- Joined
- Oct 30, 2011
Hey what's up guys. New here and joined because after playing BF3 beta on my GTS250 card i decided to finally upgrade my video card and ordered a Gigabyte HD6970 online.
It's my first AMD/ATI card i've ever owned and i wanted to try it cause i heard great things about AMD/ATI since the counter-strike days so i gave it a shot.
Main thing for me of course was the price cause i wasn't gonna cought up an extra $100 for a nVdia GTX580 when everyone was saying the 6970 is just as good.
So far im not very impressed. Of course from my GTS250 my first reaction was WOW but after a bit of playing and noticing glitchy play, and some video lag i was praying that there would be some driver updates that would fix it.
Down the line they had a update. i think it was 11-9 and i even did the cap4 update but it started crashing. I would get stuck in a frozen screen, sound would loop, and i cant do anything. cntrl+alt+del didnt work and even my keyboard was totally frozen. so i had to hard restart the computer.
I found this board and was reading though other members settings and tried this and that but nothing worked until someone mentioned a 11.10 preview3 beta driver. So far so good, ive played for 1hr+ straight with not as much lag and or crashed. very smooth compared to the 11.9 driver.
My friends bugging me to join him in a game right now so ill add more details later and keep this posted.
It's my first AMD/ATI card i've ever owned and i wanted to try it cause i heard great things about AMD/ATI since the counter-strike days so i gave it a shot.
Main thing for me of course was the price cause i wasn't gonna cought up an extra $100 for a nVdia GTX580 when everyone was saying the 6970 is just as good.
So far im not very impressed. Of course from my GTS250 my first reaction was WOW but after a bit of playing and noticing glitchy play, and some video lag i was praying that there would be some driver updates that would fix it.
Down the line they had a update. i think it was 11-9 and i even did the cap4 update but it started crashing. I would get stuck in a frozen screen, sound would loop, and i cant do anything. cntrl+alt+del didnt work and even my keyboard was totally frozen. so i had to hard restart the computer.
I found this board and was reading though other members settings and tried this and that but nothing worked until someone mentioned a 11.10 preview3 beta driver. So far so good, ive played for 1hr+ straight with not as much lag and or crashed. very smooth compared to the 11.9 driver.
My friends bugging me to join him in a game right now so ill add more details later and keep this posted.