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- Nov 30, 2009
Arghh.. Driving me nuts, my 5850 flickers like a bad psu, or a clockspeed set too high would show you .. but it is the opposite cause.
Apparently the 5850 (and higher cards) idle down VERY low on core and mem speeds in 2D environments,.. ie: Windows.
(Using Windows 7 btw).
Anyhow,.. how do I immediately fix it?
I run AMD GPU clock util,.. and change the stock clock from 725 to 726, and mem clock from 1000 to 1001. Yes, 1mhz.
This essentially just causes the card to get out of this 'idle, declock' mode I suppose.. and all is happy, no more flicker. (I've even noticed some youtube playback issues and other anomalies before OC'ing 1mhz).
Thing is.. I have to OC EVERYTIME I bootup.
Nothing I have will automatically do it on startup...
It shouldn't be a problem to begin with.. this is an OBVIOUS fix for ATI to release a driver or perhaps a bios flash (whatever it takes).. though I'm sure simple drivers could do it to bump the low idle clock up just a nudge and problem solved. If I could get a hold of one of their devs I'm sure he could fix me right up. lol.
Anyhow, you get the gist of it -- there is even a thread further down in this forum of a 5870 (I think) with the same problem.. that OC'ing a bit fixed. Searching the web finds loads of results of mouse pointer problems and such.. which some have found a little OC fixes.
Though Rivatuner isn't working with this card for OC.. MSI afterburner won't change the settings unless you flash your bios with an older standard ATI bios (which could potentially make your currently unavailable 300$+ card a brick).. and the ATI OC tool, that does great, doesn't have an auto clock feature on startup.. a little change there and I'd be good till ATI fixed it themselves.
So I thought I would ask here..
Any ideas?
Anyone had any luck?
Anyone have any tricks up their sleeve to fix this, or at least get it to OC a touch automatically until ATI releases a fix?
I would greatly appreciate it.. you have no idea.
Take care,
Apparently the 5850 (and higher cards) idle down VERY low on core and mem speeds in 2D environments,.. ie: Windows.
(Using Windows 7 btw).
Anyhow,.. how do I immediately fix it?
I run AMD GPU clock util,.. and change the stock clock from 725 to 726, and mem clock from 1000 to 1001. Yes, 1mhz.
This essentially just causes the card to get out of this 'idle, declock' mode I suppose.. and all is happy, no more flicker. (I've even noticed some youtube playback issues and other anomalies before OC'ing 1mhz).
Thing is.. I have to OC EVERYTIME I bootup.
Nothing I have will automatically do it on startup...
It shouldn't be a problem to begin with.. this is an OBVIOUS fix for ATI to release a driver or perhaps a bios flash (whatever it takes).. though I'm sure simple drivers could do it to bump the low idle clock up just a nudge and problem solved. If I could get a hold of one of their devs I'm sure he could fix me right up. lol.
Anyhow, you get the gist of it -- there is even a thread further down in this forum of a 5870 (I think) with the same problem.. that OC'ing a bit fixed. Searching the web finds loads of results of mouse pointer problems and such.. which some have found a little OC fixes.
Though Rivatuner isn't working with this card for OC.. MSI afterburner won't change the settings unless you flash your bios with an older standard ATI bios (which could potentially make your currently unavailable 300$+ card a brick).. and the ATI OC tool, that does great, doesn't have an auto clock feature on startup.. a little change there and I'd be good till ATI fixed it themselves.
So I thought I would ask here..
Any ideas?
Anyone had any luck?
Anyone have any tricks up their sleeve to fix this, or at least get it to OC a touch automatically until ATI releases a fix?
I would greatly appreciate it.. you have no idea.
Take care,