I’ve been having a problem for over a year now when playing Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas (the problem has not affected any other games, apart from CoD 2 at one point). Basically, at some point the screen will go grey, green or blue with vertical thin stripes (pictures below) and the audio will loop and sound glitchy, and I need to power off the computer as nothing else works. Sometimes it will not crash but recover and I will get a popup saying “AMD Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered”, and sometimes weird colours just flash on the screen during gameplay. On these occasions I checked the card’s temperatures and they were usually in the 60C zone, highest I got was 72C (on a hot day).
Images of my screen during the crashes:
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/lee...G0848.jpg.html
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/lee...G0843.jpg.html
Also, not sure if this is related, but the graphics on my graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 5870) are grainy and blurry at times, and when I’ve played using my old HD 4550 graphics card, aside from no crashes, the graphics were crisper and sharper. Image of the graphics when playing on the HD 5870:
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/lee...oblem.png.html
My PC’s specs:
- Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
- AMD Phenom II Black Edition X4 980 Processor 3.70 GHz (With two large Noctua fans and heatsinks)
- 1 TB Harddrive (Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 SCSI Disk Device)
- 8 GB of RAM (4x2 GB Modules - Corsair XMS3 DDR3 TW3X4G1333C9A 1333 MHz)
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics card (1 GB)
- LG GH24NS90.AUAA50B 24x SATA Bare Internal DVD Rewriter
- Corsair Enthusiast TX750 V2 Power Supply (750W)
- OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Now I have a suspicion that could be “Grey screen of death” or GSOD, explained in this forum http://www.overclock.net/t/650900/gray-screen-explained... , as I have an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card (and the 5xxx series are mainly affected). I also believe it is not worth replacing the card as I don’t have the “serious” GSOD (as it only happens on 2 of the games I play). Plus the card was second hand so I can’t RMA it.
I have tried the following remedies with no positive results:
- Changed the display driver to version 8.682.2.0, version 8.881.0.0, version 9.12.0.0, version 12.104.0.0 and version 13.8.0.0 (Beta).
- Changed to Catalyst Control Centre ver 9.12, and installed the AMD hotfix for 9.12
- Changed to CCC ver 13.4
- Disabled catalyst AI in CCC
- Disabled ATI high definition audio device
- Switched to High Performance Power Plan on Windows 7
- The thread I linked suggested raising the CPU Vcore voltage, which I did but then fried my CPU (I am new to overclocking), but was luckily able to RMA my CPU, so I’m only going to mess with voltages as a last resort.
Thank you for any suggestions you may have, and I hope it helps anyone else having problems with the 5xxx series cards. :)
Images of my screen during the crashes:
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/lee...G0848.jpg.html
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/lee...G0843.jpg.html
Also, not sure if this is related, but the graphics on my graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 5870) are grainy and blurry at times, and when I’ve played using my old HD 4550 graphics card, aside from no crashes, the graphics were crisper and sharper. Image of the graphics when playing on the HD 5870:
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/lee...oblem.png.html
My PC’s specs:
- Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
- AMD Phenom II Black Edition X4 980 Processor 3.70 GHz (With two large Noctua fans and heatsinks)
- 1 TB Harddrive (Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 SCSI Disk Device)
- 8 GB of RAM (4x2 GB Modules - Corsair XMS3 DDR3 TW3X4G1333C9A 1333 MHz)
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics card (1 GB)
- LG GH24NS90.AUAA50B 24x SATA Bare Internal DVD Rewriter
- Corsair Enthusiast TX750 V2 Power Supply (750W)
- OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Now I have a suspicion that could be “Grey screen of death” or GSOD, explained in this forum http://www.overclock.net/t/650900/gray-screen-explained... , as I have an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card (and the 5xxx series are mainly affected). I also believe it is not worth replacing the card as I don’t have the “serious” GSOD (as it only happens on 2 of the games I play). Plus the card was second hand so I can’t RMA it.
I have tried the following remedies with no positive results:
- Changed the display driver to version 8.682.2.0, version 8.881.0.0, version 9.12.0.0, version 12.104.0.0 and version 13.8.0.0 (Beta).
- Changed to Catalyst Control Centre ver 9.12, and installed the AMD hotfix for 9.12
- Changed to CCC ver 13.4
- Disabled catalyst AI in CCC
- Disabled ATI high definition audio device
- Switched to High Performance Power Plan on Windows 7
- The thread I linked suggested raising the CPU Vcore voltage, which I did but then fried my CPU (I am new to overclocking), but was luckily able to RMA my CPU, so I’m only going to mess with voltages as a last resort.
Thank you for any suggestions you may have, and I hope it helps anyone else having problems with the 5xxx series cards. :)