Selloh 1 Posted January 21, 2013 Hey guys I have one extremly frustrating issue with Arma2/OA I bought a Sapphire 7970 vaporX ghz edition and every game i have runs fine except Arma If i play Arma, (playing or the benchmark2) it will freeze for maybe 2-5 seconds and crash2desktop and the sound is freezed aswell. I have to use ctrl-alt-del and shotdown arma2 and after I did that, I get artifacts in Arma and some other games (not all of them) I have to restart my PC to get it ''normal'' in Arma2 but it still crashes in that game. Only Arma will bring me that problem every other game i have runs fine for hours and hours. Reinstall of Windows and Arma didnt help to fix that :( I tried catalyst 12.11, 13.1, 13.2 everytime the same issue Can anybody help me or tell me what that is ? Temps are good: GPU @ max 50°c VRM @ max 60-65°c PC components: i7 950@ 4,2 ghz EVGA x58 ftw³ 12gb RAM Sapphire 7970 vaporX ghz edition PSU: 950w English isnt my nativ Language im sorry if there are some incorrect words or sentences :P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gunso 10 Posted January 22, 2013 try furmark and do a stress test on your gpu, i have the same problem with my gtx560 last time. Found out that when gpu usage hits 100% then it hang, i rma the GPU the next day. Other games wont really stress the gpu like arma2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Selloh 1 Posted January 22, 2013 Well i tried furmark for 1-2 hours no crash everything is fine :/ I cant understand this issue -.- is it maybe a amd driver problem or something ? Any other tips ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Selloh 1 Posted January 24, 2013 UPDATE: It looks like its a driver problem of the new catalyst (13.1 + 13.2 + 12.11) with 12.10 there is no crash issue and arma runs fine Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kotov12345 10 Posted January 25, 2013 amd became worst and worst with drivers... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ast65 10 Posted January 25, 2013 dunno, 13.2 is working perfect with my old 5850 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kotov12345 10 Posted January 25, 2013 I always losing screen while reinstalling drivers - have to login to my desktop remotely and restart manually to work.Another issue they mixed up with sdk and bring kdbsync.exe error to millions of pc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrisb 196 Posted January 25, 2013 dunno, 13.2 is working perfect with my old 5850 I have the 5850 toxic 2gb, great cards. I stopped at 12.1 as it runs really fast and smooth. I think it depends on your setup a lot, but once 12.1 showed itself to run great on my system, I thought thats it, stop there and risk no further! .;). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kklownboy 43 Posted January 25, 2013 (edited) 7970 user, 12.11b 11beta. Saw no reason to update to the 13.1 WQRL as they are the same. The new beta 13.x are not for pimetime yet, next week should be the good release. If the game is crashing for you then your Install of said driver is borked, and or you have some setting wrong. There hasn't been a bad driver for A2OA from AMD(except for multiGPU). Some setups will get different performance(2 to 5fps~), any large drops or gains, is do to user error or MS update, MS/AMD install error. I usually test every Driver on the same editor setup, on a Imaged back up, and the drivers have been all the same... The real performance comes from the new Game Betas, same as the lack of. The 69XX series seemed to have peaked on the 12.8, the 5XXX around 12.2~, (also when AMD took out the OC dlls).7970s are still improving some. So what are your settings? And what version of the game? Edited January 25, 2013 by kklownboy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Selloh 1 Posted January 25, 2013 So what are your settings? And what version of the game? Ingame Settings ? Texture Detail: Very High Video Memory: Default Anisotropic Filter: Very High Anti Aliasing: Normal ATOC: Disabled Terran Detail: Very High Object Detail: Very High Shadow Quality: Very High HDR Quality: Very High PPA: Disabled Postprocess Effect: Disabled Vsync: Disabled 1920x1080 (new monitor will come next week) Arma is running with the new patch 100296 since i installed the catalyst 12.10 patch there are no crashes at all, if i play arma or other games. Actually i run my card overclocked @ 1200/1600 and no issues (same at clock speed) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kklownboy 43 Posted January 26, 2013 (edited) ...Arma is running with the new patch 100296 That Beta was a test build. send your crash dumps to Dwarden. Actually i run my card overclocked @ 1200/1600 and no issues (same at clock speed) 1600! cant call crashes anybodys fault but the mem faults you will get at 1600. Glad it works now. But the Drivers only mess up with install issues. My 7970 runs best on 12.11b beta 11 and the Cap2. So for A2OA, any Driver issue is really a install issue. When it works stick with it. Edited January 26, 2013 by kklownboy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LDU30 5 Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) Delete post please, i'm wrong Edited January 31, 2013 by LDU30 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
