Oh no. Gigabyte 7970 lockups in wow. I'll be returning this for a 680 methinks.

Gregster · 7 Aug 2012 at 22:38

Locky said:
Stop playing WOW, it's for people who are fat and sit in their underpants all day.

lol that South Park episode....Classic

Space Monkey · 7 Aug 2012 at 22:39

Locky said:
Stop playing WOW, it's for people who are fat and sit in their underpants all day.

Post of the week, lol

Rusty0611 · 7 Aug 2012 at 23:05

Diagro said:
If the software did not work we would all have issues. Use your brain.

You are clearly unable to comprehend that it is feasibly possible for people to have identical hardware (at a high level) and still have diifferent end user experience.

tommybhoy · 7 Aug 2012 at 23:18

All it takes is one line of code in an unrelated program to cause a conflict, however, it's always easier to blame AMD/Nvidia than to find the true cause of the problem.

jallan · 8 Aug 2012 at 00:02

Serial45 said:
using 12.6.
Frankly i've been a nvidia user for 5+ years and not had a single driver issue. Switch to AMD and get driver issues on the main game I play. It sucks. How can they bring out a product that has issues on a 7 year old game?
Left me with a bitter taste in my mouth .

I and thousands others havent had problems, it probably isnt even a driver issue. Then again i sent my 670 back because it was utter crap on older games but not everyone had the same problem. I get frustated with these sort of threads though usually the blame is drivers as if nvidia never has problems.

buchtis · 8 Aug 2012 at 00:19

Love how the majority of the threads here end up descending into 'ATi are karp/NVidia are karp' lol.

llamadal · 8 Aug 2012 at 16:06

buchtis said:
Love how the majority of the threads here end up descending into 'ATi are karp/NVidia are karp' lol.

couldn't have said it any better.

Had both, pref nvidia, own a 680, love it.

my next door neighbour, pretty much identical setup to my rig, except no over clock and using on-board sound, went through 2 670's, then eventually went 7970 and very happy with it.

If neither option worked, then I'd start getting p***ed

ubersonic · 8 Aug 2012 at 16:23

Try running WoW with the "-opengl" switch and see if it still happens (useful for testing purposes not a full time solution).

Yes WoW runs better on Nvidia hardware but over the years I have run it on dozens of cards and found in general while ATi cards didn't perform as well they were less buggy.

Serial45 · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:19

Right, the grass is not always greener it seems. I received my 680 today, fully uninstalled the AMD drivers / software and put the card in. Kept getting constant BSOD in windows installing the card. Had approx 15 reboots trying to download the driver.
Eventually managed to get the driver installed. Launched a game, instant BSOD. Heaven benchmark blue screened after approx 10 seconds.

Am I missing something here, just extremely unlucky? or have I got a faulty card?
Back to the 7970 now and all good.

svs22 · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:24

That is what you get with ATI

Gregster · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:35

Have you tried testing your memory and Hard drives? Seems strange you are having massive problems with both and yet can be something else.

Puppetmaster · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:37

svs22 said:
That is what you get with ATI

what a bluescreening nvidia card?

Space Monkey · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:40

Clean install?

Serial45 · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:43

gregster said:
Have you tried testing your memory and Hard drives? Seems strange you are having massive problems with both and yet can be something else.

Yep run memtest, but not tested hard drive (although it's a new SSD under 40 hours use).
Running memory at stock speeds.

Gregster · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:46

Serial45 said:
Yep run memtest, but not tested hard drive (although it's a new SSD under 40 hours use).
Running memory at stock speeds.

Bite the bullet and go for a fresh install of Windows (a pain but this is what I would do). Try what Borley said first though and run driver sweeper to clear out any old drivers.

BrianB · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:47

tommybhoy said:
All it takes is one line of code in an unrelated program to cause a conflict, however, it's always easier to blame AMD/Nvidia than to find the true cause of the problem.

^This. Not had any problems with my 7970 other than heat when I first got it. Has been fixed now after changing chassis fans. Didn't like to reach 83c. Ran Diablo 3 fine for 3 minutes then I deleted it off my SSD because that game is a waste of space. Wasted too much time playing WoW to try it again. It's the VTX 7970 that was £300 on offer. It's so cheap the stickers came off the fans

looks better without them though and the card runs so well.

Serial45 · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:54

Thanks guys. Used driver sweeper and done a fresh install of the AMD card. All good so far. But need more time to tell. Just ran a full heaven with everything set to max.

Serial45 · 8 Aug 2012 at 18:16

gregster said:
Bite the bullet and go for a fresh install of Windows (a pain but this is what I would do). Try what Borley said first though and run driver sweeper to clear out any old drivers.

You sir are a legend. Driver sweeper has sorted it. Got the 680 running stable now (or so it seems) ran a full benchmark on Heaven and had wow running for 5 mins

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Still I think after all this i'm gonna RMA the 680. The ATI beta drivers seem to be fine on wow and I don't see the point spending the extra £90 on the nvidia.

borley · 8 Aug 2012 at 18:33

You can pay me in kindness.
Regards

Gzero · 8 Aug 2012 at 18:59

Serial45 said:
Thanks guys. Used driver sweeper and done a fresh install of the AMD card. All good so far. But need more time to tell. Just ran a full heaven with everything set to max.

So... did you go from a 570 to a 7970 to a 680, without doing a clean Windows install between either of the changes?