Poor eyefinity performance (Outside of games)

herboren

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Ok so yesterday this just started and not exactly sure. My eyefinity performance started decreasing, fps just dropped just being on my desktop, if I am in chrome or just mousing over text my fps drops and insane amount. Of course this also applies to games as well but outside of games just looking at my wallpaper is a bit strange.

I thought maybe it was a bad driver so I uninstalled all AMD products including chipset drivers and anything else AMD related like hydravision and profiles used in catalyst manager, after that I re-installed two (2) different versions of catalyst display driver. The stable 12 version and then the 13.4 version by catalyst. Still no success. So then I ran memtest86 to see if it was my memory, passed all tests on the memory. To no avail I could not find what the hell the matter was. So I took a drastic step by re-installing my operating system. Figured windows was the problem. Denied again still having the same problem after a clean install.

Bios has not been tampered with. I have no over clocking utilities installed. I'm running out of options and losing idea's. This is weird though. I configured my displays to disable the eyefinity when I only play games that don't support the eyefinity, and surprise surprise no lag, no fps drop in the game or just looking at my desktop.

Below are my specs so I hope I can get a definitive answer out of this:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 10/19/2013, 20:59:52
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
BIOS: BIOS Date: 10/20/10 09:47:36 Ver: 08.00.10
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4042MB RAM
Page File: 2137MB used, 5943MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode
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Display Devices
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Card name: AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x665C)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_665C&SUBSYS_04521043&REV_00
Display Memory: 2773 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1008 MB
Shared Memory: 1764 MB
Current Mode: 5760 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: P246HL
Monitor Id: ACR023F
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: P246HL
Monitor Id: ACR023F
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: P246HL
Monitor Id: ACR023F
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: HD15
Driver Name: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiu mdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll

Driver File Version: 8.17.0010.1230 (English)
Driver Version: 13.152.0.0
DDI Version: 11
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 8/30/2013 20:13:56, 1233080 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-251C-11CF-3D77-5824BEC2C535}
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x665C
SubSys ID: 0x04521043
Revision ID: 0x0000
Driver Strong Name: oem3.inf:ATI.Mfg.NTamd64.6.1:ati2mtag_R505:13.152.0.0:pci\ven_1002&dev_665c
 

herboren

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I think I may had resolved my issue. Turns out that it was a bad driver. I re-installed the drivers from the CD that came with my 7790. All is perfect no lag, nothin'. Mark thread as resolved and closed please. I guess I shant trust drivers from amd anymore at least the ones that aren't fully tested before release.