Black screen

[vavius]

I can run GTA IV in the menu just fine, but when I change any of graphics settings I get a black screen and when I begin a new game it crashes right after the loading screen.

 

Here is my specs:

Intel Core2Duo 6400 2.13GHz

Asus P5B board

4GB ddr2 800

Sapphire Radeon HD4870 with T-RAD2 GTX cooling

Windows 7 x64 ultimate

 

While it's displaying a black screen, the monitor resets like it is changing resolution. I've tried to reinstall GTA IV and different display driver versions (9-12, 10-6, 10-7).

When GTAIV crashes Windows event log is registering a "warning: display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered". I think it can't be overheating, because all other games (such as Batman: Arkham Asylum or Colin McRae DiRT2) are runing without any issues like falling in BSOD or black screen.

 

The most strange thing is that with Windows XP SP3 and 10-6 display driver GTA IV runs fine.

Any ideas?

[mkey82]

Make sure to uninstall the older ATI drivers and then try installing the latest one again.

 

Also, check this http://www.overclock.net/ati/700290-amdkmd...-recovered.html and this http://www.techmonkeys.co.uk/Thread-displa...fully-recovered

 

They suggest either a hardware or OC problem.

Edited August 20, 2010 by mkey82

[vavius]

After all those uninstalling and installing driver attemps I get freezes and errors ("display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered") while watching youtube videos.

I used ATI Catalyst Install Manager to uninstall drivers.

Is there any other tools to completely remove all ATI drivers and soft?

 

I have never overclocked anything. I still think there is some kind of a conflict with drivers and Win 7, because there aren't any problems in my old WinXP install.

 

I'll try a fresh Windows 7 install soon. If it wouldn't help then I'm going to try my HD4870 in another PC to assure that it isn't a problem with my card )

 

UPD: completely uninstalled ATI drivers using Driver Sweeper and installed the latest one again. Now there are no more youtube issues and I can even change video settings in GTA IV, but I still get black screen of Doom after loading. However, warnings in Windows event log are gone, now there are only notifications "amdkmdag 62464 (61)"...

Edited August 20, 2010 by vavius

[mkey82]

Driver sweeper doesn't work under 7.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730875.aspx

[BlurryS]

Yeah there is something with windows and drivers...cause this stopped & recovered errors occur only in Vista and Win7, i have read something and its something in registry that causes the conflict, but then again, I am using 5770 with Win7 and no errors, tho when i was using 3870 i got those errors with some specific games, like Hawx, Splinter Cell Conviction, and even with Cabal Online lol. With Cabal it was so bad that i stopped playing it cause i got that error in every 30 sec. Try reinstalling windows or something, cause im quite sure its windows problem

[vavius]

Now it works )

 

Bought new motherboard, cpu and ram. Nothing else. Same windows installation and drivers, same videocard...

[TopAz]

so, it might be cpu overcloack or overheat issue