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Greate Haule
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Posted - 2009.10.03 22:03:00 -
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I was previously using a 4850 and never had any trouble, but now after upgrading to a 5870 the game regularly freezes (about every 30 seconds) and is stalled for about 15 seconds each time, making it virtually unplayable. After the display has reset I get a little warning popup in the system tray saying "device stopped responding and has recovered". I've got the latest drivers from ATI, and tried setting everything to minimal detail & resolution but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Occasionally after a display reset the right hand edge of the screen displays corruption, which goes away after I close the game and go back to the desktop.
I don't think it's a hardware fault, all my other games are working great and I've been stress-testing it on Cryis Warhead (both DX9 and DX10) and Stalker and the like, no problems anywhere else. Temps for CPU, RAM, mobo, and graphics are all fine according to various motherboard utils, bios readings, and CCC. Nothings overclocked. I've tried clearing the cache and even completely removed Eve and reinstalled it. Anyone else using a 5870 without trouble on Vista or Windows 7? I guess if it's a driver issue there might be other people seeing it.
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Processor: Intel i7 920 Memory: 6Gb RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c Video Card: Ati 5870 1024Mb Video Driver: ATI Display Driver 8.66RC6 (tried with and without catalyst control centre installed, didn't make a difference)
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Lork Niffle
Gallente External Hard Drive
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Posted - 2009.10.03 22:13:00 -
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Ok seeing that this is the first reports of the 5870 i'll have to give every piece of advice.
Ensure that interval is set to One in the EVE menu. Ensure you are using 24bit colour. Delete your cache folders manually.
Unistall and reinstall the 8.66RC drivers fresh.
They are still RC so no real help if they are the fault. Maybe on a long shot try the latest regular ones for the 4890.
If you have another system that can use the 5870 try it one that with a fresh image of the OS then install the drivers for the first time off the CD.
If none of that works, it's either a hardware issue or drivers. Both you'll have to wait for the next cycle to be released.
If you have a spare PCI-E slot install your 4870 in it and use that as the main GPU for EVE and the 5870 for everything else assuming your PSU supports it. ------------------------------------- Don't click the links or even the forum topics. |
Greate Haule
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Posted - 2009.10.03 22:36:00 -
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Hey Niffle, thanks for the quick reply. I've already tried many combinations of graphics settings, including those you suggest (I went back and tried again just to make sure). I've also uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers a couple times (both the ones from ATI website and the ones that came on the CD with the graphics card), and completely deleted the Eve folder and reinstalled, none of which made any difference.
I'm afraid I don't have another system to try the card in. I'm dualbooting the windows 7 RTM off technet and tried there but that's showing the exact same issue.
It certainly does seem like a hardware/driver issue, except for the fact that everything else I throw at it works fine. There must be something Eve is doing that even Crysis doesn't do :) (Not saying Eve is doing something wrong, necessarily, but maybe something funny that the drivers don't yet handle very well) If you have any more suggestions I'm eager to give em a shot anyway.
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Greate Haule
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Posted - 2009.10.03 22:41:00 -
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Just going to try the 4890 drivers now like you suggest, I'll let you know what happens. I'm not hopeful as most graphics card drivers are unified packages containing drivers for all versions of hardware together, so it might end up using the same thing, but it's worth a shot.
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Graslik
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Posted - 2009.10.07 19:06:00 -
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Not familiar with the 5870 but I have the factory water cooled 4870 with 1 gig of DDR 5 memory and my first advice would be to buy Nvidia if your ATI dies. Second don't overclock more than a small dab. I also have better luck running just the basic AMD.com Display Driver only as Eve doesn't play well with CCC. Avoid the 9.9 drivers as the AMD techs have told me they are buggy. Good luck. You'll need it. Wish to God someone would come out with a fix to make ATI cards really compatable with Eve. |
Lork Niffle
Gallente External Hard Drive
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Posted - 2009.10.07 20:22:00 -
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Everything below the 4890 core is perfect for EVE. Even the 4770 is fine. The latest 9.9 work for for the 4xxx and below.
The latest 190 nVidia drivers are having issues though.
The issue here is that the 5870 still has RC drivers. AMD has not quite yet released the final issue of the first gen 5xxx core. And it seems to teh OP that only EVE has an issue, probably others but those have not yet appeared. The 5xxx series can also be easily overclocked from it's 4.8GHz to well over 5GHz. ------------------------------------- Don't click the links or even the forum topics. |
Greate Haule
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Posted - 2009.10.09 07:42:00 -
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Hey just thought I'd post a quick update. As stated I haven't overclocked any part of my system at all, though as a general point you're right it's not a great idea to overclock too much anyway :) Since posting I've had a similar problem once or twice in Lord of the Rings Online, and even in Internet Explorer (but just once). I entered a bug on the Eve bugs site but it was shut down immediately saying it was a driver issue (of course they can't know that for sure but it seems the most likely reason). It was getting a bit too unstable for my liking so I've returned the card for a refund and gone back to my 4850 which works fine.
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Ravinus Brown
Gallente Cosmic Communion for Retrosocialist Revolution
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Posted - 2009.10.16 09:25:00 -
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I have had exactly the same problem with my 4870. Although not in Eve. What helped me was downclock to my graphics card... which is kinda dumb, but i helps. I suggest you should try that. 20MHz in core clock should probably do it.
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Graslik
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Posted - 2009.10.18 11:38:00 -
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Guy. You can say everything below the 4890 is great for Eve but you haven't fought with my 4870 that ATI replaced and still locks up HARD several times a day. Getting a 4890 and praying for better results. And yes cut off AA and ATI Catalyst and Anisotropic as much as possible.
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Jojo Redana
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Posted - 2009.10.19 12:11:00 -
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Anyone else using the new ATI 5800-cards? Anyone else having these kind of problems? Anyone running 5800-series card and not having problems?
It's just i'm getting my new ATI 5850 next week. |
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Nebula Setting
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Posted - 2009.10.19 12:42:00 -
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I'm now having the same problem with 'g/c has stopped responding and has recovered' since upgrading to a new pc, though I'm running two nvidia 9600 GSO with SLI and Vista (64 bit). No problems with single player games only MMO. Browsed the Nvidia forum and found the same problem occuring with WOW and others but not much in solutions. I finally resolved the issue by disabling the physX GPU acceleration and the SLI. Why this is I have no idea but it stopped the crashing.
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xxxak
Caldari No Limit Productions Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2009.10.19 18:57:00 -
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I have an ATI Diamond 5870 with reference drivers and it works perfectly.
I had a tiny bit of graphical tearing in Cysis, but eve is perfect.
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Greate Haule
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Posted - 2009.10.30 13:53:00 -
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Originally by: xxxak I have an ATI Diamond 5870 with reference drivers and it works perfectly.
I had a tiny bit of graphical tearing in Cysis, but eve is perfect.
Which OS are you using? XP, Vista, 7? 32 or 64 bit?
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Zaiyo Modi
Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.10.30 21:04:00 -
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The latest drivers for Radeon 5800 series are the latest Catalyst 9.10 (ten for october).
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
I suggest using the software "Driver Cleaner" to clean out registry keys after an unintsall, then reboot and do a fresh install of catalyst drivers.
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