Canadeon
Deadspace Theory
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Posted - 2012.10.12 06:49:00 -
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Hey all, I wanted to contribute to this thread of stress!!!!
I currently run:
AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A97 Evo Motherboard
Sapphire AMD RADEON HD 7970 (primary x16 slot)
Sapphire AMD RADEON HD 7870 (secondary x16 slot - x4 mode i presume)
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM (1600MHz)
Windows 7 X64 -fully updated
2x 1TB HDD
1x OCZ Vertex 4 SSD
3 monitors
The reason I have that is because I replaced this trying to diagnose my driver crashes:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 Motherboard
Nvidia GTX 570 SOC (I sent it back for RMA twice, got brand new cards both times... so THREE GTX 570 SOCs have been tried)
8GB Kingston value RAM
rest SHOULD BE irrelevant...
I have tried formatting, reinstalling windows, motherboard drivers, and video drivers (on both AMD cards and Nvidia).
I have disabled/enabled all bios settings, tried all bios versions, all driver versions for my video cards (Both AMD and Nvidia).
I can run 1 client of Eve fine, although i will see white spots and artifacts here and there, no crashing tho.
2 clients - sometimes OK, sometimes video crashes...
I play World of Tanks. This game crashes EVERY time if I have Eve loaded - to a point where I need to power off the computer and restart.
I can play XCOM: Enemy Unknown just fine with Eve, although both must be full screen windowed, otherwise if I minimize one and restore, i get artifacts.
I have even had the drivers crash 3 times in a row right after a fresh reboot of windows.
I can run BF3 flawlessly for several hours...
It seems to be a problem with utilizing multiple tasks that require video card's attention... I have searched for MONTHS and spent $1000 diagnosing this BS, and NO ONE knows the solution... I am thoroughly convinced it is a Windows problem. They would NEVER admit it, but i think Microsoft is the culprit.
About a year and a half ago, I NEVER had this problem, so some update since then has ROYALLY F*CKED UP our stuff.
I can tolerate a few bugs here and there, but I did NOT spend $1500 on a computer to have it crash constantly for over a year! It is not CCPs fault, however, maybe CCP can help us little guys by informing the BIG guys that we are having issues. If these problems continue much longer, I am gonna pack up the computer and go console gaming, because this is just ridiculous. And of course, if we ditch computers for consoles, CCP will lose big money - hence why they should be VERY concerned that their customers are having problems with hardware that is supposed to run Eve flawlessly - on MULTIPLE clients, EVEN if it is not their fault. |