• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Grey/ Black Striped Screen Crash HD7950 3GB

psychosamurai

psychosamurai

psychosamurai

Associate
Joined
3 Feb 2012
Posts
4
When playing more recent games such as Sleeping Dogs and Borderlands 2 (particularly the latter), my computer keeps crashing and displaying a usually grey but sometimes black or even blue or brown (have a feeling the last two are due the primary colours that were on screen before the crash) screen with vertical stripes running down it.

When this happens background audio from the games will continue but I can't do anything but reset the computer as the neither mouse or keyboard will work when this happens, i.e. I can't open Task Manager etc.

Catalyst is as far as I am aware up to date at version 12.8, so does any one out there know of any possible solutions/ what is wrong in the first place?

System Spec:
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Intel Core i5 3570K
8 GB DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Motherboard
650W Corsair TX650 V2 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply
Radeon HD7950 3072MB
 
try downclocking the gpu's memory freq by 150mhz and retest in those games,usually points to gpu memory crashing with coloured screens/freezing ect
 
I downclocked it as you said by 150mhz (it's now running at 650 instead of 800 which was the default), which seems to have semi resolved the issue, I managed to game longer, but still the grey striped screen occurred, but strangely this time after doing so it flashed back to the game screen, froze for a second but then let me continue. All a bit strange really, do you think I should down clock more? Thanks for the advice btw :)
 
Last edited:
yeah try abit more,you can also try increasing the power control setting slider in ccc overdrive

try with it at 15% and try with memory clocks back to 800mhz
 
psychodil said:
Looks like he dropped the core speed and not the memory speed :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

When I saw this I almost laughed at thinking that i would do this... double checked and needless to say I am now suitably ashamed with myself, appears in my desperation to get back to Borderlands 2 I decided reading the sliders was a waste of time....such an idiot!

That said I will try wazza300's initial solution the RIGHT way this time, and if not try adjusting the power. Again thanks guys for the help/ pointing out my sheer stupidity!:D
 
Well if your memory/clock speeds are at stock, there shouldn't be any crashing in games- you shouldn't need to underclock to get stable gameplay. I'm thinking there may be a problem with your card.
 
You still might need to up the power control,stock or overclocked,backing down memory clock to start with will help finding out what's wrong
 
Sorry, my previous post wasn't meant to sound condascending, sorry about that. The card sounds faulty to me, if it won't run at stock settings. I would reseat the card just to make sure that's not a problem.
 
Rma it, if it aint running at stock volts/core/mem i wouldn't even bother testing it as it should run straight out of the box.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom