Can a bad graphics card driver cause crashes?

elmofreak

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I recently build a budget gaming pc..Here are my pc specs

i3 3220 3.2ghz
sapphire hd 7870xt 2gb
seasonic m12ii 520 watt
wd caviar blue 500gb
asus p8b7m-lx
corsair vengeance 8gb 1600mhz

before I installed the new amd beta drivers(amd 13.11) , my computer was running buttery smooth but after i had installed the new amd drivers my screen totally blacked out every few hours and i had to restart my computer and the cycle continues...i decided to reformat my hard drive and install a fresh new copy of windows 7...after which i installed all my motherboard drivers and decided to install a non-beta amd driver and now everything seems to run very smoothly

p.s. my gpu temperatures were fine when i had the beta drivers but my graphics card usage was at 99% even at idle when i had the beta drivers
 
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Next time you update drivers for GPU you better use driver sweeper/DDU.
All 13.11 betas didn't crash my PC, worst I got was driver crash after dirty installation.
13.12 is really good!

hypergon

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Next time you update drivers for GPU you better use driver sweeper/DDU.
All 13.11 betas didn't crash my PC, worst I got was driver crash after dirty installation.
13.12 is really good!
 
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elmofreak

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Thx man! :)
 

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