my_name_is_earlJust asking if anyone had this problem with an HD5870 when playing game like MW2 or other game. It display a verticle line in game at a certain point and the only fix is to clock the card below defualt? Has this issue been fix in 9.12? Or is it just my Asus hd5870?

SasquiUnfortunately, that sounds like an RMA waiting to happen, having to underclock your card usually means faulty cooling. One possibility is re-applying thermal paste.

SasquiUnfortunately, that sounds like an RMA waiting to happen, having to underclock your card usually means faulty cooling. One possibility is re-applying thermal paste.

TheMailMan78No it could be as simple as a bum driver install.

my_name_is_earlAww, look like it's 1 month of RMA suckness.

I fresh install Win7 and still have the same problem. Guess it's the card.

my_name_is_earlAww, look like it's 1 month of RMA suckness.

SasquiWhere'd you get the card?

Edit.. never mind, I see it's a 3870x2, so it must be too late for the reseller.

Ghost_LeaderI'm very dissapointed with these drivers.There are like 20+ topics on the ATI forums for problems with Modern Warfare 2,but ATI hasn't fixed even one of those problems.I personally have AWFUL framerates on the multiplayer in maps like Highrise,Estate and Favela and I have HD4850.

my_name_is_earlI haven't update my stats yet. It's a hd5870 now. Temp is running normal (nothing too high).

IceCreamBarrEarl,

I had a similar problem back in the day when I was sporting my brand new, super powerful X850 XT PE! The problem is called tearing and this occurs when your video card is pumping out too many frames per second for your monitor to handle. Turn on V-Sync to test if my theory is correct. Your game play will feel different with V-Sync on but just play for 15 minutes and see if this tearing happens. Once I realized that my video card was too powerful, I turned off V-Sync and my brain forgot about the problem because it was an awesome problem to have :)

Barr

my_name_is_earlLol, maybe I should max out every setting so that it will get lower frame rate. I'll try that first thing when I get home.

SasquiHahaha... congrats on the 5870. All the visual tearing I've seen is horizontal, looks like portions of the screen aren't keeping up with eachother - and that's exactly what it is from everything I've read.

Worth a try before an RMA! If you got it from Newegg, they'll usually let you purchase a new one and refund when they've recieved your old one, assuming it's in stock and same price.

my_name_is_earlAnyone who have a verticle line crash, lock-up, stuttering, etc... with HD5870 may want to do the following. You can also get bios from other card as well. Look at the topics on AMD/ATI forum. It sounded like a promising fix but I don't guarantee anything.

click here

Symptoms:

"No compatible hardware found" error message when attempting to install the ATI Catalyst Drivers directly from the AMD Download Home Page for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 or ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of AGP video cards.

All published AMD drivers have passed Microsoft's WHQL certification tests. A WHQL driver for ATI Radeon HD 4000, ATI Radeon HD 3000 or ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of AGP products is not currently available.

Resolution:

This hotfix resolves the following issues:

* Fix for problems with DirectX and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000, ATI Radeon HD 3000 or ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of AGP Graphics cards.
* Fix for "No compatible hardware not found" error message.

To download the Catalyst AGP Hotfix, please click on the links below:

The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream 9200 Series of products.