R9 295x2 sapphire Problems!

[SloppyJostler]

I have one of these installed in my system and everything works normal for browsing watching videos ect, but when I go to play games such as watchdog or call of duty it gets very choppy or glitchy and lags lots. How can I tell if I have a good card and what settings should I use? it should in theory play these games at ease and in ultra on this 4k because thats what this card was made for, any help would be highly appreciated. 

[Raudi_]

I have one of these installed in my system and everything works normal for browsing watching videos ect, but when I go to play games such as watchdog or call of duty it gets very choppy or glitchy and lags lots. How can I tell if I have a good card and what settings should I use? it should in theory play these games at ease and in ultra on this 4k because thats what this card was made for, any help would be highly appreciated. 

Ultra at 4k, try to use no AA in games, as you don't need it at 4k. Not even GTX 980's play all games on Ultra at 4k

[bughtoo]

I have one of these installed in my system and everything works normal for browsing watching videos ect, but when I go to play games such as watchdog or call of duty it gets very choppy or glitchy and lags lots. How can I tell if I have a good card and what settings should I use? it should in theory play these games at ease and in ultra on this 4k because thats what this card was made for, any help would be highly appreciated. 

Watchdogs is not realy good estimate for grading a videocard, that game is horibly optimized and even I with 2x 290x have horrible fps in that game. Try benchmarking software as unigine valley, heaven or 3d mark and compare the score online which should give you rough estimate if your card is working correctly.

[Jumper118]

I have one of these installed in my system and everything works normal for browsing watching videos ect, but when I go to play games such as watchdog or call of duty it gets very choppy or glitchy and lags lots. How can I tell if I have a good card and what settings should I use? it should in theory play these games at ease and in ultra on this 4k because thats what this card was made for, any help would be highly appreciated. 

you won't be able to max many games out at 4k. stick to low aa like 2-4x and med-high settings should be ok in less insensitive games.

[Fate]

Turn AA off and/or turn settings down to high. You need three 290x's/980's to completely max out very demanding/optimized AAA games at 60fps. 

[SloppyJostler]

I thought these 8gb cards were made to max most game out on a 4k monitor? the thing is I dont set any of the settings I am running it at stock and it doesnt play the games smoothly, I had a gtx 770 4gb card which played them better than this, so something is not right. Is this card not really 2 r9 290x's on one board? However one of these cards should run at stock the games mentioned fairly decent and definately better than a gtx770 seen as they beat 2 gtx cards from many reviews 

[SloppyJostler]

Turn AA off and/or turn settings down to high. You need three 290x's/980's to completely max out very demanding/optimized AAA games at 60fps. 

I would if I knew what that meant, sorry I am very noobish to all this, what is AA and forgot to say thanks for all the replys

[Fate]

I would if I knew what that meant, sorry I am very noobish to all this, what is AA and forgot to say thanks for all the replys

AA is antialiasing, it smooths blocky edges but is VERY GPU intensive. It is NOT needed at 4k (well, for <28" monitors), so I'd recommend you just turn it off. 

More information here

[SloppyJostler]

I just read that, but this for me wouldnt make my card run games like watchdog choppy, as my old gtx770 would play them better even on this monitor at the moment than the supposedly best amd card built as of late. 

[CM7]

I have one of these installed in my system and everything works normal for browsing watching videos ect, but when I go to play games such as watchdog or call of duty it gets very choppy or glitchy and lags lots. How can I tell if I have a good card and what settings should I use? it should in theory play these games at ease and in ultra on this 4k because thats what this card was made for, any help would be highly appreciated. 

Download the newest version of Amd catalysis it should give you a option to download a program called AMD gaming Evolved. Which can auto configure gaming settings and turn AA down its not really needed at 4k. 

[SloppyJostler]

Download the newest version of Amd catalysis it should give you a option to download a program called AMD gaming Evolved. Which can auto configure gaming settings and turn AA down its not really needed at 4k. 

I have this already I will try use it, I got watchdogs to play half decent without doing what it was doing, I changed my monitor back to my 3d monitor and used a normal hdmi lead and it worked but the screen wasnt fitting into the monitor screen properly damn settings, if my card was faulty I doubt it would have played watchdogs like it did and be able to play videos ect looks like I have a settings issue 

[SloppyJostler]

Watchdogs is not realy good estimate for grading a videocard, that game is horibly optimized and even I with 2x 290x have horrible fps in that game. Try benchmarking software as unigine valley, heaven or 3d mark and compare the score online which should give you rough estimate if your card is working correctly.

The r9 295x2 is supposed to be 2 x 2 r9 290x's on one board, making it 8gb? and should run that game easy at good fps nice and smooth  

[TaBandit87]

The r9 295x2 is supposed to be 2 x 2 r9 290x's on one board, making it 8gb? and should run that game easy at good fps nice and smooth

It's only a 4gb card. The two cards are in crossfire on a single pcb, VRAM doesn't stack in CF/SLI

[Sir Asvald]

The r9 295x2 is supposed to be 2 x 2 r9 290x's on one board, making it 8gb? and should run that game easy at good fps nice and smooth

BTW. Dual GPUs don't use the full amount of memory, only half the memory.

[Badger906]

also not all games are properly optimised for SLI/Crossfire configurations. Dying light only gains about 5fps when using 1 or 2 gpu's. Im not sure if 1.3 patch fixed it but before 2 980s performed just as well as 1.

[CM7]

I have this already I will try use it, I got watchdogs to play half decent without doing what it was doing, I changed my monitor back to my 3d monitor and used a normal hdmi lead and it worked but the screen wasnt fitting into the monitor screen properly damn settings, if my card was faulty I doubt it would have played watchdogs like it did and be able to play videos ect looks like I have a settings issue

What kind of monitor is it you might have to got into the settings and make make it auto scale to fit or there might be a button on the side to do this.

[-iSynthesis]

I have one of these installed in my system and everything works normal for browsing watching videos ect, but when I go to play games such as watchdog or call of duty it gets very choppy or glitchy and lags lots. How can I tell if I have a good card and what settings should I use? it should in theory play these games at ease and in ultra on this 4k because thats what this card was made for, any help would be highly appreciated. 

Bad games chosen to test. Can you play games like battlefield and capture the FPS? BTW im saying this because, well, watchdogs is watchdogs and Call of Duty is CoD. I was not able to run Ghosts at a constant 60fps on mid settings with a 760 and 580, after that i deinstalled it and asked the steam support to delete the game, which was unfortunatly not possible, but thats off topic

[SloppyJostler]

Bad games chosen to test. Can you play games like battlefield and capture the FPS? BTW im saying this because, well, watchdogs is watchdogs and Call of Duty is CoD. I was not able to run Ghosts at a constant 60fps on mid settings with a 760 and 580, after that i deinstalled it and asked the steam support to delete the game, which was unfortunatly not possible, but thats off topic

The point I was trying to make was that or if the card was working properly I bought it second hand but boxed and seemed as new, it should have been able to play COD and watchdogs easy with no effort but it could not, SO I decided to buy a gtx980 msi twin frozr card cost me 480 quid, and this seemed to play the games s they should from the off, no messing around with settings ect, I did have to adjust screen res on my monitor and make everything fit, but it played the games smooth yet I still have no idea why the AMD R9 295X2 would not. I think either the cards faulty or I am doing something wrong for it to be playing games like a radeon r5 I need to learn more about how all the settings work and how to use them properly so things run as they should, hate being noobish.

[SloppyJostler]

What kind of monitor is it you might have to got into the settings and make make it auto scale to fit or there might be a button on the side to do this.

a Asus 4k pb27 something or other, I was messing with the settings on the monitor and still am confused as to why it was glitchy yet normal use on desktop was fine and videos ect, so still confused I would rather of had the R 295X2 BUT it has let me down. I still want to find the answer without having to buy a R9 295X2 new to ompare if the said card is faulty or not 

[SloppyJostler]

Should this card not run good standard? its doing my head in now, I mean a gtx980 runs everything really good and I have not changed anything on the gtx so this should also run it very good standard