Crashing in games?

kaotikuk

kaotikuk

kaotikuk

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Hey all, i have a problem where randomly, it happens in all games it seems, (dayz, bf3) my game will freeze, then minimise, and i have to alt tab or ctrl+alt+delete to get my mouse cursor back... The game then still appears in task bar but i cant reopen it and have to end the process. Theres times where i can play for hours with no problems. Its baffling me, ive googled and other people seem to have it but i cant find a solution.

Just died on dayz because of it which made me rage a bit haha.

Updated my drivers aswell so really dont know :(

Also monitored my temps during and see no problems there.

specs: i5 2500k
8gb ram
sapphire 7950 3gb
crucial m4 ssd 128gb

dunno what else is relevant

cheers
 
Keep your left palm away from the Windows key ;)

Know what you mean though, I've seen the same, couple of times recently when playing Toy Soldiers and remember seeing it in L4D2.

Game just minimises to the task bar for no reason, although in my case it can just be maximised again and runs as normal.

I'd just put it down to me mistakenly hitting a random key but dunno, don't think so.

I'm on Nvidia so guess its not vendor specific.
 
Which CCC are you running?
If above 12.3 un install it an grab 12.3 i was having the same problem until some one pointed out that the 12.3 is more stable for the 7xxx cards.
Since installing ive no problems and even managed a stable Oc.
Also what Psu
 
kaotikuk said:
Hey all, i have a problem where randomly, it happens in all games it seems, (dayz, bf3) my game will freeze, then minimise, and i have to alt tab or ctrl+alt+delete to get my mouse cursor back... The game then still appears in task bar but i cant reopen it and have to end the process. Theres times where i can play for hours with no problems. Its baffling me, ive googled and other people seem to have it but i cant find a solution.

Just died on dayz because of it which made me rage a bit haha.

Updated my drivers aswell so really dont know :(

Also monitored my temps during and see no problems there.

specs: i5 2500k
8gb ram
sapphire 7950 3gb
crucial m4 ssd 128gb

dunno what else is relevant

cheers
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Deus Ex crashes with me, but not nearly enough to bother me, i also see screen flickering and strange artifacts sometimes.

in Deus Ex the bug followerd me though the game crashing me every 20 mins, i just restarted the rig and it had gone, i dont think you can do anything about this.
 
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Last time I had an issue very similar to this it lasted a few days then I started to get window explorer errors, one issue lead to another and it turned out that I had a faulty RAM stick...

I would suggest you do a memory stress test just in case.
 
Just an update, playing sleeping dogs. Its crashed twice now, the second time is at a certain point in this mission which means i cant progress, everytime i look down this room on the missions "the wedding" it crashes and minimizes.

Anyone have any ideas? also im pretty sure after it minimized i saw the amd driver stopped working in the bottom right but recovered message? is it a driver issue then maybe? i just updated my drivers to see if it was the old ones but no luck.

Ye its deffo my graphics driver crashing causing it, but no idea what to do to solve it. Ive read upping vcore for my card will help? :S
 
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