Gaming help, broken card?

[Danny862]

Hi,
I have been playing a few games recently, i have been getting the same problem with them all...

The game will freeze and the screen will go black, a few seconds later the game will return in the position i left off in.

Any ideas?
All my games are stored on a secondary disk drive which seems to be fine.

I am using steam with some of the games, and some are on disk but linked to steam, if that makes any difference

Thanks in advanced!

 

[Marine-RX179]

Sounds like graphic driver crashed, then recovered under Windows 7. Check the temp of your graphic card first...if temp is not an issue, and try download and install a different driver.

 

[Danny862]

Thanks for your reply!
Temp hits 82C at max load, which shouldnt be the cause.
I am going to try reinstalling AMD Vision Engine Control Centre now

 

[Marine-RX179]

Best to install new driver over old. Have seen quite a lot of people manually uninstall the drivers in windows before proceeding with installing an more up-to-date drivers and end up having problems.

 

[Danny862]

ok, i did the uninstall method. but i uninstalled 12.6, then installed 12.6.

ill try a few games now and let you know how i get on

 

[Danny862]

I think i may of found the problem, but will find out soon.
I think its the overclock, which shouldnt cause a problem considering i did use AMD Auto-Tune....
oh well, more testing (good excuse for gaming)

 

[Meaker]

auto overclocking is always terrible.