Blackouts and flickering

[goon3r]

With my previous card (5850 1GB), I couldn't dare turn the GFX settings to all HIGH as the card would struggle rendering my eyefinity resolution.

 

Now that I have a 7950 I decided to bump the settings to HIGH and the card seems to be managing OK. I'm having 2 issues though, and I wanted to see if anybody had experienced anything similar.

 

1. Flickering: While taxing, usually just before I get to the runway, the top 1/3 of my screen (all 3 screens) starts flickering black. It doesn't happen every time and sometimes its pretty bad. Usually once I go to MAX rpm and start rolling it happens. I've tweaked the GFX settings but with no luck.

 

2. Blackouts: This happens at least once every mission. While I'm in the air usually, the game will just stick for about 3-5 seconds. Then it will recover and the whole screen will be black before entire sections start reappearing. I don't think its the GPU recovering so I'm wondering if its a memory issue.

 

I'm running the latest drivers for my card and just did a fresh install of W7 a few days ago.

 

Has anyone experienced anything similar to this ?

[Lane]

what driver exactly are you using ? AMD have release only one official driver so far for 7900, the 8.921 ( who have been released with a second version the 25/01 ) http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/RC11Driver.aspx

But it exist 2 different betas, the 8.951 and 8.932.... ( the second is for the CapVerde ( 7770 ) and Pitcain ( 7870 ) release and include offcourse the 7950-7970. its the one i test right now )

 

Anyway, does it happend too with a single monitor ? ( i dont have this bug but sadly cant test under Eyefinity too )

Edited February 11, 2012 by Lane

[goon3r]

Its actually happening both with a single screen and eyefinity. It also looks like it's not card specific either as I've been testing with my 5850 and its now happening with that card in addition to the 7950.

 

I'm also getting this warning in my event viewer with the 5850.

 

Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

 

This is all very weird since that card has been working fine all this time and I just did a fresh install of windows a week ago.

 

Gonna see if I can wipe all the AMD drivers on the system as this all seems very odd.

[Cedaway]

Goon3r: For the flickering issue, I've posted today this thread. It seems like GPU driver/graphic engine issue.