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Why is AMD quiet about black screens on 290x?

Hi guys,

Just got a MSI R290 and I'm getting these black screen issues.

I have tried latest beta drivers (9.5) and other previous drivers and still no joy....i thought this had been fixed?

Are any of you still getting issues? I only bought the card a couple days ago so I can easily return it if needs be.

Thanks

EDIT: Can run benches fine, just seems to be BF4. Totally STOCK clocks.
 
Hi guys,

Just got a MSI R290 and I'm getting these black screen issues.

I have tried latest beta drivers (9.5) and other previous drivers and still no joy....i thought this had been fixed?

Are any of you still getting issues? I only bought the card a couple days ago so I can easily return it if needs be.

Thanks

EDIT: Can run benches fine, just seems to be BF4. Totally STOCK clocks.

If you have a 7970 or something lying around. Just use that. Let the r9 290x cards mature before you use it.
 
my ocd 290 flashed to 290 x by ocuk is black screening in both battlefield 4 and tonight in 3?

Is this a gpu design floor or simply that even though temps dont go above 80 with fan on full chat, it cant handle the overclock?

I can run benchmarks no issues but soon as i play battlefield after so long it black screens.
 
my ocd 290 flashed to 290 x by ocuk is black screening in both battlefield 4 and tonight in 3?

Is this a gpu design floor or simply that even though temps dont go above 80 with fan on full chat, it cant handle the overclock?

I can run benchmarks no issues but soon as i play battlefield after so long it black screens.

Same issue as me mate. Although my 290 is completely stock.

I can LTC mine, run benchmarks etc but as soon as bf4 is on I get a hardlock black screen and only a reboot will sort it.

However it was okay this evening-set up custom fan profile in msi afterburner, and though extremely loud, it did not crash in 3 hours.

Thats with the 13.11 9.5 beta drivers (the latest drivers).
 
i am about to uninstall and put those new ones on, im off to stock clocks as i not used them in a game yet as thought like normal if stable when benching it should be stable in games, how wrong i seem to be.
I have set my fan profile to max and will test from there.
Is this a hardware problem i wonder...
 
i am about to uninstall and put those new ones on, im off to stock clocks as i not used them in a game yet as thought like normal if stable when benching it should be stable in games, how wrong i seem to be.
I have set my fan profile to max and will test from there.
Is this a hardware problem i wonder...
Stable for bench doesn't mean stable for games. Usually you find the stable overclock in bench such as Heaven, then for games you'd ideally knock around at least 50MHz off the core clock and 100MHz off the memory clock to give more headroom for stability.
 
Stable for bench doesn't mean stable for games. Usually you find the stable overclock in bench such as Heaven, then for games you'd ideally knock around at least 50MHz off the core clock and 100MHz off the memory clock to give more headroom for stability.

Dont want to sound argumentative but it always has done for me in the past, there is a lot of people complaining about the 290 series of cards with hard locks etc, whether its driver or hardware related only time will tell.
 
Dont want to sound argumentative but it always has done for me in the past, there is a lot of people complaining about the 290 series of cards with hard locks etc, whether its driver or hardware related only time will tell.
I was not talking about 290 hard crash issue...I was responding to your comment on graphic card overclocking of you thought that "if stable when benching it should be stable in games".

There's plenty of examples that overclocking being stable in Heaven or other benches, but not stable in BFBC2, BF3, Crysis back then as well regardless of what card people were using, and fact was that they had to lower the overclock to make them stable in demanding games.
 
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Apart from overclocking, overvolting, etc etc...

This is out of the ordinary? This is OC UK wtf


...and on the stock cooler at that...

I did try overclocking on +150mV for 1200MHz when I was still using the stock cooler for quick bench, I was sensible enough to manually turn the fan to 100% and kept the temp below 73C. Wonder if he was running the max voltage with temp hitting close to 90C for long period of time...

False assumptions...
 
I was not talking about 290 hard crash issue...I was responding to your comment on graphic card overclocking of you thought that "if stable when benching it should be stable in games".

There's plenty of examples that overclocking being stable in Heaven or other benches, but not stable in BFBC2, BF3, Crysis back then as well regardless of what card people were using, and fact was that they had to lower the overclock to make them stable in demanding games.

Very true. Benchmarking software has rarely, if ever been good for determining max stable overclocks on GPUs. I can run Heaven/Valley benchmark for an hour with no artifacting but 5 minutes into Crysis 3 or Tomb Raider I get a Display failure.
 
I've got to say, this black screen issue is infuriating.

Was very happy to win the bin lottery on my 4930k (5.1GHz @ 1.39v!), only to find my stock 290x can't last more than 5 seconds in any game before it blackscreens.

Memoryinfo says it's using Hynix mem chips, and I'm on the 9.5 beta driver which was supposed to fix the issue.

I'm rather ****ed to say the least. Really regretting the 290x decision, with the issue this severe, I'm thinking an RMA might be in order and just spend the extra money to get a 780ti instead. Sadly it'd mean no pc over the holidays. Displeased.
 
I dont think Elpida memory is as bad as people make out. My 290x has it and can do 1500 on memory with no issues. My last Hynix card turned out to be an awesome core clocker but i needed to abuse memory voltage to get the memory anywhere, then again, it didnt suffer from black screens like some 290's.
 
Got myself a Shapphire r9 290 with Elpdia mem, at first i thought it was a bad overclock giving me black screens. But i am still getting them at Stock clocks, using the latest drivers. Should I RMA the card or is it a driver problem?

Edit:
I should read the thread first, I am on 13.11 Beta 9.5 but still have this problem. So they haven't fixed it yet :/
 
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