memlapse Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I ran into some issues that were resolved by completely uninstalling CCC and manually uninstalling the driver in the device manager. For some reason, the AMD Installation manager doesn't update properly. That maybe an issue with my rig, but a manual scrubbing fixed my issues and I'm running great, at the moment. I was poised to box the thing up and exchange it for a GTX680, but it has been granted a reprieve, for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saratje Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 (edited) 12.4 seems troublesome for me. While all the flickering etc is resolved, now transparencies are broken. When I pluck flowers, a 'ghost' model of the flower remains, a 50% transparent lavender, mountain flower, etc. Instead of the flower being gone. Outfits which use transparency look botched and transparent in the wrong way, flickering or showing the body through where it should not whenever certain light shines on it or whenever the camera rotates. When multiple transparent layers overlap eachother things that should be transparent are not, while other objects which should be opaque (but have transparent edges, like a torn sleeve, a fur lined cuirass, etc) disappear entirely until no longer viewed through a transparent layer or body. Guess I'm still stuck to 12.1. Maybe it's a crossfire issue. edit: it occurred to me it may be adaptive AA multisampling, turning it to forced seems to fix the problem. I didn't have to do so prior to 12.4, guessing 12.5 will fix that too. Edited April 28, 2012 by Saratje Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroniense21 Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Well, I don't personally know, however after installing the update I had this problem:http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/images/29582Look at my character......I'll try using 12.3, because it didn't gave me any issues.....Maybe they'll fix it later.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saratje Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Well, I don't personally know, however after installing the update I had this problem:http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/images/29582Look at my character......I'll try using 12.3, because it didn't gave me any issues.....Maybe they'll fix it later.... Might be related to what I had though it looks a bit different. Try turning off the AA, but not in Skyrim or it's options menu, but rather in the Catalyst Control Center menu, found in the tray of your windows menubar. It might fix it, or it might not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuriken88 Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 (edited) Do you think this would allow a HD4870 user to raise settings from a VERY low mid, to a medium high? Right now I have to disable ALL "AA, AF, FXAA" and basically everything that makes the game look like it was made for a modern PC, not PS2. The only thing I can turn up without consequence, is resolution to 1280x1024, and decals & texture detail. If I turn on hardware AA or AF, then after about 1 hour, my card starts to overheat and I get visual artifacts, which scares the F*CK out of me. I'm not paying £160 again to pay for a GFX card that holds true for less than a year, IF it doesn't stop working first (like all my other brand new PC hardware has). Staying upto date with PC's is like trying to iceskate up hill, with injured legs, while going through an avalanche and experiencing the effects of an overdose of muscle relaxants LOL. Its funny, seeing as I have other games that look FAR better than skyrim in its current form (such as Oblivion LMAO), that run smooth as a hotknife through butter. Strange. Heres hoping that this update will have a noticable effect! Edited April 28, 2012 by shuriken88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saratje Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Do you think this would allow a HD4870 user to raise settings from a VERY low mid, to a medium high? Right now I have to disable ALL "AA, AF, FXAA" and basically everything that makes the game look like it was made for a modern PC, not PS2. The only thing I can turn up without consequence, is resolution to 1280x1024, and decals & texture detail. If I turn on hardware AA or AF, then after about 1 hour, my card starts to overheat and I get visual artifacts, which scares the F*CK out of me. I'm not paying £160 again to pay for a GFX card that holds true for less than a year, IF it doesn't stop working first (like all my other brand new PC hardware has). Staying upto date with PC's is like trying to iceskate up hill, with injured legs, while going through an avalanche and experiencing the effects of an overdose of muscle relaxants LOL. Its funny, seeing as I have other games that look FAR better than skyrim in its current form (such as Oblivion LMAO), that run smooth as a hotknife through butter. Strange. Heres hoping that this update will have a noticable effect! Sounds more like your PC not cooling properly if you get artifacts after an hour. Do you make sure your computer fans stay clean? If not, they eventually can make your PC get overheated and you'll be paying a lot more than £160 to have a working computer again. Or if this happened since the first time you used this PC, it may not cool itself sufficiently. And keeping a PC up to date can be bothersome and costly yes. If low on finances always try to buy components which are one or two generations older than the newest stuff out there, but which by itself are still pretty up-to-date. Half joking, my main advice for owning and updating a fast PC to everyone is always: stop buying alcohol, no more bar/pub-flying, stop smoking and no more buying brand-name clothing. It saves up a lot of cash. But what you say about your GFX card is NOT good... and PC's can have those nasty chain-reactions when one part overheats and demands other parts to work overtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroniense21 Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Well, I don't personally know, however after installing the update I had this problem:http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/images/29582Look at my character......I'll try using 12.3, because it didn't gave me any issues.....Maybe they'll fix it later.... Well...... It didn't worked out..... Oh well, I guess I'm "Chip outta luck."Back to 12.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuriken88 Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) Sounds more like your PC not cooling properly if you get artifacts after an hour. Do you make sure your computer fans stay clean? If not, they eventually can make your PC get overheated and you'll be paying a lot more than £160 to have a working computer again. Or if this happened since the first time you used this PC, it may not cool itself sufficiently. And keeping a PC up to date can be bothersome and costly yes. If low on finances always try to buy components which are one or two generations older than the newest stuff out there, but which by itself are still pretty up-to-date. Half joking, my main advice for owning and updating a fast PC to everyone is always: stop buying alcohol, no more bar/pub-flying, stop smoking and no more buying brand-name clothing. It saves up a lot of cash. But what you say about your GFX card is NOT good... and PC's can have those nasty chain-reactions when one part overheats and demands other parts to work overtime. Yea it seems like I've had bad luck for PC hardware purchases from the very beginning lol. The first card I ever bought myself was an ATI X1950 pro, which worked fine and played current games for about a year, then mysteriously it started getting "ill" (artifacts and red/green "christmas lights"), and a day or 2 later it just croaked on me. I've bought about 3 large HDD's in the past too. Two of them didn't last longer than 2 years, even though I bought them brand new. Speaking of cooling.. MAN you should feel how hot the "coolant tubes" get on my card. I swear. I wouldn't consider myself a pussy, but sometimes its so hot, that you LITERALLY cant touch it for more than 2 seconds. it feels like it must be around 90*c or something. Its not like that all the time. When the PC is idle, the tubes are simply hot, but after a long session of gaming, you could probably boil water with it. I always set my fan speed to 100% when I play newer games like Skyrim, because the fact that Catalyst Control Center reports temps as high as 85*C, just worries me, a lot! People have said these incredibly high temperatures are normal for cards like the 4870, and it can handle them no problem, but I find that hard to believe. It just seems like PC hardware is designed specifically to break after a maximum of two years, so in the end you have to keep buying replacements all the time, which makes companies like Nvidia and ATI much richer, and much happier, but makes the consumer feel like "rage quitting" on PC gaming entirely, or going on a killing spree around town. Edited April 29, 2012 by shuriken88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorwynKelm Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) Those temps are 'within operating range' but are high. Not sure what kind of 'coolant' setup you have but it sounds inadequate. To compare, here's my rig: Intel QuadCore QX9650 @ 4.0Ghz (10x400)8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 @ 1600Mhz2x 7950 w/3GB Ram (each) I run dual loops, 320MM rad, block on the CPU and NB. Cards are each blocked and modded on their own loop. Temps for my CPU never exceed 55c and that's after a night of crunching PI. NB can push 58-59C, this is normal for my gear. The 7950's in XFire never reach 60c. The tubing can get warm, but never HOT. If I were you, I would check to make sure the compound hasn't dried out between your chip and the cooling block. Something's wrong with that setup. Edited April 29, 2012 by Morwyn Kelm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fms1 Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) My HD 6870 runs 87c at full load and is acceptable for my card. 7900 series do run super cool. And yes I think something is up with suriken88's card, something doesn't add up. EDIT: I would check the thermal compound between the GPU and the heatsink. Also I had a HD 4650 and the junky fan on it didn't last a year till the bearings went totally out. Edited April 29, 2012 by fms1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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