I've been running an AMD 6970 driving a Dell 30" monitor and up until recently it's been able to run older games and racing sims at 60fps without any trouble. Suddenly one day a few weeks ago I found that the framerates in some games had taken a sudden hit, to 30-40 fps. Afterburner indicated no apparent problems - GPU temp was fine, about 60, no throttling occurring, GPU load was a steady 99% in game. Virus and malware checks (Avira, Malwarebytes) came back clean, no unusual processes running. Running the 15.7.1 driver,
Tried to no effect:
- clean uninstall (tried both AMD and DDU tools for this) and reinstall of full CCC with 15.7.1
- uninstall of 15.7.1 and install of older CCC (14.12)
- install of latest Crimson package
I'd post a list of my running and stopped services but I can't upload an image here. I had not made any changes to these, but am wondering if the last huge Windows 7 update screwed something up.
Can anyone recommend any diagnostics or things to look for? Card is in the primary 16X slot on an Asus P8P67 WS Revolution mb. (I had 2 of these cards in Xfire for a few years but the mb slot for the secondary card died.)
Tried to no effect:
- clean uninstall (tried both AMD and DDU tools for this) and reinstall of full CCC with 15.7.1
- uninstall of 15.7.1 and install of older CCC (14.12)
- install of latest Crimson package
I'd post a list of my running and stopped services but I can't upload an image here. I had not made any changes to these, but am wondering if the last huge Windows 7 update screwed something up.
Can anyone recommend any diagnostics or things to look for? Card is in the primary 16X slot on an Asus P8P67 WS Revolution mb. (I had 2 of these cards in Xfire for a few years but the mb slot for the secondary card died.)
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