All games crash in AMD Eyefinity, work fine on single display.

[Corssair]

Hello.

Since I installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate for software developing, every single game I run crash after a couple of minutes of gameplay. I have format the entire system and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, but strangely it did not help or I messed up something once again.

I did not install Visual Studio after formatting, but it didn't help. Games run in a single screen mode, but they crash in eyefinity(5760x1080p). I have been trying using drivers 13.4, 13.9 and 13.10 Beta 2. I have also tried swapping PCI-E slots for both cards, but all gives them same result. When I stress cards with Furmark no errors come up, and no artefacts can be seen. Temperatures are OK.

My spec:

2x HD7970 3GB XFX (no OC)
i7 2600k 4.4Ghz @ 1.27v + Corsair H100
Corsair 16GB Ram 1866
Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z
Crucial M4 128GB + Samsung F3 1TB
Corsair AX1200 PSU.
Titanium HD
3x Dell U2312HM.

Games crash with an error message "Has stopped working".
Games that crash:
Far Cry 3
Battlefield 3 & 4
GTA IV
Counter Strike: Source
Pay Day 2

 

[Rilot]

Does it crash with a single card? Ie. disable crossfire.

 

[LtMatt]

Have you got net framework 4 and 4.5 fully installed and fully up to date via windows update?

 

[Silent_Scone]

So does it work in eyefinity in futuremark?

 

[Corssair]

Rilot, I have not yet tried disabling Crossfire, I will give it a shoot once I'm back home.

LtMatt, I assume Net Framework are and were up to date before formatting the system. I always update the system when it's asking to.

MjFrosty, didn't try it but I will.

 

[Corssair]

Hey again.

I have tried disabling Crossfire and restoring CPU setting's to default.

With Disabled CF, and default settings on CPU GTA IV does not crash in Eyefinity.
With Disabled CF, overclocked CPU GTA IV does not crash in Eyefinity.
With Enabled CF, overclocked CPU GTA IV causes BSOD:
0x000003B


Before, on the old copy of system I was getting 3B along with dxgmms1.sys.

EDIT:

GTA just crashed on a SINGLE screen with a code of 0x00007E - dxgmms1.sys. with CF on, and OC on CPU.

Spoiler

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
  <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" /> 
  <EventID>41</EventID> 
  <Version>2</Version> 
  <Level>1</Level> 
  <Task>63</Task> 
  <Opcode>0</Opcode> 
  <Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-10-11T02:48:46.944409600Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>6769</EventRecordID> 
  <Correlation /> 
  <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" /> 
  <Channel>System</Channel> 
  <Computer>SEELE</Computer> 
  <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> 
  </System>
- <EventData>
  <Data Name="BugcheckCode">126</Data> 
  <Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0xffffffffc0000005</Data> 
  <Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffff88008620e1d</Data> 
  <Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0xfffff88015973568</Data> 
  <Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0xfffff88015972dc0</Data> 
  <Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data> 
  <Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data> 
  </EventData>
  </Event>

and this error in event log :

Spoiler

Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.

 

[DJ_Bucho]

I'd say your problem is definitely Crossfire related as from the results above it doesn't seem to have crashed when Crossfire is disabled. To be perfectly honest I'm very new to the while multi GPU setup, but have you tried the basic stuff like removing the cards and then reinstalling them? What about switching the cards round, so your using the secondary card in the primary PCI-E slot, that might make a difference. How about trying a different Crossfire Bridge as that might be a dodgy one your using. Have you always had this problem when trying to run Crossfire, or is this a relatively new problem?