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Upgraded from the HD 5870 to the R9 290X. Didn't have any problems before the 290X.

Now that the 290X is in there, I'm having a multitude of problems. I believe they are software related, but I'm not positive.

Here are the problems I'm having:

Waking the PC up from sleep the PC forgets my Eyefinity group and the only way to get it back is to restart the computer. I always put my PC to sleep so having to restart every single time sucks.

My third monitor, hooked up via HDMI, is black and white. No idea what the deal is there. During a bootup the monitor displays color vibrantly and beautifully until it gets to Windows desktop and any program that's on that particular screen. So I don't think it's the cable or the monitor since it displays great color while booting up until it gets to Windows, etc.

Also, I've noticed a "line", if you will, on my screen when moving window panes. Weird thing is that it doesn't do it consistently. It's just now and then.

I only play one game: Call of Duty: Blank Ops. Whether I play it single screen or three screens my FPS drops hugely once I start moving. Sitting still I'm at exactly 60 FPS. Once I move my cursor, no matter how fast, the FPS drops to below 20 making the game unplayable.

I put my old 5870 back in and it's doing the same thing during gameplay. But it never did it before!! Which leads me to believe it's software-related.

I've updated my motherboard BIOS to latest, but to no avail.

I've uninstalled CCC and reinstalled it, but to no avail.

I really don't know what else to do at this point. The next thing that I know to do is to completely reformat the PC. I haven't reformatted in a couple years, at least, so it's probably due anyway.

So frustrated at this point!!!!! Please help!!!



Here are my specs:


Antec 1200 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Antec CP-850 850W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

new BIOS - ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

factory clock - Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme 1366 RT CPU Cooler

ARCTIC COOLING MX-2 Thermal Compound

ASUS Radeon R9 290X

mushkin 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory

Times 2 (RAID 0) - Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit for System Builders

LG Black 6X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 6X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA
Internal Blu-ray Burner 6X Blu-ray Disc Burner & HD DVD-ROM Drive Model GGW-H20LK

Logitech G19 Black 104 Normal Keys USB Wired Standard Gaming Keyboard

RAZER DeathAdder Precision Optical Gaming Mouse - 3.5G Infrared Sensor

Times 3 - LG W2753V-PF Black 27" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Full HD 1080P Widescreen LCD Monitor 400 cd/m2 50000:1 w/ Smart Package

APC BR1500G 1500 VA 865 Watt 10 Outlets Power Saving Back-UPS RS 1500

Well I'll be going from a HD5850 to a R9 290 this evening

Which set of drivers did you upgrade from? Which set are you running now?

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System Core: | Intel Core i5-2500K + ASUS P8Z68-V + 16GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 MHz | Win7 x64 | MSI R7970 Lightning 3GB [1105/1400] |
Display: | 3 x Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP-HC @ 7680x1600 | Dell u3011 |

Sorry, been ill. I had to use guru 3d tool to remove old drivers and reinstall due to some issues and I'll be looking at the presets tonight...

What I did first:

Straight swap from 5850 to R9 290
Install latest Catalyst software (update)
Can create presets but they don't save correctly
Random freezes.

I repeated this but used the Add/Remove program to uninstall the driver and reinstall but still the same problems.

(My) Solution:

Install Driver uninstaller: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
Reboot into Safe Mode (press F8 before Windows splash screen)
Run the driver uninstaller - remove everything AMD related!
Reboot.
Configured my monitors ungrouped (3 separate monitors, extended desktop)
Added this as a Preset (I named it normal)
Reboot
Created and configured Eyefinity group
Added this as a Preset
Reboot.

So far it seems to be working well and Skyrim is looking real purdy