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Re: Game freezing and crashing after recent AMD driver update

Possible GPU dying, but if it started after a Driver update, then most likely it was a bad driver install issue. You can do a clean install(DDS or whatever GPU manufacturer required program to do it) of the previous driver, and maybe setting back your overclocks to stock and see if it makes a difference. You may also try to remove all mods if it doesn't work. My experience with bad cards has been they artifact and then blackscreen but there is always exceptions. Also do you see any issues in other games or just DAI?

Maybe post up a DxDiag file, if you are still having issues after trying above.

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DaMelius
5 years ago
So I followed your advice to the point of reverting my overclock settings and I've found what I believe is the issue. I use GPUTweak to overclock my card a little. The driver update caused the GPU native software to apply its own overclock settings on top of GPUTweak's settings, but only when the game was open. It took using a GPU monitoring overlay for me to notice what was happening.
To clarify with some numbers.
Base GPU clock speed when gaming is 1300MHz. I set GPUTweak to overclock this to 1323MHz (+23MHz). But after the update the GPU software (Radeon Software) was also adding +23MHz, but only while the game was open so I didn't notice this when looking through the GPU settings. This brought the total clock speed to 1346MHz, which is an unstable setting and I know for a fact does cause screen freezing on my PC.
Played for a couple of hours after fixing these settings and no crash so far, so I strongly suspect this was the problem. While I may seem quite calm in the wording of this message, please be assured that I am in fact quite livid at such an inane problem to be caused by a driver update, hence my long message as a means to vent my anger. Thank you for your help, the step by step led me to the problem.