R9 290 Crossfire - Problems

[Phillip_Sam]

Hi guys

I recently run into problems with my 2way crossfire setup. They are watercooled and the temps never exceed 60°C.

But it happens - from time to time - that my game just stops and I have to hard reset my pc.

It happened with the following games:

GTA V - Singleplayer

Arma 3 - Multiplayer

Also I've got the feeling, that they don't run as good as they should.

For example: With Battlefield 4, max settings (not ultra) and without MSAA I rarely get 50 FPS. Even though people get at 4k with this kind of setup 60+

They run at stock speeds (957/1250), because if I just oc them a little they start crashing.

My Setup:

2x r9 290

i7 4770

Asrock Z97 Extreme 9

3 Displays with a total of 576x1080

4x2TB WD Black Raid 0

And a couple of Samsung SSD's.

Thanks for your help

[Dabasepc]

drivers/crossf issues. welcome to amd

[SkilledRebuilds]

Hi guys

I recently run into problems with my 2way crossfire setup. They are watercooled and the temps never exceed 60°C.

But it happens - from time to time - that my game just stops and I have to hard reset my pc.

It happened with the following games:

GTA V - Singleplayer

Arma 3 - Multiplayer

Also I've got the feeling, that they don't run as good as they should.

For example: With Battlefield 4, max settings (not ultra) and without MSAA I rarely get 50 FPS. Even though people get at 4k with this kind of setup 60+

They run at stock speeds (957/1250), because if I just oc them a little they start crashing.

My Setup:

2x r9 290

i7 4770

Asrock Z97 Extreme 9

3 Displays with a total of 576x1080

4x2TB WD Black Raid 0

And a couple of Samsung SSD's.

Thanks for your help

Whats your PSU?

Symptoms you describe lead me to believe it's either a bad PSU (even BAD PSU's still can run things, but crash at random)

Or.. a driver issue/corruption (Download and use DDU) it removed trace files that screw over other driver installs, ensures a clean slate for the driver install.

DDU - Usually fix's performance problems..

Not only should you retry those drivers, but if they have issues, run DDU again, and try an older set.

The fact that you touch the OC slider one bit and it crash's... well thats not a stable system, or one of your GPU's outright is not playing nice.

 

Can you overclock EACH of them separately?

Have you set PCIE 3.0 in your bios and not left it on AUTO (it could make mistakes and use lower than 3.0/2.0 and if using PCIE 1.0/1.1 on Auto, this could be it)

[Phillip_Sam]

Totally forgot that.

PSU: 1000w Super Flower Golden Greend. It's a 80+ Gold

[Phillip_Sam]

Thanks for the hint with the Bios and DDU. I'll try that later and write back.

[Phillip_Sam]

drivers/crossf issues. welcome to amd

I had two 770 earlier and they weren't much better ;-)

[IateMApoo]

drivers/crossf issues. welcome to amd

SLI has same excact problems, dont be a biased scrub.

[Lethal Seraph]

There's a post about AMD's 15.7 Driver being released today. Check it out and see if it fixes your pc issues.

[Prysin]

SLI has same excact problems, dont be a biased scrub.

That comment did cement him as a fanboy.

[Phillip_Sam]

I tried DDU, clean install of windows and the newest amd 15.7 driver.

Right now it seems to work. OC still isn't possible as desired (max I get is 1025/1300). But I can live with that. Probably just bad luck with my cards.

At least windows stopped crashing.

Thanks for your help