Hey there.
Today when I open WoW the screen freezes up and after maybe 20 seconds or so I get the message that the display driver has stopped responding and has been restarted.
Other games appeared to be working fine - Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2, SWTOR (although SWTOR feels sluggish but I don't know if its my mind playing tricks on me as there is no fps counter). I Tried rebooting the system but this problem persisted, so I thought I would update the driver.
I used the most recent beta driver 12.x 8.96 feb28. Now I could get into WoW however the frame rate was just 25 fps. I'm usually between 75-100 on my 7970 at 2560x1600.
I thought that perhaps the low frame rate was down to the drivers being beta ones. So I went back to AMD's most recent official driver, 12.2 Pre-certified driver. Still the frame rate was just 25fps.
Knowing how shoddy AMD are with drivers I decided to uninstall that one and just use the driver supplied on the original cd. The one I had been using when the display driver crashes suddenly started - and once again the display driver crashes whenever I try to open the game. Prior to today I had been using these drivers fine for the 6 weeks or so I have had the card.
This happens on both the 32 and 64bit WoW clients.
Doe's anybody know how I can fix this? Seems to have come on suddenly and I am stumped as to why.
Specs.
CPU: i7 2700k
Mobo: ASUS ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z68
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16GB
HDD: Corsair Force Series 3 - 120gb
GFX: Powercolor AMD Radeon HD7970
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 750w
OS: Win 7 64bit
Today when I open WoW the screen freezes up and after maybe 20 seconds or so I get the message that the display driver has stopped responding and has been restarted.
Other games appeared to be working fine - Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2, SWTOR (although SWTOR feels sluggish but I don't know if its my mind playing tricks on me as there is no fps counter). I Tried rebooting the system but this problem persisted, so I thought I would update the driver.
I used the most recent beta driver 12.x 8.96 feb28. Now I could get into WoW however the frame rate was just 25 fps. I'm usually between 75-100 on my 7970 at 2560x1600.
I thought that perhaps the low frame rate was down to the drivers being beta ones. So I went back to AMD's most recent official driver, 12.2 Pre-certified driver. Still the frame rate was just 25fps.
Knowing how shoddy AMD are with drivers I decided to uninstall that one and just use the driver supplied on the original cd. The one I had been using when the display driver crashes suddenly started - and once again the display driver crashes whenever I try to open the game. Prior to today I had been using these drivers fine for the 6 weeks or so I have had the card.
This happens on both the 32 and 64bit WoW clients.
Doe's anybody know how I can fix this? Seems to have come on suddenly and I am stumped as to why.
Specs.
CPU: i7 2700k
Mobo: ASUS ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z68
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16GB
HDD: Corsair Force Series 3 - 120gb
GFX: Powercolor AMD Radeon HD7970
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 750w
OS: Win 7 64bit
