4870 - blackscreen with Crysis/Far Cry 2

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StevenNevets

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After RMA'ing my motherboard I finally get to install my new 4870 OC.

IDLE temps were originally 75-80C, manually moved fan speed up 40% with ATI CCC and now it's down to 45C idle.

CS:S, Guild Wars, Company of Heroes ran fine in my brief time with them, temperature barely went up.



But Crysis and Far Cry 2 give me a lot of problems, have yet to even get in game with them. During the loading screen or cutscenes I'll either get some crazy artifacting and or a black screen in which my monitor acts like its shutdown. (sound still going in backround)

I turn the computer off and back on, everythings fine but the temperatures are extra high for awhile so that must be the problem.




For anyone else who has a problem like this what speed did you go up to untill the game ran stable and is there a program I can use that will adjust this automatically so I don't need to manually raise the speed everytime before playing them?



I'm using the 8.11 drivers and both games ran without problems on my X1900XT.



 
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Originally posted by: StevenNevets
After RMA'ing my motherboard I finally get to install my new 4870 OC.

IDLE temps were originally 75-80C, manually moved fan speed up 40% with ATI CCC and now it's down to 45C idle.

CS:S, Guild Wars, Company of Heroes ran fine in my brief time with them, temperature barely went up.



But Crysis and Far Cry 2 give me a lot of problems, have yet to even get in game with them. During the loading screen or cutscenes I'll either get some crazy artifacting and or a black screen in which my monitor acts like its shutdown. (sound still going in backround)

I turn the computer off and back on, everythings fine but the temperatures are extra high for awhile so that must be the problem.




For anyone else who has a problem like this what speed did you go up to untill the game ran stable and is there a program I can use that will adjust this automatically so I don't need to manually raise the speed everytime before playing them?



I'm using the 8.11 drivers and both games ran without problems on my X1900XT.
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I leave my 4870 on auto for fan speed,install FurMarK that will show your temps and also put the video card through its paces,personally it stresses the card more then any game out there.

FurMark

 
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Originally posted by: StevenNevets
After RMA'ing my motherboard I finally get to install my new 4870 OC.

IDLE temps were originally 75-80C, manually moved fan speed up 40% with ATI CCC and now it's down to 45C idle.

CS:S, Guild Wars, Company of Heroes ran fine in my brief time with them, temperature barely went up.



But Crysis and Far Cry 2 give me a lot of problems, have yet to even get in game with them. During the loading screen or cutscenes I'll either get some crazy artifacting and or a black screen in which my monitor acts like its shutdown. (sound still going in backround)

I turn the computer off and back on, everythings fine but the temperatures are extra high for awhile so that must be the problem.




For anyone else who has a problem like this what speed did you go up to untill the game ran stable and is there a program I can use that will adjust this automatically so I don't need to manually raise the speed everytime before playing them?



I'm using the 8.11 drivers and both games ran without problems on my X1900XT.
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You probably have a bad overclock done at your card. Decrease the core/memroy clocks and see if it still does that.
 
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too hot on a video card doesn't usually cause a bsod.. bsod is usually from calculation errors from a bad overclock, bad gpu ram, bad cpu, or bad ram. and drivers
 
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Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
too hot on a video card doesn't usually cause a bsod.. bsod is usually from calculation errors from a bad overclock, bad gpu ram, bad cpu, or bad ram. and drivers
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It's not a "black screen of death," it's my monitor looking like what would happen if the computer was shut off. A normal black/blank screen. Yet the computer is on and the sound is working.


The card is overclocked by default.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814103064


But I'll try lowering it now.



After boosting the fan to 60% Crysis finally got into the game but I'd get VPU recover errors every second the game was playing, temps didn't go above 50C.


Far Cry 2 had blocky trees but that went away after I turned the in-game AA off. Then I made it through the opening thing in the car with a tiny bit of pixels popping up randomly but then I got the VPU error when the first playable level finished loading.





EDIT: both games run 100% when GPU is at stock 4870 speeds and fan at 60%

Guess I just need to keep testing till I find the best of both.
 
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Originally posted by: StevenNevets
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
too hot on a video card doesn't usually cause a bsod.. bsod is usually from calculation errors from a bad overclock, bad gpu ram, bad cpu, or bad ram. and drivers
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It's not a "black screen of death," it's my monitor looking like what would happen if the computer was shut off. A normal black/blank screen. Yet the computer is on and the sound is working.


The card is overclocked by default.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814103064


But I'll try lowering it now.



After boosting the fan to 60% Crysis finally got into the game but I'd get VPU recover errors every second the game was playing, temps didn't go above 50C.


Far Cry 2 had blocky trees but that went away after I turned the in-game AA off. Then I made it through the opening thing in the car with a tiny bit of pixels popping up randomly but then I got the VPU error when the first playable level finished loading.





EDIT: both games run 100% when GPU is at stock 4870 speeds and fan at 60%

Guess I just need to keep testing till I find the best of both.
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Get an RMA for your video card. It's bad. No card should have errors at the speed it's rated for from the manufacturer.
 
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StevenNevets

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Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Get an RMA for your video card. It's bad. No card should have errors at the speed it's rated for from the manufacturer.
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I bought if off ebay. So if it's even possible to complete a RMA it will be harder.

Plus I got it for only $160 and right now the speeds are a lot closer to the stock OC speeds than the stock non-OC speeds. I'm still very happy.

 
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