So some time ago i bought a RX 480, and it runs immaculately, bang for bucks i couldn't be more satisfied. But lately newer games like witcher 3, and fallout 4 have started completely at random just crashing, sometimes it's hours in between, sometimes never, sometimes 5 minutes, there's no trigger, or pattern. Wierd thing is i can't localize the problem, there is no exception shown, the game just shuts down, And windows error logs shows nothing. This whole thing kind of corresponds with me updating the radeon drivers to version 16.9.2 from some older version ~ some odd 2 weeks ago. So far it doesn't seem to happen to older games at least not what i've experienced yet. Has anyone had similar problems, or got any ideas what may be the cause of the problems?.
*Edit It should be noted neither cpu, ram, nor GPU are overclocked.
Only thing that comes to my mind (since I'm not very savvy about troubleshooting) is to completely uninstall the GPU driver and reinstall the version you had before the update. Sometimes driver updates can introduce problems and AMD lists known issues on their website.
Problem is, i have no idea if it is the drivers or what. And it's not even happening that often i mean i can easily live with it by just auto saving a few more times than i used to, since it's not something triggered at certain points in the game. Usually it's like 5 minutes into a game, which i can then restart and then it just runs, but this is nothing i can confirm, i've tried fallout 4 being litterally unplayble for hours, to just running with no crashes for hours. But it is kinda annoying having a looming crash which may or may not happen hanging over my head at all times.
Since you mentioned that it started happening around the time you updated the drivers I figured it couldn't hurt. At least you can somewhat rule them out as the source of the problem.
Think i got the old version lying around somewhere, ill proberly give it a toss tommorrow, but either way it's something which has to be resolved, would kind of suck being stuck at some old driver version.
Should be reference, it has that butt ugly AMD case, and sounds like a aircraft when the cooler starts ramping up anyways. The latest update AMD gave me was the 16.9.2 version. Ill try and double check if any updates are available right away.
Im currently job searching, and at times HR. dont know where my private life starts, and their authority stops, hense i shut down my facebook(for the time being) since i didnt wanna be presented with disgussing my facebook profile picture where im dressed as an old lady at an halloween party, when im interviewing for an engineering job. So facebook wise im sort of handicapped atm.
It being a reference card, i can deffinetly confirm the fans are working :p, it sounds like an aircraft carrier when im gaming ;). ill try and let the GPU run a burn test tommrrow and see if i can force a crash.
Reference 770 here! I just meant take a peek at the case fans. One time I had an insect get stuck in a cpu fan (dx4 120 days). Best off luck finding out the problem. I hate intermittent stuff.
Updating the driver definitely made a difference, had a single crash the last two days, and it was an actual crash, with skewed graphics and what not, which is bound to happen to anyone. Wierd problem but thanks for the help everyone.
I had quite a few crimson driver problems on Windows 10. I just went back to Windows 7 and didn't have any further complications. Otherwise, I'd recommend staying away from the beta driver packages.