TDR - R9 280x

[Jake_132]

Hi, I can see there's already a thread with the same issue but I don't think the fix in it would apply to me as my card isn't overclocked. Just today I noticed when playing Rust or Civ 6 I'd get maybe 30 seconds to a few minutes out of the games before they crashed and I'd get a 'graphics driver stopped responding and has recovered' error message.

Fixes I've tried:

- Registry edit to 8 seconds
- Edit power settings
- Reinstall Steam
- Clean reinstall of graphics drivers
- Cleaning the fans
- Uninstalling Chrome

Win 7 - 64 bit.
Intel i5 3470 @ 3.4GHz
8mb of RAM
AMD Radeon R9 280x
650W PSU

Also this is a used card I only installed about a week ago. I'd presume the reason I'm only experiencing it now is because I had only been playing Nuclear Throne since I installed it

 

[clutchc]

Assuming it isn't a bad card, try running CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
It solves a myriad of problems for me over the years.

What is the make/model of the 650W PSU?

 

[Jake_132]

Assuming it isn't a bad card, try running CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
It solves a myriad of problems for me over the years.

What is the make/model of the 650W PSU?

 

[Jake_132]

Hi thanks for your answer. I used the CCleaner, it came up with a load of registry keys it wanted to delete saying they were left behind from uninstalled programmes, so I let it do that. The PSU is an Antec EA-650 Platinum.

Tried Rust again, no luck.

Also I'd say this card should be alright, the guy I got it from (A friend) was using it himself up until about a month ago, when he upgraded.

 

[clutchc]

Your PSU is good quality and plenty sufficient for that card. So, unless it is failing, that shouldn't be the issue.
When you did the driver uninstall/re-install, did you use a driver un-install pgm* to uninstall the old driver, or just install the new driver over the old one?
What card did you have installed before the R9-280X?
Do you have a lot of apps and bloat-ware that runs when Win starts? It could be some poorly written piece of software that is crashing the driver while gaming.

* http://www.wagnardsoft.com/

 

[Jake_132]

I just selected 'uninstall' from the driver manager and downloaded again from the AMD website. The only other apps I'd have running on startup would be ByteFence (Anti-malware) and sometimes Flux. I could try uninstalling both of those though. Also I've just tried switching to a different PCI slot. Everything looked good on startup, tried running Rust once again and I got a BlueScreen error. It flashed too fast to read but mentioned graphics drivers I think. It restarted, now I'm getting flashes of a black screen every few minutes.

Update:

I uninstalled using the software you recommended. Everything was fine until the end of the re-installation when I got a 'general error' on the installation. It said it could be because I'm missing Windows updates and I do have one waiting so I'll install that.

That's done now and everything's been reinstalled. No change sadly.

Another blue screen too. Event 1001: "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000116 (0xfffffa80076c5010, 0xfffff88002e12634, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000002). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 040817-20264-01." Could this be an issue with RAM?