ATTN: ATi card users

[aigomorla]

Does your video card have its drivers crash and recover in Windows Vista and 7 too or its strictly an nvidia proble?

Namely this happens in both vista and win 7 rigs from time to time:

https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/attachment/16661/Graphics+Driver+Crash.jpg

i used to see that on Vista using old CCC drivers on X64.

New CCC drivers, and windows 7 i have yet to see that problem.

 

[nitromullet]

My 5870 used to crash occasionally in Borderlands (Win 7 x64 RC & release). Been running this GTX 275 since then, which has been rock solid at factory clocks for the past week.

edit: drivers: Cat 9.10, Forceware 195.39 beta

 

[BlueAcolyte]

ATi HD 4870 on Vista x64, no graphic-related crashes.

ATi HD 4200 on Win 7 x64, no graphic-related crashes.

 

[Tristicus]

Happens to me a lot....4850, Win7 Ultimate x64, newest drivers...

 

[ekoostik]

Was happening to me with full screen flash. Downloaded the latest AMD drivers and it got better but didn't disappear, updated my BIOS and I haven't seen a problem since.

 

[Christobevii3]

My 4870 only did that because of two things. I have a review sample card so the bios voltage idle settings were too strict in early drivers and second I had a bad stick of ram. After I replaced the ram and drivers got to 8.11 I haven't had a problem.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I've had no problems with crashing in Vista 64 with an overclocked Radeon 4870. This card has been very stable through numerous driver updates over the last year that I've owned it with lots of gaming hours on it.

 

[evolucion8]

I just had a crash this morning while watching a movie file, and running F@H GPU and SMP client at the same time, the screen just locked up and the background sound just looped indefinitely, the Event Viewer didn't report nothing, I just reenabled Small Memory Dump option just in case, because it was disabled before. Odd.

 

[Fox5]

I've rarely ever seen ati's drivers crash, except when the video card is overheating.

Unfortunately, I'm all too familiar with nvidia's drivers crashing, especially with their integrated graphics.

 

[Soleron]

X1950 Pro, no crashes in 3 years.

 

[Avalon]

No driver crashes on either my 3850 or 4850, both on Windows 7.

 

[coreyb]

Never had a problem with nvidia but recently upgraded to a 5870 and had a crash in dragon age the same day.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

nope, not with my 4850 or 5850

I did get driver crashes with my 8800GT on Vista x64, however they eventually went away with driver updates and I don't really remember any problems when I tried that rig with Win 7 x64. Of course those driver crashes weren't super common, and I used that rig less and less and less once I got my 4850 rig running.

 

[Mem]

No issues with my ATI drivers on Vista or Win7 x64 Ultimate,my laptop Nvidia 8600m GT drivers seem ok too on Win7.

Normally its something like overclocking that cause issues even factory overclocked cards.

 

[Rafael]

I had this problem, but did not show the same warning, but I am using W7 x64 Ultimate though.
So I don't know if it will show this kind of warning.
But it disabled aero, the transparency disappeared, I had to reboot to get it back to work properly.
And if I oc the vga thru CCC, the screens starts to flick if I open applications, even if it is GPU-Z. Then I tried change BIOS settings, PSU, and no good result.
I think the problem is either the driver or the CCC, or both like other had said here.
The solution I found was when I installed MSI Afterburner, OCed thru it, no flicker problems, no driver reset until now.
So that is what makes me think it is something related to Catalyst driver or CCC.
I think I will try the suggestion of not installing the CCC.
BTW, when using the default clocks no problems at all, but if I OC 1 Mhz, it starts this behavior. I am using Cat. 9.10, have not tried the 9.11 beta. And the last driver that did happen the samething was 9.8 hotfix.

 

[yacoub]

I just had a crash this morning while watching a movie file, and running F@H GPU and SMP client at the same time, the screen just locked up and the background sound just looped indefinitely, the Event Viewer didn't report nothing, I just reenabled Small Memory Dump option just in case, because it was disabled before. Odd.

Sounds more heat-related than driver-related.

 

[Marty502]

Radeon 4670, Windows 7 x64, Catalyst 9.10, overclocked.

Not a problem.

 

[evolucion8]

Sounds more heat-related than driver-related.

Well, my CPU is totally stable with Linpack x64 and my GPU works fine with hours of torture using Furmark or the GPU test included in OCCT which looks like furmark but in red. May be is the SMB Vulnerability hehhe, or my Creative X-Fi which is doing weird noises when I switch from different modes and It wouldn't go away until I switch it to another mode again. Ahh, Creative drivers...

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I'm using a 5870 and the 9.10 drivers and I get a driver crash sometimes when I watch hulu. Other than that, I have not seen any. Using win7 x64 Ultimate btw.

I'd be interested in knowing if the new 9.11 drivers remedy that though hardware acceleration of flash. IE, FF, or other?

 

[ekoostik]

I'd be interested in knowing if the new 9.11 drivers remedy that though hardware acceleration of flash.

Agreed. I've already seen reports from people with problems not resolved by 9.10 that were fixed by version 9.11. If you're still having problems, grab the latest and let us know how it goes:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I had this problem, but did not show the same warning, but I am using W7 x64 Ultimate though.
So I don't know if it will show this kind of warning.
But it disabled aero, the transparency disappeared, I had to reboot to get it back to work properly.
And if I oc the vga thru CCC, the screens starts to flick if I open applications, even if it is GPU-Z. Then I tried change BIOS settings, PSU, and no good result.
I think the problem is either the driver or the CCC, or both like other had said here.
The solution I found was when I installed MSI Afterburner, OCed thru it, no flicker problems, no driver reset until now.
So that is what makes me think it is something related to Catalyst driver or CCC.
I think I will try the suggestion of not installing the CCC.
BTW, when using the default clocks no problems at all, but if I OC 1 Mhz, it starts this behavior. I am using Cat. 9.10, have not tried the 9.11 beta. And the last driver that did happen the samething was 9.8 hotfix.

I had a similar problem. It is usually from overlays, multiple monitors, graphics memory overclocks, overheating, and insufficient voltage to the card; take your grab-bag pick.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

Well, my CPU is totally stable with Linpack x64 and my GPU works fine with hours of torture using Furmark or the GPU test included in OCCT which looks like furmark but in red. May be is the SMB Vulnerability hehhe, or my Creative X-Fi which is doing weird noises when I switch from different modes and It wouldn't go away until I switch it to another mode again. Ahh, Creative drivers...

X-Fi cards are extremely fickle. I was plagued by SCP issues on a system with an OS/motherboard/gfx combo creative proclaimed to be clean. The issues went away when I left voltage and clocks on auto in bios, disabled C1E and disabled speedstep. I transition through my own power states by using crystalcpuid. I get line noise when folding, but with all that EM interference, I feel it's expected and acceptable on an audio card without and EM trap/cage/shield.