When idle the GPU lowers the clock speeds for the core and the memory quite drastically (300mhz core, 150mhz memory) compared to the default clock speeds of 800 and 1200 in order to save power. Apparently this causes problems specifically with windows 7 for some reason, where idle states will cause driver errors because of super low clocks. The fix is to set the idle clocks higher, in my case 400/900 by editing an .xml containing your gpu profile options, which will prevent this problem from occurring.
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