7970m (single or crossfire) terrible performance - lost

[ShadowCaptain]

As some of you may know, my 780ti is away being RMAd, so I am using my M18x gaming laptop in the meantime

however, whether using a single GPU or with Crossfire enabled, I can barely play any games above low settings

Specs, i7 3610qm

8gb ram

2x 7970m

 

I have reinstalled W10 with a clean install on formatted drives, games are installed onto an SSD, I have the latest drivers, I have high performance enabled, all battery saving turned off, I have the laptop switched into dedicated graphics mode, etc etc etc

On BF4, I have to run at 1080p LOW everything to get 60fps, same for fallout 4

on YouTube a single 7970m can play BF4 on high/ultra but I can barely play it

 

IDEAS?

[Skiiwee29]

Try some older drivers from 6 months - 1year ago. It is likely performance degradation from the RX480 launches and subsequent driver updates. 

[PRTI]

Try older drivers since they usually in some cases are much better than the new ones

[ShadowCaptain]

9 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

Try some older drivers from 6 months - 1year ago. It is likely performance degradation from the RX480 launches and subsequent driver updates. 

 

6 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

Try older drivers since they usually in some cases are much better than the new ones

 

I did try but had crazy instability, could be W10

 

I was thinking of going back to 8.1 or 7 but sadly dont have a licence 

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, ShadowCaptain said:

 

 

I did try but had crazy instability, could be W10

 

I was thinking of going back to 8.1 or 7 but sadly dont have a licence 

hmmmm, that makes no sense why you would have instability on BF4 with older drives since the game is 3 years old.... 

[PRTI]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

 

 

I did try but had crazy instability, could be W10

 

I was thinking of going back to 8.1 or 7 but sadly dont have a licence 

Well install it without a license since it will still work,but will be unregistered

[ShadowCaptain]

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

hmmmm, that makes no sense why you would have instability on BF4 with older drives since the game is 3 years old.... 

The drivers have instability on W10, they just seem to have issue, and sometimes the drivers seem to dissapear etc

Just now, keNNySOC said:

Well install it without a license since it will still work,but will be unregistered

I guess I can try that to see if its a fix

[Naeaes]

6 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

 

 

I did try but had crazy instability, could be W10

 

I was thinking of going back to 8.1 or 7 but sadly dont have a licence 

I was just thinking about that. Back when those were a thing there weren't even talks about win 10 yet. How about clearing up some space and installing the seven as a secondary with the trial license just as a test. Then if it helps, scavenge a key from somewhere and ditch the 10. 

[ShadowCaptain]

2 minutes ago, Naeaes said:

I was just thinking about that. Back when those were a thing there weren't even talks about win 10 yet. How about clearing up some space and installing the seven as a secondary with the trial license just as a test. Then if it helps, scavenge a key from somewhere and ditch the 10. 

yeah well I have 3 hard drives in there and they are all emtpy

id honestly rather just wipe the thing and start form scratch, its only a backup machine so nothing to lose really

will get the W7 iso tonight and see if it fixes anything, I feel like W10 and the latest drivers are just not doing anything when like 2 years ago this thing was playing games on ultra 

I mean you can see in my review here from 2014 that it was running great