katiemarie090 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) Today I installed my newly purchased Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 and everything went pretty well - until I tried to play Skyrim. Before upgrading, I had been using a GeForce GTX 6800, and I always ran it on the lowest display settings. With that card I never had a problem with fps, things always ran smoothly and loaded fairly quickly. However, with this new, 'better' card, I can't even play the game. It takes about five minutes to load everything (going in and out of buildings is a nightmare) and the fps is ALWAYS 5-10. Sometimes it just stutters. I have no idea why using a new card would cause so many problems, since everything else on my system has stayed the same. Does anyone have any idea what the hell is going on? Full Specs:Windows 7 32 BitAMD Anthlon II X3 440 Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 1G DDR3 4G memory500GB hard drive EDIT: I should add that all the drivers are up to date, and the problems I have with load times/stuttering/fps are consistent no matter whether I try to play on low or high settings. Edited April 13, 2012 by katiemarie090 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hastr0 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Possible bottleneck maybe? Don't really know much about the CPU. Did you download the latest drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiemarie090 Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 I did indeed. But why would it start bottlenecking with a new card? I've never heard of that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fms1 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) I can't say what the problem is, but I have A HD 6870 and run on very high settings, 1080p res. and still get around 55 fps. Full Specs:Windows 7 64 bitAMD Phenom II x6 1090TXFX AMD Radeon HD 6870 1gbDDR3 16gb RAM1 tb HDD This is just for a reference, because I think you should be seeing similar results. EDIT: It had been a while since I played Skyrim, but just played and I'm getting a lot of graphics problems and fps went to 60 almost constantly. The only thing changed was catalyst updated and a few windows updates. Also I'm still running Skyrim ver. 1.4.21 Edited April 13, 2012 by fms1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) I recently stopped using my Radeon card. I was oooh sooooo tired of bad drivers. Here was the last driver I was using. It gave me decent gameplay. version/date : 2012.0214.2218.39913 Thats a pretty good card you have, and you are right. There is NO reason for it not running the entire game at 50+ FPS anywhere. It comes down to horible, careless, and untested programming. It also has to do with ATI not supporting games as it should if it wants to stay in a market that extremely fickle and unforgiving. Edited April 13, 2012 by Brandy_123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylhent23 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Have you tried updating it to maybe.. 1.5? I updated mine and it runned Smoothly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiemarie090 Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 So I pretty much got screwed when I bought this card? Lol. At this exact moment all of my drivers for the card have been updated to the latest version, but I'm going to try using one of the older versions that was recommended. Maybe that will work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiemarie090 Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 Yeah, trying the other drivers didn't change anything. So now they are back up to date, and still having the same problems. Tried running it on low settings and even that didn't help a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3talc0re Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Should've gone with nVidia :P Best I can do right now is direct you here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/332396-33-6950-issues-skyrim-possible-solution-inside Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan3345 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) I did indeed. But why would it start bottlenecking with a new card? I've never heard of that before.First of all don't listen to metalcore, there is nothing wrong with ATI, and in my opinion they make a higher quality chipset that runs cooler on less power for about the same performance with most chips. That said I would say you have a bottleneck. You see before you upgraded it was probably very likely that your CPU and GPU were closely matched in terms of their power, now what you have done by upgrading is added a very quick little video card with a turtle of a processor. So while the GPU can render quickly the CPU struggles to keep up, aka a bottleneck. Also I just rechecked your PC specs and I noticed you are running on 32 bit windows. This may or may not cause problems. You have four gigabytes of ram but windows 7 32bit can only use 3.5gb's. And on top of that the OS by default will use up to 25% on idle for system processes alone. And that number comes from my PC, and I have eight gigabytes of RAM. So for you with only 3.5gb's of useable RAM probably only have 2gb's available to you for skyrim. Skyrim is very demanding on the CPU and your CPU relies heavily on your RAM to quickly get your data, if your RAM is being filled to carrying capacity quickly then that would cause extraordinarily long load times and very poor performance in game. Edited April 14, 2012 by Dan3345 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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