Any AMD 7970 + TM2 users on here?

[Danger_Mouse]

Hey all,

Can any AMD 7970 users please help me?

I recently bought an MSI HD 7970 Twin Frozr IV card but I seemed to have alot of problems with it, and I'm not sure if the card was faulty or just not working very well with Trackmania 2 - Canyon?

My main issue was that all the clouds in the sky seemed to always be flickering in a patchy kind of way which was really distracting, also I seemed to have odd random small objects flashing up and off again, and also shimmering of objects at a distance, especially fences etc... My previous card (MSI GTX 470 Twin Frozr II) never had these problems!

I also had the flickering patchy cloud effect on the Heaven 3.0 benchmark program, which I don't remember seeing before either?

So can any HD 7970 owners please let me know if you have these issues too, or any others as well, as the card has now gone back but if its a faulty card then I may just buy another 7970 as otherwise I really liked the card.

Thanks for any help you can give,

D.M

[TMarc]

change your settings, e.g. the antialiasing, the filtering etc to see a difference.
it seems every different chip needs individual settings

[Danger_Mouse]

change your settings, e.g. the antialiasing, the filtering etc to see a difference.
it seems every different chip needs individual settings

So its possible that if I changed the settings then I could have it displayed fluently and with no issues? I haven't had an AMD/ATI for years!

[Danger_Mouse]

Forgot to add that I had the settings on the preset 'Very Nice'

[TMarc]

make sure you have the lastest drivers, and also check the driver properties (eventually add maniaplanet to the drivers game settings)

[maniaracer]

latest with Nvidia yes cos the drivers are frequent and buggy tbh

AMD less often and much more stable/dare i say pretty perfect still with 5000 series

*worries AMD are slipping

[BlackShark]

I have an AMD 7970, from Sapphire using the AMD reference design (1st batch of cards when it was just released).
I play with maximum graphics in the game and no graphical overrides in the AMD driver.
I do use AMD's oveclocking setting to the maximum I have not noticed anything wrong... except maybe the noise of the fan, but I don't notice it with the headset on.