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MSI Afterburner crashes Origin or vice versa

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lavaheadache

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Been a week or so since I last ran Origin and just picked up Crysis 3. I always run Afterburner for monitoring and overclocking. Upon launching the Crysis 3 exe. I get a AMD driver recovery. I assumed it was my overclock somehow went bad and was bummed about it so I tried a lower setting and it still crashed. Reverted to stock speed and still got a AMD driver recovery.

By now my feelings were getting hurt but I wasn't willing to accept that my card was borked so I tried a different game, Far Cry 3, and all was well. next, I went back to my 1200/1600 (7970) setting and game still played perfectly so I tried Crysis 3 again..... crash as soon as the intro screens start.

Now in investigation mode so I reboot and try again this time I didn't fire up Afterburner out of haste and was happy to see that the game played. I played for about 10 minutes before I alt/tabbed out to fire up Afterburner for monitoring purposes (I have overclocking enabled upon Windows boot) and the driver recovered upon alt/tab back in.

I fired up gpu-z (to make sure my overclock was sticking) without start afterburner and went into the game. Sure enough the Lightning was humming along at 1200/1600.

No matter what I do I can't have Afterburner "running" while I play Crysis 3. I tried BF3 and while it didn't crash immediately It only lasted about 25 seconds into gameplay before I got an AMD driver recovery with Afterburner running.

Seems as though the latest Origin patch just broke Afterburner compatibility, atleast on my rig.

I'm running 13.2 beta 6 and afterburner 2.3.0 - this is the first issue I have encountered in God knows how long
 
You might try minimizing AB before you fire up Crysis 3. I get weird artifacts while mining if I leave AB maximized.
 
lavaheadache said:
yes, I have for years and this is the first time I have had issues
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For me the OSD causes all assassin's creed games to crash. When I use a hotkey to disable it, none of them ever crash.

Some games crash with OSD and others don't. Some games crash with OSD only when I alt tab. Admittedly there are only 2-3 games that crash from the OSD, nonetheless I made a hotkey to disable the OSD for those games.

Not sure if that's causing your issue, could be worth trying and fairly easy as well.
 
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I have the same issue with my 7950 running Afterburner with or without the overlay and Crysis 3.

It seems odd that such a demanding title doesn't work with an overclocking utility.

Are there any work-arounds?
 
Have you tried disabling the Origin in-game overlay ? I have it disabled always. Maybe they conflict. I have no issues with AB overlay on whatever the latest version is, but I am using nvidia hardware. I can test this on my 7950 though and see if it happens to me.
 
I still set my overclock from within Afterburner but I have to manually close the application to play the game. I have my OC apply at boot so it really is a non issue other than not having the monitoring utility running.

Origin overlay? Not sure I know what you mean. I have never seen an origin overlay
 
lavaheadache said:
I still set my overclock from within Afterburner but I have to manually close the application to play the game. I have my OC apply at boot so it really is a non issue other than not having the monitoring utility running.

Origin overlay? Not sure I know what you mean. I have never seen an origin overlay
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I didn't realize that the OC would stay with Afterburner closed. I'll have to mess with this. Thanks!
 
lavaheadache said:
I still set my overclock from within Afterburner but I have to manually close the application to play the game. I have my OC apply at boot so it really is a non issue other than not having the monitoring utility running.

Origin overlay? Not sure I know what you mean. I have never seen an origin overlay
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Origin has a function like Steam where if you hit a hotkey it opens an overlay atop of your game to access friends and other items. You can disable this function like you can in Steam in as well. I keep it disabled, maybe that is causing the issue for you having it turned on. If you go into the options for Origin somewhere in there is a way to disable it. I think it is called 'Origin in-game'
 
Grooveriding said:
Have you tried disabling the Origin in-game overlay ? I have it disabled always. Maybe they conflict. I have no issues with AB overlay on whatever the latest version is, but I am using nvidia hardware. I can test this on my 7950 though and see if it happens to me.
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Thanks man, that was the problem. :thumbsup: Now I can use in game monitoring again!!!
 
Grooveriding said:
Origin has a function like Steam where if you hit a hotkey it opens an overlay atop of your game to access friends and other items. You can disable this function like you can in Steam in as well. I keep it disabled, maybe that is causing the issue for you having it turned on. If you go into the options for Origin somewhere in there is a way to disable it. I think it is called 'Origin in-game'
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I had a issue in C3 where I had double huds on top of each other , say left hud blue game arrows - one would not move with your line of sight ,right hud energy bar one over lay would go down but the other stayed at 100%.
-the double hud went away if I changed a setting like smaa x 1 to x 2 after a a few 314.07 driver clean installs and a msi-ab reload.
-I think this was my issue turning on the overlay for DS3 to cash in points .
-will try later with osd and origin in game off.

-thanks for jogging my memory about origin enabled in game.
 
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