Hey guys,
I recently purchased a HIS 6850 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161363), and everything has been pretty much flawless except for a few issues. I came from a Sapphire 3850 that I'd been using for about 3 years, so the performance jump is definitely there. The problem that I've run into, is that there seems to be.. conflicting evidence of my current hardware update. Windows still thinks that I have a 3850 installed, so does CCleaner, and AIDA64 (the new Everest). I'm running the 11.1 drivers, and that does correctly identify my graphic card, which it better ahah. The odd thing with AIDA64, is that it lists 3 video adapters which say I have a 3850, and the 3D accelerator says I have the 6850. I'll attach a screenshot so this makes sense.
Sorry for the small screenshot.. dont know why photobucket made it so small -_-.
Normally I wouldn't be bugged by this as its not really an issue, but my HAWX2 won't let me enable tessellation, which is a DX11 feature. So what I was thinking is could the problem be because my computer still thinks I only have a DX10 card (3850)?
I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly in my transition to the 6850. First, I went to Control Panel -> Uninstall -> Everything ATI. Then I restarted into safemode, ran driver sweeper and removed everything ATI. Then I swapped out my 3850 for the 6850. Booted up, installed drivers from AMD's site (11.1). And then I ran Furmark for a bit to see if everything was ok, which it was, the FPS was a lot higher than with my 3850, and that weird stuttering issue was completely gone, and thats when I noticed that Furmark was reporting that I had a 3850.
I'm pretty lost on how to solve this.. because I'd like to be able to use DX11 features, but if my comp won't let me because it still thinks its on DX10 than.. thats quite unfortunate heh.
I'd greatly appreciate any assistance/suggestions on helping me fix this problem. Thank you very much for your time and checking out my thread!
-James
*EDIT* I bought a 6850 after posting in this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2141424
*EDIT* I meant to say "not" instead of "no" in the thread title, my bad!
I recently purchased a HIS 6850 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161363), and everything has been pretty much flawless except for a few issues. I came from a Sapphire 3850 that I'd been using for about 3 years, so the performance jump is definitely there. The problem that I've run into, is that there seems to be.. conflicting evidence of my current hardware update. Windows still thinks that I have a 3850 installed, so does CCleaner, and AIDA64 (the new Everest). I'm running the 11.1 drivers, and that does correctly identify my graphic card, which it better ahah. The odd thing with AIDA64, is that it lists 3 video adapters which say I have a 3850, and the 3D accelerator says I have the 6850. I'll attach a screenshot so this makes sense.
Sorry for the small screenshot.. dont know why photobucket made it so small -_-.
Normally I wouldn't be bugged by this as its not really an issue, but my HAWX2 won't let me enable tessellation, which is a DX11 feature. So what I was thinking is could the problem be because my computer still thinks I only have a DX10 card (3850)?
I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly in my transition to the 6850. First, I went to Control Panel -> Uninstall -> Everything ATI. Then I restarted into safemode, ran driver sweeper and removed everything ATI. Then I swapped out my 3850 for the 6850. Booted up, installed drivers from AMD's site (11.1). And then I ran Furmark for a bit to see if everything was ok, which it was, the FPS was a lot higher than with my 3850, and that weird stuttering issue was completely gone, and thats when I noticed that Furmark was reporting that I had a 3850.
I'm pretty lost on how to solve this.. because I'd like to be able to use DX11 features, but if my comp won't let me because it still thinks its on DX10 than.. thats quite unfortunate heh.
I'd greatly appreciate any assistance/suggestions on helping me fix this problem. Thank you very much for your time and checking out my thread!
-James
*EDIT* I bought a 6850 after posting in this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2141424
*EDIT* I meant to say "not" instead of "no" in the thread title, my bad!
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