my HD5970 experience

Congrats on the card Mitch.

Cheers Ted....


ok.... so its time for an update on the never ending ATI saga....., since my last post in this thread my gaming experience has dropped no end.

somehow the driver corrupts itself with continued use, one minute its fine & all is well & then something happens (ive yet to pin down a cause, which tells me its simply driver corruption), i mean i can run ''furmark'' @ 1920x1080 8xAA with a clean crisp 200fps AVG..... there is no stuttering in this bench which tells me the H/W is fine

but out of the blue my desktop colours go back to default settings & i get TERRIBLE ''microstutter'' while gaming, i know this is a driver issue as it was not present with the 9.11 drivers, & the FPS are not affected..

benchmarks still run VERY well, i actually gained 2k in vantage with the 9.12 but gained the stutter.

its certainly related to the on-board crossfire b/c when i disable AI in CCC (in affect disabling one core), the stuttering goes...

i would just roll back to the 9.11s but these drivers had the downclock issue, which 9.12 fixed.

so im left with a choice.......

run the 9.12 drivers & disable 1 core, or run both & put up with the stutter

or

run the 9.11 driver, games perfectly but i get artifacts all over the screens while in 2D mode.

i have tickets open with ''sapphire'' & ''AMD'' in the hope of getting some quick fixes formulated.

i would like to add, even though im at wits end with AMD's driver support , the card itself is still amazing & on the previous drivers you could really see this card performing, ppl are sending these cards back left, right & center.... but these issues will get ironed out, just like the 4 series finally did.

these issues are not just 5970 ones either, they stretch across the whole 5 series range, driver bugs GALORE!!

my advice to anyone looking to upgrade their GPU's would be to hold off 3 or 4 months, drivers will mature on the 5 series cards & you'll have a much better experience off the bat

or

go Nvidia & ASSURE yourself 100% compatibility & EXCELLENT driver support.

skunksmash said:

Cheers Ted....


ok.... so its time for an update on the never ending ATI saga....., since my last post in this thread my gaming experience has dropped no end.

somehow the driver corrupts itself with continued use, one minute its fine & all is well & then something happens (ive yet to pin down a cause, which tells me its simply driver corruption), i mean i can run ''furmark'' @ 1920x1080 8xAA with a clean crisp 200fps AVG..... there is no stuttering in this bench which tells me the H/W is fine

but out of the blue my desktop colours go back to default settings & i get TERRIBLE ''microstutter'' while gaming, i know this is a driver issue as it was not present with the 9.11 drivers, & the FPS are not affected..

benchmarks still run VERY well, i actually gained 2k in vantage with the 9.12 but gained the stutter.

its certainly related to the on-board crossfire b/c when i disable AI in CCC (in affect disabling one core), the stuttering goes...

i would just roll back to the 9.11s but these drivers had the downclock issue, which 9.12 fixed.

so im left with a choice.......

run the 9.12 drivers & disable 1 core, or run both & put up with the stutter

or

run the 9.11 driver, games perfectly but i get artifacts all over the screens while in 2D mode.

i have tickets open with ''sapphire'' & ''AMD'' in the hope of getting some quick fixes formulated.

i would like to add, even though im at wits end with AMD's driver support , the card itself is still amazing & on the previous drivers you could really see this card performing, ppl are sending these cards back left, right & center.... but these issues will get ironed out, just like the 4 series finally did.

these issues are not just 5970 ones either, they stretch across the whole 5 series range, driver bugs GALORE!!

my advice to anyone looking to upgrade their GPU's would be to hold off 3 or 4 months, drivers will mature on the 5 series cards & you'll have a much better experience off the bat

or

go Nvidia & ASSURE yourself 100% compatibility & EXCELLENT driver support.

eh give it a couple months and it will all get fixed, which will still be before nvidia ever gets their card out

You mentioned this in Vista Forums Mitch, didn't know you would be posting here. I was expecting you to just plug 'n' play (not literally, but you know what i mean ). anyway, sounds great and have a glorious Christmas with it!