Not happy with latest drivers from ATi :/

Jay85 · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:04

So i've made a lot of new threads lately regarding crossfire and i have to say thanks to all those that answered my questions and helped sort out my problems.

However, after trying most of the latest titles that i own including Mafia 2, Crysis 2, Starcraft 2 they all have the same problem... Screen Flickering! almost as though the 2 cards are in sync properly.. I've tried with 1 crossfire bridge, changing bridges around, swapping the cards around all have made no difference. The only thing that does seem to have worked is rolling back the drivers to 10.8... i know right :S. It's fixed the flickering in all the games but i havent updated the application profiles yet as i'm not sure if i can use the new 11.6 app profiles with the older 10.8 drivers...

Does anyone know if it's purely driver issues or if theres another fix to this?

Btw i'm very happy with the crossfire setup and overall performance.

paradisiac · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:06

do you have vsync enable in the games?

Jay85 · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:13

I always have Vsync enabled, it gets worse if i dont have it on during crossfire operation :S.

Jay85 · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:14

Okay crysis 2 is still not working in crossfire mode. The flickering has stopped however as soon as you see water, only the water flickers rapidly!! Sigh

paradisiac · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:15

mine is the same

although i get tearing not flickering.
what exactly do you mean by flicker, is it like a light flashing, or the screen turning off and on really quickly?

seandog · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:21

Nvm >< never seen was thread by Jay aswell

IronWarrior · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:46

How are you cards and monitors setup?

What cables and ports did you use?

Omega · 5 Jul 2011 at 16:02

hmm im on 11.7 and got no flicker issues with my 6950x2 o_O

Is it ALL games its happening on?

paradisiac · 5 Jul 2011 at 16:05

Omega said:
hmm im on 11.7 and got no flicker issues with my 6950x2 o_O

Is it ALL games its happening on?

did you get issues on 11.6 though?

SeeKified · 5 Jul 2011 at 16:07

Not getting this with my setup, running 11.6 with 11.6 CAP1. You running multiple monitors?

Jay85 · 5 Jul 2011 at 16:13

Hi guys,

I'm running single 24" monitor (Iiyama E2407HDSD Prolite) connected to the first cards top DVI port. Everything works fine using a single card but with crossfire i get this flickering i.e. it goes bright then dark really really fast within a second and it's continuous. I'm gonna try 10.12 drivers as i read somewhere it's the best set for 5800 series crossfire.

Also this only seems to be happening on the latest titles of games, mainly directX 10 and 11 games!

MeMeMeMe · 5 Jul 2011 at 19:56

Maybe something about your cards are mismatched - wrong clocks or something?

I am using CCC 11.5, and was having flickering with crysis 2, but that's a known problem with that game. The DX11 patch has solved that. No problems in other games, except for the occasional older games that don't support crossfire.

Final8y · 5 Jul 2011 at 20:04

Make sure there is no clash with the on-board GPU.

And you are updating the South Bridge Drivers as well ?.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx

Omega · 5 Jul 2011 at 20:54

paradisiac said:
did you get issues on 11.6 though?

Nope? only issue I've had with xfire is getting both cards to overclock at the same time etc.

But never any flickering issues.

Jay85 · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:03

MeMeMeMe said:
Maybe something about your cards are mismatched - wrong clocks or something?

I am using CCC 11.5, and was having flickering with crysis 2, but that's a known problem with that game. The DX11 patch has solved that. No problems in other games, except for the occasional older games that don't support crossfire.

Hmm i thought a referrence card and non referrence card would be okay tbh... the DX11 patch for me has sort of solved it but i think this may have more to do with my copy of crysis 2 atm...

Final8y said:
Make sure there is no clash with the on-board GPU.

And you are updating the South Bridge Drivers as well ?.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx

I think my onboard is switched off and my pcie is set to primary. I wasn't aware i needed to update my southbridge drivers and that the latest AMD package for the motherboard would include it?

buchtis · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:06

Sell up and go NVidia.

Jay85 · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:25

I would but my cards are only worth say... £250-£300 max? If i was to go nvid i would go for a GTX580 and as we all know they aren't cheap! Also my board doesn't support SLI

Jay85 · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:27

I've updated to 10.12 drivers now and it's fixed the bug in Mafia 2 but still present in Crysis 2.

I forgot to add that since my board is a mATX board, the 2 pci-e lanes run at x8x8 speed when in crossfire.. could this have something to do with it? Would you recommend tweaking the freq for each lane?

buchtis · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:29

Mafia 2, Crysis 2, Starcraft 2

Not really playing any demanding games though, this would do you niceley if you could stretch another £35.

Alternatively this.

Jay85 · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:33

Not yet, but i'm after raw horse power/future proofing for another 3 years/triple monitor setup soon.

The gtx 580 is a steal at that price!