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    Horrible Vantage Scores, why?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Ryan, Jun 25, 2010.

  1. Ryan

    Ryan NBR Moderator

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    What is wrong?

    CFX enabled, not in stealth mode, in high performance mode,

    catalyst 10.6 installed,

    what is wrong with my rig? not even hitting 6k in vantage.
     
  2. ttnuagmada

    ttnuagmada Notebook Evangelist

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    I was having real issues with 10.6 and crossfire. It seems as though there was no driver control over the 2nd GPU. To give an example, this is what my AMD Clock Tool thermal page looks like with 10.5's installed:

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    Yet no matter what methods i tried, this is always what would happen with 10.6:

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    I noticed a couple of things about it. 1: is that the 2nd GPU cannot be overclocked, and 2: the 2nd GPU would never kick up in speed whenever I would try to load a 3d program. I was getting aweful framerates in everything I tried. I ended up having to go back to 10.5
     
  3. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Not sure if this would work , you could try gpu-z to check of both gpu`s are being used, click the sensor tab.
     
  4. TheCodeBreaker

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    Those scores are way too low even if its just using one GPU, check the temps for both GPUs
     
  5. Ryan

    Ryan NBR Moderator

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    So this is the 10.6 problem?

    I don't know if I should uninstall the 10.6 and just give 10.3 or 10.5 a try.
     
  6. claxdog

    claxdog Notebook Evangelist

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    Its not 10.6
     

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    Gflyer1 Notebook Geek

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    I had the same results as you(vantage 6200). Install the catalyst profiles, reboot, and your good to go :) My vantage scores stock are 14000 now.
     
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    Thats weird, You shouldn't have to do that to begin with :err:
     
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    Gflyer1 Notebook Geek

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    Yeah, that was the issue for me. When i received my system, first thing i did was wipe the drive and replaced it with a new Intel 160gig SSD and reinstalled, but forgot the Cat profile installation. i then installed it and my lappy's happy :) .