Ati 4890 Display Driver Has Failed And Recoverd Help! win7 64 ult

[billysharp1991]

Please help me it doesn't crash intill i play any games

Amd phenom 2 x 4 965 black edition 3.4 ghz
8gigs ram ddr 1600
windows 7 ultimate 64-bit

This is the driver version 8.632.1.2000

If you need any more information ill be looking at this intill i can get it fixed or find out what the problem is!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Go get the latest from the ATI website. Win7 drivers are still in a large state of flux from week to week.

[billysharp1991]

its not over heating it doesnt even go above 60

[Filon]

I got the same problem with my 4890. Always thought it was a hardware issue...

Did you figure out how to fix it?

lg
Filon


//Edit: got the same drivers

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The latest drivers for 4890 cards are 8.671. If you're still on 8.632, you're both way behind.

[Fizzler]

I have the latest and greatest 4890 drivers, everything is running great.

[billysharp1991]

have the latest driver crysis still crashes :( shiet i just want my 2000$ computer to work like a dream this is only thing thats been making me really hate it lol

[Pycno]

I have seen three cards of this type (4870/4890) and all three had stability issues during 3d applications (games). The problem was easily solved on all three cards, it is related to the dynamic overclocking on these cards. The GPU will clock itself down and switch between 500/750 Mhz every second, this is supposed to save power but it's not working properly.
The solution is to overclock the GPU slightly in order to lock the clock speed so it does not swing from 750/500/750 every second.
I have my GPU locked at 753Mhz (default is 750) and have not had a single crash since. These cards are fast and rock solid once you disable the buggy power saving feature.

I recommend locking the GPU core speed with RivaTuner, an app that can be downloaded from guru3d.com

This is done on your own risk btw, if you dont know how to overclock safely then get someone else to do it for you, I take no responsibility.

[Filon]

rivatuner tells me, that my display driver is not supported in the current version of riva tuner.
i just downloadet the newest version of catalyst controll center (including all driver and so on..) and i downloaded the newest version of riva tuner.

what am i doing wrong?

since it does not support my display driver, i cant overclock my gpu-speed...

lg
FIlon

[Pycno]

I dont know anything about the wrong version or unsupported display driver, if you are lucky it does not matter and it will let you change clock speed anyway. Look at the image to see where you can change gpu speed.
http://www.home.no/victork/rivatuner.JPG

[Filon]

thank you a lot!!! i found a new config file on pcgameshardware.de which introduced the 4890 to riva tuner and it works now. thanks for your image, i really appreciate your work, thanks a lot!

but still, my pc crashes all the time.... i think i have to run a few other tests to find the problem.

lg
Filon

[Pycno]

First things I would check for in your case would be the RAM, or maybe the sound card. I have no idea of knowing what causes the crashes but I have had issues with some features on my sound card that causes system crashes in games. This was solved by disabling these features.
I would also try with fewer ram chips, 1 at the time and different configurations to see if one or more of the chips are defected in some way.

System crashes could be caused by virtually anything, the above mentioned things is what I would check on first. I also recommend reformatting the computer and install a fresh clean windows.