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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club
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Caporegime
Add me please http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=26146866&postcount=680
thefogo needs adding too
Soldato
humbug have you had any black screens? I've had two today, but both were when playing CoD. I don't know if it's my card or the game.
Caporegime
No, i only get black screens if i push the memory to high, i have just come back from 2 hours of Crysis 3 @ 1100 / 1400.
Don't have CoD.
Soldato
Yeah I'm just running stock so I'm not sure. Never had a problem with BF4. Hm.
Just remembered you asked what BIOS I had
Just remembered you asked what BIOS I had
Caporegime
Soldato
Having more problems with this card 
Just had a crash on ghosts. It froze, then went to a black screen. It finally got back to the desktop and my clocks are now stuck in 3D mode.
I'm going to revert back to 14.3.
Just had a crash on ghosts. It froze, then went to a black screen. It finally got back to the desktop and my clocks are now stuck in 3D mode.
I'm going to revert back to 14.3.
Caporegime
Having more problems with this card
Just had a crash on ghosts. It froze, then went to a black screen. It finally got back to the desktop and my clocks are now stuck in 3D mode.
Sounds like the card is not stable with its out of the box overclocks to me. Try putting the vram back to 1250 and see if it still does it. However im wondering if this is core related as if it was memory related you'd have to restart to get control back.
Soldato
I'll try 14.3 as it could be a driver problem. If it still does it then I'll set the card to reference clocks and give that a go.
Caporegime
The thing that i have noticed about Hawaii cards;
If you run vSync on a game that isn't demanding the card will down clock its self, it seems that it will only run maximum clocks if it needs to to keep the maximum FPS locked in a constant, with vSync off it run at max clocks constantly.
I'm wondering if with something like CoD demanding so little from the GPU that its down clocking its self to such an extent its also switching between 3D and 2D volts.
That could cause Black Screens, which is why i asked if its ok if you force constant Voltage.
If you run vSync on a game that isn't demanding the card will down clock its self, it seems that it will only run maximum clocks if it needs to to keep the maximum FPS locked in a constant, with vSync off it run at max clocks constantly.
I'm wondering if with something like CoD demanding so little from the GPU that its down clocking its self to such an extent its also switching between 3D and 2D volts.
That could cause Black Screens, which is why i asked if its ok if you force constant Voltage.
Caporegime
I don't think force constant voltage does anything on Hawaii.
Soldato
My GPU runs at full clocks in Ghosts. It's actually much more demanding than it should be (plus I don't use vsync).
Caporegime
ok.
Soldato
Let's see if it can last a full match 
Caporegime
A plain black screen is probably more interesting than the game.I'm not seeing an issue here tbh....
Soldato
Just thought I'd see what FPS I got in EVE Online, a game I played for 5 years but haven't really played in a few years, with the 290.
Last time I played with my old GTX 460 iirc I was getting around 80 fps at 1920x1200. I fire up a trial account and was getting around 500 fps everywhere except the station in Jita at planet 4 moon 4 (very busy system with nearly 2k people in there for non EVEers) where there was around 100 people outside the station anmd I was getting just below 200 fps.
500 fps made me smile
Last time I played with my old GTX 460 iirc I was getting around 80 fps at 1920x1200. I fire up a trial account and was getting around 500 fps everywhere except the station in Jita at planet 4 moon 4 (very busy system with nearly 2k people in there for non EVEers) where there was around 100 people outside the station anmd I was getting just below 200 fps.
500 fps made me smile
Caporegime
Just thought I'd see what FPS I got in EVE Online, a game I played for 5 years but haven't really played in a few years, with the 290.
Last time I played with my old GTX 460 iirc I was getting around 80 fps at 1920x1200. I fire up a trial account and was getting around 500 fps everywhere except the station in Jita at planet 4 moon 4 (very busy system with nearly 2k people in there for non EVEers) where there was around 100 people outside the station anmd I was getting just below 200 fps.
500 fps made me smile
500 FPS
its also an interesting play thing to load up some old games that you know needed a powerful GPU to run well at 1080P 10 years ago, and how many 100's of FPS your getting now, like BF2....