Matle freeze with R9-280X
When playing the game with Mantle the game freezes after 30-40 minutes of gameplay. This happens only with my 280X, i tried a 290X on the same PC and it works without problems. I'm using latest dri...
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@TTVtwitchTV_TTV wrote:
Normal RAM usage is 4.5-5.5GB out of 8GB. The Task Manager shows BF4 to be using 2-2.2GB.
I'll run it on Medium setting and see if it changes anything.
You might want to use the tool I mention in http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/Possible-solutions-INFO-REQUEST-NP-Pool-Memoryleak-PC-only/td-p/1951455 to see if it's the Non Paged Pool section of the memory there's a memory leak happening in, although I doubt it.
"@killerwhalsam: He does never actually state that he has confirmed it is being used in BF4 so I was trying to confirm that this was the error. 
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As the OP told in his first post "When playing the game with Mantle the game freezes after 30-40 minutes of gameplay.", I think that's pretty self-explanatory 🙂
These are all the memory usages when the last freeze happened.
The game was on Medium video settings.
So, it doesn't seem to be a memoryleak which is nice. It might be a driver issue then, have you tried a clean reinstall of the GFX driver?
The following is one way to do it. There's also programs to help you like http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
This is how you do a clean graphic driver clean install:
Start by downloading your graphic card drivers from here,
AMD; http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
NVidia; http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Download the one you have and save it on desktop, you are going to need it!
So after downloading and saved it follows these instructions to the letter,
1- press windows button,
2- right click my computer,
3- press property’s, you will get a new window here.
4- in the new window click device manger on your left side of the screen, you will get another new window here,
5- you will see in the latest window a list of devices you have in your computer, click on the arrow beside Display driver and a small fall down menu will show you what kind of graphic card you have.
6- left click on your (graphic card name) so it’s highlighted in blue,
7- right click (graphic card name) and press property’s, you will get a new small window here,
8- in the new small window click on Drivers, you will see the name between the tabs,
9- in the driver menu click on uninstall, you will now get a really small window that ask you if you’re really sure that you want to uninstall you’re graphic card drivers,
10- click ok,
11- after you have uninstall you’re drivers restart you’re computer,
12- after you have started up your computer, click on your graphic card install file,
13- follow the instructions of your graphic card installer, Pick Custom / Advanced and only check off for Nvidia 1- Graphics Driver 2- PhysX System and for AMD card only check off display driver and catalyst control center.
14- when you have Install your graphic card drivers, restart / Reboot your computer,
15- you’re doneI did some research and it turns out this issue is driver related and it affects mainly the R9-280X.
Many people with my GPU are experiencing this and AMD has aknowledged this problem and will release a new driver to fix it.
Sorry for wasting your time on this and thank you for all the suggestions, especially Carbonic.
I'll take note of the 280 issue and suggest directx until a driver arrives in the future.
Glad I could, try to, help 🙂
