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Driver issues?

Gashman

Gashman

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right just picked up an MSI HD7850 from here the tail end of last week, card seems to perform rather well, seems to give me much more consistent frame-rates than my 4870X2 did. but that isn't the topic of this post, appear to get rather peculiar glitches, they don't look like artefacts or anything like that so am willing to say its not a hardware problem, but when playing World of Tanks for example, textures sometimes appear to be just 'wrong', occasionally in the countdown there are weird letters and symbols instead of numbers, its the only game I have really played since it was installed but does this sound like a driver issue?

also happens very occasionally online as well, when browsing the internet, sometimes the odd page is just black, but other tabs in the same browser are working fine, things like that, but against doesn't look like any hardware problem I have ever witnessed before, possible that there are some old driver fragments knocking about or is it just the driver itself that is botched, the driver in question is 12.8 for Windows 8 CP, could just be a combination of immature drivers and immature OS mind, but anyones opinions on this would be welcome, thanks! ;)
 
Down load an in stall MSI after burner,

Go in options,

Advanced options,

Make sure force VOLT is enabled.

Its the cards drivers been crap and dropping to much volt between changes (2d-3d), theres been a couple of threads

floating around about the 7 series.

Great cards for the price but utter rubbish drivers at the moment although there easily

solved so no biggy.
 
Sorry for OT question But what is this force constant voltage? Am I right in thinking if you have this checked the card will never go into idle volts? But run all the time at Max volts?
If so Why would anyone want to do that? Thats a lot of heat when just browsing the net lol
 
It seems to be Windows 8. I've had the same problems on my laptop and desktop.

The desktop uses an AMD 6950, but the laptop uses Intel integrated graphics.
 
yeah I already tried to 'force voltage' option and it didn't work as far as I can tell, so guessing its just the immature Windows 8 drivers and such, shame cause it seems to be a nice card for the price. ;)
 
CyberCrow said:
Its the cards drivers been crap and dropping to much volt between changes (2d-3d), theres been a couple of threads
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shankly1985 said:
Sorry for OT question But what is this force constant voltage? Am I right in thinking if you have this checked the card will never go into idle volts? But run all the time at Max volts?
If so Why would anyone want to do that? Thats a lot of heat when just browsing the net lol
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Already answered in the original post lol, heat! nah not a problem at all.

The card on idle don't go above 24, under load i haven't manged get it above 64 while playing various games like, BF3/Project cars/Sleeping Dogs.
 
Wouldn't a component last longer anyway being ran at a safe constant voltage rather than jumping up and down all day?
 
If the card can't last running of manufactured volts then there's some thing going wrong lol,If it was over volting the required amount then yes i suppose it could limit the cards life span.

Ive got my 7850 Oc'd with stock volts an i couldn't be more happier with the temps :D my old x-fire 5770's Oc'd aswell now them things chucked out some heat.
 
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yeah the HD5850 gives off pretty much no heat at all, even when overclocked and running heavy games and such, seem like stonking cards...;)
 
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