Any ideas why I would be getting poor FPS in Watchdogs and BF4.

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I have an 8350 @ 4.5GHz paired with a Gigabyte 7970. I am averaging around 20-30 FPS on ultra in both titles. I was just informed that this is not the norm. I should bet getting closer to 60.

Anyone have any ideas why this would be happening? The 7970 is still under warranty, so if that is the problem, I can send it back. I'm pretty sure I have the latest drivers, but I'm not to familiar with them other than downloading the latest one, install it and go.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
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http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/downloads.html

download this. run it in the recommended safe mode cleaning. if you had an nvidia card installed before, run it for nvidia too. then reinstall whatever amd catalyst version you want. im not up to date on amd catalyst drivers, i never had any problems running the latest betas so thats what i would do.

then we can rule out any driver conflicts.

you should easily be at well above 50fps in bf4 maxed out 1080p in a 64man server
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http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/downloads.html

download this. run it in the recommended safe mode cleaning. if you had an nvidia card installed before, run it for nvidia too. then reinstall whatever amd catalyst version you want. im not up to date on amd catalyst drivers, i never had any problems running the latest betas so thats what i would do.

then we can rule out any driver conflicts.

you should easily be at well above 50fps in bf4 maxed out 1080p in a 64man server
 
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ZZZZ, man do you know AMD PRO? http://www.radeonpro.info/
There is also a youtube video of it on how to optimize your game. I can`t give you a link though, just search it on youtube.

You can lock your FPS into 60 and you will be "man I`m so stupid I did not know this."
 
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Alright, thanks. I'm trying out that link now.
 
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Admitting the we tend to be idiots sometimes is a good thing. It`s a piece of knowledge that if you know how to utilize will lead you into better results.

Search on youtube on how to use it.

It is mainly locking your FPS and setting standards that your GPU supports.
 
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Ok, so I ran it and scored a 1708. Is that close enough to 2000 or do you think something is wrong?
 
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my old 7950(r9-280) got me a best score of 1964 with a 1175mhz core clock and 1575mhz mem clock. im not sure what your 7970 is clocked at so its hard to tell. if your running like 850mhz core, then that could explain your score.

what is the core clock?

you should also run msi afterburner and let its hardware monitor log the performance while you run the valley benchmark. after the benchmark is done, look at the monitor graph and see if it is reporting that your core clock is holding the advertised core speed steady(or whatever core clock you have the card running). the graph should show a solid steady line, not a jaggy line indicating throttling of the core clocks which could be caused by a number of things.

a few other parameters like gpu temp and its power state you can look it. if the card is getting to a high core temp, above 80c i would guess, it might be throttling. though your card shouldn't be hitting near 80c unless you have a fairly aggressive overclock.
 
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Core clock of 1000 with memory at 1400. The highest temps I have noticed was 63C. I have attempted a bit of an overclock with MSI afterburner. I was able to get 1060 core with 1450 memory before shut downs. I am not able to adjust the voltages even after enabling "voltage control" in the settings. So I just set the power limit to +20.

I ran the valley benchmark with msi afterburner hardware monitor log. It showed the GPU performing both core clock and memory clock at what I had it set to. It also showed %99 usuage at 63C max.

So it seems like it is a poor performing card? I might try to overclock it more to see if that helps any. Otherwise I might try sending it back since it is still warranted.
 
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