Radeon 6850 Causing Intermittent Freezing and FPS Drops

Maccyjam

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Hi,

For a while now I have been experiencing a few issues with my current PC. When playing almost any game that has some kind of load on the GPU (from FPS games to Strategy), the game often freezes after around 10 - 60 minutes of playtime and the FPS drops to an unbearable amount and the only way to 'solve' the FPS issue is to restart the PC.

For some games, this FPS drop doesn't happen and it just freezes about 4 or 5 times before ultimately crashing because of some display driver issue about the AMD drivers not responding. This kind of issue usually happens with the older games rather than modern ones.

I am running an MSI Radeon 6850 with an AMD Phenom II X4 960T and a 600W power supply. I have tried all kinds of graphics drivers: the latest stable ones, the latest beta ones. I have tried uninstalling all graphics drivers and reinstalling them, with and without driver cleaning software but all to no avail.

I am now starting to think it may be a hardware issue but I do not have another graphics card to swap it out for so was wondering if anyone had anymore advice before I went out and bought another one.

Thanks in advance,
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Heatsink/fan on the card free of dust?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Built by Me
    CPU
    FX 8350 @ 4.6
    Motherboard
    Asus M5A97 Evo
    Memory
    2 x 2 GB Kingston HyperX 1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire R9 270X Dual-X
    Sound Card
    Xonar DGX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer S232HL
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB
    Seagate 500 GB
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 650W
    Case
    Antec Three Hundred
    Cooling
    Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wave
    Mouse
    Logitech G500s
    Internet Speed
    35000/3000
Just cleaned my PC and still no improvement. Still the same freezing and framerate drops.
Thanks anyway
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
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