Vertical lines on display while gaming. 270X

[Xephius]

Im getting an issue with my pc. Do note that all of my drivers are up to date(15.4). I can get into a game, and play it for a while, but then after 30 min to an hour, the screen will freeze up showing vertical lines very similar what to was currently rendering. I can get out of the vertical lines, but the desktop and the lock screen will be super freaky glitchy. I hear that this was an issue with the hd 5xxx series cards called the VSOD if anyone has any knowlege on this please inform me. Ive already taken it to a shop and they said it was malware, but that certainly was not the problem. This is only my first build so I don't really have any spare parts lying around that I could test with does anybody know what could be causing the problem or can anybody help me troubleshoot this issue I would really appreciate it thank you. I will give best answer to the person who helps me troubleshoot the best.

 

[Forgotten031511]

What PSU do you have? Sounds like either overheating or lack of power to the card.

 

[Xephius]

What PSU do you have? Sounds like either overheating or lack of power to the card.

I have an XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze PSU. Its on teir #2 of PSU list and some people on the forum here suggested it while i was doing my build. It also is definetly not overheating. witcher 3 temps in rivatuner say 57 degrees celcius. The card i have came OC'd out of the box but ive used afterburner to lower both clocks down to r9 270x defualts.

 

[Forgotten031511]

Have you run a stress test or benchmark software to track the temps?

3DMark or Passmark?

 

[Forgotten031511]

If you strongly believe is it not overheating and the PSU is giving adequate power, do you have the latest drivers?

 

[Xephius]

This thing can handle furmark for 3 hours(for what ive set it to). Also 3d mark runs fine, just low fps of course.

 

[Xephius]

Im using the Catalyst 15.4 beta drivers(for the witcher 3).

 

[Forgotten031511]

Have you tried running the "Non-Beta" drivers...as I am sure you know, Beta is a testing phase and not always stable.

 

[Xephius]

ive gotten same results with the omega drivers.

 

[Xephius]

should i try reinstalling them and then posting back results? From what I remember, there was an error message from when I reinstalled the new drivers.

 

[Forgotten031511]

If there was an error during the install of the drivers, I am sure that could be causing these "errors"

 

[Xephius]

I will wipe the drivers using the DDU method and will post the error log message when I finnish reinstalling.

 

[Zerk2012]

Go into CCC and set your power to +20

 

[Xephius]

Are you suggesting that the card isnt getting enough power?

 

[Xephius]

Ok. I've reinstalled beta 15.5 drivers. What was weird is that i didnt get a yellow check mark last time with an error message. This time I got a green check mark so i guess that everything installed correctly. I set the power limit in Afterburner to +20(and ive set the clock speeds back to their default OC'd settings). Im off the play witcher 3 and see if i still run into any problems. Will post back results soon.

 

[Zerk2012]

Are you suggesting that the card isnt getting enough power?

The +20 has fixed a lot of strange issues it's usally the first thing to try with AMD cards.

 

[Xephius]

Still got the vertical lines on heaven benchmark using +20 power limit, and base OC which is:

Core: 1100mhz
Memory: 1450mhz

Will try lowering clocks to base 270x speeds. Is that 50mhz less for each clocks?