Graphics card refuses to work

[grind]

Hello there,

 

Yesterday I was playing a bit of GTA game and a friend of mine asked to watch me play. I logged on skype to share screens since it's the most decent method I thought at the moment with my mediocre internet speed.

 

I was happily playing and after a good 10-15 mins the game crashed.

We did again and same thing happened.

After that we tried Steam broadcast, and the same thing happened.. I thought it was because of the stream and just leave it there.

 

A few hours later, my girlfriend came to my house and was playing overwatch in my computer, no stream. The game crashed. The computer was stuck in a black screen and I needed to do some fiddling to take it out of there. But it was the first time I saw an error message.

 

Rendering Device Has Been Lost.

 

I looked around to see what it meant and arrived at some threads with people talking about changing settings to turn on or off vsync and other stuff and that it was related to the driver.

I tried changing settings, didn't help, uninstalled the driver I had and downloaded a new one, didn't help.. And I have no idea what I should do..

 

I tried some games today again since now I have some free time and got 2 errors:

 

ERR_GFX_D3D_INIT

 

Radeon Settings: Host Application stopped working

 

Also, a weird one is that the light 3d part of planet coaster worked fine, but once I loaded a park it crashed..

 

My full pc specs are on my profile, but I'll list the most important here (at least what I think is important)

CPU - Intel Core i7 4790k

Motherboard - Asus Maximus VII Ranger

GPU - Msi Radeon R9 290 Gaming OC Edition

 

This may also be important, but none of the parts have ever been OC'd by me due to living in hell on earth. CPU and GPU hover at around 55C idle, cpu hits 100C with each and every task (and that's on water), GPU needs to be capped on the most intensive games not to hit 94C and shutdown the pc (with fans at 100%)

 

I'm in need to format this computer, but wanted to wait until I get a new driver to sort my files.. I don't even know if it'll work, all I want is to play like I was able to do before that goddamn stream.. I also don't know if the GPU (or whole computer) is dying or what is happening.. Any clue?

[Squibbies18]

4 minutes ago, grind said:

This may also be important, but none of the parts have ever been OC'd by me due to living in hell on earth. CPU and GPU hover at around 55C idle, cpu hits 100C with each and every task (and that's on water), GPU needs to be capped on the most intensive games not to hit 94C and shutdown the pc (with fans at 100%)

You CPU is probably thermal throttling due to temps that high so that can affect performance, depending on how old your loop is you might want to look that there are no blockages, Your gpu is probably doing the same, both of them are beyond safe temp limits. If you can take you GPU over to a friends house and see if the issue still occurs if it does it's a problem with your card, if not your problem lies elsewhere  

[grind]

Sorry for the time, I had to stay a bit away from the computer.

 

Anyways, my computer has always been hot, it used to run throttling everything until I realized I could limit the FPS to run with the GPU a bit less warm. I was going to post a thread here a while ago just asking about the CPU, which didn't use to be this hot, and up to now I didn't figure what to do with it..

 

I was checking with my brother to see if I could use his computer to test, but meanwhile I decided to make some space and after clearing a bit of C: (which used to have only 5-10gb, now has almost 200gb of free space) the problem is gone, I can play without crashes anymore.

 

I'll still try to test stuff on my brother's computer, but since work appeared for me since when I first wrote, it'll have to be postponed.

[Nacho588425]

i think your temperature problems have little to do with ambient temperature... unless its 60 degrees...

you should try and fix that, and see what happens. maybe replace thermal compound. its impossible to have such high temperatures without oc on water

[grind]

I've been running on Arctic Silver 5 since when I built this computer a couple years ago, replacing each time I took it apart to clean. I don't know if it might have gone bad after this time, but.. is there a reason for that?

 

I thought it might have been the spacers on the pump, so I removed those to make more pressure on the cpu, and it didn't change anything too.