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FurMark / Heaven stable but BSOD in games

Kralnor

Kralnor

Kralnor

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I had my Club3D HD7850 up to 1120/1300 stable in FurMark/Heaven without increasing voltage, yet it keeps giving me a BSOD in Diablo 3.

At 1120/1200 (stock memory clock) I had what I would call "soft" lockups in Diablo 3 - the screen would freeze for a few moments but rendering would continue afterwards. At 1100/1200 I don't have such issues, but I still BSOD after anywhere from 30-60 minutes.

I have run Heaven for about 40 mins without any problems. FurMark at 1120/1300 ran just fine for 60 mins as well.

Temps are fine as the card maxes out at 67C during D3, 71C in Heaven and 75C in FurMark.

Any idea what's going on? Could it be a driver issue? Is there any other tool I could use to test?

The BSOD in question is always a 0xA0000001.

I'm running Catalyst 12.11 betas.
 
Blue screen of death is more often than not an unstable CPU/memory. Don't jump to the assumption its the card or drivers. Test the CPU with prime95 and the memory with memtest.
 
Whenever i get "atikmdag.sys" bluescreens i naturally assume its the driver, rollback to last stable drivers and they tend to go away.

Have you tried 12.10s? To see if it is indeed drivers?
 
psychodil said:
Blue screen of death is more often than not an unstable CPU/memory. Don't jump to the assumption its the card or drivers. Test the CPU with prime95 and the memory with memtest.
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Hmm, that might be, but the thing is that I have not had any BSODs in almost 4 months. They only just recently started appearing after I upgraded my 5770 to this new 7850. And I have never seen 0xA0000001 before now.

Tonester0011 said:
Whenever i get "atikmdag.sys" bluescreens i naturally assume its the driver, rollback to last stable drivers and they tend to go away.

Have you tried 12.10s? To see if it is indeed drivers?
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I'm not getting any filename with the BSOD, but it might be the driver, yes. I've only used 12.11's so far but if they aren't stable then they're obviously not worth using over the slightly slower 12.10's.
 
Give older drivers a try or even lower your OC. It could well be stable in Heaven but that doesn't mean to say it is stable in games.
 
Yup yup, for now I've dropped all the way down to 1050/1200. Going to keep it there for a few days or until the next BSOD.

Good to know it's not an unusual problem - cheers for the fast replies!
 
Haven't had any BSOD's since last I posted, now running at 1075/1250, which seems to be about as far as I can go without adding more voltage.

Something to play with down the road...
 
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