Graphics Card Issue?

[Crt]

Hi all! I'm currently using an AMD 7950 Twin Frozr III

 

I have this problem for a while, I can't play any games that requires the Physx Software Driver, not the GPU-Accelerated PhysX driver.

ie, Ragnarok Online II, RaiderZ, Payday, etc.

 

My entire desktop would freeze if I run a game that needs that driver, sometimes even BSOD.

Also the games don't run if I uninstall the physx software driver, which is really weird. I'm starting to think it's just my graphics card nuking itself.

 

Payday always asks me to install the NVIDIA Physx Software driver when I try to play it as well.

 

 

I also made sure that AMD Overdrive was turned off and any OC programs. I never had this issue with my GTX 460.

 

[Capitalist Jesus]

PhysX is Nvidia exclusive...

[FireFox]

You could buy a GeForce GT 610 or use your GTX 460 and use it as a PhysX card, I'm sure I've heard of people doing that

[Crt]

PhysX is Nvidia exclusive...

Not the software driver, it's mandatory for those games, including Borderlands 2.

 

You're talking about the GPU-accelerated Physx.

[FireFox]

Not the software driver, it's mandatory for those games, including Borderlands 2.

 

You're talking about the GPU-accelerated Physx.

 

Then I'm not sure, have you send a message to AMD's technical support about this problem?

[Crt]

Then I'm not sure, have you send a message to AMD's technical support about this problem?

I haven't, I'm not exactly sure what's causing this issue and I wouldn't want the AMD tech support to send me another card and then I'd still have the same issue, which makes me look like I wasted their precious time.

 

I'm just looking around to see if anyone else had this issue before.

[DarkEcho]

I've not played these games so I don't know, but can you 'turn off' PhysX in an in game options menu? I've seen that (and had problems because of it) before.

[Crt]

I've not played these games so I don't know, but can you 'turn off' PhysX in an in game options menu? I've seen that (and had problems because of it) before.

There isn't any actual Physx option.

 

What i'm referring to is the Physx software drivers (Non-GPU Acceleration),

 

most games use it and it's needed for simple tasks like collisions and so forth.

 

EDIT: This is so frustrating, I've had this issue for months and I made sure I even had my graphics card slotted all the way in the PCI-E slot and the 6 pin and 8 pins plugged in securely.

 

I don't have this issue with a lot of games, I can run source games perfectly fine.

[DarkEcho]

There isn't any actual Physx option.

 

What i'm referring to is the Physx software drivers (Non-GPU Acceleration),

 

most games use it and it's needed for simple tasks like collisions and so forth.

 

Apologies, I get mixed up with them sometimes. BSODs for graphics cards are a bad sign, do you have any other overclocks (CPU)? I've had bus speed changes screw up IO operations with graphics cards, so if you've been tinkering..

 

Was the problem always there? Ever since you've used PhysX games?

 

EDIT: Also forgot to make sure have you tried a clean install of all your graphics related drivers (I think its called driver fusion or something these days) something may be having issue there.

[Crt]

Apologies, I get mixed up with them sometimes. BSODs for graphics cards are a bad sign, do you have any other overclocks (CPU)? I've had bus speed changes screw up IO operations with graphics cards, so if you've been tinkering..

 

Was the problem always there? Ever since you've used PhysX games?

 

EDIT: Also forgot to make sure have you tried a clean install of all your graphics related drivers (I think its called driver fusion or something these days) something may be having issue there.

 

I made sure to get rid of my drivers as a top priority and I've did a clean install for my AMD drivers.

 

I'll try reformatting tomorrow to see if its something in my operating system that's being derpy.

[Crt]

It's been a while since I last gave an update on my issue,

 

my issue has been resolved when I swapped to an EVGA GTX 780 after I uninstalled the AMD drivers and did a clean installation for the Nvidia drivers.

 

Everything seems to be working fine, including Payday and Raiderz.