My 6950 acts like an iGPU

[Mr. Pedantic]

As above. I reinstalled Windows cause I had some problems with the way the GPU was working originally, but now that I've done it I can't get it to work properly at all anymore. I've installed the drivers and done everything else I should have, but it's still that jerky, low res weirdness that you get when you first boot into Windows. I can't play games, video playback is a joke. Aero is impossible to do, and even moving windows around sometimes it'll freeze and crash to blue screen.

I'm afraid that my GPU is probably circling the drain and I'll have to get a new one, thoughts?

 

[CRCSUX]

In the past ive had cards do that, they were on the way out.
Id take ya card out and check for bulging/busted caps.

 

[BFG10K]

Did you remember to install your motherboard chipset drivers?

 

[master_shake_]

temps?

clocks?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

temps?

clocks?

Clocks were at default 6950 clocks. It used to be at 6970 clocks but I had to dial it back a bit a few months ago cause of instability.

It never ran hot. 50C at the most.

Did you remember to install your motherboard chipset drivers?

Yeah. I think MSI stopped updating drivers for X58 a while back, so they're pretty old.

 

[Meghan54]

Clocks were at default 6950 clocks. It used to be at 6970 clocks but I had to dial it back a bit a few months ago cause of instability.

I think that might have been an early sign that the card was starting to fail. A "stable" overclock suddenly needing more voltage or having to be dialed back in clocks to regain stability has typically, at least for me, been early signs of impending failure of the card/component itself.