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[Mussels]

I thought the latter error was in relation to memory? You recently timinged, clocked, or perhaps even you dropped the voltage down a bit?

Or see if your BIOS has options for something like Tri-Stating and/or I think it's called Memory Clock Down or Down Clock. In my 890GX I have to trigger advanced mode in the BIOS (Ctrl+F1, Award only as far as I know), but they default off anyways.

EDIT: Here is what my BIOS says, and the exact naming of them:

CKE Power Down Mode - Set the DRAMs to power down when the CKE pin is closed
Memclock tri-stating - Memclock tri-stating during C3 and Alt VID

To me, that sounds like what could easily cause someone issues like you are having. Worth a look at least

i set my ram from 1600Mhz to 1333 and dropped back to 10.5 and its all good for now. i'll update back to 10.6 and just see if its the ram later... its an intel optimised kit, so i expected tweaking.

 

[nt300]

Dirt2 - DX9 - HD5970
Those words repel like similar polarized magnets in that sentence.

Who would own a Dx11 card and a Dx11 game yet play it not in DX11, not even in Dx10 but Dx9 ?

Barely any purpose to increase Dx9 performance :shadedshu

That the problem with companies still making DX9 performance inceases. What a waist of time, leave DX9 an even DX10 as basic compatability and speed up and enhance DX11 fully.

 

[AphexDreamer]

That the problem with companies still making DX9 performance inceases. What a waist of time, leave DX9 an even DX10 as basic compatability and speed up and enhance DX11 fully.

Maybe because they simply can they do? And I think DX9 is still the most widely used but I'm not sure.

 

[mdsx1950]

Maybe because they simply can they do? And I think DX9 is still the most widely used but I'm not sure.

It is still the most widely used. All the DX10 games and DX11 games for the time being don't even add up to half of the DX9 games.

 

[Formula350]

That the problem with companies still making DX9 performance inceases. What a waist of time, leave DX9 an even DX10 as basic compatability and speed up and enhance DX11 fully.

But look at how many people still use it. That's the same reason that M$ went and supported XP for longer, when they originally were ditching it like 2 years ago or something. People complained since so many still used it, fast forward to now and it is about to reach it's EOL for good heh Similarly when manufacturers stopped offering XP on systems and just Vista, again people complained and again it was offered

Now I'm not saying I don't agree that there isn't really a reason to support it since it's quite old now, but I won't how many folks don't own even a DX10 card yet. That was ME up until mid-May, not counting the IGP on my 890GX that I got in March. Hell, I was still using my S939 system up until March!

Anyways, if what they did was the result of a coder having a "Eureka!" moment and it only took a couple hours to implement/test, then I can't say much. Yet if it was something that took multiple people a few hundred work hours, then yes it was a waste of time and it should've been put towards DX10 (remember, M$ is not using DX11 naming since it was really just an update. It's all called DirectX now apparently). But not much we can do about it