Why do SOME of my games "cut out"

[George Smith]

This only happens to me on cod4 and civ5 and I don't know why and I couldn't find anything on the internet that helped. I don't know if its my graphics card or not but i thought this would be a logical place to start. I'm running an r9 280x(driver 15.12), 8gb ddr3 ram, i5 4460, win 10. The games in question will sometimes artifact for a split second, probably a few frames at best, and sometimes will stop the display for 3-5 seconds.

 

[-Arke-]

Your hardware seems more than good to run those games no matter what. Maybe it could be some driver - related problem. Have you tried uninstalling them with DDU and then installing again?

 

[Darkseiders]

It may be a problem with those games running off that GPU. Have you seen this problem on any more modern titles?

 

[George Smith]

It may be a problem with those games running off that GPU. Have you seen this problem on any more modern titles?

not really, i was happening on civ5 dx 11 and thats pretty modern but thats the only modern title it does it with

 

[-Arke-]

I see you picked a question as the fix. Did it work? If it did not (or even if you didn't do that already), feel free to keep posting here, as maybe we can find a solution if it's not working yet : )

 

[George Smith]

I see you picked a question as the fix. Did it work? If it did not (or even if you didn't do that already), feel free to keep posting here, as maybe we can find a solution if it's not working yet : )

sadly it didn't work, although i did save some space on my SSD. Any other suggestions?

 

[-Arke-]

I dont know about Cod4, but Cid is a bad optimised game. Maybe your PSU is not providing enough power? What PSU do you have?

 

[George Smith]

I dont know about Cod4, but Cid is a bad optimised game. Maybe your PSU is not providing enough power? What PSU do you have?

650w semi-modular 80 plus bronze from some company i've never heard of, however i've found that if I play civ 5 in windowed mode, i don't get this problem. Only just found this BTW

 

[-Arke-]

That's weird. Windowed mode is more demanding than full-window, so PSU is not the problem neither.

I've found this on the forum:

Go into AMD ccc. Right click on your desktop and choose CCC.

Go to AMD overdrive and move the memory clock down 100mhz, and the core 100mhz if needed.
Is the card stable after that?

It was in a thread with a similar problem, but the OP didnt write back, so I don tknow if it worked.

 

[George Smith]

That's weird. Windowed mode is more demanding than full-window, so PSU is not the problem neither.

I've found this on the forum:

Go into AMD ccc. Right click on your desktop and choose CCC.

Go to AMD overdrive and move the memory clock down 100mhz, and the core 100mhz if needed.
Is the card stable after that?

It was in a thread with a similar problem, but the OP didnt write back, so I don tknow if it worked.

worked brilliantly, thank you so much. You are the type of person this community needs, just constant support

 

[-Arke-]

Thanks you a lot, it is nice to hear such things : )