My games are continuously crashing, whether it's a DX9,11, or 12 game. Either the game or my computer will (occasionally) tell me that I ran out of video memory. This is a recent issue, and I know my GPU is working fine, I tested it in another computer and it ran a game for an hour, no crashes. On mine, I can barely run one for twenty minutes. I also know I'm not running out of VRAM because I monitored it through AMD Link and my games barely use 17-30% of it.
My System
OS: Win 10 Pro
Mobo: MSI 970A Gaming Rev. 1
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: RX 580 (Sapphire, it had the best shroud)
RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 1600, 1.55V (They're rated for 1.5V but my mobo's bios won't let me go exactly to 1.5V. I just got these sticks, as my old ones died out, recently)
Liquid Cooling on CPU
4 Hard Disk Drives, various makes (mostly Seagate, one toshiba, I think. all 5200RPM)
Don't insult my system, I'm aware that 5200RPM is slow, but I really don't care about that. I know that the AM3+ chipset is outdated, I don't care. The FX8350 is a beast of a chip, I'm pretty sure I won the Silicon Lottery with this one. All of my games run tits.
The GPU is fairly new, nice, I've only had it for six months, never cooked.
My thought: I have to replace the Mobo. I'm almost certain that it has to be an issue with the mobo, I think I've exhausted almost every other possibility. Unfortunately, when I tried putting the GPU in the other PCI-e slot, the mobo yelled at me about not having video. I remember hearing that even recent GPU's haven't come close to maxing out the bandwidth on PCI-e slots, even in an x4 slot, but I guess my motherboard doesn't like it.
Edit: Currently on the most recent (optional) build of the Radeon drivers, so. Yes. My drivers are up to date.
Edit 2: if I do replace my mobo, I may go for the enthusiast 990FXA chipset, possibly the Gigabyte brand one. I have no intention of spending almost $500-1000 on upgrading to an AM4 chipset board, right now (the price including the new motherboard, an eight-core processor [no intention of losing cores, either], and 16GB of DDR4 RAM)
Edit 3: I have gone through 4 different driver versions for my GPU, from 19.3.1 through the most recent optional build, 19.7.1
My System
OS: Win 10 Pro
Mobo: MSI 970A Gaming Rev. 1
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: RX 580 (Sapphire, it had the best shroud)
RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 1600, 1.55V (They're rated for 1.5V but my mobo's bios won't let me go exactly to 1.5V. I just got these sticks, as my old ones died out, recently)
Liquid Cooling on CPU
4 Hard Disk Drives, various makes (mostly Seagate, one toshiba, I think. all 5200RPM)
Don't insult my system, I'm aware that 5200RPM is slow, but I really don't care about that. I know that the AM3+ chipset is outdated, I don't care. The FX8350 is a beast of a chip, I'm pretty sure I won the Silicon Lottery with this one. All of my games run tits.
The GPU is fairly new, nice, I've only had it for six months, never cooked.
My thought: I have to replace the Mobo. I'm almost certain that it has to be an issue with the mobo, I think I've exhausted almost every other possibility. Unfortunately, when I tried putting the GPU in the other PCI-e slot, the mobo yelled at me about not having video. I remember hearing that even recent GPU's haven't come close to maxing out the bandwidth on PCI-e slots, even in an x4 slot, but I guess my motherboard doesn't like it.
Edit: Currently on the most recent (optional) build of the Radeon drivers, so. Yes. My drivers are up to date.
Edit 2: if I do replace my mobo, I may go for the enthusiast 990FXA chipset, possibly the Gigabyte brand one. I have no intention of spending almost $500-1000 on upgrading to an AM4 chipset board, right now (the price including the new motherboard, an eight-core processor [no intention of losing cores, either], and 16GB of DDR4 RAM)
Edit 3: I have gone through 4 different driver versions for my GPU, from 19.3.1 through the most recent optional build, 19.7.1
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