Erratic Frame Rate Issues

iitzstevo

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I have a Radeon HD 7850 2GB. I have some small issues with other games, but the biggest offender is Diablo 3. At its worst, my FPS will hit 5 even with nothing heavy on the screen. At best, I get too much stuttering and microstuttering to be considered normal.

Weird thing is, alt-tabbing and re-opening seems to sort of "reset" my FPS, until it eventually drops again. I notice the it happens the most upon entering a new area. i.e. I open Diablo, rush into an area, and my FPS just hits the floor.

I don't see a way to post my DxDiag or MSInfo (Blizzard customer support wanted to see this), but if anyone wants more info I would be more than happy to give you whatever info you need to make a creative guess. I am sick of this...
 
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Try it.

It might be the best solution for you, and games might not lag anymore.

Also if you cant try softpedia for some older drivers.

iitzstevo

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I have done a clean reinstall of drivers 3 times now. Even down to deleting old hidden AMD files, cleaning up registries, everything.

Should I do it again?
 

Bassim Ansari

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Using Driver Sweeper ?
It's no good uninstalling and installing by self.

If you've done all that, you might want to re install drivers that are a bit older than the newer ones.

You can find most old drivers at filehippo


 

iitzstevo

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I used the AMD Catalyst uninstaller then I manually did the rest using a nice tutorial.

How far back should I go with the drivers?

 

iitzstevo

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All of their drivers are for Vista or XP. I found a page for it on AMD's website but it was all Linux... I'm using Windows 7. I can't find the disc that came with my GPU.
 

Bassim Ansari

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Try it.

It might be the best solution for you, and games might not lag anymore.

Also if you cant try softpedia for some older drivers.
 
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