AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club

humbug · 6 May 2014 at 12:53

thefogo said:
I'm getting purple and sometimes black lines when playing Dark Souls 2 on my 290. Anybody else got this problem? I'm thinking it may be a driver issue.

Your not having a lot of luck with that card are you

Set the Memory to 1250Mhz?

thefogo · 6 May 2014 at 13:11

I got one refunded and I was testing the other one over weekend. It seems okay in some games but in DS2 I get weird lines.

humbug · 6 May 2014 at 13:19

thefogo said:
I got one refunded and I was testing the other one over weekend. It seems okay in some games but in DS2 I get weird lines.

I don't have DS2.

humbug · 6 May 2014 at 13:23

I just had an idea, switch the BIOS into Legacy mode, sometimes UEFI BIOS can be fickle.

thefogo · 6 May 2014 at 14:56

Which is the default one?

humbug · 6 May 2014 at 15:54

thefogo said:
Which is the default one?

The one toward the back of the case, thats the UEFI BIOS.

thefogo · 6 May 2014 at 16:38

Cheers. Will test it when I get back home on Friday.

stulid · 7 May 2014 at 14:33

Well I must say I cant tell the difference in frame rate etc from using that Tri-X 290X and this Vapor-X 290.

I pulled one card out, fitted the other and its as if they could be the same card, lovely.

LtMatt · 7 May 2014 at 14:39

stulid said:
Well I must say I cant tell the difference in frame rate etc from using that Tri-X 290X and this Vapor-X 290.

I pulled one card out, fitted the other and its as if they could be the same card, lovely.

Always a good sign.

I presume you're using crossfire now though?

stulid · 7 May 2014 at 14:44

LtMatt said:
Always a good sign.

I presume you're using crossfire now though?

Just the single 290 Vapor-X.

gerardfraser · 7 May 2014 at 14:46

thefogo said:
I'm getting purple and sometimes black lines when playing Dark Souls 2 on my 290. Anybody else got this problem? I'm thinking it may be a driver issue.

It happens on Nvidia/AMD,try setting anisotropic filtering set to medium.I hear that gets rid of the problem.

LtMatt · 7 May 2014 at 14:51

stulid said:
Just the single 290 Vapor-X.

humbug · 7 May 2014 at 14:53

lol ^^

stulid · 7 May 2014 at 14:56

My life is so hard.

thefogo · 7 May 2014 at 15:09

gerardfraser said:
It happens on Nvidia/AMD,try setting anisotropic filtering set to medium.I hear that gets rid of the problem.

Oh

Thanks I'll give it a go.

Spook187 · 7 May 2014 at 15:10

Will be getting another Gigabyte 290, by the looks of the power draw on corsair link, i may just have enough power on the 860i to power another, it will be border line though, the chart is from BF4 under full load.

humbug · 7 May 2014 at 15:20

Spook187 said:
Will be getting another Gigabyte 290, by the looks of the power draw on corsair link, i may just have enough power on the 860i to power another, it will be border line though, the chart is from BF4 under full load.

380 Watts total system power, take off the CPU, fans, water pump ecte... the GPU is probably using <300 Watts, if that. i could easily run 2 on my XFX 750. You have plenty of room.

Spook187 · 7 May 2014 at 15:39

humbug said:
380 Watts total system power, take off the CPU, fans, water pump ecte... the GPU is probably using <300 Watts, if that. i could easily run 2 on my XFX 750. You have plenty of room.

Good to hear

, next is to sneak another 290 in whilst the Mrs is up town shopping one day

thefogo · 11 May 2014 at 15:53

I'm having trouble putting a good overclock on this card. As soon as I stick +200mV through it my screen starts going all distorted. Can the VRMs not handle the volts or something?

humbug · 11 May 2014 at 15:55

thefogo said:
I'm having trouble putting a good overclock on this card. As soon as I stick +200mV through it my screen starts going all distorted. Can the VRMs not handle the volts or something?

Perhaps not. not all of them can, why would you want to put that may volts on it?

What are you trying to run it at?