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R9 290

Cronhour

Cronhour

Cronhour

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Hi, I was told this could be a good place to get some help with the issues I've been having. I recently switched from a GTX580 sli setup to a single r9 290 after picking one up at the in store AMD event last month, it mostly works fine but ocasionally i get a second or twos freeze and then stutter in mass effect 3 and payday 2. In battlefield 4 I crash out after playing for between 20mins to 1 hour mid game with a direct x error.

I've tried a fresh install of windows along with both the beta and latest "stable drivers" but still have the same issues. I originally thought it was a catalyst control centre issue as that occasionally crashed out, but even without it installed i have the freezing and bf4 issue.

http://s2.postimg.org/3k5n7zohl/DX_R9_error.png

thats the dx error message.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Cronhour said:
Hi, I was told this could be a good place to get some help with the issues I've been having. I recently switched from a GTX580 sli setup to a single r9 290 after picking one up at the in store AMD event last month, it mostly works fine but ocasionally i get a second or twos freeze and then stutter in mass effect 3 and payday 2. In battlefield 4 I crash out after playing for between 20mins to 1 hour mid game with a direct x error.

I've tried a fresh install of windows along with both the beta and latest "stable drivers" but still have the same issues. I originally thought it was a catalyst control centre issue as that occasionally crashed out, but even without it installed i have the freezing and bf4 issue.

http://s2.postimg.org/3k5n7zohl/DX_R9_error.png

thats the dx error message.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you overclocked the card at all?

Which drivers are you using?
 
i'll stick msi afterburner on and check once i get home, when i had the issues and CCC installed it was showing 55-60 degrees i when i had the issues in ME3 and payday 2. i'm currently using the latest win8 amd drivers off their website and the card is still running stock from when i bought it.
 
Cronhour said:
i'll stick msi afterburner on and check once i get home, when i had the issues and CCC installed it was showing 55-60 degrees i when i had the issues in ME3 and payday 2. i'm currently using the latest win8 amd drivers off their website and the card is still running stock from when i bought it.
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That seems a bit too low especially for a r9 290
 
Resa69 said:
That seems a bit too low especially for a r9 290
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i installed msi afterburner and it went up to 63 playing bf4 for 20 mins until it crashed.

i'm running it on everything maxed at 1920*1080 with a second monitor showing the desktop at the same resolution.

I've an i7 sandybridge with a 120gb ssd for windows 8.1, running games off a second 512 ssd. 8 gbs of ram, cpu is around 60 under bf4 as well. I run an external HDD for video storage and an internal 1tb drive for less intensive games and other storage.

I've tried both of the driver options from this page http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows 8.1 - 64#amd-catalyst-packages
 
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