for people with P/N:188-01E85-001SA,SKU#11133-00 ONLY (or 11133-00-20R like mine), sapphire has released a new bios resolving these issues.
Go on the sapphire site in the drivers section.
No more freeze for me now.
Cheers
If you have P/N:188-01E85-001SA,SKU#11133-00 (or 11133-00-20R) on the green sticker of your box, your original bios has issue with powerplay.
There is a new bios from september on sapphire site, go on sapphire site in the drivers section.
It resolves all the freezes and powerplay issue for...
Interesting that you don't have game freezes with that bios.
The best test would be with spore (crash in less than 1 min).
And yes your bios seems older. You can have the date in gpu-z for example.
EDIT : I see via this link : http://www.techpowerup.com/vga...HD4870.512.080609.html that...
Same problem here with spore.
Crash with squares at the menu in the game (at the beginning) and i must reboot computer.
It is happening in less than 30 seconds.
Changing the xml file profile to force the gpu to be at full speed all the time and no more issue at all. (i can play for hours)
I...
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