BF3 Crash and BSOD after video card swap HELP!

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Solidpantz

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i7 2600k
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Western Digital Caviar BLACK 1TB
Nothing is Overclocked

Ok so this is really strange..

I bought the Diamond Radeon HD 5970 2GB for $300 on neweggs black friday deal and replaced my XFX 6970 2GB.

My thoughts were increased fps and performance with the ability to sell my 6970 for about what I paid for the 5970.

So I uninstalled all my old drivers and installed and replaced my 6970 with the 5970 and then booted up and installed the new drivers (11.11) and restarted.

Now everytime I try to load BF3 it freezes on the loading screen and gives me a DXG1_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG DirectX error and then BSOD's on me.

I have tried installing 11.10 drivers and CAP 4 as well as 11.11.a and 11.11b drivers.. no help

Put my 6970 back in and the game runs fine.

I am re-downloading BF3 and going to try a reinstall in the morning but I have a feeling that isn't going to fix it.

I have done some searching and cant really find anyone else having the same issues.

Any ideas?
 
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Man these 5970s are giving everyone trouble! Hope that's not why Newegg was unloading them on Black Friday...

Anyway, the first thing to do is to determine if the card is stable generally. How is it working on the desktop? What are the temps? Does CCC show that crossfire is enabled? Run 3dMark11 to see if the program will load. Then try some other games and report back.
 
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Solidpantz

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Termie said:
Man these 5970s are giving everyone trouble! Hope that's not why Newegg was unloading them on Black Friday...

Anyway, the first thing to do is to determine if the card is stable generally. How is it working on the desktop? What are the temps? Does CCC show that crossfire is enabled?Run 3dMark11 to see if the program will load. Then try some other games and report back.
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I'm on it.
 
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I was over my friend's house last night, he had the same problem (I installed the newest drivers and Cap2). I removed Cap 2 and that seemed to solved the issue. One question for you guys though-where in CCC can I look to see if crossfire is enabled? I looked around everywhere and could not find it. It shows 2 GPU's under system devices in Windows though.
 
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dmoney1980 said:
I was over my friend's house last night, he had the same problem (I installed the newest drivers and Cap2). I removed Cap 2 and that seemed to solved the issue. One question for you guys though-where in CCC can I look to see if crossfire is enabled? I looked around everywhere and could not find it. It shows 2 GPU's under system devices in Windows though.
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If it isn't showing up in CCC, it isn't on. You would see a tab called "CrossfireX" right under the tab called "Overdrive", I believe. You don't have to search around for it, and if it wasn't obvious to you, it wasn't there. Cards can show up in Device Manager without actually being enabled, based on my experience setting up crossfire. I don't believe crossfire can work without the CAP, by the way.

The other way to test it is run GPU-z, which will say whether crossfire is enabled. The best test, however, is running MSI Afterburner and displaying the graph of GPU Usage. Then not only do you know whether it's reading two GPUs, you also know whether both are being used. A working crossfire setup will have both GPUs used exactly the same amount, i.e., the graphs will be duplicates, like this:

cpumaxing.jpg


dmoney1980 said:
This seems to be popular http://unigine.com/products/heaven/
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Heaven is good, and it actually works as a pure GPU benchmark. It scales linearly with GPU processing power. I suggested 3dMark11 because it's more widely used, but it's highly affected by CPU power. Either one will load the GPU, however, and a working crossfire setup will score much higher in both than a single card would.
 
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Why did you upgrad I mean downgrade your 6970. Stick with the card you have.

Your going from a 6970 to a 5970 why can I ask ??? Obviously the 5970 is going to be slower and give you more problems. As AMD / ATI only care about current gen 6xxx for their driver improvement and stop caring about older cards.. :(
 
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tweakboy said:
Why did you upgrad I mean downgrade your 6970. Stick with the card you have.

Your going from a 6970 to a 5970 why can I ask ??? Obviously the 5970 is going to be slower and give you more problems. As AMD / ATI only care about current gen 6xxx for their driver improvement and stop caring about older cards.. :(
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Tweakboy - the numbering scheme was changed with the 6000 series. 5970 is a dual-GPU card and is faster than the 6970 in any game where crossfire works.

OP - ignore Tweakboy.
 
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tweakboy said:
Why did you upgrad I mean downgrade your 6970. Stick with the card you have.

Your going from a 6970 to a 5970 why can I ask ??? Obviously the 5970 is going to be slower and give you more problems. As AMD / ATI only care about current gen 6xxx for their driver improvement and stop caring about older cards.. :(
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don't post if you don't know what your talking about
 
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Solidpantz

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tweakboy said:
Why did you upgrad I mean downgrade your 6970. Stick with the card you have.

Your going from a 6970 to a 5970 why can I ask ??? Obviously the 5970 is going to be slower and give you more problems. As AMD / ATI only care about current gen 6xxx for their driver improvement and stop caring about older cards.. :(
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The 5970 outperforms the 6970 in every article that I've read.
 
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Ok so here is what I did.

Tested the card with Unigine and it ran fine
Made sure both gpu's were working with MSI afterburner


-Re-downloaded and re-installed the game
-Re-installed 11.11 drivers
-Installed cap 4 crossfire profiles (if you don't do this you will not have crossfire in bf3)

Game runs great now and there is a definite improvement over the 6970.
The 5970 does run a bit hotter than the 6970 but it is worth it.

I am running everything on ultra 1920x1080 with 2x AA about 50-60 fps
 
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Solidpantz said:
Ok so here is what I did.

Tested the card with Unigine and it ran fine
Made sure both gpu's were working with MSI afterburner


-Re-downloaded and re-installed the game
-Re-installed 11.11 drivers
-Installed cap 4 crossfire profiles (if you don't do this you will not have crossfire in bf3)

Game runs great now and there is a definite improvement over the 6970.
The 5970 does run a bit hotter than the 6970 but it is worth it.

I am running everything on ultra 1900x1200 with 2x AA about 50-60 fps
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This is great news. Your system is running up to speed now. If you find that the game has sudden drops, it could be the textures. I have set those at high instead of ultra. Also, the use of AA could overrun the 1GB buffer, but if you're not having problems, just go with it. This is way more than a 6970 could handle. It would be at 40-45fps: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/22/battlefield_3_multiplayer_performance_iq_review/4
 
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Termie said:
This is great news. Your system is running up to speed now. If you find that the game has sudden drops, it could be the textures. I have set those at high instead of ultra. Also, the use of AA could overrun the 1GB buffer, but if you're not having problems, just go with it. This is way more than a 6970 could handle. It would be at 40-45fps: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/22/battlefield_3_multiplayer_performance_iq_review/4
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Thanks for that... I might be ditching the 5970 now and just adding a second 6970... ohh decisions decisions.
 
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