New Sapphire R9 285 Frame Drops/Bad Frames

divJ · Nov 8, 2014

I Purchased a Sapphire R9 285 Dual X a few days ago and I am not getting the desired performance from it.
In battlefield 4, the game runs fine for a few seconds and skips frames/sort of pauses for a second and then again runs fine for a few seconds and pauses and so on... the Fps is pretty bad too... as compared to the benchmarks I have seen.. about half the frames in the benchmarks is what I am getting.

In Rome 2 the I am getting 30~ Fps on Low and ~27 on Ultra which is very weird...

The Frame Skipping/Frame Drops take place in some other games as well which are single player..

I am not sure what is causing this and whether its because of the graphics card ..

My system is

AMD FX 6300 OC`d At 4300 Mhz
ASUS M5A78 M LX
Seasonic ECO 600
Corsair vengeance 4gb x 2

I ve noticed in my desktop widget that its not taking 100% load constantly... its usage is flickering from 100% to 0% and vice versa..

The Drivers are latest.. 14.9

The temps are fine.. it doesnt cross 50c .

What could be the problem ? Is it the graphics card ? Could it be anything else ?

Please help I am really worried.

Coolboy951 · Nov 9, 2014

Uninstall the drivers with DDU driver uninstaller follow instructions dont update when it tells you to something should pop up asking you to go to safemode click yes open the application in safemode than click uninstall and restart after that download the latest drivers

divJ · Nov 9, 2014

Coolboy951 :

I just started battlefield 4 and monitored the disk usage from task manager is 100% even after loading.. Is that a problem ?

divJ · Nov 9, 2014

Coolboy951 :

I just started battlefield 4 and monitored the disk usage from task manager is 100% even after loading.. Is that a problem ?

Coolboy951 · Nov 9, 2014

yes thats a problem get this software http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.php download it set it up and open it up and select everything(example,disk scan, malware and everything) than click scan after thats done repair it and restart your pc

divJ · Nov 9, 2014

Coolboy951 :

No.. no change .. still messed up performance..

Coolboy951 · Nov 9, 2014

Go to catlyst control center and make sure that the it not on supersampling and its on multisampling

divJ · Nov 9, 2014

Coolboy951 :

its NOT ******* on supersampling.

Coolboy951 · Nov 9, 2014

put it on multisampling than save

divJ · Nov 9, 2014

Coolboy951 :

I am sorry it wasnt on super .. it was on multi.. my bad

Coolboy951 · Nov 9, 2014

have your tried uninstalling the drivers with DDU driver uninstaller

divJ · Nov 10, 2014

Coolboy951 :

Yes did that when you told me ..... still the gpu keeps peaking(continuously) and so does the hard drive ( at times )..

Coolboy951 · Nov 10, 2014

see this video tutorial
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Sr1CgtO58

it may work for you

divJ · Nov 10, 2014

Coolboy951 :

No..... no effect..

Coolboy951 · Nov 10, 2014

call customer support than

divJ · Nov 10, 2014

Coolboy951 :

Of the graphics card or hard disk ?

divJ · Nov 10, 2014

Coolboy951 :

Hey i tried the heaven benchmark (1600x900/4xAA/Quality - Ultra/ Tesselation-Extreme) and my score was 1261 and avg fps was 50.1

here is a similar benchmark http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-Radeon-R9-285-GPU-Review-Tonga-Arrives/?page=3

does this mean that i can rule out the graphics card in this issue ?

I also tried a benchmark software called passmark and the ram results are pretty bad.. the latency is showing as 61 nanoseconds while according to their online info my ram should have latency of 25 nanoseconds.. .. so how do I check if the ram is ok.. I have tried memtest.. ran overnight and got 8 passes..

Coolboy951 · Nov 10, 2014

mhhm yeah this might be ram issue can you try the ram on diffrenet pc?

divJ · Nov 11, 2014

Coolboy951 :

No... i cant

what else can I do about it ?
Can problem in the hard disk lead to slow ram ?

Coolboy951 · Nov 11, 2014

take your ram out and the clean the slots buy blowing on the slots or using dust remover

divJ · Nov 11, 2014

Coolboy951 :

Hey i removed the heat sink on one of my corsair vengeance as my cooler wasnt fitting inside.. the heat sink had gotten loose anyway.. so .. could this affect the ram performance ?

divJ · Nov 12, 2014

Coolboy951 :

Done it.. no effect.. Tried memtest again.. got 6 passes in 12 hrs.. no errors.. pretty slow and it was showing my ram as DDR2 !!!?/
Its a corsair vengeance ddr3... astonishing !
I also tried using 1 module on 1 slot and then starting memtest.. on 1 slot it shows RAM : 800MHz (DDR1600) / CAS : 1-3-3-3 / DD2 (64 bits)
on the other one it shows RAM : 200 MHz (DDR400) / CAS : 1-3-3-3 / DDR2 (64 BITS)

same results using both modules on each slot.. Can you explain me this ..? and what should I do ?
CPU-Z shows the memory as DDR3 by the way

Coolboy951 · Nov 12, 2014

can you buy one stick of cheap ram to test it out? because that's the other best solutions you have if its not the ram than it must be the GPU

divJ · Nov 12, 2014

Coolboy951 :

Ok i ll try and give you an update on that.. meanwhile can you tell me how and why cpuz and memtest are showing different configs of the ram ?

divJ · Nov 15, 2014

Coolboy951 :

hey I changed the hdd.. still fps drops ...

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