7970 causing me issues

[Kynd]

I have gone from team green to team red, and it is causing me issues.... even with a fresh install of windows. Ati just seem to be far behind Nvidia when it comes to making solid drivers, that dont cause in game, and desktop glitches with grachics, Catalyst really does just suck -.-, Am I within my rights to DSR a grachics card that I have tests? Only had it like 2/7 days.

 

[Kynd]

What are your specs including make and model of psu?

Specs are fine, 750 watt corsair HX etc, its nothing hardware related, this is for sure just weak drivers from ATI I think.

 

[Kynd]

You can return it under the DSR if you had it delivered and it's no more than 7 working days from the day after you received it.

Is your PSU sufficient for a HD 7970?

Are you using the correct drivers?

The HD 7970 isn't incorporated into the unified drivers yet so you have to use specific drivers for it which can be found here (8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver).

Ya those are the ones I am using. Everthing with ATI just seems to problematic compared to Nvidia...

 

[Kynd]

The OP has already done that.

Yeah, this is coming from a fresh install windows, and a fresh install of the latest drivers, in BF3 I getting bugs such as long black laser trails behind players in Metro, amoung other bugs, I never had any of these issues with my gtx 470. My 7970 is going straight back and im waiting for kepler.

 

[Kynd]

Not the drivers.
Likely your card is faulty.

I cant believe how people blame drivers without troubleshooting hardware first.

I understand your point, but here is mine.... I went from a 5 year old PC with some old old AGP grahpics card from ATI, and the change was amazing, Nvidia solid drivers and support won me over. However I am fully aware that over the years ATI have refined their cards and drivers, and nowdays their cards are much more reliable than those from years ago, so taking this into account, and being a fair person, I decided to give ATI a chance since it is now 2012. But you know as the saying goes "first impressions count" and ATI just for whatever reason not giving me than smooth experience I was hopeing for, has put me off. I hope that is understandable.

 

[Kynd]

You were from the set off going to hate ATI, judging from your posts you were going to criticize it or find a fault even if there were none to be honest, stay with Nvidia it's clearly what you prefer Out of interest what made you switch?

I wanted more performance, being unable to run BF3 on ultra @ full HD etc, but at the same time I did not want to go for a gtx 580 since well, thats getting old now also kinda.. you know, new tech is always more tasty (maby in looks more than substance).

 

[Kynd]

Strange, as I get 60-110fps in BF3 @ ultra with all settings maxxed out? I stick vsync on and enjoy a completely smooth experience.

My bad, I forgot to indicate that above, yes, I was running a gtx 470 so ya, ultra settings were not an option.

 

[Kynd]

No problems here since getting my 7970 which I've had since launch date. Runs BF3 on Ultra perfectly - super smooth. Interesting your having problems with 'ATI drivers' - I found nvidia drivers (which I was using with my temporary 275GTX card) gave me more 'glitches' in BF3.

Funny that, cause I was playing BF3 on my gtx 470 3 days early before european launch, and never saw a single glitch untill I changed to ATI.

 

[Kynd]

My 6970 TFIII did the black and red thing !

wow... thats made my choice of avoiding ATI in future even more sure!

 

[Kynd]

Obvious troll is obvious

Why would I want to troll anyone?, that happens to be my feelings and opinion on the situation, which I am entitled to, you are also entitled to an opinion of your own, and if it happens to differ from mine or anyone elses, does that automatically make me or someone else a "troll" ?, I think you have some maturity and/or common sense issues.

 

[Kynd]

I refer you to my earlier post

Will do around thrusday, untill then I am busy tomorrow and wednesday, but on thuresday I am going to DSR the card, and when I take it out of the system then will be the perfect time to take a pic.

 

[Kynd]

just from your attitude towards amd (drivers in this case) says you are a troll as others have said. you don`t want to say exactly what the problems are or what your system spec is.. your not asking for help but bashing. you making excuses of being busy in front of your system and cant take a photo of your SYSTEM with the card inside says it all for me. as Dave_beast said post name with pic of card or shut ur pie..

i had my £1300 laptop (acer with nvidia = GPU fried & the motherboard with it) just clonked out on me last week and i hardly used it.. you don`t see me bashing nvidia... eh eh eh

First, let me give you 3 little pieces of advice, #1 get some manners. #2 learn to spell and use proper punctuation (or you might look like that 13 year old uneducated kid that has come here and quickly made an account to come here and start flaming people, 4 total posts made...), and lastly #3 dont quote people, you obviously fail to understand what quote means, because dave_ beast was not rude in his post, and did not tell me to "shut my pie hole", that seems to be something you added on your own initiative. lastly, I have a thead showing the goods I purchased on the day they arrived in a very big box, and how excited I was, I shall link that thread here to prove to the kids like you, that I am not just a basher, but a person, a customer, who after spending almost a grand, has a right to an opinion, did you (MAK360) earn that £1300 for that laptop? or did mommy and daddy pay for it, I think I know the answer to that one .

 

[Kynd]

I refer you to my earlier post

Here is the thread I made a few days ago when my big box arrived with my new monitor and the XFX 7970. I also had another thread which I CBA to find in the monitor section about returning that also, as it had a dead pixel, yes, a single dead pixel near the middle of the screen on a £500 pound purchase = no freaking way, straight back it goes, along with this buggy, possibly faulty 7970.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18368535

 

[Kynd]

Honestly this is not a troll, at least its not an intentional troll. Although yes, looking at it now it certainly does read like one. Apologies for that at least.

Anyway, I disagree. You might well need to clean your registry and / or reconfigure a few applications. But installing and configuring windows and all your various applications from scratch? For the average user its completely unnecessary. There are a number of issues that are pretty much ONLY recoverable from with a complete re-install, but changing graphics cards, unless its a really bad case, just isn't one of them.

But if you're one of those compulsive types, that absolutely has to install everything from scratch every time a problem occurs, then at least make it easy on yourself and keep a base image with which to start out from.

Well, for me, I have all my games and apps on my crucial raid 0 ssd, and backup info my a samsung 1tb, which makes life very easy when it comes to doing reinstalls.