• AMD Overdrive overclocking completely fucks up the screen after a while, is this normal?
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Hello again, I have a little itsy bitsy problem with AMD Overdrive. The last time I tried it Bad Company 2 just plain crashed if I tried to play with it activated on my 4850; now it's something much worse with my 6850. I tried overclocking my card with Catalyst and booted up Battlefield 3, and played for about 5 minutes. Nothing bad so far. But then THIS happens: ...uh, well, I couldn't get a screenshot. But imagine both halfs of the screen swapping places and having multiple horizontal grids which can be extremely confusing. Google Chrome also crashed. I'm not the most hardcore gamer out there, I only tried OC just to see how it worked, but I'd like to know if this behaviour is normal when the card's overclocked... incorrectly. Even though I used Catalyst. I've already de-activated Overdrive. Specs: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/L8ymI.png[/IMG]
Can be caused by overheating, try and clean your graphics card, check for updates to your drivers. If you've overclocked your graphics card, I suggest you google your original stock clocks and set it back.
[QUOTE=Ruzza;35273960]Can be caused by overheating, try and clean your graphics card, check for updates to your drivers. If you've overclocked your graphics card, I suggest you google your original stock clocks and set it back.[/QUOTE] No worries. I've de-activated Overdrive, everything works normally now. Thanks for the reply.
[QUOTE=Kalan Yamato;35274803]No worries. I've de-activated Overdrive, everything works normally now. Thanks for the reply.[/QUOTE] No problem, glad to help.
It's not neccessarily overheating, but not all cards like overclocking. I've had no problems maxing out the clocks in CCC on any of the cards I've owned, and not even with "unofficial" overclocking into the ~1400 area (default 1250). Still, my friend's GTX 460 didn't like being overclocked much. Try slowly increasing the clocks and stress testing each time. When you reach the limit, back down the clock 5MHz or so.
Why did you buy a HD6850 when you have such an awful CPU? That CPU is bottlenecking the crap out of both the 4850 and 6850.
Why are you trying to OC your GFX card while you should be OCing your CPU?
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