So my Sapphire 7850 arrived in the mail today 
. I removed my Nvidia software in the proper fashion and have installed Catalyst 12.11(yes, I know it's beta, but I googled it and don't see anybody else with my issue).
But all is not going well. At first the fans were at 100% and I found that some fine person had barely plugged the 4 pin fan connector in. After fixing this I was able to happily push to 1150mhz on stock voltage and call it a day.
But then I launched Natural Selection 2. Every 10 seconds or so the game would begin to stutter, dropping from ~60fps to ~5(and not 5 with similar times between frames either). This is also met with sound stuttering. For those who overclock, it's the kind of sound you might get if your processor overclocking results in a game freezing(as I've never educated myself on this, I'll call it the farting sound). I thought it might be a Natural Selection issue so I moved to Planetside 2 but the issue persists. This issue may also occur while watching a video. I was watching some fraps footage before editing it and the video would stutter with the same audio issues. I've also had 2 blue screens.
I'm also no stranger to troubleshooting so I pulled the overclock and went back to default settings but I still have this issue. Does anybody happen to have had the same issue and want to share some knowledge? As it is I'm going to go clean the drivers off and go for some older ones after I re-seat the card.
Is this maybe just a Windows 8 vs. 12.11 thing?
. I removed my Nvidia software in the proper fashion and have installed Catalyst 12.11(yes, I know it's beta, but I googled it and don't see anybody else with my issue).But all is not going well. At first the fans were at 100% and I found that some fine person had barely plugged the 4 pin fan connector in. After fixing this I was able to happily push to 1150mhz on stock voltage and call it a day.
But then I launched Natural Selection 2. Every 10 seconds or so the game would begin to stutter, dropping from ~60fps to ~5(and not 5 with similar times between frames either). This is also met with sound stuttering. For those who overclock, it's the kind of sound you might get if your processor overclocking results in a game freezing(as I've never educated myself on this, I'll call it the farting sound). I thought it might be a Natural Selection issue so I moved to Planetside 2 but the issue persists. This issue may also occur while watching a video. I was watching some fraps footage before editing it and the video would stutter with the same audio issues. I've also had 2 blue screens.
I'm also no stranger to troubleshooting so I pulled the overclock and went back to default settings but I still have this issue. Does anybody happen to have had the same issue and want to share some knowledge? As it is I'm going to go clean the drivers off and go for some older ones after I re-seat the card.
Is this maybe just a Windows 8 vs. 12.11 thing?
