The Arbiter

Thanks guys, just put the card in my flatmate's PC and was getting the same issues (just to double check), so I'm gonna RMA it. Cheers for the help.

Hello friends. I've been having non-stop issues with my new GPU, a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 4GB. Basically, since I put it in my PC, almost every game crashes at some point. Sometimes the game will completely crash, other times it'll briefly freeze and then return to normal (which is still annoying). I know there's some smart folks lurking around here so I was hoping you could help me. In GTA V specifically I can play for maybe 3 or 4 minutes before the game crashing and getting an "application has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware" message from windows. In Event Viewer, shortly before the game crashes I tend to get one or more "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered." messages. My specs: OS: Windows 10 GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 4GB CPU: Intel i7-3770 @ 3.4 GHz RAM: 8GB DDR3 Motherboard: ECS H61H2-MV PSU: Corsair CX500W I've checked temperatures and power usage with GPU-Z and everything seems fine, the computer itself doesn't crash just the application. I've tried a clean install of the drivers with DDU, as well as basically every solution I found with a google search, aside from reinstalling Windows 10 as I only really want to do that as a last resort. I'm suspicious of my motherboard as I got this computer pre-built and they seemed to have cheaped out on everything not advertised as a selling point. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if you need any more details let me know. Thanks!

Yep, whenever I underclock I can play for a longer period of time than I can without doing it. It still crashes eventually though.

Cheers for the suggestions everyone. I ran it for just over 30 minutes a couple of days ago and had no issues. Then I tried underclocking in the AMD Settings Wattman (I'm not really sure what I'm doing with stuff like this but I followed an online guide for it) and I tried GTA again. I was able to play for about half an hour which gave me some hope, only for it to crash again.

About 10 mins

Yeah I've tried Furmark already, the temperature got quite high (75-80) but stabilised once it got there. Didn't seem to cause any issues, unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess).

Went to bingo for the first time ever on a "Work Outing" yesterday. Won £200. Bingo!

Don't get much time to play games these days, but I've been bashing Halo 5 pretty much since it came out.

You can still play the modded/cracked/whatever Halo Online, it didn't actually get taken down.

I feel like the only thing keeping me playing the online mode is the fact that I have 3 friends who play as much as I do, which makes it infinitely more fun. I assume the story is the same as it was in the 360/PS3 versions, right? Nothing new added?

Got 69/100 in my most recent uni assessment. Heh. 69.

I was thinking of doing something similar myself, I'm surprised R* didn't implement their own "grand tour" kind of race but I guess they thought your standard GTA V player wouldn't go for that. I haven't actually had a look at the creator yet, is there a lower limit to the amount of checkpoints you can have in a race? I was thinking of making a race that starts at the airport and finishes to the east of Paleto Bay, with the only checkpoint being the finish line. I think it'd be kinda cool to let players pick their own route to the finish.

Finished it and got bored of it on Xbox, doubt I'll pick it up for PC.

Now, usually when I'm eating doritos and dip, once I run out of dip I throw the rest of the doritos away. But finally I have become aware of the foolishness of my actions, and from this point on, I will save the rest of the doritos for a later date. This was perhaps the most important lesson I've learnt in my life so far.

I keep getting these "On The House" things that Origin are doing just for the sake of hording, I've not actually downloaded any of the games so far...

I have to get a 50 minute train back to my hometown for a 3 minute orthodontist appointment, and then get another 50 minute train straight back. amazing.

THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD I KNOW IT IS BECAUSE IT SAID SO ON REDDIT FLEE FOR YOUR LIVESSSSSS Thankfully, Google seem to be ending that particularly annoying phase: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/google-is-walking-dead/

Lately I've been stuck between WoW (when I want to pass the time) and Minecraft (when I want to relax). Exciting, I know.

I haven't, I'll give it a listen later though

Not sure this is explicitly "summer music", but it's the music me and my friends tend to listen to at festivals and stuff, but I always associate it with summer. Anyway yeah Tame Impala are my main summer band... But I listen to them in winter too. BUT THEY REMIND ME OF SUMMER I THINK THAT'S THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE.