Solved BSOD playing Watch dogs caused by atikmdag.sys

[remsta]

Hi i recently installed watch dogs and played for a few hours before i started noticing weird lag, even though i was on low settings and my computer gear is above requirements.
About 4 hours into the game i got a BSOD and the computer rebooted, this happened about 3 more times as i kept on playing like an idiot.
I have the latest driver updates and im pretty sure my graphic card itself is fine, if anyone has recently resolved this you're welcome to shine some light!
I used BlueScreen viewer to see why this was happening and it came up with a problem in the
atikmdag.sys driver. I've uploaded a screen shot of the program.

Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD7950 3GB OC Edition V2
Memory: Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H Motherboard

 

[Arc]

Hi remsta.

You are having a series of BugCheck A0000001 which is a bugcheck inherent in ATI/AMD display.

[COLOR=Red]BugCheck A0000001[/COLOR], {5, 0, 0, 0}

Probably caused by : atikmdag.sys ( atikmdag+277ce )

Followup: MachineOwner
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And the installed version of the display driver is very old.

fffff880`05aa3000 fffff880`065b9000   atikmdag T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: atikmdag.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmdag.sys
[COLOR=Red]    Image name: atikmdag.sys
    Timestamp:        Thu Dec 20 02:08:55 2012[/COLOR] (50D225DF)
    CheckSum:         00AC6529
    ImageSize:        00B16000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Update the driver, but not to the latest one. Uninstall your installed version of the display driver.

• How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst Drivers From A Windows Based System

Then clean up any possible leftover.

• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/83814-drivers-clean-left-over-files-after-uninstalling.html

Then install version 13.9 WHQL only.

• Previous AMD Catalyst? Display Drivers

Let us know the situation with this driver installed.

 

[remsta]

Yes! Thankyou heaps
Been playing for about 5 hours now and near to no lag and no BSOD and i've been playing it on high graphics.
I thought my drivers were all updated but something must've gone wrong.
Thankyou very much!

 

[Arc]

You are welcome.

Observe the situation over at least a week. Let us know for any further issue.

 

[remsta]

Hey, there's no more blue screens lately but sometimes it gets really laggy, and can just crash forcing me to restart the game.

 

[Arc]

OK, let us know for any reportable issue.

 

[boogieboy]

Almost everyone having BSOD in Watch Dogs. This happen due to previous version of AMD Catalyst Drivers or Nvidia SLI Profile or due to the Gamepad which needs to be unplugged and then re-plugged back when the game starts. This is because of the bad coding and optimization by Devs.

 

[Arc]

Good info, Bilal.