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09-09-2008, 07:32 PM
Seems strange that when I had the card, I installed with 8.8 drivers and worked well for the night. It was awesome. The next day after a shutdown my video was whacked, as if the monitor identity got screwed and I couldn't see anything from any monitor (running dual monitors 22" and 24"). I had to reinstall the driver again and this started the problem that would just not go away....
Basically, to cut the long story short, when i ran wow in windowed mode it locked up the entire system. The OS didn't even take cues from the keyboard (err.. numlock,capslock.etc..). I had to hard bounce the system to get it back online. Same happens after i ran wow again. This isn't dependent on how many wow instances i run, could be one, two, or five w/e. I could almost lock it up consistently by switching from one wow to another. Time is not a factor too. Could be a few seconds to a couple of minutes, not longer than five though.
I kept trying and searching for an answer.. Nothing. Reinstallation of same driver didn't work and driver that came with the Sapphire card was worse - won't load in my system at all (even if i was using 64bit vista driver). Wiped OS and reinstalled driver still didn't help. Finally, i pulled the card out and in came a GTX260, installed the driver, bam. Works! Unisntalled 260 and reinstalled 4870X2 no worky. Pulled 4870X2 and installed gtx280, bam works again! I RMA'd the the 4870X2 and just stuck with the GTX280-BUT i love the 4870X2. It's got a great promise for when a stable driver comes out. For the time that it worked on my system, I would say it beat the 280 by as much as 50% in FPS (and unfortunately in heat too!heh). But, I just got tired of working through the problem after a couple of weeks. I gave up thinking it's a driver issue...
Anybody else experienced this issue. I'd like to get my hands back on the 4870X2 if I can confirm that it's not driver. Of course ATI support is like... I won't even go there.
EDIT: for gram errs
Basically, to cut the long story short, when i ran wow in windowed mode it locked up the entire system. The OS didn't even take cues from the keyboard (err.. numlock,capslock.etc..). I had to hard bounce the system to get it back online. Same happens after i ran wow again. This isn't dependent on how many wow instances i run, could be one, two, or five w/e. I could almost lock it up consistently by switching from one wow to another. Time is not a factor too. Could be a few seconds to a couple of minutes, not longer than five though.
I kept trying and searching for an answer.. Nothing. Reinstallation of same driver didn't work and driver that came with the Sapphire card was worse - won't load in my system at all (even if i was using 64bit vista driver). Wiped OS and reinstalled driver still didn't help. Finally, i pulled the card out and in came a GTX260, installed the driver, bam. Works! Unisntalled 260 and reinstalled 4870X2 no worky. Pulled 4870X2 and installed gtx280, bam works again! I RMA'd the the 4870X2 and just stuck with the GTX280-BUT i love the 4870X2. It's got a great promise for when a stable driver comes out. For the time that it worked on my system, I would say it beat the 280 by as much as 50% in FPS (and unfortunately in heat too!heh). But, I just got tired of working through the problem after a couple of weeks. I gave up thinking it's a driver issue...
Anybody else experienced this issue. I'd like to get my hands back on the 4870X2 if I can confirm that it's not driver. Of course ATI support is like... I won't even go there.
EDIT: for gram errs