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hd5850 crashing

Monster ninja

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hey guess overclocking my HD5850
works great in stress testing(few hours worth)
games(few hours of assassins creed 2, dirt 2 DOW, fsx)
hd video

however watching vids from youtube or any other stearmed videos makes the drivers crash???!!!

i have tryed restarting pc, its running cool no aftifacts????

anyone know why and how to stop it, thanks ;)
 
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Mine does the same if the overclock is on... I'll have it OC'ed to 850/1200 and when I watch a film or watch a youtube video, the driver crashes or either BSOD. I just turn off the OC and everything is fine before I watch a film or what ever.

I think it maybe ATI driver issue or MSI Afterburner as I'm sure it didn't use to do this a little while back.
 
What software are you using to overclock? are you using more than one monitor? Using the afterburner unofficial overclocking method can cause crashes with flash content.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
What software are you using to overclock? are you using more than one monitor?
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i am using the latest verson of MSI after burner that came with the card? then i have updated it, i have my old GTX260 in the same rig running unofficial overclocking with no proplems i do more youtube surfing than gaming how ever its says the drivers crass and flash
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
What software are you using to overclock? are you using more than one monitor? Using the afterburner unofficial overclocking method can cause crashes with flash content.
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Thanks for clearing that up Raven, I'm doing the unofficial overclock using afterburner, atleast I know the problem now!

Merry Christmas! :)
 
reinstalling afterburner now and not using unoffcial i will update u guys in a few min

merry christmass

EDIT: turned down my memory clock from 1100 mhz to 1000(stock speed) and it worked fine (core speed oc to 800mhz)
 
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Yeah merry Xmas. Only answer is to not overclock using the unofficial method or disable flash content in your browser but this will not solve crashing from watching hardware accelerated videos in a media player.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah merry Xmas. Only answer is to not overclock using the unofficial method or disable flash content in your browser but this will not solve crashing from watching hardware accelerated videos in a media player.
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windows media player works fine? kinda sucks really an overclocking based card and i cant really oc it :D
 
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Yeah it may use different clocks for media player that don't crash the system, flash content is the main culprit, try disabling it in your browser if you wish to keep your overclocks.
 
Not a very helpful comment I know but ATI/AMD have had problems with hardware accelerated surfaces in desktop mode for years, nothing new just the newer updates to flash have brought it more to the surface. I don't think theres much you can really do, theres various work arounds but it will always be lurking beneath the surface.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah it may use different clocks for media player that don't crash the system, flash content is the main culprit, try disabling it in your browser if you wish to keep your overclocks.
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cant really do that i watch a lot of youtube videos.. so i am going to have to use offical Over clock.. sucks that they limted it from 70% to a 50% clock...
 
Its a well known problem that occurs when you OC over the normal limits.

Only happens with Flash content...

You can either keep your OC below normal CCC limits then flash video will work fine or you can disable hardware acceleration in flash video's.

Next time you open a page like youtube with flash video don't click play, right click on the video and open 'global settings' you will see a tick box with 'enable hardware acceleration' make sure its unticked and restart your comp... next time you play a flash video it will be fine even if you OC over normal limits.
 
danceforfreedom said:
Its a well known problem that occurs when you OC over the normal limits.

Only happens with Flash content...

You can either keep your OC below normal CCC limits then flash video will work fine or you can disable hardware acceleration in flash video's.

Next time you open a page like youtube with flash video don't click play, right click on the video and open 'global settings' you will see a tick box with 'enable hardware acceleration' make sure its unticked and restart your comp... next time you play a flash video it will be fine even if you OC over normal limits.
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awesome cheers my freind! giving it a try now ;)
 
There is a noticeable difference with HD content, GPU acceleration does give a better quality image that's smoother with less pixelation
 
RavenXXX2 said:
There is a noticeable difference with HD content, GPU acceleration does give a better quality image that's smoother with less pixelation
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its a bit more pixely but for youtube it will be fine :) or i will have to make to profiles and switch between the 2 gaming and youtube

EDIT: thanks for your help guys! working fine now with unofficial overclock 850mhz core and 1200mhz memory

soon i will make a stock and OC profile in afterburner so i can turn on hardware acceleration :) once again thanks guys

have a good christmass!!!!
 
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