Crashes, freezes, drops on new R9 390

[ceriumhk]

I've recently upgraded my very old system (GTX 460 1GB) to a completely new system which by all accounts should run better:

i5-4590
HIS R9 390 IceQ2 OC
Silver 650W PSU (50A on the single 12v rail)
16gb Corsair Vengeance

In GTA 5 I managed to play 3 hours yesterday before it was freezing every 20 minutes and now I can basically not even finish one mission. I've tried EVERY single setting option and 'fix' and nothing. The errors were the usuals: err_gfx_d3d_init (most often), GTAV has stopped responding (2nd most) and then after I updated to Windows 10 I received 'AMD driver has stopped responding and recovered'.

It's pretty much unplayable at this point. Thinking it was the game I switched to Dragon Age: Inquisition. Everything looks great on Ultra, it's playing fine. When I went to load a new area though, it just dropped to Windows. No warnings or errors.

I'm at a loss at this point. Is my card bust? Is it overclocked too much and my PSU can't handle it? Should I switch to a 970 (not sure if that's possible) or upgrade the PSU - I'm still within the 7 days return period. Is it the drivers, or the games? We don't have RMA over here and it's working fine in everyday PC usage.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! My old GTX 460 and Phenom X4 ran DA:I without much issue even though on vastly reduced settings 🙁

 

[maxalge]

I've recently upgraded my very old system (GTX 460 1GB) to a completely new system which by all accounts should run better:

i5-4590
HIS R9 390 IceQ2 OC
Silver 650W PSU (50A on the single 12v rail)
16gb Corsair Vengeance

In GTA 5 I managed to play 3 hours yesterday before it was freezing every 20 minutes and now I can basically not even finish one mission. I've tried EVERY single setting option and 'fix' and nothing. The errors were the usuals: err_gfx_d3d_init (most often), GTAV has stopped responding (2nd most) and then after I updated to Windows 10 I received 'AMD driver has stopped responding and recovered'.

It's pretty much unplayable at this point. Thinking it was the game I switched to Dragon Age: Inquisition. Everything looks great on Ultra, it's playing fine. When I went to load a new area though, it just dropped to Windows. No warnings or errors.

I'm at a loss at this point. Is my card bust? Is it overclocked too much and my PSU can't handle it? Should I switch to a 970 (not sure if that's possible) or upgrade the PSU - I'm still within the 7 days return period. Is it the drivers, or the games? We don't have RMA over here and it's working fine in everyday PC usage.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! My old GTX 460 and Phenom X4 ran DA:I without much issue even though on vastly reduced settings 🙁

do you know the exact make and model of your psu?


you need a quality 650w MINIMUM with a 390

 

[ceriumhk]

do you know the exact make and model of your psu?

you need a quality 650w MINIMUM with a 390

I do, I just didn't want to mention it here as I didn't want to get bogged down with messages re: its position on the Tier list. Actually, I've discovered it's Grand Theft Auto that's the problem. I played some AC IV and DA:I uneventfully on Ultra settings.

Grand Theft Auto I had to re-download and reinstall, downclock my GPU (ugh) and turn down a few of the settings to keep the temps below 70 degrees. It is finally running relatively smoothly. Very disappointing port. Thanks for answering though, I might swap it out for a 750w version.