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AMD problems

weehamish

weehamish

weehamish

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I've got a 7970 and although it runs everything with good fps it doesn't at all seem stable?

Problems in games is mostly stuttering even at 60 fps games don't seem smooth? Using 3d party software fixes some of this but not all games.

Some games such as AoE 3 is unstable in battles and the fps is all over. Also the game is stuttering all the time unless played in widowed mode. The stuttering could be with nvidia too though.

Im getting artifact spikes randomly in all of my games. They are big spikes across the screen and happen in almost every game I've played so far. I have 2 7970s atm and tried both and both do the same thing.

I want to keep the 7970 but the drivers are really bad there's no point having high fps if the game has random artifacts occurring all the time. I want to wait for the official 12.11 but how long will it be and will it even fix these problems? Some people may not notice them as they are pop up and are gone so if out blink or even see it its like huh what was that then carry on but over the last week I've seen it happen in loads of games.

My choice now is move to a 680 i know they have random bugs too but nowhere near as much as AMD cards, or keep the 7970? The swap won't cost me anything so what do you think i should do?
 
Hmm are you sure they are spikes and not tearing? have you tried enabling Vsync?

Good news is that if you are playing at 1080p then you don't need a 680. Look at the factory overclocked 670s as they are just as fast.

I bought a 7970 on launch for £430 and tbh it was the worst buy I've ever made. It's probably a good thing the money came from a little result I had as I was bitterly disappointed.

I had black screen issues, artefacts on my desktop when waking the PC and all sorts of other issues. Not only that but the 3d using Tridef was utterly poopants.

Not had any issues at all since getting my 670.
 
ALXAndy said:
Hmm are you sure they are spikes and not tearing? have you tried enabling Vsync?

Good news is that if you are playing at 1080p then you don't need a 680. Look at the factory overclocked 670s as they are just as fast.

I bought a 7970 on launch for £430 and tbh it was the worst buy I've ever made. It's probably a good thing the money came from a little result I had as I was bitterly disappointed.

I had black screen issues, artefacts on my desktop when waking the PC and all sorts of other issues. Not only that but the 3d using Tridef was utterly poopants.

Not had any issues at all since getting my 670.
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Never buy hardware on launch could be a wise decision
 
Rusty0611 said:
Jeez. If now's the time when we're all accepting launch day issues as standard and "OK" then I feel bad :(
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Well tbh every time I've bought a product at launch I've been burnt.

Granted it hasn't happened often as I usually use common sense but each time I have had a result with finances around the time of a product launch I've been smashed with problems.

EVGA 790i Ultra SLI - took nine, count - nine bios updates before it stopped bsoding and finally liked my OCZ ram.

Asus D2X sound card. Gave up after about three months, even trying the hacked drivers made by the guy at Corsair.Nothing but crashes and looping samples. Only fix in Windows was disable it then re-enable it.

7970 - too many issues to list tbh. Thankfully I got my 670 quite late after launch so it's been plain sailing ever since.
 
Yeah I must admit my 680s were butter smooth from release up until when I sold them on.

Can't comment on the 7900 front as I bought in at the release of 12.11 but it's been fine so far.
 
borley said:
Realy i thought most GPUs never have the most effeciant drivers at launch?
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nVidia's drivers have been pretty much constant from release up until now bar the odd niggle.

AMDs drivers have been up and down a teeny bit (speaking a couple of percent here and there) and then a large jump at the point of 12.11 betas.
 
Im on 12.11 so its these im having issues with.

My mate and bro both using Nvidia cards and i used one before switching and i just seem to have no problems with them. Benchmarks are perfect for the 7970 and on paper it looks the best but when gaming its just not what id expect.

Its not cooling i have the asus direct cu2 it never goes above 60C on full load. Im always using vsync as the frames go mental like 3k+ on some games during menus. I have to use 3rd party software on some games as AMD doesn't have the option in ccc unlike Nvidia control panel.

The 12.11 official has to be soon though?

The 680 looks worse on paper but it performs nearly the same and it has no vsync issues and no stuttering issues.

Its not tearing its defo artifacts and they are so random its hard say what's causing them apart from drivers.
 
How can it be my fault if i haven't changed anything and its a new build?

I've already pointed out some issues people didn't notice until i pointed them out. Some people don't even think some things are problems but they are.

The artifacting that's happening is so random and happens in most games from borderlands 2 to skyrim to AoE3.
 
ALXAndy said:
EVGA 790i Ultra SLI - took nine, count - nine bios updates before it stopped bsoding and finally liked my OCZ ram.
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nForce chipset boards are just fail - launch release or not the only ones that aren't entirely terrible are the Gigabyte N650i DS4L (or something like that) and the EVGA 750i F.T.W and in both cases thats due to gigabyte/evga going the extra length to work around the many issues.
 
Rroff said:
nForce chipset boards are just fail - launch release or not the only ones that aren't entirely terrible are the Gigabyte N650i DS4L (or something like that) and the EVGA 750i F.T.W and in both cases thats due to gigabyte/evga going the extra length to work around the many issues.
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I suffered 2 of them! :( both 780i

Asus and XFX
 
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