5970 woes

[shayan288]

Hey all,

I had been a Nvidia user all my life,
and I had finally decided that I wanted more power than my 460,
and switch the the HD5970. I was expecting to max every with a steady 60 FPS at least !

I must say that I am pretty dissapointed. Almost every game i have played, has given me shitty framerate,
except for crysis warhead, and bad company 2.

I had just picked up dead rising 2, and right when I played it, I decided that I needed to post about this.
I am getting bloody 8800gt speeds on this game. (same with gta 4; which I was getting less than 20 fps average). In dead rising 2. I am averaging at 18FPS on max with max AA and blur on. With max, with AA off and blur off, I get an average of 28 FPS.

Its killing me guys. Any suggestions on how to fix this madness? Is this just what ATI is like?
I am currently on 10.9 drivers.
CPU is a q9550 @ 4ghz, with 4gb of ram.

[Avid6eek]

Did you uninstall the nVidia drivers from your system prior to installing the ATI card? Did you install ATI's video drivers and the CrossFire application profiles?

The 5970 is the fastest graphics card on the market. I run two 5870's in CrossFire (2560x1600, 8xAA/AF) and the perfromance is absolutely great. Most games still run 60-100fps. Something is definetly wrong with your system setup/config.

[On the Lam]

You must not have removed all drivers from your previous install.

Use Driver Sweeper - install Driver Sweeper, uninstall all your current drivers in Windows, then reboot into safe mode and use the Driver Sweeper to clean all Nvidia and ATI drivers.

Reboot back into Windows and then install drivers again.

Win.

http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

[bvsbutthd101]

Originally Posted by shayan288

Hey all,

I had been a Nvidia user all my life,
and I had finally decided that I wanted more power than my 460,
and switch the the HD5970. I was expecting to max every with a steady 60 FPS at least !

I must say that I am pretty dissapointed. Almost every game i have played, has given me shitty framerate,
except for crysis warhead, and bad company 2.

I had just picked up dead rising 2, and right when I played it, I decided that I needed to post about this.
I am getting bloody 8800gt speeds on this game. (same with gta 4; which I was getting less than 20 fps average). In dead rising 2. I am averaging at 18FPS on max with max AA and blur on. With max, with AA off and blur off, I get an average of 28 FPS.

Its killing me guys. Any suggestions on how to fix this madness? Is this just what ATI is like?
I am currently on 10.9 drivers.
CPU is a q9550 @ 4ghz, with 4gb of ram.

If your getting good frames in crysis and BFBC2 there's no reason for low frames in dead rising 2

[bautisj]

Try using 10.5 Drivers I've heard that's the most decent driver atm

[martin_metal_88]

Tryo downclocking the CPU a bit also, if it's on the limit of stability a GPU that is much more powerfull can cause some issue at this level.

[shayan288]

Hi all.

Thanks so much for your help.

I am currently uninstalling all the drivers (including my ATI ones) in control panel.
(i had used driver sweeper before but not in safe mode and I hadn't uninstalled in control panel yet)
After I boot into safe mode, I will open my driver sweeper and clean EVERYTHING, right?
And after that, I should get 10.5? or 10.9 again?

Also what is the crossfire application profiles thing that Avid was talking about?

Thanks in advance!

[On the Lam]

In Driver Sweeper and Safe Mode, I'd say only video drivers, nvidia and ati.

[Lpfan4ever]

Try the 10.5's. With those I get the best performance with my 4870x2, and I believe others can attest to that as well.

[Avid6eek]

When you go to download the drivers from AMD's website you will see links for the driver download, and if you scroll down further you will see the Crossfire profiles. These profiles are needed so that your games will support both GPUs.

Download verion 10.9. The 5000 series cards have benefited from alot of performance improvements and bug fixes since 10.5.