Recent content by LordErrant

Just this morning I was playing video games on my PC when suddenly it turned itself off and then turned itself back on again. I thought I'd just accidentally kicked the plug or something but then it did it again 20 minutes later and wouldn't power back up for about 5 minutes and after I plugged...

My graphics card suffers from an error where the screen goes dark and "Graphics driver stopped responding and has recovered", usually when playing games. I originally thought it was the card, an AMD R9 270X, then I thought maybe it's the PSU because it's old but now I think it might actually be...

Okay I just switched out my new card with my old card and I got 1 crash in Dota, without the display driver message so I think it was a legitimate crash. And then I played a 40 minute game, no problem at all. I think it's safe to say it's the card now, right?

My power supply must be coming up to it's 6th birthday this year and I think maybe it's going bad. I'm getting repeated "Driver has stopped responding and recovered" messages whenever I play a game for a seemingly random amount of time and even the odd bluescreen. Especially if I push it to...

Matt20020: I've tried it twice now, doesn't seem to ave done anything. Played 5 minutes of Dota 2 and got the error.

I've been having an ever more frequent problem with my new R9 270X. I got it about this time in December and it had a few stability issues but was generally alright. Now I can't run any Source Engine based game without the graphic driver crashing and having to recover. And Source can't survive...

I recently got a new computer. Last night I played 5 hours of Metro 2033, utterly uninterrupted without a crash or BSOD. I put the graphics to full but it said "Game will have to be restarted to apply some settings". Tonight I started up Metro 2033 and after about 20 minutes it BSOD'd. I...