ULPS causing BSOD...

[pgi947]

This one has me a little puzzled....

A while ago on windows 7 I had this strange situation, when ever I opened up a monitoring application (GPUZ, AB, Trixx etc...) AFTER I had just closed a 3d application down the system would insta-lock and eventually BSOD.

I since moved to Windows 8 and everything was fine, had some stutter in the odd game, decided to try disable ULPS (done via trixx). Seemed to disable fine but now I have the above problem back again, open monitoring program after I've closed a game/bench and boom system lock, which I can now directly relate to ULPS.

Anyone else get this or have a solution? It bothers me as when I put the cards (dual 7970's) under water shortly I'll want to OC them, obviously I can't OC/Bench with ULPS enabled and I'm likely to get BSOD's disabling it.

Edit: Must mention this has happened on 12.11 Beta8, 11 & 13.1 WHQL

 

[pgi947]

I'll did try to get the ULPS GUI config util working earlier but Windows 8 just threw a massive tantrum

 

[pgi947]

Yep I'll give it a try tomorrow (well later today).

Can you try something for me when you get chance, have no monitoring equipment open, run a game or bench, UPLS disabled, once complete try open GPUZ and let me know if your system just hangs.

I don't recall having this issue with dual 6950's, fairly sure I had ULPS manually disabled with them and it was fine.

Edit: Also try (after 3d application) opening trixx and selecting a different GPU.

 

[pgi947]

Hmm, Just going to get some shopping done then I'll have a tinker about, I had the same issue on Win7 though that was with the Betas. Perhaps could be due to me upgrading from beta11 to 13.1 rather then clean install it?

 

[pgi947]

Installed 13.1 over the top of beta11, I was going to use the AMD clean up tool until I saw the reports of it randomly removing things from windows 8 so I decided to give it a miss, avoiding ATiMan uninstaller too, last time I used it I ended up with a black screen and nothing else

I won't be touching leaked betas anymore, I got burned with the very first leaked 12.11 betas

Just home so I'll try manually disabling ULPS, failing that I'll remove the drivers/sweep and fresh install them.

 

[pgi947]

Its not that I can't use Afterburner etc...its the fact that if I want to open it AFTER I've used a 3d application my system will hang and eventually BSOD.

So say I was playing a game, then decided I wanted to bench a new OC, if I were to go direct and open Afterburner/GPUZ/Trixx my system would die, I'd need to reboot the system before hand.

I will add unofficial OC via afterburner too, though I haven't even tried XCL on it yet, currently using afterburner purely for OSD reasons.

 

[pgi947]

Would different AB profiles, say if I was to set a profile at my stock speed (1010/1375) for 3D, would these clocks stay or would they drop off? As I don't think clock speed switching helps in some games.

Ok in regedit EnableULPS is set to 1, changing that to 0 should disable it, but I noticed above it 'EnableCrossfireAutoLink' is set to 0, so is my registry disabling crossfire or is that down to zerocore?

Edit: Should EnableULPS_NA also be set to 0? Have disabled EnableULPS in both 0000 and 0001, but have the above crossfire (set to 0 in both) and NA (both set to 1) options in both folders.

Edit 2: Disabling just EnableULPS in both 0000 and 0001 still gives the system hang.

 

[pgi947]

Well I just tried this:

Set all instances of EnableULPS & EnableULPS_NA to '0'. Opened GPUZ, started render test, close render test, close GPUZ, open GPUZ = system hang.

Just when I was starting to enjoy Crossfire again too

Edit: Sorted some crossfire bugs out (in game bugs), turns out AMD saw fit to set crossfire to share utilization of 10% per card @ 2d clocks while in 3d application, deleted the AMD profile and set up my own, sorted for some games, still can't get my head around the crash thing