Grey screen crash

[narciso]

Originally Posted by Reuter

Had this too with my 5970 but disabling ULPS in windows ( a bit of a drastic measure) fixed it for me cause the card is now running on its nominal speed all off the time.

ULPS only prevents the second gpu from shutting down. It doesn't fix the problem. Sooner or later the stripes will attack again.
Best solution so far, for me, was to disable aero.
By the way, here's a good read regarding 2d performance problems in 5xxx cards, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...di,2539-9.html

[Reuter]

Another method for the 5970 is:

1. Open CCC

2. Unlock and Enable Overdrive if they aren’t already.

3. Go to Options/Profiles/Profiles Manager. Create a new profile. Under composition make sure “ATI Overdrive” is checked. Save and Close, DO NOT ACTIVATE.

4. In windows go to: C:\Users\{yourusername}\AppData\Local\ATI\ACE\Profiles (you will need to have “show hidden files” turned on for this)

5. Open the xml document with the name of the profile you just created (notepad is fine)

6. Change the values of the Clock and Memory speeds to look like this (these specific values are what worked for me and my card, use judgment) EDIT ONLY THE BOLD VALUES.




Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="40000"

Property name="Want_1" value="60000"

Property name="Want_2" value="85000"

Feature

Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="90000"

Property name="Want_1" value="90000"

Property name="Want_2" value="120000"



7. Save and close. Go back to CCC and activate the profile you just created.
This will make the card idle at 400core, 900memory. (2D clocks are the "Want_0" values)

[blurter]

Originally Posted by Reuter

Another method for the 5970 is:

1. Open CCC

2. Unlock and Enable Overdrive if they aren’t already.

3. Go to Options/Profiles/Profiles Manager. Create a new profile. Under composition make sure “ATI Overdrive” is checked. Save and Close, DO NOT ACTIVATE.

4. In windows go to: C:\Users\{yourusername}\AppData\Local\ATI\ACE\Profiles (you will need to have “show hidden files” turned on for this)

5. Open the xml document with the name of the profile you just created (notepad is fine)

6. Change the values of the Clock and Memory speeds to look like this (these specific values are what worked for me and my card, use judgment) EDIT ONLY THE BOLD VALUES.




Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="40000"

Property name="Want_1" value="60000"

Property name="Want_2" value="85000"

Feature

Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="90000"

Property name="Want_1" value="90000"

Property name="Want_2" value="120000"



7. Save and close. Go back to CCC and activate the profile you just created.
This will make the card idle at 400core, 900memory. (2D clocks are the "Want_0" values)

Yeah doing this is the only thing that worked with my 5970, I did the following;

</Feature>
<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="73500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="101000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="101000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="101000" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="CoreVoltageTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="1038" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="1038" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="1050" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryVoltageTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="0" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="0" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="0" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedProtocol_0">
<Property name="FanSpeedProtocolProperty" value="Percent" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedAlgorithm_0">
<Property name="FanSpeedAlgorithm" value="Automatic" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedRPMTarget_0">
<Property name="Want" value="960" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedPercentTarget_0">
<Property name="Want" value="20" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_1">
<Property name="Want_0" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="73500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_1">
<Property name="Want_0" value="101000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="101000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="101000" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="CoreVoltageTarget_1">
<Property name="Want_0" value="1038" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="1038" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="1050" />

[@md_Guy]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ATI...5870,9549.html

AMD has confirmed that a previously reported issue of grey lines or screens with certain Radeon HD 5000 GPUs affects both the 5700 and 5800 series.

[Boogle]

Originally Posted by narciso

ULPS only prevents the second gpu from shutting down. It doesn't fix the problem. Sooner or later the stripes will attack again.
Best solution so far, for me, was to disable aero.
By the way, here's a good read regarding 2d performance problems in 5xxx cards, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...di,2539-9.html

That's a very interesting article there!

I've since re-formatted, and the drivers are being remarkably well-behaved. Switching between eyefinity and normal is a simple profile change that now works - and I've had no grey screens!

[caveman-jim]

Hotfix coming today for those affected. Watch Terry 'Catalyst Maker' Makedon's Twitter feed to see it the instant it posts up!

download link

[Boogle]

Does this include the Mass Effect 2 AA hotfix as well?

[caveman-jim]

Yes, it does.

[Black_dog]

I think I found a temporary solution to the greyscreen for Leaft for dead2. This may work out for other games as well. I was constantly getting the greyscreen at the hard rain level. I turned down the default video settings for my HD5770 (aa/af/etc) in the video options and it didnt crash last night.

You may want to try this solution for other games until ATI/AMD get it fixed right.

[Quexos]

For what it's worth...

I have only owned my Gigabyte 5770 for about 3 days now and this is what I have found about gray/black screen/colored band freezing/crashing.

If I install Windows 7 all fresh and clean, then install the ATI CAT 9.12 or 10.1 drivers all seems fine. If I go to the Overdrive section and let it "auto tune", it never finishes and I stop it and restore defaults. From then on I get crashing, artifacts, can not play a DVD without crash, etc.

The clocks show default, but it is completely unstable. I do not overclock but did want to see what over drive would recommend just out of curiosity. So, in short, once I tinker with over drive in any way, my install is ruined. I think the over drive thing is just totally borked!

EDIT: After more time playing around with it, it still crashes without ever touching the Overdrive stuff, totally at random in 2d mode, forget this post.

[dnottis]

Originally Posted by Boogle

Does this include the Mass Effect 2 AA hotfix as well?

Spyre found out, it does.