Crysis 3, Crysis 2 problems

I'm having issues with BOTH games running in full screen. It seems to run fine and run at a solid framerate when idle, but when I click on the window or fullscreen it, bam the framerate goes down to 15-20fps even on the menus.

It seems to cut power when I click on the game itself after it opens up. It runs COMPLETELY fine when the game is idle and I don't touch it, but when I click on the screen with the mouse, the power seems to be cut and seems to slow down and lag. I'm running on 13.3 Beta 3 drivers, and they worked fine before.

 

BUMP.. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Are you attempting to game while running on the battery or using the "Power saver" profile?

A good gaming experience is only possible connected to AC power with the "High performance" or "Balanced" power profile active.

 

Sounds like enduro?

 

Yeah.. that's what I'm thinking ratchet. However it's only in 7970m mode through fn+f7. I've checked the power saving through windows, through CCC, it's all set to maximum performance. I tried enabling the games manually too, no dice. It runs fine like I said, when I open the game and don't click on anything. But when I do, it's like it snaps into enduro mode.

EDIT: I posted a video of the problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NDsH918yGg

 

I've done everything just about now.. been messing with them since last night around 8pm. I'm about to throw the computer out the window.

I have followed the 40 step uninstallation for the drivers with ccleaner, and even used driver sweeper. reset, uninstalled through device manager: Wiped out registry through regedit. Deleted from amd folders in C: directory and user directories. Reinstalled driver. The driver is FINE. Works fine on other games. Just not Crysis 2, 3 , or sonic adventure (Crysis 3 and Sonic Adventure were working fine before it randomly started doing this). It was doing this before.. and I don't remember what I did to fix it. Though I feel I shouldn't have to keep doing this every 2 weeks. I tried rolling back drivers and the performance still suffers. I don't know what's going on, I don't feel it's Enduro doing this as it's disabled and only running on 7970m mode. Yes ALL power sources are on high performance.

 

Has it ever worked? if it did then try a system restore.
If it has never worked try a Windows installation or AlienRespawn.

 

Try pulling the psu lead and putting back in? Maybe it thinks it's still in battery mode?

Are the clock speeds right in gpu-z when running the game?

 

Not sure how to work with that and report the correct speeds.. I'd have to learn. I've tried that, it didn't work. I found the issue: It was my logitech g700 mouse when plugged in through usb mode.

I unplugged it, wallah, another 10-15fps and my speeds are back to around 30-35fps in Crysis 3. Crysis 2 I was having issues as well, I dragged my microsoft x360 drivers (for the controller emulation), bam starting working.

 

You can actually watch it right on your screen to see how the GPU is behaving if you set this up... http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...mperatures-game-benchmark-screen-display.html < basic instructions are in the opening post. If all you want to look at for this issue is the GPU, the OSD part of MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X (without the CPU reporting from HWiNFO64) will report that information.

Have you tried totally disabling Enduro in the BIOS so that PEG (discrete graphics) is the only option that works?

 

Are you by any chance running it on an HDTV ??