[Official] AMD Radeon HD 7950/7970/7990 Owners Thread - Page 1259

Originally Posted by SacredChaos 

Why does my 7970 show up at a 6800 series in some programs? For example the program for overclock.net that fills out the info for your system, registers it as a 6800 series. I did have a 6870 but I have uninstalled drivers with atiman.

Originally Posted by AnToNCheZ 

I have a problem guys, and I can't seem to work out if it's all in my head (which I doubt) or if there is something wrong with one of my components. I will describe the scenario, and my rig is in my sig:
This morning, I log on to play some BF3 before I head out. Something is really strange. What is normally an extremely smooth experience at max settings (bar the 4x AA) seems very weird. Then, I start getting 1 second freezes every 20 seconds or so. I thought maybe something is running in the background by mistake. I close what was there, and try again. Same thing. Everything is smooth, and then, the skipping happens, like it will not recover but then it does. So I restart the PC, do the same thing again, and use GPU-Z to monitor what might be happening. This is the result:

Notice the sudden drops in VDDC voltage, and also the spiking, and the dips also in the GPU usage to zero on a couple of occasions. Also, the VDDC Current seems awfully erratic also, but I never paid much attention to this until now, so it may be normal. What definitely is not normal is the extremely erratic behaviour of the VDDC, which is normally very consistent and provides a nice smooth line across the top of it's graph close to the voltage I have specified in Trixx.
Other symptoms of funny behaviour is missing geometry when gaming, this has happened in Tribes Ascend and Crysis 2 just now as I was testing some more. Unigine Heaven and 3DMark11 seems to return normal activity, both in benchmark numbers, graphic display and also on the GPU graph. I am pulling my hair out because I love having my system perfect and this is most definitely not that. I am running the 8.97 beta drivers (which worked FLAWLESSLY for months and is the reason I have gone back to them to make sure it is not driver related, which it seems it isn't.
Am I missing something? Normally when I have a gut feeling on something, it usually turns out right, and my gut (and my knowledge from much researching on great forums such as this one) is telling me that something is most certainly busted. I have put it down to maybe 3 things: M/B, GPU or PSU. All of which are no more than 6 months old, and the GPU and MB are only 3 months old, if that.
I have tried switching the PCIe lanes, which did not help anything. I have reset all my OC (GPU and CPU) to stock and am basically running everything out of the box. Nothing has fixed it. Any help would be appreciated a tremendous amount. I have already lost a day to this thing, and tomorrow I am transplanting some parts from my brothers PC to try and diagnose what the issue is. Any further help in advance of me doing this would be fantastic.
Edit: Upon further testing, I am now beginning to see some ghosting around the gun when up against walls in BF3, and also some pixellation when looking through the red dot sight but not when in ADS. Just to add further information.

Originally Posted by ElGreco 

Most probably you still have traces of your old card in your system.
Solution a)
Go to Control Panel > my devices > View > Shw hidden devices > graphics adaptor and see if it is still there (if it s, just right click and uninstall)... then unnstall and reinstall drivers
or
Solution b)
Simply, redownload the very latest 7.0.2 Atiman Unnstaller that uninstalls old hidden gpu devices automatically (if your registry's controlsets are not messy) and reinstall the latest driver. Still, check manually as described above if you still have in the hidden gpu devices after the atimans uninstallation process.
Do that and let us know how it went

Originally Posted by SacredChaos 

I've ran the auto mode on atiman a bunch of times since February (when I got the 7970). Just recently I downloaded and ran 7.0.2 to install the 12.6 beta drivers. 1 interesting fact, Atiman does show that I have crossfire 6870s, which I used to. Is there a specific mode I am supposed to run in ATIman?

Originally Posted by Newbie2009 

Fill out your system specs please. Maybe your power supply is failing.

Originally Posted by ElGreco 

Ok, first of all redownload atimans uninstaller v 7.0.2 it has been reupdated.
Second, fully uninstall your drivers using atimans uninstaller and while uninstalled check via the control panel the hidden devices you have.... most probably you still have traces of the 6800 cards there that you can easily uninstall manually via right click, uninstall (in the hidden devices)

Originally Posted by AnToNCheZ 

Ok so here is my system, although I'm sure I listed all of these in my profile. Not to worry, here they are:
AsRock Z68 Ext 3 Gen 3 M/B
i5 2500K (normally @ 4.5Ghz. but I tested everything at stock also and same deal)
8G GSkill Sniper RAM
Sapphire HD 7950 OC (tested at stock but has been OC up to 1225Mhz and been stable)
750W Coolermaster GX Series PSU
Coolermaster Hyper Evo CPU Cooler
5 120/140mm case fans
1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
640GB Samsung HDD
Pioneer BDR 202 Blu Ray Burner
I think that just about covers everything. Other things I am noticing are pixellated water on BF3, slow loading geometry on Tribes Ascend as well as terrible frame drops where there weren't any before.
Some games show the voltage all messed up, and others, especially the benchmark programs, show a nice consistent amount of volts going to the card, with no erratic behaviour as shown in the previous screens. Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by AnToNCheZ 

Ok so here is my system, although I'm sure I listed all of these in my profile. Not to worry, here they are:
AsRock Z68 Ext 3 Gen 3 M/B
i5 2500K (normally @ 4.5Ghz. but I tested everything at stock also and same deal)
8G GSkill Sniper RAM
Sapphire HD 7950 OC (tested at stock but has been OC up to 1225Mhz and been stable)
750W Coolermaster GX Series PSU
Coolermaster Hyper Evo CPU Cooler
5 120/140mm case fans
1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
640GB Samsung HDD
Pioneer BDR 202 Blu Ray Burner
I think that just about covers everything. Other things I am noticing are pixellated water on BF3, slow loading geometry on Tribes Ascend as well as terrible frame drops where there weren't any before.
Some games show the voltage all messed up, and others, especially the benchmark programs, show a nice consistent amount of volts going to the card, with no erratic behaviour as shown in the previous screens. Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by AnToNCheZ 


Ok so here is my system, although I'm sure I listed all of these in my profile. Not to worry, here they are:
AsRock Z68 Ext 3 Gen 3 M/B
i5 2500K (normally @ 4.5Ghz. but I tested everything at stock also and same deal)
8G GSkill Sniper RAM
Sapphire HD 7950 OC (tested at stock but has been OC up to 1225Mhz and been stable)
750W Coolermaster GX Series PSU
Coolermaster Hyper Evo CPU Cooler
5 120/140mm case fans
1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
640GB Samsung HDD
Pioneer BDR 202 Blu Ray Burner
I think that just about covers everything. Other things I am noticing are pixellated water on BF3, slow loading geometry on Tribes Ascend as well as terrible frame drops where there weren't any before.
Some games show the voltage all messed up, and others, especially the benchmark programs, show a nice consistent amount of volts going to the card, with no erratic behaviour as shown in the previous screens. Hope this helps.