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I need some help my friends.
I bought this ASUS R9 280x DC2T card few days ago solely for playing skyrim with some heavy mods but unfortunately i'm having some serious issues while trying to play some games.
It's quite complicated and i'm unable to figure out whether it's a driver problem or hardware, in which case i would RMA this card.
Card passes all the 3D benchmark tests like 3D mark firestorm, MSI Kombuster, AVP Benchmark, Stalker Pripyat benchnmark, Hitman benchmark etc.
I have also noticed that DX11 games, like Sniper Elite v2 and Hitman Absolution run absolutely fine where Hitman goes to use upto 2.5 GB of my VRAM but games which are DX9 based, like Skyrim, Witcher 2, Alan Wake etc are crapping out randomly. Where skyrim is the worst of them, most likely because it's an open world game.
Some screenshots:
My PC Specs:
MOBO: Gigabyte ex58 Extreme
Graphics Card: ASUS R9 280X DC2T
RAM: 6GB DDR3@2002 MHz - 9-9-9-24
CPU: i7920@3.8GHz
PSU: Corsair 750TX
Earlier i was using HD 5870 in crossfirex and i have checked that it still runs my games fine, so my PCIex slots are fine. RAM also passes memtest86+ and CPU can also handle prime 95 stress test.
I'm trying to figure out if it's some problem that i can fix on my end. Please help fellows.
I bought this ASUS R9 280x DC2T card few days ago solely for playing skyrim with some heavy mods but unfortunately i'm having some serious issues while trying to play some games.
It's quite complicated and i'm unable to figure out whether it's a driver problem or hardware, in which case i would RMA this card.
Card passes all the 3D benchmark tests like 3D mark firestorm, MSI Kombuster, AVP Benchmark, Stalker Pripyat benchnmark, Hitman benchmark etc.
I have also noticed that DX11 games, like Sniper Elite v2 and Hitman Absolution run absolutely fine where Hitman goes to use upto 2.5 GB of my VRAM but games which are DX9 based, like Skyrim, Witcher 2, Alan Wake etc are crapping out randomly. Where skyrim is the worst of them, most likely because it's an open world game.
Some screenshots:







My PC Specs:
MOBO: Gigabyte ex58 Extreme
Graphics Card: ASUS R9 280X DC2T
RAM: 6GB DDR3@2002 MHz - 9-9-9-24
CPU: i7920@3.8GHz
PSU: Corsair 750TX
Earlier i was using HD 5870 in crossfirex and i have checked that it still runs my games fine, so my PCIex slots are fine. RAM also passes memtest86+ and CPU can also handle prime 95 stress test.
I'm trying to figure out if it's some problem that i can fix on my end. Please help fellows.
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