7850 help? Is this right?

[LukieBoy007]

Hi,
I bought a rig roughly 2 weeks ago which has a i5 3570k, a Sapphire 7850 NON-OC and 4GB Vengeance DDR3 RAM. The thing is, was I expecting too much? I am running the latest 12.4 drivers and I get 21fps on GTA IV with Icenhancer, and the graphic settings in the menus aren't even that high! (I've seen gameplay of someone playing it smoothly on a GTX 560?) I also play Company of Heroes, and I can't play a 2007 game maxed out on a 2012 graphics card? Is it the drivers or is it a defective card? I also get random stuttering on Skyrim occasionally.
Rarely as well, my PC just locks up when doing things like web browsing, or sometimes whilst a game is running but I am doing something else in the background.

Should I try the 12.3 drivers and see if the problem persists? Or would the 12.5 BETA drivers be worth a try?

Thanks for all your help, Luke.

 

[spixelspixel]

GTA 4 is mainly cpu dependent. Pretty much no pc can run that game well, its coded awfully. Don't know about company of heroes but I'd expect that to run okay.

 

[LukieBoy007]

GTA 4 is mainly cpu dependent. Pretty much no pc can run that game well, its coded awfully. Don't know about company of heroes but I'd expect that to run okay.

Ok, but isn't an average of 21fps quite a bit low? I'm swaying more to the fact that it's a driver problem...