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The WitcherTechnical "temporary freezing" hitch.......(3 posts)solved(3 posts)solved
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Posted October 11, 2011
Games playing fine except for random "freezes" followed by a black screen.. only lasts a few seconds generally before continuing.
Just wonder what could solve this as it`s abit annoying.

Phenom x4 9550 2.2ghz
HD3850

Thanks in advance
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Posted October 11, 2011
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CRPM: Games playing fine except for random "freezes" followed by a black screen.. only lasts a few seconds generally before continuing.
Just wonder what could solve this as it`s abit annoying.

Phenom x4 9550 2.2ghz
HD3850

Thanks in advance
With an ATI/AMD card, it sounds like a driver reset. If the driver encounters a fault, it tries to reset before giving up and crashing. It often succeeds.

One cause of driver resets is overheating. Any 3850 has been around long enough to pick up a serious infestation of impacted dust bunnies. Get something like MSI Afterburner that can monitor GPU temperature while you're playing, or get Furmark and let it run (it has a stripchart of GPU temperature).
Posted October 12, 2011
Bingo! Did have a feeling it might be a dust issue.
Card was running abit hot, i took a can of dust off to the card & comp this morning that halved the temps.
Seemed to be able to play without problems at the moment..

Thanks for that.
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