Problem since swapping my 7970 for a 680

[Clairvoyant]

Now I don't want any fan-boys in here please.

I un installed the ATI drivers, booted to safe mode and ran driver sweeper. Rebooted.

Then I shut it down and swapped the cards. I have tried the beta and official drivers. But game are crashing after about 10 - 15 mins.

I go to desktop, and have to task manager to close the game (but it says the game is still running)

Am I going to have to reinstall windows.

Thanx in advance

 

[masscrazy]

Sorry for going off topic, why'd you swap?

 

[Clairvoyant]

Sorry for going off topic, why'd you swap?

It may have just been driver problem. I had my PC set to sleep after 2 hours, and the 7970 would not let the PC wake up. I turned Sleep off, but if I left my PC on for to long. The 7970 would go to sleep and lock my PC up.

So just felt like swapping, its been a while since I had an Nvidia card.

 

[whitestar85]

Def not a faulty gpu ?

 

[old gamer]

a fresh install of windows would be my choice of action

 

[arc@css]

Booting from safe mode and using driver sweeper / cleaner are not normally necessary when installing a new gpu.

I just uninstall the driver / software via control panel, 'perhaps' manually remove a couple of left over folders though even this has never caused me any problems, then power down. Remove gpu and then insert new one. Power up. Install latest driver.

Always try the more official, straight forward approach first!


For now, remove driver and restart, allowing windows to hopefully do the rest. This worked for me during the last few ATi driver changes.

 

[biuro74]

Rebooted.
Then I shut it down and swapped the cards.

Sorry, if you rebooted & shuted down then, so you've got still ATI drivers in your system. Try again Driver Sweeper to see if I'm correct.
If not - check temps & voltage, some cards are not manufactured fine like others, you may try Afterburner & Kombustor and Stability Test.

 

[Marine-RX179]

No offense, but I swear 95% of the time that people that claim to have problem on switching camp/card is when they use driver sweeper on Windows 7, even when manual uninstalling previous driver is good enough.

Refer to arc@css's post.

 

[Clairvoyant]

Rebooted.
Then I shut it down and swapped the cards.

Sorry, if you rebooted & shuted down then, so you've got still ATI drivers in your system. Try again Driver Sweeper to see if I'm correct.
If not - check temps & voltage, some cards are not manufactured fine like others, you may try Afterburner & Kombustor and Stability Test.

Nope no left over bits.

I have just played ME3 and no problem with that game. Seems to be BF3 and Sniper V2.