Crashes in games - Radeon WattMan message

[Unapologetic Bigot]

Since yesterday i have crashes at least in 3 games. I think it`s not limited to those games. Sometimes i had errors, a lot of times i did not. All the time it gives me message

"Default Radeon WattMan settings has been restored due to unexpected system failure"

I tried checking for corrupted Windows files and it says it fixed them.
I cleaned all latest driver content and installed clean version which i used for some time without problems. Tried clean install of latest version too.
I installed latest Windows updates.

Problem details:

It just freezes and then crashes. Sometimes graphical artifacts appear before crash (when freezes). I had them before, PC isn`t new, but never had such problems like crashes.
Yesterday i had no electricity for many hours. I did not used PC myself when electricity disappeared, but it was on... It was still on when electricity returned. Maybe something was damaged? I had problems with electricity before, but never had outcomes like this.
I use power surge protector thing.

I`m out of ideas what to do now. Hope i can still play games without crashes. New PC won`t come very soon.

GPU is AMD R9 290X 4GB VRAM. Latest drivers at the moment.

UPDATE 1: Tried GPU stress test for 58 minutes. At first it said 20600 errors, but in the end, when i cancelled it, 0 errors. Shader complexity 5.

https://ibb.co/RHM3ff1

UPDATE 2: Tried CPU stress test. No problems (?)

https://ibb.co/FYqnQ0j

UPDATE 3: Tried testing RAM with memtest. No errors so far.

UPDATE 4: Scanned both drives for viruses. No threats.

UPDATE 5: Some games exit fullscreen mode after few minutes of launch.

UPDATE 6: Tried GPU stress test with MSI Kombustor. Benchmark (1080) and custom preset (for 30 minutes). No crashes or anything.

UPDATE 7: GPU info

https://ibb.co/YNg6yHP

and here`s another one. Just after crash.

https://ibb.co/wRnsJsh

UPDATE 8: Tried older game. Artifacts and freeze after 2-3 minutes. Playable for few seconds again and then black screen and weird noise. Had to reboot PC. Before launch it had very loud and strange fan noise.

I think i had all symptoms of dying GPU =/. Case closed. Only one solution left.

UPDATE 9: Did clean install of AMD latest drivers 1.9.7.2. Installed MSI Afterburner and underclocked memory from 1250 to 1230. Enabled constant voltage, increased power limit to 50 and set fans to automatic. Playing Fable Anniversary now. Almost 40 minutes and no crash yet. Fans are very quiet for some reason. They were loud before. I don`t know if this is because of tweaks or latest drivers. Tried MK11 and it worked well too. Played an hour. Fans were quiet.

UPDATE 10: Problem returned.

Card replacement is only solution now. Problem solved. No more comments needed.

UPDATED 11: Just for information. Had 1 long and 3 short beeps when tried to manually restart PC while games was frozen (with graphical artifacts).

[Unapologetic Bigot]

Цитата допису emoticorpse:

Цитата допису T_T:

So i tried MSI Kombustor few minutes ago. It didn`t crashes and i haven`t seen artifacts there. Don`t know what else to test and why in games don`t work well, unlike stress tests.

Maybe your gpu has a bad piece of memory that isn't used during stress tests. Try running gpumemtest or something like that to see. I had a situation like that with regular ram once.

I tried it 3 times with GpuMemTest. At first it gave me WattMan error shortly after test started. Second and third time it was fine.

[nAnd]

I think I may be having something like this happen to me as well. My PC passes Firemark and Timespy but crashes in like any game except CIV. Every time it crashes I get a kernel power system failure. Any ideas?

CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X
Motherboard: MSi B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
GPU: Asus Arrez Strix Vega 64 Gaming 8GB OC
Ram: HyperX Fury DDR4-3200
PSU: Thermaltake ToughPower 850 watt 80+Gold

[emoticorpse]

Цитата допису Andrewbandew05:

I think I may be having something like this happen to me as well. My PC passes Firemark and Timespy but crashes in like any game except CIV. Every time it crashes I get a kernel power system failure. Any ideas?

CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X
Motherboard: MSi B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
GPU: Asus Arrez Strix Vega 64 Gaming 8GB OC
Ram: HyperX Fury DDR4-3200
PSU: Thermaltake ToughPower 850 watt 80+Gold

You try everything in this thread?. I'm about out of ideas except for changing out hardware but I mean, shouldn't have to do that.

You could try installing the visual c++ aio packages. I use those every time I install Windows just because and my system is pretty stable. Not sure if you want to try that if you haven't already. Also try re-installing the direct x runtimes. Might fix something in case something is broken. Hopefully it doesn't break the system even further lol.

[Unapologetic Bigot]

Can GPU overheating be the source of the problem? I cleaned PC mid-May, but it`s getting hot while playing video games. Fan was loud today even when i watched video online.

Upload screenshot with some GPU results. Around two-three minutes after game crashed.

[Unapologetic Bigot]

Don`t like to necro threads, but it can help some people with same problem.

I did clean install of AMD latest drivers 1.9.7.2. Installed MSI Afterburner and underclocked memory from 1250 to 1230 (R9 290X). Enabled constant voltage, increased power limit to 50 and set fans to automatic. Playing Fable Anniversary now. Almost 40 minutes and no crash yet. Fans are very quiet for some reason. They were loud before. I don`t know if this is because of tweaks or latest drivers. Don`t know how long it will work and in which games. Just possible solution.

[Wraithsiege]

I have same problems with my brand new 5700xt and i sent it RMA, how they will fix it or replace it

[UTFapolloMarine]

latest bios update

[UTFapolloMarine]

Цитата допису Arhimandrit Bauzilla:

I have same problems with my brand new 5700xt and i sent it RMA, how they will fix it or replace it

get the latest bios

[mr-freeman]

This is an issue which has been discussed on AMD forums which some people have had but no real answers yet. But you can try removing MSI Afterburner as it apparently clashes with wattman. I did that but still got crash. So I switched back to 16.6.1 driver (last driver before wattman introduced) and it seems ok now. I have HD 7950 card and Ivy Bridge i7-3770k cpu. At least I don't get that stupid wattman error message! I wonder if 5700 owners will still get this error or is this a ploy by AMD to force older card owners to upgrade?