GPU crashes on non-intensive apps

My system crashes when:

1. Using Windows Solitaire game (yes, I play this eventually, so what?), about 80% of the times I try to play it

and

2. Using CyberLink YouCam software, 100% of the times I run it, when I try to use those weird camera effects.

I assume its a GPU crash, since I get blank screens and extreme low responsiveness. It comes back and forth from the black screen and a messed up desktop (Start-menu button appears many times on the screen, but only one is clickable).

I have to manage to click my way to restart the system (mouse lags terribly) to get back to normal, and sometimes I have to force-shutdown.

However, all games play smoothly, even the most GPU intensive ones.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance.

 

Sounds like Pokemon Red/Blue. Have you found MissingNo. yet? it'll multiply your sixth item in your bag by infinity.

Anyway... sorry, the start button mess up reminded me of glitch city.

Try disabling Windows Aereo, or uninstalling your GPU drivers and running the system without them. It might be something much simpler that that, though, such as changing a few options in CCC, so try someone's else advice first.

 

looks like a card or driver issue.. install the latest 10.7 or 10.6 drivers and try... or it must be a fault of the GPU..

 

I'm on Catalyst 10.6
Driver 8.683.2

I thought these were the latest...

 

sounds like a funny virus

 

10.7 is the lastest but wait till next week.. 10.8 is comming out mid next week and should solve a lot of problems especially for the G73.. unless of course this issue is too serious.

I really doubt so but i won't rule it out.

 

I'll wait for that driver release, then.

Its a virus, since full avira and malwarebites scans found nothing.

It happened once again while running Crysis, right on startup.

 

Maybe try a full windows reinstall.. might solve the problem.

 

I meant its NOT a virus in my previous post.

(post edit wont work on my phone)

 

Codec issues, malware even if scan didn't found anything.

 

and how does one fix "codec issues"?

 

stop BSing... there no such thing as Codec issue casuing this.. i'll just wait for the drivers.. comming mid week but i don't know when is mid week.

 

l0lz Watz??

Ive never heard of such a thing in all of my years of using computers, unless it just came out to day and your the only one with it. I think its a driver problem, my card would crash on HD youtube vids and games, but then i changed my driver and BAM! No more display driver kernel crash warning.

 

hehhe it sounded like BS to me too, hence my reply before...


and yes, I am rooting for driver issue also... I'll keep you posted.

btw, I ended up uninstalling Crysis before finishing the final boss battle, I got fed up with the poor performance on that scene, it got all choppy and I did not feel like lowering the res on such an expensive laptop

 

CCC 10.8 is out now so see if it fixes anything

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...rds/512749-catalyst-10-8-a-2.html#post6634631 is the link for the thread with driver downloads.. anyways why did u get the M15x? Its a heavy load of junk.. MSI GT660 is way better

 

CCC 10.8 fixed it, so it was a driver issue.

That means my "codecs" are fine...

 

I don't know who picked the res for that laptop, but he should get fired.
1366 x 768 with a GTX 285??

 

do i get any rep?

i'm sorry wrong model.. its should have been MSI GX660 with ATI HD 5870 + i7-740qm..+ 12GB RAM