7950 < 6870 BFBC2 fps

[SeekaX]

i'm a little short on money atm. i will build a rig for a friend of mine and it will be quite good, i will try it in that PC. still 23 months left to return it if its faulty.
also the card is performing as good as it should in 3d benchmarks, so i doubt that the card itself is damaged. but i don't know how the architecture works either.

 

[SPS]

Well if it's under performing in 2D rendering then something isn't correct.

 

[SeekaX]

I just started the single player on maxed out settings and it's performing as it should. GPU load goes up to 80-100% and the CPU is at 80-95%. Avg is about 90 fps which they achieved in the benchmarks as well.

 

[iBeInspire]

Seriously, try completely removing your 2D profile in Afterburner... For me it's caused nothing but problems ~

 

[SeekaX]

i already removed it, it wouldnt let me monitor my fps anymore.
anyways, in muliplayer, same settings, the GPU only goes up to 60% load, as soon as the chat or any other overlay kicks in, the frames drop to 30 and the gpu load to 30%.

 

[SeekaX]

after i was about 10 minutes in the game the monitoring bugged, it said my fan speed, temp and load was at 0% and the core clock at 500mhz. shortly after when i tabbed out of the game the driver crashed.

 

[iBeInspire]

after i was about 10 minutes in the game the monitoring bugged, it said my fan speed, temp and load was at 0% and the core clock at 500mhz. shortly after when i tabbed out of the game the driver crashed.

Going on a whim here, but try closing afterburner completely and then running the game...
Use the console to bring up an FPS counter and see if that makes a difference

Afterburner cause me big problems in DX9 games before I updated it, maybe that's your problem... Even if it is up to date, worth a try right..?

 

[SeekaX]

i ran the game in dx11, can't use ingame fps since bfbc2 has no console but afterburner caused me trouble as well, back when i used the old gpu it would crash after 10 minutes with afterburner running. but i will give it a try anyways

 

[SeekaX]

i just had some artifacting in cod4. it's weird because neither the gpu or the cpu was at high load and the temps were both under 50°C.

 

[iBeInspire]

I'm bordering on just shouting out defective :/

 

[SeekaX]

I will just wait for that friend of mine to order his PC and i will test the GPU in his rig. again, in no benchmark i had any problems.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

if your drivers crash then it is clearly a bad gpu oc or lack of power from psu, dont use any cpu or gpu oc when trouble shooting.

also even my 460 gets dib 2424 score and 113895 lines score, so something is not right.

dont use any monitoring software, especially something like afterburner, use fraps or evga precision(original not "X")

battlefield was always more cpu based compared to other games.

try other games like cod or some indie platformer etc.

 

[SeekaX]

cod performs exactly the same as before, but thats because my CPU just cant do more. The PSU is probably the problem and if it itsn't that i will RMA it. my GPU is at stock since my performance in games didnt improve at all through that.

 

[SeekaX]

it's not the card. either that or it's a massive coincidence. i put the hd6870 back in the rig, and what are the odds, it underperforms.

here is my 7950

here is how the 6870 should perform

and here is how my 6870 performs

note that the 6870 still outperforms the 7950, and that they are an awful lot close.

/edit/
the 6870 performs way better in multiplayer, with the settings that dropped me to 50-60 fps with the 7950 i now have ~100
in singleplayer though on maxed out settings the 7950 kills the 6870.

 

[SeekaX]

i now have a new PSU, Corsair AX750 and nothing has changed. also in Tom2D the benchmarks of my HD6870 and the HD7950 are pretty much the same, but the 6870 performs better in games. I tried Quake Live yesterday and the colors of the chat were messed up, some textures as well.

 

[seumasbeathan]

I suggest you just rma it

 

[SeekaX]

i contacted the Asus support, if they don't tell me what i'm doing wrong in the next two days (if they tell me to check if all cables are plugged in i'm going to sue them), i will RMA it.
What still concerns me is that my old HD6870 is underperforming in the 2D benchmark as well. it's quite the coincidence that both score pretty much the same, isn't it? but still the HD6870 has way less problems with 2D rendering.

 

[StarScream345]

I would have to agree with the Power Delivery Theory. I had a GTX670 on this god awful Alpine 750w (Cheapo piece of ****) When playing BF3 80-120 Average, Upgraded the the Antec 400w High Current Gamer - 120-150 Average. Power Delivery can be a massive down fall in how GPUs perform, This is why some people with same system but different Power Supply's using Crossfire will have different results Cheap Power Supply's WILL mean cheap and bad performance.

 

[SeekaX]

I would have to agree with the Power Delivery Theory. I had a GTX670 on this god awful Alpine 750w (Cheapo piece of ****) When playing BF3 80-120 Average, Upgraded the the Antec 400w High Current Gamer - 120-150 Average. Power Delivery can be a massive down fall in how GPUs perform, This is why some people with same system but different Power Supply's using Crossfire will have different results Cheap Power Supply's WILL mean cheap and bad performance.

i got my Corsair AX750 Gold yesterday and it didnt change a bit. my last idea is that the card is broken.

 

[alxcsb]

I am pretty sure this is caused by DX. Try uninstalling it and installing the latest version. I noticed a lot of games and benchmarks install their own version DX, and it might have screwed things up in there. A modern GPU should not have any problems at all rendering 2D stuff. Might I suggest to try installing a clean copy of Windows and give that a go? All in all, I think the card is perfectly fine, it is certainly something to do with software/drivers.