Games crashing on new build, can't display 4k

Ian the bassist

Build

Cpu- Intel haswell 5960k 8 core CPU

Graphics- Gigabyte Radeon r9 295x2

Motherboard- Asus rampage v deluxe X99 motherboard

Ram-16gb corsair vengeance 2888Mhz DDR4 RAM 4x4gb

Corsair atx 860i 860 watt PSU

Running on water cooling (maintaining good temperature on cpu and GPU, in the 30's for CPU and always below the 75 on the GPU)

Now to detail the problems.

1. When I start running certain games, it can just full on crash my computer. It doesn't seem to crash, until you try mess with the settings, particularly antialiasing and v sync. It happened on metro last light and max Payne. GTA IV crashed the desktop, but not the whole computer, GTA was stuttery as hell as well. Other games work without a hassle, resident evil remake, batman arkham city, Scribblenauts, but then others have crashes or else graphical errors(even meat boys is weird, and won't display properly). No over clocking is being done and I've got the games set to the highest on every game at 1080p.

2. My computer won't let me output to my Samsung hu7200 in anything higher than 1080p. It just doesn't show up in the windows settings. I can make the graphics card "fake it" by going into the graphics settings and doing the super rendering and it goes to 3200x1800.

Does anyone know what might be causing it. I don't know for sure, but I've heard the PSU can cause crashes like this, but with an 860 watt, would this happen when playing games? I got recommended the specs by a mate who knows more about computers than me, but decided to ask here, because he seems to be a bit unsure on certain things, better to come and ask the experts. Thanks for your time.

ED E

Crashing sounds like a driver issue. Are you using the Omega drives or the previous release?

4K may be due to the cable in use.

Display Port ready : 1.2 Dual link Support : Y HDMI Ready : 1.4a Max Supported Resolution (ANALOG) : 2048 x 1536 Max Supported Resolution (DIGITAL) : 4096 x 2160 Output - DL-DVI-D : 1 Output - mini DP : 4

You need a cable and TV that will support HDMI 1, check all the ports are the same.

If thats all ok and the TVs EDID doesnt tell the PC it can do 4K you can manually add a panel profile to the list in the catalyst control centre.

Ian the bassist

ED E wrote: »

Crashing sounds like a driver issue. Are you using the Omega drives or the previous release?

4K may be due to the cable in use.



You need a cable and TV that will support HDMI 1, check all the ports are the same.

If thats all ok and the TVs EDID doesnt tell the PC it can do 4K you can manually add a panel profile to the list in the catalyst control centre.

Thanks for all the reply. I did some tests(this is to do with the crashing, I've accepted the 4k dilemma) and I can say that I'm pretty sure it's to do with the graphics card. Crysis 2 will crash without getting into even the menus, but with on board graphics, it seems to not crash when I start it. I'm on the omega drivers, the latest ones, so I'm going to try using earlier versions of the drivers to see if this fixes it, as well as update the BIOS if I'm not on the latest. Anything else I can try?

ED E

Furmark. That'll prove if the GPU is stable or not.

BUT, the fact that it crashes on open rather than 10 mins in doesnt sound like a hardware issue. Sounds like it loads DirectX and bugs out.