7970 stuttering on games now

I've had my 150EM for about a month now with only a few minor issues, but recently any games I play will on occasion suffer from stutter lag. D3 is perhaps the biggest culprit here in which I get massive graphical lag upon zoning in and large mob waves, Skyrim is also seeing some of this but to a less noticeable effect.
Now I know the 7970 should be able to run both of the at max without so much as a hiccup, I'm running on the same stock website drivers that Sager released on their website and it's been fine for a while. My temps also seem fine maxing out in the mid 70's usually so what gives?

Also after monitoring MSI Afterburner it would seem my GPU utilization has started to vary wildy from 99 down to mid 60's, whereas it used to sit consistently at 99 on D3.

 

Mine has suddenly started doing it too on my M17x R4 - temps never go above 69C.

Nobody has responded to my thread since yesterday, though.

You aren't alone in these frustrations though, dude.

 

I'm not too sure, but it seems to me that perhaps it might be a good idea to leave the overclocks for benchmark enthusiast rather than everyday work.

If this issue occurs when no overclock has been done, then it might be something to do with vsync or something like that?

 

My card is completely stock, I have no interest in overclocking which is why I spent the extra $$ for a very powerful card. I am just baffled as to why it would start acting up like this, I don't think it's drivers since I havent changed them. I will be extremely displeased if I have to return this for repair this early in the ownership cycle..........30-days has passed so no RMAing either.

Odd thing though that a short time before this started my screen had also starting flashing when I logged into the desktop, I asked my reseller about it but never got a response and have been just too busy with work to get back to him.

 

Hey, what about the Enduro issue?

If you haven't done so already, try disabling Enduro (I have no idea how, though, perhaps in the AMD's CCC), restart and try again.

 

He is using a Clevo and Enduro cannot be disabled in the Clevos. What drivers are you using? I suppose the stock drivers that came with your purchase? I would suggest you to update them to the 12.7 beta.

AMD Catalyst 12.7 BETA (8.981.2 June 12) - Guru3D.com Forums

My frnd in the US is currently running these on my laptop and he hasnt reported any issues so far.

 

Those are leaked 12.7. You can get the official 12.7 straight from amd. Only install the display driver tho

 

mmmm i a bit wary of amd beta drivers, i already had to reinstall windows the day after i got this thing cuz of a botched driver install..............i'm not very computer savy so unless it's in a nice pre-packaged install kit I avoid it.