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bogaty · 06-30-12, 03:58 PM

I bought a new PC with an AMD 7970 video card and I've been having all sorts of issues with it.

I was wondering if anyone had run into this following issue and, if so, if they found a fix for it.

Under AMD Catalyst control, I set the game to AA 8x, AF 16x, MSAA, and v-sync off. These were the settings I used on my last two PCs, both with ATI/AMD cards (4870 and 6870) and never had any issues.

I was able to play the game over the course of 4 days with about 10 hours of total play time. For the first 3 days, the game ran flawlessly. Today, I began getting missing textures on the various tabbed items. For instance, if I went to the periscope screen, sometimes the torpedo tube selector would show up as completely whited out. Other times, it would be fine but the radio or gramophone tab would be whited out. The game would crash soon afterwards (or immediately if I went to external view) and give me either an ntdll error or and ati error. The only way the game would run when I tried to load my saved campaign game was if I disabled Catalyst AA overrides completely.

If I started a new career, the game would run fine. I assumed that the save was corrupted so I tried running for a few hours with AA turned off and then saving, shutting down, reapplying AA, and starting again. Same white out textures and crash.

I tried reverting to an earlier save and the game ran fine for a few hours and then the white outs started showing up again and well as the crashes.

I tried reverting to an earlier version of Catalyst. (I was running 12.7 betas so I rolled back to 12.6) but the same thing keeps happening.

Any ideas? Memory leak? This is a brand new PC so I can't see it being driver conflicts.

PS, if you get the opportunity to get a 7970 card. Don't. The drivers are just terrible and there are a lot of problems with this thing.

EDIT: I'm using Trigger Maru mod 2.something or other.

Windows 7-64 bit Home Preimium edition, SP1
16 GB RAM
ASUS P9X79 Pro ATX mobo
Realtek onboard sound.
AMD Sapphire HD 7970 3GB 925MHz video card with Catalyst 12.6 drivers.

06-30-12, 03:58 PM	#1
bogaty Watch Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 30 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	SHIV crashing with AA enabled I bought a new PC with an AMD 7970 video card and I've been having all sorts of issues with it. I was wondering if anyone had run into this following issue and, if so, if they found a fix for it. Under AMD Catalyst control, I set the game to AA 8x, AF 16x, MSAA, and v-sync off. These were the settings I used on my last two PCs, both with ATI/AMD cards (4870 and 6870) and never had any issues. I was able to play the game over the course of 4 days with about 10 hours of total play time. For the first 3 days, the game ran flawlessly. Today, I began getting missing textures on the various tabbed items. For instance, if I went to the periscope screen, sometimes the torpedo tube selector would show up as completely whited out. Other times, it would be fine but the radio or gramophone tab would be whited out. The game would crash soon afterwards (or immediately if I went to external view) and give me either an ntdll error or and ati error. The only way the game would run when I tried to load my saved campaign game was if I disabled Catalyst AA overrides completely. If I started a new career, the game would run fine. I assumed that the save was corrupted so I tried running for a few hours with AA turned off and then saving, shutting down, reapplying AA, and starting again. Same white out textures and crash. I tried reverting to an earlier save and the game ran fine for a few hours and then the white outs started showing up again and well as the crashes. I tried reverting to an earlier version of Catalyst. (I was running 12.7 betas so I rolled back to 12.6) but the same thing keeps happening. Any ideas? Memory leak? This is a brand new PC so I can't see it being driver conflicts. PS, if you get the opportunity to get a 7970 card. Don't. The drivers are just terrible and there are a lot of problems with this thing. EDIT: I'm using Trigger Maru mod 2.something or other. Windows 7-64 bit Home Preimium edition, SP1 16 GB RAM ASUS P9X79 Pro ATX mobo Realtek onboard sound. AMD Sapphire HD 7970 3GB 925MHz video card with Catalyst 12.6 drivers.