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Decreased performance after enabling unofficial overclocking in MSI Afterburner

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September 8, 2014 9:53:43 AM

So, long story short - my friend bought a new GPU and gave me his old Gigabyte 7850 1 GB. After installing it and testing it (it worked just fine), I managed to pull around 58 - 71 fps while playing BF4 at a combination of High/Medium, which I was fine with.
However, after reading up a bit more about the card I noticed that this model was supposedly very good to overclock, so I decided to give it a go. After enabling the unofficial OCing in AB (which would let me go from a 1050mhz coreclock to 1120), the GPU starting crashing as soon as I even just opened a youtube video (the bottom half of the screen would go black and the rest would just show gibberish). What is interesting to note was that this started happening before I had even applied any overclocks.
I had read that enabling unofficial OCing could potentially introduce issues and instability, so I figured that I had to settle with a lower clock, and disabled it. After having done that and rebooted my PC, I started out by upping the power limit to +20% and the core clock from 860 mhz to 900 in AB. At first, just starting BF4 didn't show any problems, but as soon as the game had finished loading (I was tabbed out) my PC went into super slow mode. This is when I also noticed that my GPU was pulling roughly 20 fps on my high/medium combo, and after lowering it to the absolute lowest settings I was pulling a stuttery mesh of 25 - 45 fps. Figuring that I was simply unlucky and had a model that didn't want to OC at all, I reverted everything back to regular settings, and while the GPU started behaving a lot better I have still lost a good ~20 - 30 fps from what it was originally doing. Playing on absolute low will yield me up to 100 FPS, but it frequently jumps down to below 60. Playing on my high/medium combo gives me around 40 FPS.

Also, fraps is not showing the FPS counter anymore. It just crashes and whines about DX 9 not working properly, or something along those lines.

Anybody that have any ideas if my GPU is permanently dented (not having touched any values initially I have to admit it would suck major ass if that was the case) or if there is something I can do about this?

And no, temps are not the issue. I've checked them.

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a b K Overclocking
September 8, 2014 10:16:58 AM

uninstall software then restart. both fraps and MSI AB

reinsstall your direct x from microsoft

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September 8, 2014 11:07:57 AM

fkr said:
uninstall software then restart. both fraps and MSI AB

reinsstall your direct x from microsoft



Did this (except the DX part, how do I reinstall that?), and it did not help. On the other hand I just tested CS:GO and noticed that I was pulling my usual FPS. Borderlands 2 seems to be running just fine as well. So I'm guessing this now is an issue related to either DX or BF4.
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a b K Overclocking
September 8, 2014 1:47:25 PM

Virkan said:
fkr said:
uninstall software then restart. both fraps and MSI AB

reinsstall your direct x from microsoft



Go to Google and search Microsoft DirectX download. You should see the runtime installer.




Did this (except the DX part, how do I reinstall that?), and it did not help. On the other hand I just tested CS:GO and noticed that I was pulling my usual FPS. Borderlands 2 seems to be running just fine as well. So I'm guessing this now is an issue related to either DX or BF4.


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