MSI Afterburner crashing problems

[UnderwearThief]

So basically the deal is that when I am playing a youtube video and I try to open MSI Afterburner, my computer crashes and skips the last audio that was played. It also happened once in Metro Last Light once, and the display turned red as well. It was right after you escape the nazis and are just about to go out onto the surface(crashed when I walked up the stairs leading to the surface). I also tried with GPU Tweak, same thing happened.

 

Specs:

i5-4690k(stock)

MSI Z97 Gaming 5 with newest BIOS

Asus DCII OC R9 290 at stock

WD Blue 1TB

Kingston HyperX Fury

[Cryptonite]

So basically the deal is that when I am playing a youtube video and I try to open MSI Afterburner, my computer crashes and skips the last audio that was played. It also happened once in Metro Last Light once, and the display turned red as well. It was right after you escape the nazis and are just about to go out onto the surface(crashed when I walked up the stairs leading to the surface). I also tried with GPU Tweak, same thing happened.

 

Specs:

i5-4690k(stock)

MSI Z97 Gaming 5 with newest BIOS

Asus DCII OC R9 290 at stock

WD Blue 1TB

Kingston HyperX Fury

are you using an HDMI cable or something to produce sound from the GPU? anyway it sounds like an unstable overclock.

[UnderwearThief]

are you using an HDMI cable or something to produce sound from the GPU? anyway it sounds like an unstable overclock.

HDMI cable from GPU to monitor, but my headset is connected to my motherboard. I get this weird background buzzing noise when I connect it to the monitor. Everything is at stock speeds.

[UnderwearThief]

PROBLEM SOLVED

 

I was looking at the settings in Chrome, and I disabled hardware acceleration and it now seems to work perfectly.

[Cryptonite]

HDMI cable from GPU to monitor, but my headset is connected to my motherboard. I get this weird background buzzing noise when I connect it to the monitor. Everything is at stock speeds.

might be an unstable driver, or an unstable factory overclock, but the problem sounds like it's GPU related. try reinstalling the graphics drivers. (and try a different version if that doesn't work)

[UnderwearThief]

might be an unstable driver, or an unstable factory overclock, but the problem sounds like it's GPU related. try reinstalling the graphics drivers. (and try a different version if that doesn't work)

Yeah, I was just kinda changing any setting I could, kinda just throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it sticks. It turns out it was hardware acceleration in Chrome. Thanks for the help, though! This is actually the second thread I posted on this, no one responded to my first.

[Cryptonite]

Yeah, I was just kinda changing any setting I could, kinda just throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it sticks. It turns out it was hardware acceleration in Chrome. Thanks for the help, though! This is actually the second thread I posted on this, no one responded to my first.

alright, see if it's stable, if you find any more problems, quote me and I'll respond when I'm online.

[wikilor]

So basically the deal is that when I am playing a youtube video and I try to open MSI Afterburner, my computer crashes and skips the last audio that was played. It also happened once in Metro Last Light once, and the display turned red as well. It was right after you escape the nazis and are just about to go out onto the surface(crashed when I walked up the stairs leading to the surface). I also tried with GPU Tweak, same thing happened.

 

Specs:

i5-4690k(stock)

MSI Z97 Gaming 5 with newest BIOS

Asus DCII OC R9 290 at stock

WD Blue 1TB

Kingston HyperX Fury

 

I have a system similar to yours and I'm experiencing these crashes too also by opening gpu-z while playing a youtube video have you ever experienced something like that ?

 

alright, see if it's stable, if you find any more problems, quote me and I'll respond when I'm online.

I'm sorry to jump but do you know what might be causing these ? I've tried to overclock my r9 290 got to 1125 core at stock voltage, but I got back to stock and these still happen

[UnderwearThief]

I have a system similar to yours and I'm experiencing these crashes too also by opening gpu-z while playing a youtube video have you ever experienced something like that ?

 

I'm sorry to jump but do you know what might be causing these ? I've tried to overclock my r9 290 got to 1125 core at stock voltage, but I got back to stock and these still happen

I did have those problems, yes. Basically my solution was to downgrade to the stable release drivers, set the power limit to +50% in Catalyst, and disable the AMD High Definition Audio Driver in Device Manager. There may have been something else, and if I remember I will let you know.

[wikilor]

I did have those problems, yes. Basically my solution was to downgrade to the stable release drivers, set the power limit to +50% in Catalyst, and disable the AMD High Definition Audio Driver in Device Manager. There may have been something else, and if I remember I will let you know.

 

Ok I will try to do as you said for now I returned to stock and uninstalled Afterburner but still got the problem I will try to raise the power limit and disable the audio driver, btw did you ever encounter BSD error while just watching  youtube, beacause I've seen that happen to a lot of people online and to me once in a while.... expecially with the r9 290.

 

I mean this card perform really well but Amd seem to just avoid these problems.... all the reports that I have seen on their forums of these type of bugs are unaswered or are inconclusive.

Thank you very much fo your answer, when i get back from school I'll try and I'll let you know how it ended up

[wikilor]

I did have those problems, yes. Basically my solution was to downgrade to the stable release drivers, set the power limit to +50% in Catalyst, and disable the AMD High Definition Audio Driver in Device Manager. There may have been something else, and if I remember I will let you know.

 

I tried to do what you said about I disabled Amd Audio and upped the power limit but nothing ... it still crash with some videos it appears to be linked to high bitrates ones, luckily I've built a system identical to mine for a friend I will try to replicate the bug in his system to see if it persist with GPU-z

[UnderwearThief]

I tried to do what you said about I disabled Amd Audio and upped the power limit but nothing ... it still crash with some videos it appears to be linked to high bitrates ones, luckily I've built a system identical to mine for a friend I will try to replicate the bug in his system to see if it persist with GPU-z

Sorry about the hiatus, I forgot about this forum for a while there. I also had the problems with BSODs while watching videos. The solution for me was to disable hardware acceleration. In Chrome, this is accessible through Settings>Advanced Settings. I don't use other browsers, so I can't help you there.

 

EDIT: There is a new driver out, 14.9 WHQL stable release drivers. Some people have been having problems with BSODs in this new driver, and some of those people have fixed it by uninstalling the old driver manually before installing the new one.