my screen turns pixaltaed whenever I play games.

[zenkei]

I think it's overheating because it's incredibly hot when I touch it but I've opened the case and put a fan right next to it and still freezes and goes all pixaly. It also says that the driver has stopped working then recovered when I alt tabbed so, I tried different GPU drivers and updated to the latest version and that still didn't work. Help would be greatly appreciated

Here's a picture of what the screen looks like when it's pixalated

here are my specs ask me if you need more info:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/05/10 19:13:52 Ver: 08.00.10
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8168MB RAM
Page File: 4426MB used, 11909MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11

Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6718)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Display Memory: 4095 MB
Dedicated Memory: 2034 MB
Shared Memory: 2061 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Hardrive space used: 835GB
Free Hardrive space: 96.3GB

 

[goodguy713]

when your case is open make sure that your fan is turning on your graphics card.. also get a can of air and blow out the dust in it if it is a reference design it might help to take the shroud off and give it a good cleaning. also consider lowering any overclock settings.

 

[Quakemz]

Have you done any temp testing? Download "CPU temp" and "GPU temp" and tell me what the numbers are after a couple minutes of gameplay, even if it's pixelated.

Also make sure your GPU drivers are up to date.

 

[zenkei]

when your case is open make sure that your fan is turning on your graphics card.. also get a can of air and blow out the dust in it if it is a reference design it might help to take the shroud off and give it a good cleaning. also consider lowering any overclock settings.

I cleaned my computer and graphics card yesterday with an air can.

 

[zenkei]

Have you done any temp testing? Download "CPU temp" and "GPU temp" and tell me what the numbers are after a couple minutes of gameplay, even if it's pixelated.

Also make sure your GPU drivers are up to date.

Yes my GPU drivers are up to date I also tested the beta drivers to see if there was an improvement to no avail.

here is the temp on all the devices, the values on the max tab are what they were just before and during the pixel crash Also this is while the computer is open and has a fan right next to it yet it still gets quite hot and crashes.

 

[Quakemz]

Have you done any temp testing? Download "CPU temp" and "GPU temp" and tell me what the numbers are after a couple minutes of gameplay, even if it's pixelated.

Also make sure your GPU drivers are up to date.

Yes my GPU drivers are up to date I also tested the beta drivers to see if there was an improvement to no avail.

here is the temp on all the devices, the values on the max tab are what they were just before and during the pixel crash Also this is while the computer is open and has a fan right next to it yet it still gets quite hot and crashes.

The picture is too small for me to see anything.

 

[zenkei]

Have you done any temp testing? Download "CPU temp" and "GPU temp" and tell me what the numbers are after a couple minutes of gameplay, even if it's pixelated.

Also make sure your GPU drivers are up to date.

Yes my GPU drivers are up to date I also tested the beta drivers to see if there was an improvement to no avail.

here is the temp on all the devices, the values on the max tab are what they were just before and during the pixel crash Also this is while the computer is open and has a fan right next to it yet it still gets quite hot and crashes.

The picture is too small for me to see anything.

sorry sent wrong sized one hopefully you can read this one, reply back if you can't

 

[Quakemz]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

 

[zenkei]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

yes the max temps were while I was in game

 

[Quakemz]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

yes the max temps were while I was in game

Well you shouldn't be overheating then. All of those temps are very normal under load. To be honest I don't really know. Your GPU never even cracked 70c...so it's not overheating. It does this for EVERY game?

 

[zenkei]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

yes the max temps were while I was in game

Well you shouldn't be overheating then. All of those temps are very normal under load. To be honest I don't really know. Your GPU never even cracked 70c...so it's not overheating. It does this for EVERY game?

Yes it does, it could be a ram problem from what one person has told me but I doubt since it since as I alt tab to get out of the pixelated screen it has a little window in the bottom left saying AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered, or something along the lines of that

 

[Quakemz]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

yes the max temps were while I was in game

Well you shouldn't be overheating then. All of those temps are very normal under load. To be honest I don't really know. Your GPU never even cracked 70c...so it's not overheating. It does this for EVERY game?

Yes it does, it could be a ram problem from what one person has told me but I doubt since it since as I alt tab to get out of the pixelated screen it has a little window in the bottom left saying AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered, or something along the lines of that

Well if it says that every time, then it's likely a driver issue. Have you tried a slightly older driver?

 

[zenkei]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

yes the max temps were while I was in game

Well you shouldn't be overheating then. All of those temps are very normal under load. To be honest I don't really know. Your GPU never even cracked 70c...so it's not overheating. It does this for EVERY game?

Yes it does, it could be a ram problem from what one person has told me but I doubt since it since as I alt tab to get out of the pixelated screen it has a little window in the bottom left saying AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered, or something along the lines of that

Well if it says that every time, then it's likely a driver issue. Have you tried a slightly older driver?

yes I've tried old drivers ones from months ago

 

[Quakemz]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

yes the max temps were while I was in game

Well you shouldn't be overheating then. All of those temps are very normal under load. To be honest I don't really know. Your GPU never even cracked 70c...so it's not overheating. It does this for EVERY game?

Yes it does, it could be a ram problem from what one person has told me but I doubt since it since as I alt tab to get out of the pixelated screen it has a little window in the bottom left saying AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered, or something along the lines of that

Well if it says that every time, then it's likely a driver issue. Have you tried a slightly older driver?

yes I've tried old drivers ones from months ago

And its only while in game right? Everything else it perfectly normal outside of game?

 

[huilun02]

I think your GPU is running unstable. I need to know exactly what GPU you are using.

 

[zenkei]

Were those your temps while IN a game?

yes the max temps were while I was in game

Well you shouldn't be overheating then. All of those temps are very normal under load. To be honest I don't really know. Your GPU never even cracked 70c...so it's not overheating. It does this for EVERY game?

Yes it does, it could be a ram problem from what one person has told me but I doubt since it since as I alt tab to get out of the pixelated screen it has a little window in the bottom left saying AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered, or something along the lines of that

Well if it says that every time, then it's likely a driver issue. Have you tried a slightly older driver?

yes I've tried old drivers ones from months ago

And its only while in game right? Everything else it perfectly normal outside of game?

yes only in games

 

[zenkei]

I think your GPU is running unstable. I need to know exactly what GPU you are using.

I'm using the SAPPHIRE HD 6970

It uses the Catalyst Control Center

 

[huilun02]

Set your card to run at 880Mhz core clock and 1375Mhz memory clock. And then run a game.

 

[zenkei]

Set your card to run at 880Mhz core clock and 1375Mhz memory clock. And then run a game.

Sorry in advance I don't really overclock or underclock my graphics card so I wouldn't know what I'm doing. So would I do this via BIOS and if so how? And would changing the graphics card to those settings overclock it cause I wouldn't know

 

[huilun02]

Catalyst Control Center > Preferences > Advanced View

On the left pane, Performance > AMD OverDrive > Enable Graphics OverDrive

Put the first slider to 880Mhz, and second slider to 1375Mhz. Apply changes

 

[zenkei]

Catalyst Control Center > Preferences > Advanced View

On the left pane, Performance > AMD OverDrive > Enable Graphics OverDrive

Put the first slider to 880Mhz, and second slider to 1375Mhz. Apply changes

sorry for late reply got busy. Okay I got in the catalyst control center but the sliders are already set to what you told me to set them too

 

[huilun02]

Set to lower like 800/1250

 

[zenkei]

Set to lower like 800/1250

sorry for late reply Christmas has been delaying me. I can set cpu to 800 but not memory clock to 1250 I'll attempt now and see if that changes anything.

Update: Yep still did the pixel thing

 

[huilun02]

Only thing I can think of left is either the PSU or card turning bad.

 

[zenkei]

Is it happening with every graphics intensive game or only with one game?

yep every graphic intensive game

shadow warrior (the remake)
sleeping dogs
natural selection 2
red faction guerrilla (of all things that old game)
etc