Overclocked R9 270x & GTA crashing?

[Mike Undercovah]

I dont understand, I've done thorough stability testing with 1200 mhz @ the core, and 1500 mhz at the memory for this card. And it passes heaven benchmark, aswell as furmark and performance test.. Yet it is completely failing in GTA and I am forced to use the stock speeds to prevent crashing? Would love some thoughts, i dont get it at all

 

[Mike Undercovah]

And on the stock speeds of 1120 & 1400 during GTA, it wont even be smooth gameplay on normal settings

 

[computers_are_freaky]

Stress tests aren't the same as games. You have to test the games as well. Since you clearly want to play and own GTA 5, reset your overclock and dial it up using the gta benchmark. I personally have an overclock that fails after about 20 minutes of stress testing but plays planetside 2 fine for hours straight (at ultra instead of medium with the same fps). It all depends on the games you want to play, because stress tests are designed to push the sheer power of a card to the max, whereas a game will stress other parts. Anyway, hope this clears things up, and good luck.

 

[Mike Undercovah]

Yea I see what you mean. but you can stress test with the ingame benchmark aswell? Had no clue. I just ran Heaven for 2 hours, I ran Furmark for around 20 mins, aswell as Performance test 8 @ Very long mode && 3DMark basic..
Haha a little bit of a overkill.. I'll go run the gta benchmark and leave it is.. If it would succeed for like a hour, could you call it stable? What if it still happens during online gameplay, crashing and the GFX error?

Do you recommend using CCC's vsync for GTA?

 

[computers_are_freaky]

As far as I know, you can stress test with in game benchmarks (however, I do not own gta 5). I also know nothing about gta 5 vsync. If you really want to play the game, try decreasing your resolution to 720p, it should be much easier for your gpu to run.

I really can't answer any questions like online gameplay fps and so forth, because all I can look at are the system requirements (you're fine there), and they tell you nothing about how your rig will actually perform.

My suggestion is: try stock settings at 720p. If you can play that, then you can take your time with the overclocking. In theory though, if your overclock passed that many benchmarks, it could be a driver issue. Are you sure you have all the latest gpu drivers and gta 5 is up to date? Anyway, try overclocking again using the ingame benchmark, but if it keeps failing, then I'm afraid you will be confined to lower resolutions.
Hope this helps.

 

[Mike Undercovah]

Thanks for the answer mate. Im just experiencing this damn problem... I do NOT understand how my GPU can be at 1200 / 1500, and run all the benchmarks successfully... And on 1140/1440, it will fuck up on GTA? Something has to be going on lol

I do have the latest drivers, i've tried several and everyone displays the same problem.. Do you think a BIOS update or a fresh win7 install could do any good? Im so tired and done with this problem.

I also ran the gta benchmark ingame, which doesnt last for all that long. and it succeeded it no problem, no artifacting. Online gameplay > crash

 

[computers_are_freaky]

No, I really don't think a fresh install would do anything. What country are you in? Have you tried connecting to a different server (maybe the problem isn't on your end)? What antivirus are you running (some of them hate online games)? Are you on your own network (some networks like schools and workplaces, ban certain sites, including most game servers)? Does the game have permission to access the network?