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Anonymous
12 years ago

Red Screen of Death

Red screen of death when crossfire enabled in both d3d and mantle

Disabling crossfire or using borderless mode allows the game to run fine

only happens in this game 

Latest 14.7 RC installed 

system

i5 3570k

8gb 1600 vengeance ram

2x r9 270x toxic editions

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  • EA_Barry's avatar
    EA_Barry
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    12 years ago

    What Operating System are you using?

    Does this still happen when using the 14.4 version of Catalyst?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    os windows 8.1 pro 64 bit

    will try 14.4 tomorrow and let you know

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    installed 14.4

    game starts in d3d but only utilises one card

    under mantle red screen crash

    stability monitor

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    @Deadgedd wrote:

    Disabling crossfire or using borderless mode allows the game to run fine


    The game just doesn't support Crossfire yet in any optimal way.  If the RSOD goes away when not using crossfire don't use it until next patch.

    Is it just a solid red screen or does it look this?

    Usually that means something is wrong with the drivers.  It would be no shock to me if your ATi drivers are messed up even after reinstalls of different versions.  If so I'd suggest we uninstall, go to safe mode, run cleaner tools specific for ATi cards... restart reinstall.  let me know if you need detailed instructions and what cleaners to use if you go down this path.

    We need the Tech Details of your crash not a screen shot of the GUI of crash history hehe.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Sure are a lot of ati****.sys failures... 

    If your up for it... try run a benchmark on it like Heaven or FurMark or anything you like.... Stress those GPUs out... see if the RSOD happens then.

    Yeah you do it right... but those errors man....  DDU, DriverSweeper, Radeon Removal tool... ya those are the ones like you use.

    If you can reproduce those RSOD in a stressful benchmark... Maybe reseat them?  Ensure power cables are in tight...  Crossfire bridge is on good, if it has 2 xfire places, switch it.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    @Deadgedd wrote:

    Red screen of death when crossfire enabled in both d3d and mantle

    Disabling crossfire or using borderless mode allows the game to run fine

    only happens in this game 

    Latest 14.7 RC installed 

    system

    i5 3570k

    8gb 1600 vengeance ram

    2x r9 270x toxic editions


    Red Screen Of Death almost always means your cpu or memory is not stable. Put them both back to stock, or up cpu/memory voltages. Check memory timings. Unlikely to be gpu related.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    cpu is at stock

    memory is under xmp profile

    unigene heaven no crashes max temp 70c

    firestrike completes latest score 8970

    extensive steam library and multiple origin games including bf3/bf4 battle.net games wow/d3/sc2 all fine

    any system instability should manifest itself elsewhere surely not just in PvZ GW

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I suspect crossfire is putting more strain in the mobo cpu/dram/vccio voltages. Increase them all a notch or two from stock. If it still happens after that then maybe a gpu issue. I've had the red screen myself and on friends computers and it was always cpu/dram/timings/voltage related.

    Try using the latest 14.7 drivers if you're not already. Uninstall the older ones first!

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