- Mar 17, 2013
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I have a R9 Fury that generally works well but will on occasion exhibit an unusual issue where the game will completely pause or lock, not a drop in fps (well a drop to 0 if it is) but outright lock up as if it has crashed. This is usually only for a very short time, less than a second sometimes but can be a few seconds, but is pretty noticeable if you are playing smoothly at say 60fps and then suddenly it pauses for even half a second. Sometimes the pauses can be longer and sometimes the card drops the video signal altogether (black screen) but then sometimes it kind of flicks back to my steam library (the last screen I had up before starting the game) then quickly back into the game as if I had alt tabbed, but I wasn’t even touching the keyboard as the game I was playing was controlled entirely with the controller.
At first I thought the problem was possibly not with the GPU but actually with my set up as I use a 4K TV for my gaming display and since the Fury sadly has no native HDMI 2.0 for 4K/60HZ I have to use a displayport to HDMI adaptor I was using the widely recommended club 3d one, this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/CLUB3D-Mini-Display-Port-black/dp/B017BQCUGW/, but to rule it out I just bought a brand new adaptor by a different manufacturer from Amazon as here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M8PGQDF/ and getting the exact same problem with that too. I have tried the obvious things like different HDMI lead and using a different input on the TV.
The issue is extremely hard for me to diagnose as it can sometimes happen frequently, sometimes not at all. It does seem to happen quite often when first starting a game but then can occur later on. It isn’t necessarily restricted to actual gameplay, I have had it happen on menu screens too. The problem does seem to be related to 3D load as it doesn’t happen in light 3D and 2D games. Sometimes the pausing will last longer and rarely, but occasionally, the game won’t recover at all and the computer will completely reboot (but doesn’t display a blue screen). The audio cuts out when these pauses occur too and the card stops making noise too while the pauses occur not sure if the fans actually stop or just the coil whine (sadly it has quite a lot of that).
The games I have observed this on recently are Assault Android Cactus and Nex Machina (I like indie shooters), which I run at 4K pretty much max settings minus anti-aliasing as the card seems to have no issue running them smoothly apart from the issue mentioned.
The rest of my PC is: i7 3770, 16GB DDR3, 256GB Crucial SSD, 2TB SSHD, XFX 550 Watt PSU, XFX R9 Fury 4GB, Windows 10 Professional.
Any advice would be very gratefully received
At first I thought the problem was possibly not with the GPU but actually with my set up as I use a 4K TV for my gaming display and since the Fury sadly has no native HDMI 2.0 for 4K/60HZ I have to use a displayport to HDMI adaptor I was using the widely recommended club 3d one, this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/CLUB3D-Mini-Display-Port-black/dp/B017BQCUGW/, but to rule it out I just bought a brand new adaptor by a different manufacturer from Amazon as here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M8PGQDF/ and getting the exact same problem with that too. I have tried the obvious things like different HDMI lead and using a different input on the TV.
The issue is extremely hard for me to diagnose as it can sometimes happen frequently, sometimes not at all. It does seem to happen quite often when first starting a game but then can occur later on. It isn’t necessarily restricted to actual gameplay, I have had it happen on menu screens too. The problem does seem to be related to 3D load as it doesn’t happen in light 3D and 2D games. Sometimes the pausing will last longer and rarely, but occasionally, the game won’t recover at all and the computer will completely reboot (but doesn’t display a blue screen). The audio cuts out when these pauses occur too and the card stops making noise too while the pauses occur not sure if the fans actually stop or just the coil whine (sadly it has quite a lot of that).
The games I have observed this on recently are Assault Android Cactus and Nex Machina (I like indie shooters), which I run at 4K pretty much max settings minus anti-aliasing as the card seems to have no issue running them smoothly apart from the issue mentioned.
The rest of my PC is: i7 3770, 16GB DDR3, 256GB Crucial SSD, 2TB SSHD, XFX 550 Watt PSU, XFX R9 Fury 4GB, Windows 10 Professional.
Any advice would be very gratefully received
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