Framerate issue with a 7970

Andq1

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Hello people, now first of i already did alot of tests and everything seems to be like it should, but i promise you its not.
Im having really bad framerate issues in some games, such as call of duty, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Sim city 5 and for the rest of my games its OK, but not as good as i should be.

Temperatures is all fine, i got good airflow and 37C* idle and about 60C* under load. While playing the card runs at 98% load, and the clocks are as its supposed to.
Also in 3Dmark im getting what im supposed to, but lets be honest 22 fps in Simcity 5 on high, 18 fps in cities in ETS2, 45-55fps in call of duty and i could continue. So my first guess would be a driver issue, so i followed the guide i got on Sapphire's Forum, with cleaning all drivers and installing them again, but with no result. I just got a new harddrive, a WD Black 7200, but the lagg we're on the old harddrive aswell, i've installed the following drivers.

AMD Drivers 13.1
PhysX
DirectX11

That is pretty much the drivers you need right? My system is also fully updated with Windows Update.

Any thoughts on how to fix it? Its very appreciated as its going on my nerves for about 2 months now. And no, its not the card thats bad. Just when i got the card, i RMA it because of poor performance. But the poor performance is here aswell on the new one, and what is the chances that they're both we're bad.

Thanks alot ~Andq1
 

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PhysX is required to play quite a few modern games, and no AMD cards dont have PhysX intergreated into the GPU, but it is compatible, its just running of the CPU, which not is a problem.
 
with a 7970 you should be getting much better performance than that. drivers could be an issue but to be honest that's very set-up specific so I would try rolling back to slightly older ones and see if it fixes the problem.

as for PhysX, you're correct in saying that it's running on your CPU, but ferrengottu has a point too. what CPU do you have? maybe it's actually your CPU that's bottlenecking your 7970
 
Sorry guys, none of those games are PhysX games.

I would update your drivers to something in the 13.2 family. Do a clean install by uninstalling the old drivers through the Windows Control Panel, restart, then install the latest. Make sure you have reasonable settings in the Catalyst Control Panel, like turn off Supersampling for example.
 

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Nope i have a decent internet connection, and its a FPS problem not a connection problem, as said before matto, i've already did a fully re-installation and cleaning of drivers as sapphire told me. Anyways your comments is appreciated.
 

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Ofcourse,
CPU: Intel i7 2600k
GPU: You know.'
PSU: Corsair GS700w
motherboard: Asus P8z68 V-LX
HDD: WD black 7200 RPM 1TB
RAM: Kingston HyperX Genesis PnP 4x2 GB

I think thats it.
Temps are also very good, and its not overheating / underclocking.
 

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Yeah im afraid thats the truth, thanks for you replies im going to contact sapphire.
Your help was appreicated, -andq1
 

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Hey just to let you know if you have the same problem, i forgot to install the motherboard drivers, and therefore it didnt regonize my card and couldent use it right.
 

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Thanks alot, im feeling reborn, lol. Your help was appreciated anyways.