7970 starting to drive me crazy

[jonnyfgm]

So i've had my 7970 (powercolor) about a week so far, and it seems to be giving me nothing but issues

First of all I keep getting out of memory directx errors in battlefield 3, to be honest I got this once or twice with my old 450s so thinking it might be down to the game but its still annoying.

The more troubling problem I seem to get is my core clock gets stuck at 501mhz and I have to restart the pc in order to get it back up to maximum speed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Edit: So i found by translating a swedish forum lol, that If i close my browser before opening a game the clock speed will run correctly. Which is fine, except for the fact that BF3 launches from the browser, sigh

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Drivers up to date?

 

[jonnyfgm]

Yeah, I recently switched from the 12.2 pre certified ones to the certified ones.

 

[Azurite]

Weird bug..

BF3 is well knowned for its memory issue. I havent heard about the browser trouble you are having. I would report this to AMD and BF3 and see what they come up with. Might be some powersaving issue with the card?

Really a pain to have new hardware not working properly. Hope you get it solved m8

 

[jonnyfgm]

Well i just managed to have a 3 hour battle with all settings on max, so think i may have sorted it.

Seems the 501mhz issue is linked to having an active flash applet running in the browser, closing my browser before running BF3 seems to make it all work ok, also looks like the directx issues I was having were down to this lower clock speed, thats my theory anyway.

Now to see how far I can push this card.....

 

[Noilzan]

So i've had my 7970 (powercolor) about a week so far, and it seems to be giving me nothing but issues

First of all I keep getting out of memory directx errors in battlefield 3, to be honest I got this once or twice with my old 450s so thinking it might be down to the game but its still annoying.

The more troubling problem I seem to get is my core clock gets stuck at 501mhz and I have to restart the pc in order to get it back up to maximum speed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Edit: So i found by translating a swedish forum lol, that If i close my browser before opening a game the clock speed will run correctly. Which is fine, except for the fact that BF3 launches from the browser, sigh

I have had loads of issues with my 7970 as well. Starting to sort some of them out finally.

Its a common issue with the 7970 that flash applets in your browser will make your core clock get stuck at 501 Mhz, the battlelog isnt flash based so that website itself wont fuck your clock speed. I'm just waiting for new drivers to be honest.

 

[Noilzan]

I made a thread earlier this week about my terrible FPS in BF3 with this card. I literally have to use the low settings to be able to maintain a solid 60 fps, and even then it dips down to 45 at intense moments.

The strange thing is that my core clock is running correctly at 1125 and my gpu usage is only around 50%-65% according to MSI AB.

Does anyone have similar issues?

 

[jonnyfgm]

BF3 runs really well for me, I have it at ultra with Vsynch on at a steady 60FPS, if i take v-synch off it fluctuates between 70-110 FPS

Even when it was getting stuck at 501mhz I was still able to run it at high with v-synch on just it would lead to directx errors.

I'm really tempted to say in your case the issue is your CPU

 

[Damien c]

Not sure if this issue has been resolved or not and also not sure if it affected ATI/AMD cards but the person in my clan who deal's with the hosting company, was passed this information back in November about drops in performance.

"This is unrelated to the server side but we thought this should be mentioned as it's particular relevant to BF3 and Battlelog. This is a bug a member of KillerCreation managed to track down and has been forwarded to DICE.

IE9 coupled with the latest Nvidia drivers (285.62) includes a GPU accelerator function that reserves a certain amount of rending power just for IE9 tasks that never gets released to other processes. I believe the beta drivers also included this.

While IE9 is open, for example Battlelog, single GPU performance is hit by up to 20% while in-game. SLI performance is more pronounced and gets hit by up to 50%. The impact is not immediate, it can take up to 2 hours (oddly) to take affect after a clean restart of Windows.

As far as we can see, this bug/function has not been documented and is on by default in IE9: Internet Options > Advanced > Accelerated Graphics. To disable, just tick 'Use Software rending instead of GPU rendering*' "

As I say it may have been resolved and may never have affected ATI/AMD card's but it may be worth checking, and I also don't know if Firefox has a similar option but it may do and if you are using it, then it could be hampering the performance on some peoples cards.

 

[Noilzan]

BF3 runs really well for me, I have it at ultra with Vsynch on at a steady 60FPS, if i take v-synch off it fluctuates between 70-110 FPS

Even when it was getting stuck at 501mhz I was still able to run it at high with v-synch on just it would lead to directx errors.

I'm really tempted to say in your case the issue is your CPU

That's what i assumed at first, and that was the topic of the thread. I'm using a fx-8150 at 3,6 ghz.

From what i've heard from the replies to my thread, the cpu is definately not bottlenecking.

It's really strange and i'm really desperate to solve this.

 

[Ibanez81]

My Catalyst seems to say its a 12.3 version? But The AMD site only shows a 12.2?

Ive not had any problems that you have described with mine. Yet ive always been on this 12.3 driver?

 

[jonnyfgm]

if i remember correctly the pre certified edition was labelled up at 12.3 for some reason.

Download the latest 12.2 off the AMD website, this is the most up to date

 

[tinytomlogan]

try a fresh install on an old drive awith all new drivers etc, if its still the same then RMA the card

 

[Ibanez81]

if i remember correctly the pre certified edition was labelled up at 12.3 for some reason.

Download the latest 12.2 off the AMD website, this is the most up to date

Ah right, Thanks