X1950xtx crossfire HELP!

I just installed both cards X1950XTX crossfire edition and crossfire ready.
The problem I'm having is when playing FEAR at 1680 x1050 with everything maxed out the game seems too stutter and lockup for a second every few seconds. I have install the newest driver for FEAR 1.8 and my V-card driver is current form the disk. I thought you were able to play FEAR at everything maxed with these cards. Is this right? ALso when playing Battlefield 2142 the main menu flickers. Oh by the way crossfire is enabled in the menu. Every other game runs great with those cards. I was able to get the second card $350 from www.microcenter.com special deal. Any help would be appreciated.

Specs:
intel D975X
E6600
Zalman 9500 cpu fan
crucial ballastix DDR2 800 2 gig kit
audigy 2ZS
74 gig raptor drives in RAID0 (2)
Antec NEO He 550 watt
X1950XTX in crossifre mode

Thanks

ye i would look to the newest drivers from the website. it would help if you said which version as anything less than 6.8 won't do. if the problems persist report back

yeah i think the engine used for fear likes nvidia cards , nevertheless your money was not wasted, the 1950xtx compares to the 7950gx2... oooooo
So what, you got the fastest ATI card ATM, thats good!!!!!! Not bad.... Or you could give the two to me and you can have my x700se

it should work with full settings, though fear is a graphical intensive game (though oblivion is even worse....)

latest BIOS?That might also help... If you haven't got it alredy


Latest drivers/BIOSes are cruicial really, every new release should bring a slight gain in performance, though they do release drivers that make a noticable difference to the computer sometimes...

ATI/AMD released an updated video card driver once a month, and I seriously doubt any retail graphic card purchased has a driver disc included printed and distributed in under one month.

Open up your CCC (Catalyst Control Center) in advanced view
then select Information Center, then click your Graphics Software...
Are you running Catalyst Version 6.9?

ATI Drivers

last time i checked yes. fear likes shaders. of course to get the benefit you need high res and high detail levels which you use im sure. if you look at reviews for instance make sure they are using res's like 16 x 12 and up and also everything maxed with AA and AF.

I was wondering a while ago why the 1900gt hurt performance because of its disabled pixel shader units, (36 instead of 48) and of course they are pixel quads...