Computer Hangs While Playing Games

[Blade of Grass]

Hey guys,

 

I have an MSI Radeon 7770, and I'm having an issue where borderlands 2 hangs while playing. Now it hangs anywhere from a minute in to five minute in, and I can't seem to fix it.

The exact error is;

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">- <System>  <Provider Name="Display" />   <EventID Qualifiers="0">4101</EventID>   <Level>3</Level>   <Task>0</Task>   <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>   <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-05-12T00:42:00.000000000Z" />   <EventRecordID>53416</EventRecordID>   <Channel>System</Channel>   <Computer>Chase-Bedroom</Computer>   <Security />   </System>- <EventData>  <Data>amdkmdap</Data>   <Data />   </EventData>  </Event>

And it says "Display driver amdkmdap has stopped responding and has successfully been recovered."

 

I decided to update my drivers to the latest version (13.4) and the issue still persists.

Does anyone have any idea on why this is happening? and as to how to fix it?

 

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

EDIT: I just tested out Dirt Showdown, and it too seems to hang.

[unidentical]

What version of Windows are you running?

[Godlygamer23]

I'm running into an issue personally where Borderlands 2 continues to crash. I've validated the files in Steam, and it said one file needed to be reacquired. It downloaded it - now I can't even get into the game.

[Blade of Grass]

What version of Windows are you running?

Windows 7

 

And I want to clarify, it's not just Borderlands 2 that this happens with, it's also happens with Dirt Showdown.

 

I also should have mentioned that overheating is out of the question, my CPU is about 55 degrees, and the GPU is about 60.

[unidentical]

Found a technet article on it not super helpful

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1462.event-id-4101-display-driver-timeout-detection-and-recovery.aspx

windows updates, driver updates. They mention changing a timeout value in the registry but I can't find which one.

[Godlygamer23]

Hopefully you get your issue fixed. At this moment, I'm reinstalling BL2.

[Blade of Grass]

I'm running into an issue personally where Borderlands 2 continues to crash. I've validated the files in Steam, and it said one file needed to be reacquired. It downloaded it - now I can't even get into the game.

I just did the same thing (validated it) and got the same message.

[Godlygamer23]

I just did the same thing (validated it) and got the same message.

I'm just reinstalling it. My situation is a little different though. My other games run with no issue.

[Blade of Grass]

bump - did the tdr thing, didn't fix it

[Blade of Grass]

Well, I think I solved it, I down clocked my GPU from 1150/1250 to stock (1000/1100) and went threw the same place where it used to freeze, and it didn't freeze.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/737-27116RadeonSeries-ATIKMDAGhasstoppedrespondingerrormessages.aspx

AMD's articles helped me look into the possibility, and ended up helping me fix it.

[Quaker]

Note to readers - resetting clocks to stock is one of the first things to do when troubleshooting. :)

[Blade of Grass]

Note to readers - resetting clocks to stock is one of the first things to do when troubleshooting. :)

Lol, I can't believe I didn't think of that first. I guess I'll make the excuse that it was late at night XD

Also, it worked fine at that clock speed for awhile, and then it decided to stop working.