What is being done about crashes from AMD Video card users?

[TonyUK]

Yoshi is going to help you OP. "Please look forward to it"

[Enemyz]

I've crashed with Nvidia when I run into a new area and hit a brick wall then get a runtime error not sure if that is what happens to you.

[hydralinsk]

On a somewhat relevant but not really relevant case, I am running the 7850 @ max settings with 1920x1080 with beta 2 driver.

My question is, when I use the mouse to turn while strafing (both mouse buttons held down, moving mouse left and right while pressing a/d to strafe), the graphics like stutter almost. It isn't too bad or anything it just makes the distant images shake a little bit. Do you guys think this is:

1) internet issue/ping/latency
2) mouse sensitivity issue (I use the razor abyssus - it's fairly sensitive from playing SC2)
or 3) GPU/System issues?

I ran the benchmark with a score of 7450 on max full screen 1920x1080, so I don't think it's the latter. Any tips would be appreciated!

[Mycow8me]

Is anything on your computer overclocked? Is your video card stock overclocked? I can't count how many times I read about a factory overclocked card causing problems.

[Tam3n]

My question is, when I use the mouse to turn while strafing (both mouse buttons held down, moving mouse left and right while pressing a/d to strafe), the graphics like stutter almost. It isn't too bad or anything it just makes the distant images shake a little bit. Do you guys think this is:

1) internet issue/ping/latency
2) mouse sensitivity issue (I use the razor abyssus - it's fairly sensitive from playing SC2)
or 3) GPU/System issues?

I ran the benchmark with a score of 7450 on max full screen 1920x1080, so I don't think it's the latter. Any tips would be appreciated!

I think everybody is getting this... Whenever you are turning the fps tends to drop. Well I noticed that even in the character selection screen when you move your mouse over and off your character's name the back ground animation stutters, lul.

[Aiyza]

I don't think my crashing has to do with my video card but I do have random lag spikes with my crossfire mobility radeon hd 5870. I'm at 60 fps...next minute I'm at 15 for no reason. Nothing in the environment is causing me to lag. Like I'll be by myself or in a cut scene when it happens. I seem to crash when I alt-tab too much. I don't really have random lag spikes with my crossfire off but I get better fps with it on with max settings.

[Mishakai]

Sounds like a driver issue to me. Might have to wait for AMD to figure out the issue and release drivers to fix it specifically.

[Soukyuu]

I've been having slowdowns on nVidia as well, it has something to do with the number of player characters on screen, I haven't monitored it yet, but I think my GPU runs out of memory and has to start swapping. It runs fine@30fps+ usually, but for example yesterday in Drybone it was pretty bad with drops to <10fps. I don't think it's a driver problem, but a performance problem. They should add an option to limit visible models dynamically depending on your GPU.

[Soukyuu]

Some day, young padawan, you shall revel in the glory of Fermi and Kepler GPUs. Leave the crappy drivers behind, and come to the Nvidia side. We have cookies.

That's a good one. What about the recent 320.18 drivers causing dead cards and BSODs?
And I've been having my share of crashes on my nVidia GPU as well. Especially alt-tab, which is ridiculous, considering that was supposed to be fixed. Back to borderless windowed...

Is anything on your computer overclocked? Is your video card stock overclocked? I can't count how many times I read about a factory overclocked card causing problems.

It's correct that factory OC is not as stable as the manufacturers promise - at least not over time. My GPU was running fine since I bought it but recently started crashing randomly. Clocking the VRAM down a few MHz solves the issue, so I guess it can't take the clocks anymore.

[Exn]

It's correct that factory OC is not as stable as the manufacturers promise - at least not over time. My GPU was running fine since I bought it but recently started crashing randomly. Clocking the VRAM down a few MHz solves the issue, so I guess it can't take the clocks anymore.

Yeah, its prolly related to this. I was previously running two 7870's in crossfire, overclocked, and would get somewhat random crashes. At first I thought it was just a overheating issue once I realized Afterburner wasn't regulating my 2nd GPU's fan correctly and had temps well over 90. After setting up the 2nd fan in CCC and bringing the temps down, I would still get occasional crashes OC'd (which was running smooth before crossfire). After dropping back the OC, I haven't had any more issues, yet..