FPS Issues with an AMD 7970 3gb

[Mista Tea 0]

My friend is getting fairly intense FPS issues when he plays. When running fine, it gives him a solid 30fps. However, it seemingly randomly drops to 5-6fps. Does anybody know of a fix for this?

 

Thanks,

 

Tea

[Xequinox90 80]

My friend is getting fairly intense FPS issues when he plays. When running fine, it gives him a solid 30fps. However, it seemingly randomly drops to 5-6fps. Does anybody know of a fix for this?

 

Thanks,

 

Tea

I've got a 7950 and i'm getting low fps but not that low , and only drops to 20fps in cities ... 

[creature 1189]

I can tell you, it's not due to that card.

[Mista Tea 0]

He's only been having these problems since he put the new card in today

[anglo (DayZ) 39]

Whats your cpu & Ram?  Dayz is quite cpu intensive.

[anglo (DayZ) 39]

He's only been having these problems since he put the new card in today

Other games working ok with it?

[weparo 613]

It's all about CPU speed and drive speed. What CPU does he have, and what else did he change when installing the new card? What card did he have before?

[Mista Tea 0]

The Dayz mod runs fine with it, around 30 fps. He has 8gb of RAM and a AMDfx 4100 running at 3.6 ghz

[applejaxc 2500]

Random drops are normal in my experience. My card is nowhere near that good (calling that good should tell you just how bad mine is!); I'll occasionally hit a solid 8 before it jumps back up to its normal 15 in Chernogorsk and.... I think the town is near Skalisty. Whatever it is, the hospital and an apartment building trash my FPS.

[Mista Tea 0]

He was getting a good fps with the same card solidly, but now it is rare to get above 15

[creature 1189]

He's only been having these problems since he put the new card in today

Did he use the driver disc that came with the card? He should grab the latest catalyst drivers if so.

 

Also, that CPU doesn't keep up very well ( I just upgraded from the 4130). If he upped the video settings due to the new card, that could be the issue as well.

[.VincenT. 45]

Get over it, got a GTX770, i7 4670k @4.2 8gb ram and dayz on my SSD, i go down to 20 when going to cherno on highest settings.

[creature 1189]

He's only been having these problems since he put the new card in today

 

 

He was getting a good fps with the same card solidly, but now it is rare to get above 15

 

 

Ok, which is it?

[Mista Tea 0]

He hadn't changed anything. No, not 'get over it' he did have solid frames. This isn't a drop because he goes into a city. This is unrelated to location. You'd know this if you read the post before talking out of your arse hole.

[Karmaterror 982]

That rig sounds fine. Im on a 7770 and I don't get those kind of drops. Sure the 1/2 extra power leads are in the top of the card? His old one might not of used them.

 

Maybe try,

 

Is PC in high performance mode

Is grapichs card in high performance mode

Does Motherboard have a boost function? if so try that on

Check all the cables (especially those top 2 power jacks)

Try lowering res (im at 720p with r7770, getting way over 30 in wilderness, mid-high 20's in citys)

 

EDIT - Oh yeah and as others have said, drivers.....its always a driver issue lol

Edited January 5, 2014 by Karmaterror

[Mista Tea 0]

He did have solid frames originally, but then they almost instantly dropped after a while

[creature 1189]

He did have solid frames originally, but then they almost instantly dropped after a while

Is he monitoring his CPU temps? 

[Mista Tea 0]

Yeah, they were fine. He checked the drivers and they were all up to date

[dgeesio 1034]

disable clouds you'll be fine then. this should be stickied as it causes massive fps lags.

[Mista Tea 0]

Everything was set as low as it could go, and the FPS issues stayed constant. He has also checked the temperatures of everything, and it all seems to be ok

Edited January 5, 2014 by Mista Tea

[Dchil 829]

Swap his old card back in to see if the issues are still happening or if it is a card issue. You might need to get the card checked out, it may have died.

[kermo50 31]

Make sure "ambient occlusion" is off, this setting will dramatically reduce your fps, its a nice feature but not worth 20 frames

[holygodzilla 0]

it still can play the game the card is not dead 

[colinm9991 196]

Tweak your settings.

 

Disable clouds, occlusion, video memory auto and the other two options in the "Textures" tab set to Normal etc.

[kermo50 31]

I have a 7970 ghz and in a number of games turning the games video settings right down can actually negatively impact the fps, have you tried it on high settings too? Also make sure in CCC that your on balanced setting for gaming.