Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered

[BigDogNigNog]

Hello,

I'm attempting to play Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. Everything is smooth til I finish the cutscenes and the game is presumably about to start. I get a loading symbol, then the crash, with "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered". I'm unsure if this is game-specific or not, but I haven't been able to find anything aside from updating drivers online.

Display: AMD Radeon HD 6970M
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
PPSSPP version 1.0

Drivers are fully updated to the best of my knowledge and I'm using DirectX 11. One thing that could possibly be a problem is that I'm running Bootcamp, the base machine is a Mac. I have no idea if that's a factor. That's really the extent of the troubleshooting I know to do, any help would be appreciated.

[fivefeet8]

Is your laptop getting too hot? I've had experience where those errors happend when the GPU is getting too hot. How is the system with other 3d games?

[BigDogNigNog]

It's a desktop. Obviously it's not a stellar graphics card, but I've done things much more intense on here (including newer games, Skyrim and such) without issue. Plus the issue occurs consistently at exactly the same point and it's not hot to the touch, so I'm confident it's not an overheating problem.

[Bigpet]

Probably just AMD drivers being shit again, try using the Direct3D backend

[BigDogNigNog]

Did that, worked like a charm. Appreciate your help.

[fivefeet8]

AMD OpenGL drivers are still buggy. Seems they're putting more efforts into their Mantel API now.

[LunaMoo]

From description on AMD driver site:

Code:

This driver is not intended for use on AMD products running in Apple Bootcamp platforms. Users of these platforms should contact their manufacturer for driver support.

So they likely know something is broken there and don't give a damn about apple users;p.

[BigDogNigNog]

Fivefeet, you're talking way over my head at this point. My knowledge of this stuff is limited on a good day. But thanks for the input.

No idea where you got that from, Luna, but good to know. I'm also not at all a fan of Apple, so no hate there, but it's the only option I had.

[LunaMoo]

(02-23-2015 05:21 AM)BigDogNigNog Wrote:  (...)
No idea where you got that from(...)

Directly at the source.
I kind of always read at least that short description at the driver page and was a bit suprised seeing them mentioning apple last time I checked the site. Always thought that bootcamp is just a fancy name for multi boot and that all apple pc's are intel+nvidia, apparently neither are true;p.