Solved Getting massive FPS drops on my ATI Radeon HD 7970

[P1raten]

Getting massive FPS drops on my ATI Radeon HD 7950

So I've been playing quite a lot of games recently. And I've been getting more and more frustrated since I'm getting huge fps drops, which shouldn't happen since this is a brand new video card.

Here's some screenshots for you to get a better overview of things.

The above is idle.

Sincerely, P1raten.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Im guessing that is a 7950 not a 7970 ?

Anyway what games are you playing and have you gone through re installing direct x
and did you also get your drivers from the site ?

Also keep in mind if these games are on Lan it might not be the card you should check your pings during game play that could be a reason as well

 

[P1raten]

Im guessing that is a 7950 not a 7970 ?

Anyway what games are you playing and have you gone through re installing direct x
and did you also get your drivers from the site ?

Also keep in mind if these games are on Lan it might not be the card you should check your pings during game play that could be a reason as well

Yeah it's 7950, my bad.

I've gotten the drivers from AMD's website. I installed Driver Sweeper and removed all previous AMD and ATI drivers.

No, I have no re-installed direct x. I was not aware that you needed to do that.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Im guessing that is a 7950 not a 7970 ?

Anyway what games are you playing and have you gone through re installing direct x
and did you also get your drivers from the site ?

Also keep in mind if these games are on Lan it might not be the card you should check your pings during game play that could be a reason as well

Yeah it's 7950, my bad.

I've gotten the drivers from AMD's website. I installed Driver Sweeper and removed all previous AMD and ATI drivers.

No, I have no re-installed direct x. I was not aware that you needed to do that.

You don't but it helps in cases like these Games already comes with direct x run time etc but some of these games are outdated and need to be updated again

I do that and re install drivers but seriously I had issues like that for the greater part of a month and im in Crossfire even when they were overclcoked dramatic lag but turns out the game i was playing needed major updates and patches

So those are things i would look into because ussually unless you're using a weak PSU or a real old CPU this would occur but seeing the layout you are fine so i would look into those options updates etc also if you are using Steam you could right click on the game and do a file recovery and a defragment to refresh the game that always helps as well

 

[Erick Aguilar]

When do the FPS drops occur? Did you by any chance max out every possible setting in your game because you have an almost top of the line AMD GPU?

I find it troublesome that your 7950 is running at 54C on idle.
Mine runs at 40C idle, and I feel that's hot.

 

[P1raten]

I fixed this with disabling the auto update driver function in windows, uninstalling the drivers and the reinstalling them again.