sertz
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Hokay, so...
I just bought a new Sapphire Radeon 5870 1GB the other day after reading the glowing review on this wonderful little site, but I am running XP and seem to be encountering some issues...
For the most part it seemed totally fine, I installed the XP drivers that came with the Sapphire CD (as there are no XP drivers available yet on the AMD site) and I ran 3DMark 06 and 03, getting hugely improved results from my previous card, a GTX 275. HOWEVER, then real-world gaming came into play.
Naturally, I popped in the original Crysis. I wanted to see this puppy run, and the first levels were silky smooth 60fps just as I expected, but as soon as I got to more graphically intense areas like the onslaught level with the tanks the framerate would randomly spike up and down pretty drastically... This never happened with my GTX 275 on all the same settings. In fact I dare say my GTX 275 was running these areas SMOOTHER than my new 5870. I am assuming this is a driver issue as there are no official XP drivers for the 5870, which is just asking for trouble... but I wanted to see if anyone else was having the same issues.
And don't razz me for not having Vista or Windows 7, I'm picking up Windows 7 in a few weeks but I just couldn't wait to get the new card. My rig is in my sig.
Anyone else having some framerate spiking issues with their shiny new 5870's? :help:
I just bought a new Sapphire Radeon 5870 1GB the other day after reading the glowing review on this wonderful little site, but I am running XP and seem to be encountering some issues...
For the most part it seemed totally fine, I installed the XP drivers that came with the Sapphire CD (as there are no XP drivers available yet on the AMD site) and I ran 3DMark 06 and 03, getting hugely improved results from my previous card, a GTX 275. HOWEVER, then real-world gaming came into play.
Naturally, I popped in the original Crysis. I wanted to see this puppy run, and the first levels were silky smooth 60fps just as I expected, but as soon as I got to more graphically intense areas like the onslaught level with the tanks the framerate would randomly spike up and down pretty drastically... This never happened with my GTX 275 on all the same settings. In fact I dare say my GTX 275 was running these areas SMOOTHER than my new 5870. I am assuming this is a driver issue as there are no official XP drivers for the 5870, which is just asking for trouble... but I wanted to see if anyone else was having the same issues.
And don't razz me for not having Vista or Windows 7, I'm picking up Windows 7 in a few weeks but I just couldn't wait to get the new card. My rig is in my sig.
Anyone else having some framerate spiking issues with their shiny new 5870's? :help: