UPDATE: Running flash video whilst playing games caused high-performance mode to not activate on my 7950, when I do not have flash video running it activates just fine and I can get the frames per second in games that I should be getting. There is two possible fixes for the flash video, 1) you can stop watching flash video entirely whist playing games or 2) you can right click flash video and click disable hardware acceleration, either will allow high-performance mode to be activated when you are playing a game. I hope this helps anyone else who was having this problem.
I purchased a MSI 7950 (this one to be exact: http://www.msi.com/product/vga/R7950-2PMD3GD5-OC.html ) shortly after it came out. I am using it to run a dual monitor setup. Recently, I have noticed that while playing games, it does not activate high-performance (3D) mode for gaming. For example, I am playing Diablo 3 right now on my first monitor, and the GPU clock is only 501MHz when I have this cards core overclocked to 930MHz. I have had this problem with both Catalyst 12.4 and the Catalyst 12.6 beta driver. I have ran CCLeaner before and after each install/uninstall and it does not help. Does anyone know why this could be? Is there any way I can force it to run in high-performance mode, or any way to fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I purchased a MSI 7950 (this one to be exact: http://www.msi.com/product/vga/R7950-2PMD3GD5-OC.html ) shortly after it came out. I am using it to run a dual monitor setup. Recently, I have noticed that while playing games, it does not activate high-performance (3D) mode for gaming. For example, I am playing Diablo 3 right now on my first monitor, and the GPU clock is only 501MHz when I have this cards core overclocked to 930MHz. I have had this problem with both Catalyst 12.4 and the Catalyst 12.6 beta driver. I have ran CCLeaner before and after each install/uninstall and it does not help. Does anyone know why this could be? Is there any way I can force it to run in high-performance mode, or any way to fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.