Now, I've been PC gaming for 23 years and building my own gaming systems since the late 90's, so I'm no noob (plus I'm a sys admin for a living) but this was driving me nuts.

Of course I'd tried playing with the Wattman settings, different driver versions, different graphic settings, I fully wiped the hard drive and reinstalled Windows 10, etc etc. These crashes were just constant, no matter what I was doing. Then the Vega RX56 came on sale and I hoped that the 580 was defective and the Vega would fix the issue. I then upgraded to an RX580 and started to get the amdkmdap error constantly. In short, I had NO stability issues for almost 3 years with an Intel box and an R9 280. Hi guys, I had this problem for almost a year (see here my terrible crashing for months fixed - RX 580 and Vega RX56 ) and I was.

I still haven't tried re-enabling the TDR feature but that would the big test I suppose. I mean, the power supply fan hasn't even needed to come on yet. Interestingly, the power drawn through this PS shows that it's not pulling even half of 850 watts so it's total overkill apparently. I'm pretty sure the Vega RX 56 doesn't draw MORE power than an R9 280 but I have read that possibly it does spike quite high sometimes.Īnyway, I bought a brand new Corsair HX850i and have now gamed for at least 12 hours with no crashes. Right up until I replaced my R9 280 (first with a 580 then Vega RX56) I had incredible stability so it never occurred to me the PS could be the problem.

So, I had quality Antec 750 watt power supply that I think I bought in about 2011. PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE SOLVED: power supply. I wonder if some of the changes I made over the last year or so might have softened possible transient power spikes? I think I've read the Vega (and maybe 580) have bigger transient spikes than in the past? Anyway despite all the time that has passed since this post and all the things that seemed to help sometimes even for weeks, recently I had another HORRIBLY maddening run of random crashes in game.

Fix display driver