Double post.
Well I jinxed myself. On a new play test even with the MSI Afterburner in effect, the framerate in .hack GU 3 got so bad (19 fps) that it was completely unplayable. And that was with the core clock at 1001 and the memory clock at 1307.
With the old card, frame rates no matter where I was in the game NEVER reduced below 45 fps and that was only in combat in brief moments. More often than not I had a nice stable 58-60 fps frame rate.
So to go from mostly stable speeds in most games with the older card to what I've been experiencing now I'm not prepared to continue with so I'll be returning the card and going with an nvidia as emulation is one of my main past times, being a player of snes, ps1, ps2 etc games via emulation. Which I'm not prepared to sacrifice just so my PC games play better solely. I just hope that they allow me to do the switch since they have a "only entitled to a refund if the product is faulty" policy. And with a ps2 emulator being my only issue I'll have to think of something.
Luckily the card was giving me blue screens when I first got it (resource conflict with my sound card which I had to switch to a different PCI slot) and a couple more even after I fixed that. Though none since I updated the catalyst drivers. I just hope that the more recent nvidia cards work fine straight out of the box and don't require any overclocking to get normal speeds with, otherwise I'll be back to square one again.
Well I jinxed myself. On a new play test even with the MSI Afterburner in effect, the framerate in .hack GU 3 got so bad (19 fps) that it was completely unplayable. And that was with the core clock at 1001 and the memory clock at 1307.
With the old card, frame rates no matter where I was in the game NEVER reduced below 45 fps and that was only in combat in brief moments. More often than not I had a nice stable 58-60 fps frame rate.
So to go from mostly stable speeds in most games with the older card to what I've been experiencing now I'm not prepared to continue with so I'll be returning the card and going with an nvidia as emulation is one of my main past times, being a player of snes, ps1, ps2 etc games via emulation. Which I'm not prepared to sacrifice just so my PC games play better solely. I just hope that they allow me to do the switch since they have a "only entitled to a refund if the product is faulty" policy. And with a ps2 emulator being my only issue I'll have to think of something.
Luckily the card was giving me blue screens when I first got it (resource conflict with my sound card which I had to switch to a different PCI slot) and a couple more even after I fixed that. Though none since I updated the catalyst drivers. I just hope that the more recent nvidia cards work fine straight out of the box and don't require any overclocking to get normal speeds with, otherwise I'll be back to square one again.
Old habits die hard - System Shock