Anyone else have display driver crashes during full screen web vids?

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I posted about this problem a bit ago and didn't get any help, but it recently happened again (with new 9.7s) when I attempted what I knew would crash my system. This time though I managed to catch a glimpse of a display driver failure notice, so I can now confirm what exactly the problem is.

Basically if I play a web video and make it full screen anywhere other than YouTube or GT.com (like IGN.com, Kotaku, etc) it will play for 30 seconds or so and then crash. The screen will go black, my mouse will become barely responsive and I'll have to hard boot.

I'm running Windows 7 RC 7100 and this has happened with both 9.6 and 9.7 Cats. Am I all alone here or does anyone know if there's a fix? I can't seem to find any info on it at all.
 
Hmm thats strange, the 9.7 is for win7, correct? I know it just came out for 7, havent had the chance to test it out yet.
 
Mr34727 said:
Hmm thats strange, the 9.7 is for win7, correct? I know it just came out for 7, havent had the chance to test it out yet.
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Yeah it's bizarre. I got 9.7 for Win 7 and assumed it would fix my issue, but it hasn't. For some reason flash hates my video drivers or something, it sucks :(
 
It may be a driver conflict with something else. If you are running a custom mouse driver try uninstalling that and just use the windows mouse driver.
 
ceeka said:
It may be a driver conflict with something else. If you are running a custom mouse driver try uninstalling that and just use the windows mouse driver.
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That's an interesting thing to note, because I'm actually having an intermittent mouse issue with my MX Revolution using SetPoint/Logitech drivers. It kind of stutters every once in a while completely randomly.. and the first time I had this issue the mouse pointer graphic totally messed itself up.

Wow if my mouse was the cause of all this graphical stuff... wow. Any ideas on how I'd be able to still run my custom mouse keybinds/settings without using the driver? Can I still use the SetPoint program without using the Logitech driver?
 
Random mouse problems and GPU issues. Do you also have crashes during full screen web vids when running at stock, without any overclock?
 
Give this site a good reading, then restart computer in safe mode, remove everything ati and run driver sweeper, restart normally and reinstall cats 9.7.
 
echn111 said:
Random mouse problems and GPU issues. Do you also have crashes during full screen web vids when running at stock, without any overclock?
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Yeah it's been like this before I OC'd it. It's only on certain web players, so it's a really weird issue. It feels like it would be a problem with Flash, but it has to also connect with the display driver because it gave that display crash error.

MrsOldMX said:
Give this site a good reading, then restart computer in safe mode, remove everything ati and run driver sweeper, restart normally and reinstall cats 9.7.
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I have the latest version of Flash, and my PC is fresh off a clean set of parts and OS install (I've only had it for like 3 weeks). The issue happened with both 9.6's and 9.5's. I'm going to try playing with my mouse settings to see if maybe I can fix two problems at once.
 
Uninstalled and reinstalled Flash: no fix.
Uninstalled SetPoint and used Win 7 default drivers: no fix.
Tried Mozilla Firefox 32 bit (read about 64 bit Flash browser issue): no fix.

It has to be the display driver. I also read up on my mouse and lots and lots of other people on multiple OS's mention the intermittent issue (gg $100 mouse thx Logitech) so it probably isn't related. I'll try a reinstall of the Cats tonight although I already know that very, very likely won't fix anything since this is all fresh OS to start with.

Sigh.
 
The only other thing I can thing of is to try taking one of your RAM sticks out and try it.
 
joecuddles said:
Uninstalled and reinstalled Flash: no fix.
Uninstalled SetPoint and used Win 7 default drivers: no fix.
Tried Mozilla Firefox 32 bit (read about 64 bit Flash browser issue): no fix.

It has to be the display driver. I also read up on my mouse and lots and lots of other people on multiple OS's mention the intermittent issue (gg $100 mouse thx Logitech) so it probably isn't related. I'll try a reinstall of the Cats tonight although I already know that very, very likely won't fix anything since this is all fresh OS to start with.

Sigh.
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It might be software. But it's unlikely as many other people are using the latest version of cats with Win7 without this problem. And, you said this is a clean install of cats on a brand new O/S install. And you had this problem before Win7 as well.

So, unfortunately, sounds like something in your hardware. I'd start diagnosing all my hardware - that memory stick suggestion is good idea. And memtest . And test that 4890 and make sure it really is healthy... etc...
 
echn111 said:
It might be software. But it's unlikely as many other people are using the latest version of cats with Win7 without this problem. And, you said this is a clean install of cats on a brand new O/S install. And you had this problem before Win7 as well.

So, unfortunately, sounds like something in your hardware. I'd start diagnosing all my hardware - that memory stick suggestion is good idea. And memtest . And test that 4890 and make sure it really is healthy... etc...
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That just seems to bizarre to me. I never had this problem on a previous OS since I just built this system and have only used Win 7. I don't get why RAM would cause my display driver to crash when watching only certain video players in full screen. It seems to be only the one or two types of embedded Flash based videos that cause a problem, and only when running full screen, it's truly bizarre.

I play a ton of games for hours (max settings obv.) and get zero issues so I'm fairly certain my video card itself is solid. I'm pretty perplexed, I just don't get it.
 
joecuddles said:
That just seems to bizarre to me. I never had this problem on a previous OS since I just built this system and have only used Win 7. I don't get why RAM would cause my display driver to crash when watching only certain video players in full screen. It seems to be only the one or two types of embedded Flash based videos that cause a problem, and only when running full screen, it's truly bizarre.

I play a ton of games for hours (max settings obv.) and get zero issues so I'm fairly certain my video card itself is solid. I'm pretty perplexed, I just don't get it.
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Hold on, maybe I misunderstood previous threads. To be completely clear: You are saying that you never tried your 4890 on any other O/S except for Win7 RC7100? Win7 RC 7100 is quite an old version of Win7, loads of fixes have been introduced since then, but what do you expect with a beta? And as a beta different results can occur with different hardware profiles. Try it with a fully released OS like Vista and see what happens or upgrade to a more stable version of Win7.
 
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