year or 2 ago, bought a shit card to continue playing that game and problem solved. then i went back to league of legends so i threw in the problem card (far nicer card then then 20$ quick fix i had in)and had NOT 1 SINGLE graphics issue for 2 years under regular daily use. Now as of 2 weeks ago i began playing dark souls 2 a game i downloaded through steam and wallah the same exact issue is back so i throw in my shitty 20$ card and it fixes the problem but it is far far far too low end to support the game for regular play. The card worked for approx 2 years between these incidents and only occred while playing steam games, doesn't this rule out a hardware issue?
October 16, 2014 5:48:11 AM

Couple of times experienced this in the past and both times turned out to be failing Vram on the cards in question. Start by making sure the card cooler is clean.

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