"PA.exe has stopped working"

hm, i didnt know that and no, ill upgrade right now

I'm not sure if that will fix the problem or not but I think it's a good idea to do anyway

I just upgraded to 8.1 and it didnt change. im going to go ahead and upgrade to 8GB of ram

i upgraded to 12GB of ram and still no good

Can you please try increase your page file on HDD to 12GB too?
Problems caused by small page file can't be solved by RAM upgrade.

I am sorry for the terribly late response. I have attached an update Dxdiag, however, how do i increase my page file on HDD?

Updated DxDiag

Your driver is almost two months old:

Code:

Processor: AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Card name: AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Driver Version: 14.200.1004.0
Driver Date/Size: 8/11/2014 23:32:20, 1331424 bytes

There is a new AMD driver (dated Sept. 28th 2014) available for your system:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows 8.1 - 64

i've upgraded and still nothing. =/ is there anything aside from drivers that could be the issue? i am monitoring gameplay and PA only uses roughly 45% MEM and 20ish% CPU

AMD catalyst said i have the later drivers