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XFX Ati Radeon HD 6870 malfunctioning?
Hello guys:)
Firstly i want to say that i registrated here because i dont know what to do anymore.
I know how to fix most computer problems, but i am about to give up with this one.
Secondly, im no native english speaker, so excuse me for typos or bad grammar .
so lets get to the problem.
I recently Changed my graphics card from a palit nvidia 9800gt(old one, i know :P) to a XFX ati Radeon HD 6870 because i like to play games and the old one didnt do its job anymore. I got this Card from a friend of mine cause he bought a new one and didn't use this one anymore.
I Formated my Hard drive, installed a fresh win 7 professional 64 bit and installed fresh drivers etc.
Everything seemed good after the driver installation, i was happy and shutdown the pc.
Next day, the first thing i saw when logging in to windows was that the animations seemed choppy, exactly like the ones when you use the standard graphics driver which comes with Win7.
I started googling but didnt find a fix to this, so i thought id just reinstall the drivers(14.12 by the way).
I deleted the old drivers correctly with a tool, and reinstalled them afterwards. No problems during the installation. The setup then asks me to restart my compute, which i did.
After the restart, everything was back to normal. This time i tested some games too(Cs:Go, Borderlands 2)
They ran great, smooth as butter, with csgo having around 200 fps(at lowest, 1024x768) and borderlands 2 (maxed out except physx @ 60 fps and 1920x1080).
I then restarted the computer again, and the problem reoccured. Then I tried to run the same games to test if theres a performance hit or its just a windows bug. Borderlands 2 couldnt start anymore and csgo was choppy as hell.
It seems that on the first reboot after the installation, the drivers runs as intended, but the next time you shut the pc down or restart i have to reinstall the drivers so that they run as they should.
I already thought its a hardware issue, but the card ran perfectly when my friend used it.
Id really appreciate any help and/or advice you guys can give me :)
Last edited by Lars742; 05 Jan 2015 at 03:41.