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60fps on 7970?

rare said:
V-Sync will just limit the maximum frame rate, prevent screen tearing and on some setups it means a much smoother experience, it will not however have any effect on the minimum frame rate, if its hitting 20fps having v-sync on or off will make no difference.
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+1. Unless your FPS shoots up and gets stuck at 60 V-Sync is off and the card is near it's limit and you need to turn down settings or OC.
 
I have got the 12.3's on my 5870 and the setting i see that control vsync are under 3d gaming scroll down to the bottom might also redo the display detect just to make sure that is correct i know i had some problems when i got the new monitor and for some weird reason settings were still stuck to the old dell monitor. Other then that i don't have a clue as there might be something that came after the 5 series that could be causing this sorry can't help more m8 :(.
 
Mr. May said:
Leave it on. The bethesda games are hard programed to run at 60 fps,a higher frame rate the game will become a mess. Trust me i know as i was looking to max frame rate out on fallout.

To much hassle and will 99% of the time run like carp.
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This is 100% correct.

Oblivion is at 60fps as well. Just leave V-sync on if you are getting 60FPS. You won't be able to achieve higher.

Isn't it obvious enough that if you tried it at low settings and it didn't budge it's pretty much futile trying to get it up? :/ I would bet that even if whatever you used (fraps for example) read it as higher than 60FPS then it probably isn't the true frame rate.
 
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So it seems theres a little fix to solve the issue.

With this simple borderless window mod I can basically run the game in window mode and get a constant 60fps now, at just under Ultra settings (i'm surprised that Skyrim on ultra gives only 45ish fps on an overclocked 7970)

So the game is no longer going all the way down to 20fps but only occasionally drops a few frames causing minor suttering. I'm glad i'm able to play it properly.

But after the companions mission Benor my companion buggered off and took all my **** with him, he now is back to markarth (i think) with non of my things :(

However another theres another issue, its not stable at 1100/1500, furmark stress tests it to 71C with no artefacts or display driver crashing. But in MW3 and now in Skyrim the display drivers crash.
 
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masscrazy said:
So it seems theres a little fix to solve the issue.

With this simple borderless window mod I can basically run the game in window mode and get a constant 60fps now, at just under Ultra settings (i'm surprised that Skyrim on ultra gives only 45ish fps on an overclocked 7970)

So the game is no longer going all the way down to 20fps but only occasionally drops a few frames causing minor suttering. I'm glad i'm able to play it properly.

But after the companions mission Benor my companion buggered off and took all my **** with him, he now is back to markarth (i think) with non of my things :(

However another theres another issue, its not stable at 1100/1500, furmark stress tests it to 71C with no artefacts or display driver crashing. But in MW3 and now in Skyrim the display drivers crash.
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Well if its not stable you should try increasing the voltage feeding your graphics card and see if it does the trick otherwise just reduce the clock speeds until its stable. From what i ve been reading so far from the replies if i got it correctly is that you cannot go past 60 fps because of an fps-limiter thats sort of built in the game (atleast for AMD cardS?) but sometimes while you play the frame rate hits as low as 20 fps. How often does that happen? Is it when the graphical scene becomes too tense and the card is struggling?
Do you have Skyrim installed on the ssd? Have you tried earlier versions of the catalyst?
 
Reaper123 said:
Well if its not stable you should try increasing the voltage feeding your graphics card and see if it does the trick otherwise just reduce the clock speeds until its stable. From what i ve been reading so far from the replies if i got it correctly is that you cannot go past 60 fps because of an fps-limiter thats sort of built in the game (atleast for AMD cardS?) but sometimes while you play the frame rate hits as low as 20 fps. How often does that happen? Is it when the graphical scene becomes too tense and the card is struggling?
Do you have Skyrim installed on the ssd? Have you tried earlier versions of the catalyst?
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Yes that was the problem the game would stutter and no go beyond 60fps. This indeed is some game problem but to fix very low fps a mod (link in prev post) basically fakes fullscreen even though playing with window mode is selected. Window mode has fixed the issue of frame rates, therefore the mod.

Anyhow the fps now stay at 60 and only rarely drops when intense gaphical scenes but not down to levels previously experienced.

I have skyrim installed on a 1TB WD FAEX 7200rpm drive, brand new and only using 40gb.

I've tried BF3 with all high settings giving me around 70fps.

I've not been able to test thoroughly any of the games, i've only installed them today.

But i will give the other drivers a go, 12.5beta and 12.3.
 
Skyrim is a bag of nails mate. Its the engine they used.

Keep in mind that you need to keep V-sync on otherwise you will see funny Physics like flying horses etc.

Personally for single card I would stick to 12.4 WHQL with the latest CAP. Apart from the monitor standy bug (documented elsewhere) I have few issues in single card mode.

Your 3DMark score is in the right ball-park.
 
Besty said:
Skyrim is a bag of nails mate. Its the engine they used.

Keep in mind that you need to keep V-sync on otherwise you will see funny Physics like flying horses etc.

Personally for single card I would stick to 12.4 WHQL with the latest CAP. Apart from the monitor standy bug (documented elsewhere) I have few issues in single card mode.

Your 3DMark score is in the right ball-park.
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Cheers, i was just thinking why others get their scores higher, and its most likely their cpu..

In regards to skyrim, i only tested it with window mode and for the minute i played the FPS did stay at 60, but there was some stutter anyone know how to stop this. I'll try it out for longer to see how much it really hinders the experience.
 
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