Yes, its your fault buying ATI. As for everyone else who does purchase broken things.
You know they tend to freeze over years and multiple series of products, thus if you still decide to use that kind of hardware, dont complain if it goes wrong again.

I did this mistake too, but accepted it was wrong, got rid of that piece of a sh*t ATI card and put an nVidia GTX 670 card into my PC, working fine since then. Get a driver crashes occassionally which is annoying but its still better than dead stopped PC which then doesnt even reacto to the reset button anymore and requires power off in order to restart it.

If hardware freezes/crashes the PC its always hardware/driver fault. That easy.
Software does not interact with the hardware directly for decades anymore its always the drivers and OS. No user software should be able to put hardware into a corrupt state like freeze, if the drivers/hardware allow this, its a flaw on their end.


because C&P the same cr*ap in multiple threads is called "crossposting" and is considered as spam.

Hello,

We are trying to collect as much information as we can to determine if this is a driver issue. The most effective way of getting this information to us is to file a bug report using the in-game tool, this can be accessed by pressing F12.

The in-game bug reporting tool will collect the following information automatically and send it to us with your bug report:

• DXDiag file
• prefs.ini
• screenshots
• logs.txt containing last 1000 lines of in-memory logs from notice and higher.
• methodcalls.txt containing all calls made to the server since the client started
• processHealth.txt containing cpu, memory and network info in 5 second buckets
• settings.yaml containing all your user, public and character settings

If you are unable to use the in-game tool, you can submit issues through the bugs website, but you will need to manually create a DxDiag file yourself and attach it to the web form. Please use the title field to describe the issue, include your graphics card if you believe it is related. You can also use the fields within the bug report tool to describe the reproduction steps that most reliably make your game crash.

There is an excellent page on bug reporting at the EVE Wiki. The more of these reports we can get, the easier it is to pattern match and the more effective our case for change will be.

As others in the thread have mentioned, you can try rolling back your drivers in the interim to see if the issue is no longer present.

Thanks for your continued patience.

Hi guys,

I have good news to share with you. I have found a fix that works.

I have successfully been able to play with multiple accounts for a long period of time at max settings after the fix.

The problem seems to be related to the HDMI sound drivers that are installed with the AMD drivers. Uninstalling/disabling them has resolved my issue related to freezing while gaming with a single AMD HD 7970.

Before I explain the procedure, here are my current PC specs:
- i7 930 OC @4Ghz
- 1x MSI HD 7970 connected to 3 monitors via DisplayPort and DVI.
- 12G RAM
- SSD OCZ Agility 3
- Drivers 12.7 beta installed.
- Windows 7 64 bits

Procedure:
1) Uninstall the HDMI drivers via the "AMD Catalyst Install Manager". Go to Start-> Control Panel -> Uninstall Program -> Right click on "AMD Catalyst Install Manager" and select Change then Uninstall Manager. In the component list, select only the HDMI drivers. Click Next and complete the uninstallation procedure. You will be asked to reboot, click Yes.

2) After rebooting your system, go to Start-> Right click on Computer and then Properties. Select Device Manager on the top left corner. Under the list, expand "Sound, video and game controllers" and check if you have "AMD High Definition Audio Device" (Make sure it is prefixed with "AMD"). If yes, right click and uninstall and reboot. If not, go to next step.

3) Last step is to disable the default Windows HMDI drivers. See screenshot Device Manager. Right click on High Definition Audio Device and then Disable. Reboot. You're done.


Hopefully AMD or CCP fixes the issue in a later patch but for now I can live without it as I am not using my monitor speakers (FYI, DisplayPort/HDMI cables enable video AND sound hence why AMD drivers include sound drivers).

Please let me know if that fixed it for you.

Just to give you an update guys. As most of you are, I was fed up of these freezes and had to make a choice. I had the following options:

a) Buying a new video card Nvidia GTX670/680 (I could not exchange my ATI 7970).
b) Buying a new motherboard (with AGP 3.0) + cpu 1155 Ivy Bridge
c) Just wait

I went with b) as it is a bit cheaper than a). I took a risk because if the earlier hypothesis was not true it would end up more expensive than expected.

I built the new rig yesterday and spent the whole day today playing. So far I have had no freeze.

I will update this thread if I have any freeze.

During the freeze-
Can you move your mouse? Can you hear sound during?
Can you ctrl-alt-delete?

I know that my locking up issues stopped when I changed the registry flag on EnableUlps to 0 on my ati card.
under LOCAL_MACHINE, swap the 1 for 0 on dword EnableUlps.

yes. If hardware is crashing, its always the hardware vendor to blame in the first line.

crashing hardware is always hardware vendors fault. Drivers must not allow hardware to crash even if the software is not optimized for this type of hardware, thats by far no reason or excuse for it to crash or even freeze the entire system. Because of this I got rid of AMD sh*t, they are apparently ignoring problems and keep distributing broken freezing drivers.


yeah you're absolutely right, nvidias fault in this case