So, after over a year using a fairly old Nvidia 260 I went ahead and finally changed to ATI, my first ATI(or AMD, whatever, please don't get picky over my use of ati) ever, always used nvidia cards before.
Not so much because they're better, I don't favour one or the other, I simply buy based on price and performance.
ATI's eyefinity is what really pulled me in though, since I've always wanted to do 3 monitor gaming on a single card solution, something not possible at the moment with Nvidia surround.
Well, since installing it yesterday I've had nothing but problems, they're drivers (10,12 is what I'm using.) are utter crap.
I keep my system very clean, there's not much on here but games and it's a fairly fresh install of windows 7, 64.
Just changing profiles from extended destop to eyefinity can sometimes cause the display driver to completely 'stop working', the only fix I've found is a reboot, then wondering if I won the profile switching lottery, perhaps it'll work on this reboot!
Then there's the issue of the card clocking, it doesn't always change to 800mhz when playing games, it hangs at 500mhz and I get crappy framerates, yet another problem I've found so solution for.
Anyone know the cause or possible fix to this?
When it actually works and I can switch into eyefinity mode without the display driver crashing, then if i cross my fingers and the card actually upclocks when I play a game, it's great.
But at the moment it's 50/50 as to whether either of those things will happen.
Not so much because they're better, I don't favour one or the other, I simply buy based on price and performance.
ATI's eyefinity is what really pulled me in though, since I've always wanted to do 3 monitor gaming on a single card solution, something not possible at the moment with Nvidia surround.
Well, since installing it yesterday I've had nothing but problems, they're drivers (10,12 is what I'm using.) are utter crap.
I keep my system very clean, there's not much on here but games and it's a fairly fresh install of windows 7, 64.
Just changing profiles from extended destop to eyefinity can sometimes cause the display driver to completely 'stop working', the only fix I've found is a reboot, then wondering if I won the profile switching lottery, perhaps it'll work on this reboot!
Then there's the issue of the card clocking, it doesn't always change to 800mhz when playing games, it hangs at 500mhz and I get crappy framerates, yet another problem I've found so solution for.
Anyone know the cause or possible fix to this?
When it actually works and I can switch into eyefinity mode without the display driver crashing, then if i cross my fingers and the card actually upclocks when I play a game, it's great.
But at the moment it's 50/50 as to whether either of those things will happen.
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. It can happen the other way around if you were going from AMD to nvidia then you can have the same problems. Even if you 'uninstalled' the nvidia drivers there will still be bits and bobs left in the registry which is why i mentioned drivercleaner in safe mode to delete all these nvidia bits and bobs.
