6870 and 'mdkmdap stopped responding' error

Smoove910

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So I have been receiving random "Display Driver Has Stopped Responding" errors while playing Bulletstorm and Just Cause 2. The screen would simply freeze, and would be resolved with a CTRL/ALT/DEL, then hopping back into the game. Today I ran the WEI assessment in Windows 7 (64-bit) and it gave me the error too. The test kept running and it didn't seem like it caused an issue since the assessment completed.

I tried updating and reinstalling the latest Catalyst drivers.
Backed off V-card overclock
Added a hair more voltage to CPU through the BIOS
Set V-card back to stock settings

None of these worked. However, I found something interesting. I was originally running without a paging file since I have 16gb of ram. For shits and giggles I set the paging file and low and behold I haven't had a crash since.

Purpose of the thread - To offer people searching the interwebs a possible solutions since I have read about people replacing their powersupply or RMA-ing their cards due to this error. Hope this helps someone!
 
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