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Try this:
- Download Driver Fusion
- Reboot into Safe Mode.
- Uninstall drivers.
- Reboot back. Run CCleaner to clean up Registry.
- Reboot again.
- Without the keyboard in, reinstall the drivers again (try from a different mirror if you can)
- Reboot. Plugin Keyboard. Pray?

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That's definitely weird. A 7870 should be miles ahead of a regular 460 in terms of performance even on Guild Wars 2.

Are you sure you uninstalled drivers properly? Uninstall all your drivers through Catalyst, use Driver Fusion, try this out, except delete all the nVidia AND ATI/AMD drivers, and redownload. Here's a tip: when deleting drivers using Driver Fusion, remember not to delete any "chipset" drivers, just the "display" drivers. The chipset drivers could be critical to your motherboard functioning properly.

OK, after looking a bit more into it, I think the top fan might be unplugged. Looking at the pictures, it seems there is only one cable connecting to the two fan ports at the top of your motherboard, when there should be two. I would double check that all three fan connectors on your motherboard are occupied, since they should be with two case fans and a cpu fan.

As for the graphics card, I would definitely give reinstalling the drivers a try (use driver fusion to remove all amd and intel display drivers, then install again).

If the problem persists, try following these steps to create a triple monitor display group, and see if that fixes things.

And if that doesn't fix things and your GPU-Z readings don't change (particularly the vrm2 temp), then I would definitely say that the only reasonable conclusion is that the card is faulty.

Hope this helps.

Second assault was a day 1 release for Xbone, so I'm glad it has FINALLY been released for the rest of us plebs. I am surprised at how quick they're turning around naval strike, but I don't really feel there's much crossover in those teams, so I don't mind.

Yeah, I actually had my issue through a re-install of windows, found out that the default driver had known bugs that wouldn't go away without some massive cleanup, and then FINALLY fixed it. I had to use this tool. The free version does fine and after running that and installing the latest non-beta AMD driver, I was great. Since then I've upgraded to the beta driver that allows mantle support and saw a fair improvement.

I feel the opposite, honestly. After the long winter of discontent with little to no communication out of Dice these "ask a dev" things and "balancing bf4" articles show that they want to try, they're just doing it in the typical corporate fashion. I wish they would get more into direct communication then this whitewashed bs, but at least they're doing something.

Some less vague information would be helpful here.

What kind of GPU do you have?

What game(s)?

What drivers?

CPU? Motherboard? Windows?

The only thing I can suggest with what little info you provided is to uninstall your driver. Restart. Run this (there is also driver sweeper, but i havn't used it in a while) to clean up the left overs. Some people suggest running it in safe mode. this is, of course, if you are running windows.

Try uninstalling the Catalyst/Nvidia drivers, run Treexy Driver Fusion, and remove Catalyst/Nvidia software remnants, there are other programs that can be found on google to remove all software components in the case where the Windows Installer doesn't clear everything. Restart the computer and let it install the VGA driver. After that, Install new Catalyst/Nvidia drivers, as we want to perform a clean install for both, I believe they have a checkbox in advanced installation that can help with that.

More information could be used, such as what GPU you are using, what are you doing at the moment it change back to 60hz, did you install any software that came with the monitor, if so try uninstalling anything that you installed for the monitor? It could be that your window settings aren't set right... or what resolution you have it set at? I would try setting your resolution to 1920 x 1080 which should allow the 144hz. Any additional information could help, as well as the steps you have already attempted.

I would run a driver cleaning software and disable Windows' built in feature to install drivers from Windows update. Something like this http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html I've also used http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion/ free version

And then delete the driver's folders and registry entries (ccleaner or manually in regedit). Reboot and manually install drivers.

You need to clean up and delete all nvidia drivers. First disable Windows from installing drivers automatically through Windows update. Go into add/remove programs or programs and features and uninstall all the Nvidia software. I would use a combination of tools: http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion , then http://ccleaner.com/ for registry entries and possibly http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Then get the newest driver from nvidia's site. Make sure to reboot at least once before installing the new driver. Good luck, it's fun getting fixing error.

I have the exact same video card and I have had zero problems.

The game is amd approved (under the AMD gaming evolved program) so it will have been tested thoroughly on their product range. That combined with the fact I have the same card makes me think it's not a driver issue.

However, in the past I have had a similar issue with the "display driver has stopped working" and it was a hardware issue. Thankfully, I was able to RMA the card.

Of course, that depends on any other issues you're having. Do other games work? And by other games, I mean relatively new games that will push the card a bit. Check your temps etc.

Is it only Alien: Isolation where this error is happening.

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Another software angle is to use something like Driver Fusion and completely uninstall all of the drivers.

Then, reinstall. I hope you get it to work, the game is a blast.

• Aren't you using some onboard video chip instead of your nvidia?

• Driver issue: I've dealt with this kind of shit on my ati 5000 series as well;

1. uninstall the driver completely.
2. download and install Treexy Driver Fusion
3. Go into safe mode, use Treexy to deinstall everything left the driver left behind. There are some registerkeys and other stuff left.
4. Boot back into normal mode, install the nvidia drivers again and possibly reboot.

That doesn't add up: pause holds the window until the next keyboard input, with the message "Press any key to continue . . .". It doesn't respond to control, shift, or alt, but will respond to spacebars being pounded.

Open a command prompt in the folder that contains sgminer.exe (shift+right click on an empty spot, select "Open command window here"), and paste only the sgminer line from your batch file.

sgminer -k darkcoin-mod -o stratum+tcp://ca.simplemulti.com:3454 -u D8Zn... -p x

Because the terminal window was opened under a separate session, it should remain open, even if sgminer.exe crashes instantly (which should have also produced a popup, "sgminer.exe has stopped working and needs to close...", an that were the case).

This should at least give you some context as to why it's not starting.

Aside: You're not doing something peculiar with your setup, like trying to run a Radeon R9 290 alongside a Radeon HD4670, are you? If you're doing something like this, stop, because the two driver sets do not mix, cause every miner ever to crash instantly, and are very unstable. Speaking from experience. The 4000 series Radeons are on life support, with a poor legacy driver that will not co-exist with the modern driver that even the HD5770 needed.

Worst case scenario, if that doesn't yield anything?

Strip the current video driver completely from the system. You may want to use something like the free version of Driver Fusion (also available on Steam, but unsure if demo just installs the Free version) or any other program others may recommend to ensure the old driver is GONE. Restart. Install clean driver bundle from AMD's website. Try again.

Are you sure you're using the latest drivers from your new card's manufacturer? Did you cleanly uninstall the previous card's drivers first?

Try using something like DriverFusion to make sure you've removed all of the previous card's drivers - the free version should suffice.

OK then try this: Download driver fusion,

Uninstall all Nvidia drivers as you would normally.

Then use Driver fusion to remove any remaining registry keys for graphics drivers (This is very intuitive in DF just scan and remove).

Again reinstall drivers without 3D vision.

What I would try is to make sure onboard audio is disabled from bios, make sure any old sound drivers are removed. If that is already done, I'd take out the card, run a driver sweeper program http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion from safe mode to remove any trace of previous sound drivers as well as the STX drivers, re-install the card and the drivers. If that still didn't fix the problem, I'd try the card in another computer just to verify it isn't somehow a hardware issue.

Try out Driverfusion I use it to do all my driver updates and reinstalls. Honestly, I couldn't be bothered writing a 'how to enter your registry, how to figure out where to locate a registry entry, how to identify what an entry does and how to identify which entry is the right entry to delete'. I'm pretty lazy at the moment.

Sounds like a problem on your end.

-To clean drivers uninstall completely.

-Then use Driver Fusion to clean reg entries (Not strictly necessary but may help)

When re installing the latest Nvidia driver be sure to only install the core files. Don't install 3d vision.

^ This has fixed my housemates similar prob.

DDU should have worked, I personally use driver fusion. http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion

You need to remove all core drivers that relate to Nvidia and Amd. This includes physX.

Its very important to just install the Amd driver and none of the other software included with the driver.

Good luck.

If you still have the old card plug it back in and use Driver Fusion to remove the Nvidia drivers. Boot back up with 280x and then install AMD drivers from there and you should be all set.

Okay, have you tried doing a clean install of your video drivers, a clean with Driver Fusion and then a reinstall of the latest?

The former is a windows system file and the latter is possibly video card related, although both will cause BSODs instead of shutdown.

Second, double check to make sure you are actually plugging your CPU 8-pin EPS cable into your mobo's CPU header, and not using it as a PCIE power plug to power your video card. At this state I'd consider re-wiring the PSU just in case, check the connections, etc.

Make sure you fully un-install your old graphics drivers. Start with the programs+features software uninstall, reboot, and then uninstall your VGA (or PCI) drivers using the Device Manager.

After, you'll need to clean up any remaining registry entries left by your old graphics card, using a program like Driver Fusion.

Finally, re-install the latest AMD drivers.

For a trouble-shooting guide, you might benefit from this one, used by XFX force: http://xfxstorage.com/Support/ATI-Driver-Installation-Troubleshooting.pdf

Driver Fusion http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion