M17xR2 screen flickering and chopping

ok so my bios is on A10 version and my vbios is A01 and my CCC is 11.2 but in my games i getting chopping and the screen flickering. the graphics are good just flickers alot. what should i do.

 

What is your system configuration? What game are you playing? Is it flickering when you turn in the game? Or is when you standing still. Also what frame rate are you getting?

 

with 11.2 i found a little problem. If you change color settings under Desktop Management tab, you'll get flickering.

Try to do this: Under Desktop Management Tab > Desktop Color click on Reactivate AMD color control, set everything to "default".

If you want to change color settings do it through My Built in Display > Display Color.

This should solve the issue of flickering. Let me know

 

I have CF 5870s and a 740 processor. 4gb or ram. It is brand new I just got it Monday it showed up. Does it in all games. Although I logged on wow and it wasnt happening but it did happen in call of duty modern warfare 2 and in mx vs atv unleashed. Getting normal framerates. It's like when ur moving around all the sudden the picture starts chopping. And in mx vs atv reflex it looks like the picture starts to shake alittle. It's weird.

 

mmm are you playing with V-sync on or off? try to swich it on if it isn't.

 

i have it on and it still happens. its not so much of a flicker but its like the image chopping. when i play mx vs atv reflex it only happens at certain parts of tracks. and it happens every lap at the same spot. its weird. like right when i hit that spot the image cuts and chopped real fast then it goes back to normal.

 

here is what it is doing. sorry for quality did it on my iphone.

YouTube - M17x

 

and also in world of warcraft on high settings not ultra i am only getting like 30 fps. i dont think they should be that low.

 

ok so i tried unchecking enable crossfire and now i get double the fps in wow. what would this mean. does this mean maybe i have a bad secondary card or maybe its not plugged in all the way. cause in device manager it shows both. or does it mean by enabling it it is actually disabling. idk help me out there is also no more flickering with enable crossfire unchecked. so i am guessing its a bad card.

 

Well Crossfire is a setup that isn't highly accepted by alot of games or supported so you might have to play with a single GPU if you have the Flickering going on in games like Battlefield or Medal of Honor I'd be surprised, but I don't think you have a bad card.

 

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so you think i should try flashing my bios even though i have the lastest version then reintall my display drivers? but what would that have anything to do with the bad performance when crossfire is enabled?

 

Sometimes the flash didn't get everything, I'm tempted to actually revert I hope that's possible i don't know though, My brother has the R2 laptop and I'm trying to figure it out as well. When he hands over the laptop over the weekend I'll work and tinker it out and post my findings. We recently made the switch from 4870 to 5870 from Dell, but we're starting to regret the move, lol.

 

haha yea. well my laptop came with the newest A10 bios on it. i just got it 2 days ago. i tried flashing it again and no luck. still does it. and i get way good performance without cross fire

 

try installing the 10.2 catalyst drivers again

 

Afaik, with the last V-bios you cannot use driver previous to 10.6 (or 10.8, i don't remember well)

 

Ooops I meant 11.2

 

i have done it a couple times now and still no luck. gunna have to remove a card and try them individual one at a time.

 

I'm getting worried now about mine, lol.

 

yea i get really good performance running just one card. i just want to know for sure i dont have a bad card. but until then running one is just fine for me.

 

Disable Catalyst A.I. in the Catalyst Control Panel. Works every time.

 

Thank you sir. saved my life. this fixed it. thanks man.

 

If you disable it you can't use Crossfire.

 

are you sure on this?

 

Yes this is true it disables one card if you turn A.I off

 

then i guess my problem still exsist. when do you guys think i should do. with this on i get back performance and the screen flickers. i get like half the fps with crossfire enabled.

 

I'm having the same problems I was wondering if I open up my laptop and swap the cards, what could potentially happen? By swap I mean left to right, right to left. Thanks....

 

Well Alienware is sending me a new set of 5870's so hopefully this fixes the problem.

 

Interesting. I currently only have one game that exhibits the problem (Mafia II) and never stopped to benchmark the difference with Catalyst AI on or off as it evidently runs well both ways. It does appear that switching off Catalyst AI turns off Crossfire as well. That sucks....

 

Somehow I miss my 4870's, lol, they didn't exhibit this type of problem. I hope I get the 5870's figured out here shortly.

 

I had the same problem.
I called Dell and they replaced the 5780 slave card.
Then I reformatted the pc and installed the 11.2 drivers.
And in the mean time I've switched my 720 cpu to a 920XM

Now every game works perfect in Crossfire exept crysis and crysis2.
But Crysis isn't crossfire compatible, so I'm happy now

 

I can live with those results, but you never know if it's the Cable or the card.

 

They've replaced the card and the cable.