Frequent Catalyst Driver Crashes

[Rhylee_Mau]

I have an OC'd 5850. I used to have crashes at anything beyond 73 deg. C. However, I realized it is not the GPU core that is overheating. It is the video memory. I reduced the clock on those to something more reasonable and my GPU can now reach temps of 80 deg. C and a little beyond without crashing the drivers. FFXIV does have huge textures so the stress is on the video memory. Most other games are ports from 360 and PS3 these days and those systems do have limited vram and the games reflect that. Perhaps dust out the card *can't hurt* or perform some diagnostic with software on the memory.

[Coldfire]

I have an OC'd 5850. I used to have crashes at anything beyond 73 deg. C. However, I realized it is not the GPU core that is overheating. It is the video memory. I reduced the clock on those to something more reasonable and my GPU can now reach temps of 80 deg. C and a little beyond without crashing the drivers. FFXIV does have huge textures so the stress is on the video memory. Most other games are ports from 360 and PS3 these days and those systems do have limited vram and the games reflect that. Perhaps dust out the card *can't hurt* or perform some diagnostic with software on the memory.

OMG I had exactly the same problem with my HD5850. Watercooling removed the problem. With HD5870 no problem either (well maybe 'cause my model is watercooled by default xD).

[Rhylee_Mau]

OMG I had exactly the same problem with my HD5850. Watercooling removed the problem. With HD5870 no problem either (well maybe 'cause my model is watercooled by default xD).

Yeah I got the Gigabyte version of the 5850 OC... and I pushed it some more XD The GPU cooler is pretty nice, but they didn't give the video memory any cooling at all -_-. Still I can't really justify spending $80 bucks for a + 25MHz core clock and + 25 MHz memory clock increase.