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Stsin:
How's your HD5770 doing?
While no problems during games, I would sometimes get driver resets or the rare striped screen in 2D mode.
Some suggestions to fix if have that problem:
http://www.ngohq.com/news/17176-workarounds-for-radeon-hd-5000-series-vertical-stripes-issue.html
I ended up having to edit an overdrive xml profile so that the 2D CoreClockTarget is at 40000 and MemClockTarget at 120000 with CoreVoltageTarget at 1000. These are the minimum values. No problems with this...but if it ever does occur again, will up the voltage to 1.2 as some suggested.
I think the target of 157mhz core with low mem and voltage settings when using 2D is too low for my system (or my card). Since I'm using 1080p. And noticed it occurs when I have many things running at the same time, like multiple browsers with flash, multiple gadgets running animations, while watching a 1080p video.
Though I haven't had any problems since, I do wish this would be fixed in a driver update.
Micharus:
No problems so far, but then I haven't 'unlocked' the 'Overdrive' option.
At this point I don't think I'll need to use the overclocking utility, most of the games I have just don't need as much power as the HD5770 already has.
Installed 'Need For Speed: Underground' for a few laughs last night and discovered that the graphics are pretty nice.....with everything turned on.
It's the first time I've been able to play the game with *all* of the bells and whistles cranked up, without having the game slowdown in the graphically intensive areas.
As for the 'striped screen' I haven't seen that, I probably will eventually.
The driver 're-set' is actually mentioned in CCC, not sure exactly where, but I have seen something that refers to it.
kostya:
--- Quote from: Micharus on April 16, 2010, 01:32:26 AM ---Turns out it was Zone Alarm Security Suite at fault.
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You got off lucky. I tired to install ZA firewall on my current machine and it caused compatibility issues with my graphics drivers. I was lucky that I had a second card in the machine because it is always fun when you reboot your computer and one of your displays does not come on. Fun hour of debugging to try to figure out how I broke my driver before I thought to try to uninstall the firewall and found that to be the issue.
Klocknov:
--- Quote from: kostya on April 22, 2010, 04:50:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: Micharus on April 16, 2010, 01:32:26 AM ---Turns out it was Zone Alarm Security Suite at fault.
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You got off lucky. I tired to install ZA firewall on my current machine and it caused compatibility issues with my graphics drivers. I was lucky that I had a second card in the machine because it is always fun when you reboot your computer and one of your displays does not come on. Fun hour of debugging to try to figure out how I broke my driver before I thought to try to uninstall the firewall and found that to be the issue.
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Sounds like what happened to me when I tried to install the newest update to Comodo on my other machice. Also had the same problem with ZA awhile back and that is ultimately what pushed me away from them.
Micharus:
Well, in defense of ZA, I have been using it as a firewall for a number of years now, both the 'free' version and the 'paid for' version and have only had problems with it twice.
The first time it was killing my 'net connection of a regular basis, literally turning it off, but it wasn't making the computer do anything else, so it wasn't a major problem and a 'roll back' fixed it.
The second time was the one I just experienced and this was probably the worst by far, as it actually cost me money.
I took the computer back to get it tested.
Of course they didn't hook it up to the 'net, so it didn't crash and they were testing the hardware which came through with flying colors.
Thank god they only hit me for $55 (Australian).
A 'roll back' to the previous version of ZA also fixed this problem.
Two problems in a half a dozen years? Not a bad record I'd say, seeing as most games that come out require a patch or something to fix flaws in them ;)
Guess who is going to be keeping the setup files for several version of ZA safely tucked away on a CD somewhere...
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