AMD Radeon 6970 problem

[mjjones27]

I do not know my exact setup but...

GPU: HIS AMD Radeon 6970
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor
Gigabyte motherboard
8 GB OCZ gaming ram
850W gaming PSU

I got the 6970 as a Christmas present. The only game I currently play is World of Warcraft and it has been running fine until this past week. I have made no changes to my hardware but I did download the new catalyst drivers, I believe 11.10.


Normally my FPS are at around 70-90, however, in the same place and same environment in the game my FPS will drop to 10-20 for about 3 minutes and then pull back out.

I checked my temperatures and my CPU is about 34 and GPU is about 45-50C so it does not seem like a temperature issue.

Can someone help please, its frustrating....

 

[mjjones27]

Also my settings are on "Good" and have remained the same in WOW since December.

 

[ilysaml]

latest CCC is 11.9, 11.10 was a preview driver. Uninstall the current pack and download the latest official from AMD and see how it goes...

 

[mjjones27]

^ I was using 11.08 and seemed to never have a problem. I updated to 11.09 and it seemed that the frame rates were dropping while I had 11.09 but I can not directly relate them to drivers. I downloaded the 11.10 preview drivers last night but have not tested them out. When I get off work I will play and see if the FPS still drop. Is there some type for log that I can do and post in here to enable a better way of people recognizing the problems or cancelling others out.

 

[ilysaml]

log for what ?

 

[mjjones27]

I guess my graphics running while in game

 

[ilysaml]

Download MSI Afterburner, in the ON SCREEN tab you can set the values to record the GPU usage, FPS, Temps