I am having a recurring graphics card driver problem.
I recently got an XFX 7950 DD at a ridiculously low price from a reputable dealer (I think it was a pricing error).
However I am having recurring driver issues with games:
1). CIV 5 crashes regularly. Sometimes I can load into the game in DX 11 mode and play a few turns sometimes it crashes at the save game loading splash screen. The game will freeze, music continues, and when I minimise it to desktop I often see this error: FGX Renderer 11:: Present failed hr= DXGI_error_device_removed driver failure. DX9 mode is much more reliable although I have had a crash using it.
2). Skyrim will sometimes crash to a white screen. Often if I can play a few minutes it will allow me to play for a while and sometimes it doesn’t crash
3). Mass Effect 3. Often fine but has also started crashing every so often in a similar way to Skyrim (bar the screen going white).
And also when using Windows 7 (64 bit):
4). I get recurring graphic driver failures and then messages that it’s recovered. When this happens the screen will freeze for a few seconds, sometimes flicker and then recover. This is the same message that appears on the right of the task bar when a game crashes. Tends to happen with web-browsing more than word processing etc - wondering if this is Flash using the gpu?
Less frequently the screen will die entirely and I have to restart - but this is very infrequent compared to the above.
My system: Qx6700 @3ghz MSI p67 Platinum Motherboard, 600 watt Zalman PSU. The PSU has two 6 pin power connectors for supporting crossfire or SLI. I’ve used both available connectors to power the one 7950.
Just prior to installing the new card I had cloned my system disk onto an SSD. I would have done a clean install but I am planning to upgrade to IB in the next few weeks and so didn’t want the hassle of a clean install twice.
Driver 12.4 is more stable than any of the subsequent drivers, especially in Windows, but still is not great. I have tried reinstalling with driver sweeper and without and it’s the same result. Errors 1 - 4 still occur with all available AMD drivers just with varying frequency. I haven't found a totally stable one.
My main question is could it be because I cloned my system disk? I’ve not had any other issues with other systems – just graphics. I guess it could also be a hardware fault with the card but would I keep getting driver-specific errors if it were?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
I recently got an XFX 7950 DD at a ridiculously low price from a reputable dealer (I think it was a pricing error).
However I am having recurring driver issues with games:
1). CIV 5 crashes regularly. Sometimes I can load into the game in DX 11 mode and play a few turns sometimes it crashes at the save game loading splash screen. The game will freeze, music continues, and when I minimise it to desktop I often see this error: FGX Renderer 11:: Present failed hr= DXGI_error_device_removed driver failure. DX9 mode is much more reliable although I have had a crash using it.
2). Skyrim will sometimes crash to a white screen. Often if I can play a few minutes it will allow me to play for a while and sometimes it doesn’t crash
3). Mass Effect 3. Often fine but has also started crashing every so often in a similar way to Skyrim (bar the screen going white).
And also when using Windows 7 (64 bit):
4). I get recurring graphic driver failures and then messages that it’s recovered. When this happens the screen will freeze for a few seconds, sometimes flicker and then recover. This is the same message that appears on the right of the task bar when a game crashes. Tends to happen with web-browsing more than word processing etc - wondering if this is Flash using the gpu?
Less frequently the screen will die entirely and I have to restart - but this is very infrequent compared to the above.
My system: Qx6700 @3ghz MSI p67 Platinum Motherboard, 600 watt Zalman PSU. The PSU has two 6 pin power connectors for supporting crossfire or SLI. I’ve used both available connectors to power the one 7950.
Just prior to installing the new card I had cloned my system disk onto an SSD. I would have done a clean install but I am planning to upgrade to IB in the next few weeks and so didn’t want the hassle of a clean install twice.
Driver 12.4 is more stable than any of the subsequent drivers, especially in Windows, but still is not great. I have tried reinstalling with driver sweeper and without and it’s the same result. Errors 1 - 4 still occur with all available AMD drivers just with varying frequency. I haven't found a totally stable one.
My main question is could it be because I cloned my system disk? I’ve not had any other issues with other systems – just graphics. I guess it could also be a hardware fault with the card but would I keep getting driver-specific errors if it were?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
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