Tech Support: "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" While gaming

[gsoul5005]

Hi,

I am using a 7970 and it works fine just mining 24/7,I even overclocked and took it to 1Ghz and no errors, but If i game along with it, I get the error "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" after some time.

Using cgminer 3.2.0 with dynamic intensity. Amd catalyst 13.4.

I Never got this error while i used to game with 6990 same system and config.

I tried lowering the clock from stock while gaming by 25mhz (to 900mhz). Did a registry edit, changed kernel etc.. nothing worked.

Any ideas what is wrong?

[Kaepora]

Hi,

I am using a 7970 and it works fine just mining 24/7,I even overclocked and took it to 1Ghz and no errors, but If i game along with it, I get the error "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" after some time.

Using cgminer 3.2.0 with dynamic intensity. Amd catalyst 13.4.

I Never got this error while i used to game with 6990 same system and config.

I tried lowering the clock from stock while gaming by 25mhz (to 900mhz). Did a registry edit, changed kernel etc.. nothing worked.

Any ideas what is wrong?

Dont mine and play games at the same time that's the problem

[Xanthe]

Dont mine and play games at the same time that's the problem

This is probably the easiest and best solution.

I too have a 7970 that I game and mine with but I never do both at once. You might try setting a low intensity as opposed to using dynamic intensity. Dynamic intensity never gave me good results, even when I wasn't using the system for anything but mining. Anyway, even though I shut down cgminer before I fire up games, I've still gotten the issue that you describe. The solution that I've found is to increase voltage (assuming your card is undervolted) or decrease clock speeds. My 7970s mine away happily at 1000mhz and 1010mV. I've literally mined for weeks straight without a single hardware error only to open up Guild Wars and be inundated with graphical artifacts and driver crashes. What I found was bumping up the voltage solved the problem (1010mV -> 1030mV). Apparently games need a little more voltage than mining which is kind of counterintuitive and weird seeing as how mining is so intensive.

In your case, you mentioned clocking the card down which should certainly help if your problem was similar to mine. It may be that your issue is different.

I hope you can get things resolved. Good luck

[Alexander The Great]

Go post this is technical help for good answers.

[gsoul5005]

I probably dont have enough posts to be able to post in that section. I will try lowering the clock more, The card runs at 925 with 1170mv by Default. The sapphire Overclock utility wont let me undervolt it.

[Kaepora]

I probably dont have enough posts to be able to post in that section. I will try lowering the clock more, The card runs at 925 with 1170mv by Default. The sapphire Overclock utility wont let me undervolt it.

Folks there will tell you the same thing, you will probably get torn up by the veterans.
Either mine or play. Or set a really low intensity and play a game.

[EfficientSystems]

This used to happen to me when my video card was overheating.

[brainsinyerface]

Looks like we got a lost case, I say throw it in the swimming pool.

[Jeronimus]

Same thing happens here but did not really find any solution. The obvious issue is cgminer itself. It seems to access resources of the GPU in a way which doesn't play nice with other 3d games using the GPU at the same time.

A different AMD driver might also fix the issue, but the main reason is cgminer itself imo.

[wpgdeez]

Don't overclock the card so much when gaming.