DirectX 11

[FiCtioN75]

Ive just had my 5770 Vapour-X delivered and everything has been installed. Now im pretty new to graphics cards etc, a nvidia 7950GT having been the last card id bought previously and only been playing Counterstrike in the past. Now i see my card has DX11 capabilities. I have no idea what this is, should i download it to play BC2 with? Apologies for my lack of knowledge, thats what im here for though

 

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Yea im running W7 64bit. So it runs automatically? The only reason im asking is, i saw on the reviews people saying there were noticable differences when upgrading from cards above the 3870 which i last had, although admittedly ive only played for 5 mins i couldnt see that much difference tbh

 

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Ok thanks for the help guys. Feels abit daft starting a new thread just for this but i need to get a better balance between starting threads/hijacking other threads. Cheers

 

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Im using 10.6 drivers atm. So im presuming the hotfix will be included in the 10.6? I downloaded fraps and seem to be averaging about 30 fps. Going to start overclocking it 2moro once ive read up on overclocking gpu's as ive only ever done my cpu

 

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Shall i unistall and stick the 10.5's on then? Also when im overclocking shall i just use ATI overdrive which came with CCC? What would be a reasonable GPU clock setting and Memory clock setting overclock?

 

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My res is 1920x1200

 

[FiCtioN75]

CCC is a good start, but MSI afterburner will allow you to get further. ATI overdrive got me to 940/1300 on stock volts so you can get a pretty solid clock out of these cards. For a good example of dx11 I recommend running the unigine benchmark and toggling dx11 on and off. The games that do use it don't do so in a very noticeable way, but I'm of the mind that it's all a cumulative effect of small changes that make a good image. The 10.6 drivers caused really bad stutter in dirt2 for me so I rolled back to 10.5s, but that was the only negative effect of the 10.6s for me. The hotfix for bc2 is included in 10.6, but not for 4xxx series cards or xfire setups.

Ok, so as a complete novice gpu overclocker, il increase the clock speed and memory clock both at the same time? one at a time? and then what shall i run to test the stability of the overclock?

 

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In either case, wether it will struggle or not, i bought with the intention of adding another and crossfiring

 

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kool il was waiting for a response regarding the overclocking cheers. Will start overclocking tonight once i get home from the match. So should i be looking to hit 960?

 

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How long should i run furmark for? i increased the gpu clock one notch to 780mhz and ive ran furmark for 4 minutes and the temps seem to have levelled off at 75/75C