AMD Catalyst 12.7 (8.981.2.0 June 26) AMD Official BETA - Page 15

Gaizokubanou · 08-10-2012, 09:36 | posts: 986

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Originally Posted by Pill Monster

Your memory is overclocked too far.

My GPU memory or system memory or either? Thanks in advance.

Pill Monster · 08-10-2012, 09:43 | posts: 20,464 | Location: NZ

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Originally Posted by Gaizokubanou

My GPU memory or system memory or either? Thanks in advance.

GPU, u may need to bump up the memory voltage or else reduce the memory clock speed.

It seems to only affect ATI cards with GDDR5 vram, which is basically 5/6/7/ series.

blacblu · 08-12-2012, 23:52 | posts: 90

Is it working with Windows 8?

Rich_Guy · 08-13-2012, 17:39 | posts: 6,672 | Location: UK

Well, ive just had another 100% fan today requiring a hard restart, while doing bugger all, was just left idling while i went down to get my dinner, thought i could hear something, and sure enough when i came up, fan was going full pelt, must have been going for about half hr, so gone back to the 670.

The Mac · 08-13-2012, 20:11 | posts: 1,389 | Location: USA

have you tried the 12.x (july 19th) driver to see if they do the same thing?

Rich_Guy · 08-13-2012, 23:43 | posts: 6,672 | Location: UK

They'd have done the same, so no point trying them.

death_samurai · 08-14-2012, 00:02 | posts: 3,430 | Location: SG

When i installed these drivers it seemed that my firefox kept on crashing and desktop kepting hanging so i needed to shut down explorer.exe and start it up again.

Did anyone else experience this?

The Mac · 08-14-2012, 00:55 | posts: 1,389 | Location: USA

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Originally Posted by Rich_Guy

They'd have done the same, so no point trying them.

how do you know? iive never had the problem on 12.x

Rich_Guy · 08-14-2012, 14:18 | posts: 6,672 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by The Mac

how do you know? iive never had the problem on 12.x

As the change they have done to their drivers started with the 12.6's, April 18th 12.5 BETAs were the last AMD drivers i could use.

The Mac · 08-14-2012, 15:19 | posts: 1,389 | Location: USA

you know, they do fix things sometimes...

lol

If you check the thread, no one has complained about that issue on 12.x.

Suit yourself, just a suggestion

Rich_Guy · 08-14-2012, 15:35 | posts: 6,672 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by The Mac

you know, they do fix things sometimes...

lol

If you check the thread, no one has complained about that issue on 12.x.

Suit yourself, just a suggestion

It won't be fixed for me, as my board doesn't have an updated BIOS to fix the issue, thats whats needed, as said by AMD themselves, they've made a change to their drivers, that change won't be reversed, so the 12.8's this week, would also give the same issue, as they to have the change in them, the change came in, in the 12.6's, all i can do is get a new motherboard if i want to use my 7970 again or their newer cards, but im not prepared to do that, as ill probably have to go the whole hog and get new CPU, memory etc... as well, and im not doing that when my 7970 worked fine for over 6 months without an issue on this board, and its only stopped working because they changed something, and plus i don't want to upgrade everything yet.

The Mac · 08-14-2012, 16:47 | posts: 1,389 | Location: USA

biostar hasnt released a bios update? x58 isnt that old....

Rich_Guy · 08-14-2012, 17:30 | posts: 6,672 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by The Mac

biostar hasnt released a bios update? x58 isnt that old....

I know, their last one was released in October 2010, and was only an update so Gulftown CPU's could be used, but AMD say another is needed now, to update the VGA compatability.

BlackZero · 08-14-2012, 19:09 | posts: 8,078 | Location: United Kingdom

So why not email Biostar and ask them? If it's such a big issue then they should be taking care of it.

In either case, I would have thought a replacement motherboard would have cost a lot less.

The Mac · 08-14-2012, 19:20 | posts: 1,389 | Location: USA

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Originally Posted by Rich_Guy

I know, their last one was released in October 2010, and was only an update so Gulftown CPU's could be used, but AMD say another is needed now, to update the VGA compatability.

yes, a number of oems have done so. Asus, and MSI that i know of specifically for "VGA compatibility"

Rich_Guy · 08-14-2012, 19:38 | posts: 6,672 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by BlackZero

In either case, I would have thought a replacement motherboard would have cost a lot less.

To much hastle, as id have to find an x58 board that still works with them, as i don't know which ones are still compatible, and id have to strip my rig down and rebuild it all on the new board, its a lot easier just to pop a new card in, which ive done.