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

[arctic]

Tired of the solution being told "AMD is trash"... I am not buying another 200-300 dollar card for one game.

I have everything turned all the way down when I should be able to play max. Plus I am still getting random slow downs followed by a crash half the time.

I am running the latest beta drvier.. The game crashes with non beta and beta drivers.

Your power supply is probably crap.

[The-Alchemist]

Your power supply is probably crap.

My power supply is not crap. It is a corsair module powersupply. None of the parts in my computer are crap.. However, the corsair psu is 5 years old and only 520 watts running a CPU overclocked. I did the math and I am just within tolerance of being able to run my setup by 20 watts lol.. A new PSU has been on my list for about a year now.

Anyway here is my setup for people saying its crap parts..

AMD FX 6100 overclocked to 4.73 gigawats
Corsair Obsadian Case
Corsair 520watt Powersupply
8gb DDR3 Ram Kingston
SSD 120gb Kingston Hyper-X
WD Raptor Harddrive 250gb
AMD 6950
Custom Loop Trip Rad Water cooling
Gigabyte Ultra duable mobo

[Kittra]

My power supply is not crap. It is a corsair module powersupply. None of the parts in my computer are crap.. However, the corsair psu is 5 years old and only 520 watts running a CPU overclocked. I did the math and I am just within tolerance of being able to run my setup by 20 watts lol.. A new PSU has been on my list for about a year now.

A new PSU would definitely help your setup in the long run, but I don't think it's going to solve your problems.

Personally, I would step down your AMD's clock a bit (try 4.3ghz) and see if that helps at all. I had my i7 3770k overclocked to 5.0ghz and always wondered why I was getting a frame drop in the beta of FFXIV, and after stepping it down to 4.0 for a test I saw a big performance increase. I have no idea why it works that way, but it did and it's all I can really think to suggest outside of giving AMD's beta drivers a try.

[arctic]

I did the math and I am just within tolerance of being able to run my setup by 20 watts lol.. A new PSU has been on my list for about a year now.

AMD FX 6100 overclocked to 4.73 gigawats
Corsair Obsadian Case
Corsair 520watt Powersupply
8gb DDR3 Ram Kingston
SSD 120gb Kingston Hyper-X
WD Raptor Harddrive 250gb
AMD 6950
Custom Loop Trip Rad Water cooling
Gigabyte Ultra duable mobo

I'll just go ahead and assume that since you're running water cooling everything is ok on the thermal front. When you did your wattage calculation did you factor in the radiators as well? Assuming they're running off the PSU and not external power. It might be a pain but I'd recommend picking up a higher-wattage psu from a store with a good return policy. Probably a 650w with your setup. Hook it up and test it out and see if there's any changes. If it didn't fix anything take it back. Or if it did fix it and you can find a better deal online and don't mind waiting take it back

If you're absolutely confident in your hardware then I'd recommend backing up your bios profile ( if you can ) and then defaulting the BIOs and start benchmarking and torture testing to check stability.

I'm not too crazy about the guide but there's a lot of decent free software for benchmarking and torture testing on this site:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/20288...-hardware.html

Slowly build your overclock up till you can narrow down where it can't take it anymore and then find a happy medium between thermal performance and high O/C number. I probably don't have to tell you this, but those who aren't aware, even with a high # and thermal stability you can still squeeze out more performance at lower overclocks when the thermal limit isn't border-lined.

Worst case you can always check to see if there's a firmware update for the video card, or just RMA it.