Game locks up, artifacts and crashes AMD display driver

Siberian

Hi guys, back in November I made a forum post looking for a solution to my game visually locking up. I gave up, and hoped that with some patching it would have been solved. Its the exact same thing now even with the Gorgeous update and the latest patch released this week. For once, I was able to alt tab out to the desktop past this, and was presented with this.



That's not how my wallpaper should look, and the pink is visible in areas throughout the Windows UI. Its frustrating that this is the only game that does this, and I cannot play it for long without this occurring. I thought AA/AO was the cause, but its not.

Any input, would be appreciated.

DC_Darkling

NS2 is heavy and really really really pushes hardware way more then many 'top games'.
Update your driver(s) and check for heating issues.

Low fps can also cause a display driver crash, see overheating

OuchOfDeath

This is either a driver or a hardware issue. Games cannot cause such an issue. They can however trigger an existing problem in the drivers or hardware that isn't triggered otherwise.

Definitely update to the latest graphics drivers and check your temperatures to make sure they're stable.

Exoskelett

im sure its the cause of wrong uninstalled and new installed graphicdrivers - have u added one of those 13.2/3 Betadrivers of AMD to ur card without completly deleting ur old ones?

Siberian

DC_Darkling wrote: »

NS2 is heavy and really really really pushes hardware way more then many 'top games'.
Update your driver(s) and check for heating issues.

Low fps can also cause a display driver crash, see overheating

Its odd, because my computer runs it very nicely maxed out at 1920x1200, where as before the Gorgeous update the FPS wasn't great.

OuchOfDeath wrote: »

This is either a driver or a hardware issue. Games cannot cause such an issue. They can however trigger an existing problem in the drivers or hardware that isn't triggered otherwise.

Definitely update to the latest graphics drivers and check your temperatures to make sure they're stable.

Haven't monitored temps in a while, but they were all well within safe limits. I'll see how it fairs now.

Exoskelett wrote: »

im sure its the cause of wrong uninstalled and new installed graphicdrivers - have u added one of those 13.2/3 Betadrivers of AMD to ur card without completly deleting ur old ones?

I'm on those currently, and every single driver both stable and alpha since NS2 release has caused this issue.

Specs are:

Phenom X4 II 955 3.7GHZ
7950 3GB
8GB DDR3
250GB SSD
Win 7 64bit

I'll try drive sweeper or whatever its called and see if I can fully clear out the old drivers if they still are present. I get some artifacting in other games but nothing so severe as this. Thanks everyone.

EDIT

Well, it crashed again after a successful drive sweep, had AA/AF/AO all off. Does that mean my GPU is faulty, despite not doing anything like this in other games?

Last thing to note in log.

Error: 4 memory leaks in 'ClientWorld' (1552 bytes)
Error: Attempted to load remote options from a file that does not exist.
Error: 4 memory leaks in 'Client' (1552 bytes)
Error: 4 memory leaks in 'Engine' (1552 bytes)

OuchOfDeath

I'd guess that it's something to do with your GPU since the corruption in the screenshot you showed us is indicative of something going wrong on the GPU side of things. It's unusual for faulty hardware to only trigger in one game though assuming other games are extremely graphics intensive too. That would be indicative of a driver issue to me, but you've tried many drivers.

I'd take a look at your temperatures before trying anything else. My first guess would be a potential temperature issue. After that I'd go through a process of elimination to nail down which piece of hardware or software is causing it. If you have any other GPUs lying around a quick switch can figure out if it really is on the GPU side of things.

Gamerkatze

what psu do you have ? i remeber on my old pc the psu was at its limit and caused some crashes.