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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: ReelTechnoFreek on November 19, 2014, 06:40:12 pm

Title: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: ReelTechnoFreek on November 19, 2014, 06:40:12 pm

Hey Calamity, another day another problem!
I think I'm close to giving up.

I hooked up my groovymame pc to my arcade crt tonight. Groovymame kept hanging or if I was on Windies desktop it flashed for a second.
This kept happening regularly , every 20 seconds at least

When on desktop I got a Windows error every time the screen flashed and I presume it I'd also the cause of groovymame hanging.

AMD display driver stopped responding and has recovered.

Any pointers on where to begin to resolving?

Title: Re: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: Calamity on November 20, 2014, 03:06:03 am

Did that happen after using HS?

Title: Re: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: ReelTechnoFreek on November 20, 2014, 03:44:39 am

Yes.

However I did a power off and on later and I was happening even on windows desktop.

This only happened late last night so my testing has been limited do far.

Title: Re: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: Calamity on November 20, 2014, 03:49:55 am

Do you have the DXVA disabled as explained here? http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=379#p379 (http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=379#p379)

Title: Re: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: ReelTechnoFreek on November 20, 2014, 06:24:17 am

Yeah, I did that a while back but I'll double check that's it's disabled again.

When I rebooted the pc I only used groovymame through the command line not Hyperspin.
Same issue. Plus it was happening on the desktop before I launched anything.

I do have a suspicion on some dodgy ram so I'll try check that too. Don't know if related or not.

Title: Re: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: Calamity on November 20, 2014, 06:36:20 am

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When I rebooted the pc I only used groovymame through the command line not Hyperspin.

I was afraid of that, just wanted to be sure.

IIRC you have an HD 4890. That's a monster card and it's causing other issues to some users. From now on I'm going to be advising against the HD 48xx cards.

It would be nice that everyone had a cheap and safe HD 4350 as a second card to plug it in in cases like this and be able to make sure it's not the video card.

Title: Re: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: ReelTechnoFreek on November 20, 2014, 08:19:54 am

Right, so you think it's the gfx card?

That's interesting as I've been testing the setup on my LCD monitor until yesterday and I never had that issue.

Only when I connected to the crt last night did the problem begin.

Title: Re: AMD Display Driver Error
Post by: Calamity on November 20, 2014, 08:47:44 am

So when we talked the other day about the -frame_delay option you were actually using an LCD?

Anyway, I'm not saying it's the card. Just wondering. Several users reported detection issues lately for their 48xx cards, probably unrelated but...