Driver Stopped Responding - ALL Unreal Engine 3 games

[TIWizard]

I was having issues with Mirror's Edge a few months ago where the drivers would stop responding. I figured it was the game and forgot about it.

Now, I have Borderlands and it is doing the same thing. It appears that all Unreal Engine 3 games are causing the drivers to stop responding for some reason... Temps are always below 65 on average, but right before the crash they go up to 70-72 degrees (and the GPU usage goes from 50% to 80-100% in Borderlands).

I just can't figure out why the drivers would stop responding... Tried Catalyst 9.6, 9.8, 9.10, Vista, and Windows 7. All result in the same thing.

Anyone have any tips or fixes that might work? Getting kind of annoyed :/

These crashes don't happen on a computer with an ATI 3650 in it.

 

[TIWizard]

Looks like I got the problem partially solved... Disabling Catalyst AI in Windows Vista (9.10 drivers) stopped the crash from happening until after an hour of gameplay rather than 10 minutes. Much better.

 

[LuminaryJanitor]

I started getting those errors when I updated from Cat 9.3. Try rolling your drivers back a little further .

 

[TIWizard]

I started getting those errors when I updated from Cat 9.3. Try rolling your drivers back a little further .

That much farther

Thanks for the info, I will try that. Haven't gotten around to seeing if Mirrors Edge works with AI off, but if it doesn't, I will try the 9.3 drivers.

 

[shansoft]

That much farther

Thanks for the info, I will try that. Haven't gotten around to seeing if Mirrors Edge works with AI off, but if it doesn't, I will try the 9.3 drivers.

was playing Borderland and UT3 completely fine on 9.10 for me...

 

[TIWizard]

was playing Borderland and UT3 completely fine on 9.10 for me...

Yeah, it seems like some people have no issues at all and some people have really big problems with the game... I might try doing a full reformat, but I did install a new partition with Vista and it still didn't work without disabling Catalyst AI.