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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club

Rusty0611 said:
It's just BF4 not the whole PC. PC is completely fine. I can load straight back into the game after a crash.

Just a standard BF4 has stopped responding error... In game the game freezes then crashes. There's no visual artifacts at all in game. It runs perfectly up until the crash.
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That's Battlefield, must wait for them to fix it.
 
The only time i get crashing (or rather freezing) is in BF4 DX or Mantle; 'Mantle more than DX' only if i run a CPU / RAM overclock beyond a certain point, so i run 4.5Ghz instead of 4.6Ghz and a little more volts that it otherwise needs.
It is true that for anything else i can run 4.6Ghz.

I have not had one crash in BF4 since doing that.
Aside from a few seconds worth a few days ago (An uncharacteristic little blip) i also don't get any stuttering or Slowdowns (Memory leaks)

There is something about BF4 that demands a higher level of stability than anything else.

Hardware produces misses and errors, the higher clocked they are the more misses and errors they produce, software tolerates a certain level of misses and errors, this is true for CPU's and GPU's, you can game all day perfectly at what seems 100% stable, but put that GPU on OCCT with error checking and it may clock up 10,000 errors in less than 5 minutes of running. its not actually properly Stable.

It seems to me at least, that BF4 has a very low tolerance for instability.
 
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shankly1985 said:
BF4 crashing is across the board. Both AMD and Nvidia users are getting poor performance and crashing.
Battlelog is full of it.

CTE is from what I read running great, nice performance and crash free. If you have good internet speed and space give that ago. or wait for Patch in September.
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I wouldn't waste your time downloading it or the 30gb of space it requires, true it runs better, but its unprotected and full cheats.
 
humbug said:
The only time i get crashing (or rather freezing) is in BF4 DX or Mantle; 'Mantle more than DX' is only if i run a CPU / RAM overclock beyond a certain point, so i run 4.5Ghz instead of 4.6Ghz and a little more volts that it otherwise needs.
It is true that for anything else i can run 4.6Ghz.

I have not had one crash in BF4 since doing that.
Aside from from a few seconds worth a few days ago (An uncharacteristic little blip) i also don't get any stuttering or Slowdowns (Memory leaks)

There is something about BF4 that demands a higher level of stability than anything else.

Hardware produces misses and errors, the higher clocked they are the more misses and errors they produce, software tolerates a certain level of misses and errors, this is true for CPU's and GPU's, you can game all day perfectly at what seems 100% stable, but put that GPU on OCCT with error checking and it may clock up 10,000 errors in less than 5 minutes or running. its not actually properly Stable..
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I'm 100% stable. My CPU OC is at 4.4 GHz and the voltage is stable for 4.6 quite comfortably as well. Plus I tried it at stock with auto voltage and same crashes.

Orangey said:
Have you got Elpida RAM Rusty?? I thought the Tri-X had Hynix.
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U WOT M8?
 
Elpida does the job, no doubt about it. However according to my testing on Firestrike my 290 Elpida cards lose me over 1,200 gpu points in a single card run vs my Asus 290 with Hynix memory. If you're not benching then it will make very little difference. In games this probably translates to 1-2 fps maximum.
 
Also running with Elpida memory but works fine, also after doing a little modding l added some heatsinks to the VRM 1 and 2, with a seperate fan blowing over VRM 1, now with all fans set to low the GPU hits 57'c, VRM 1 @ 81'c and VRM 2 @ 60.c. Sure l now have 9 fans in my case but still pretty quiet :). Just won't be removing the R9 290 any time soon lol, zip tied to the max :) Apart from that the NZXT does a stirling job.
 
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