HD 6970 low performance in Crysis Warhead?

[poenanie]

Another problem I'm facing now is my card that seems to be overheating, I've made a post about it in a more appropriate topic:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....5558&page=2#28

[Dalton Sleeper]

Originally Posted by poenanie

Another problem I'm facing now is my card that seems to be overheating, I've made a post about it in a more appropriate topic:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....5558&page=2#28

Now that is strange, I get 96 degrees Celsius on top card after 10 minutes furmark with 2x6970@925/1400 with tdp@300w. Idle at 40c@25% fan speed.

[Wrigleyvillain]

I just got two 6850s and can't get AF to work at all in regular Crysis w/ 10.12, whether POM and /or ZPOMAF is enabled or not. Looks blurry and awful. Guess tonight I will try Warhead and/or earlier Catalyst drivers. Looking forward to playing it finally now that I really have a setup worthy of doing so.

[Krazy Fox]

Originally Posted by poenanie

Hi lads,

Yesterday I plugged a brandnew HD 6950 from Sapphire into my system (together with a new PSU and a HDD). I immediatly flashed the beast to a 6970 obviously.

Now I'm getting some fps results with crysis warhead but I honestly expected these to be a bit better because the game still feels quite laggy at certain points ...

When checking things out with fraps in the first level of crysis warhead I get FPS numbers going from 17 (lowest number I've seen) to 41 (highest number I've seen). Needless to say, anytime the fps drop well below 30 the game doesn't feel "great" anymore.

I'm running crysis warhead in 1680 x 1050 with enthusiast settings, and no AA enabled.

This is my complete setup:

Q6600 clocked at 3,4Ghz
HD 6950 flashed and clocked at 6970
8800GTX as dedicated physx card
4gb memory
Gigabyte P35 DS4 mobo
Corsair TX750 psu

I've got the latest drivers I could find wich according to Catalyst are 8.801-101125.

This is my first AMD card so I don't know if I might be overlooking something here (some kind of setting maybe?) but I rlly expected some better performance in Crysis Warhead at this resolution!

Thx a lot for any help ..

I think your Core 2 Quad is fine especially oc up from 2.4 to 3.4.
You may want to work on OCing the Memory if ya can get to 1333MHz or 1600MHz and the CPU a knotch down to 3.2GHz.

Make sure you're Stable.

I would reset the GPU Bios to 6950 standards and recheck System Stats and what is happening in Crysis ,etc.

Then reload the 6970 bios into the 6950.

Note: I'm sure you know how to Uninstall all the old Drivers and clean up registry with Driver Sweeper / Ccleaner and deleting junk items inside the PreFetch folder.

uhm! AMD/ ATI Catalyst 10.12a and other driver fixes are still in progress as working toward updating so the new 6900 series are fully functional.

What I've heard about Corsair PSU (built for Quality).. your 750W should be enough.

A reason why reducing CPU freq. is making sure your system is stable as there is a remote possiblilty Bottlenecking. It's known with the HD 6800's to bottleneck with PC's using Duo Core or Duo 2 Core ... and even low end Quad Cores regardless that HD 6870 is mid-level card. This even makes it harder with moving up higher to 6950/70/90.

Good luck ... and as someone mentioned don't work or not satisfied with the 6950 --get a RMA.

[kn00tcn]

so wait is it steady 20s or stutters, as if it's loading new data? you might be able to tweak the caching & stuff

[poenanie]

Originally Posted by kn00tcn

so wait is it steady 20s or stutters, as if it's loading new data? you might be able to tweak the caching & stuff

Stable 20's, if I look at a certain point where my fps are really low they can for example stay put at 25.

Anyway, considering the benchmark I've posted here it looks like my results are quite normal considering the rest of my setup, no?

Is there any other games you guys would advise me to use as a benchmark to see if my card is really doing what it should do?

I've got Black Ops, Bad Company 2, Crysis, Dirt2, Mirrors Edge to name a few recent games ...

[Captain-Splat]

For the OP, delete crysis warhead config files under my documents folder and do it for all your games every time you add/switch video cards. I had the same problem with 6950 1gb I think it's to do with 6950 being 'different'(a god damn mutant). Try removing the cooler from your video card wiping off the thermal paste and replacing it with arctic silver, and use MSI afterburner to have a fan profile. If yoiu're still overheating reduce powertune to a negative % in overdrive/afterburner. You will get a reduction in fps but most games you won't even know.

[Captain-Splat]

ArmA 2 has a couple of short but useful benchmarks, it is also good for CPU