M17x - Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

[darkloki]

Anyone having problems with Catalyst 11.10, NO CAP and dual 5870??

Has disabling A.I. in CCC worked for anyone regarding video lag?

sometimes bf3 runs with only one GPU, ALT+TAB will solve the problem, but i've had a few BSODs while doing this.

here's my original thread M17x R2 Video Upgrade Single ATI 5870 to Crossfire

im the only one getting this kind of problem?

Disabling AI disables Crossfire F*** doing that....

[guruxk]

OMG fixed my problem, the thing was WERMGR.exe a windows error manager process that was trying to do stuff every five seconds!!

disabled fixed the problem!!! =)

[hidz7]

Guys, let's put BF3 signature like I did, like this it's easier for us to play together.
Btw, I'm a noob though.

[PyroDonkey]

Guys, let's put BF3 signature like I did, like this it's easier for us to play together.
Btw, I'm a noob though.

That looks cool. I'll check it out.

[Palladium]

Hi everybody,
I am having an issue with my Alienware M17x R2 and Battlefield 3 and I don´t know how to resolve it. So before buying BF3, I had the original graphics driver installed on my system (never did anything on that). However, Origin or BF3 told me that I should update my driver and i downloaded the new catalyst driver (Version 2011.1012.1625.27603) and when I installed it I got a bluescreen. I could only reboot and remove the driver in safe mode. I installed it again and now, when changing something in the settings I get another bluescreen. I don´t know whats wrong. Which driver should I get for my system and how do I uninstall the old one cleanly?
Thanks so much guys!!!

[hidz7]

I think you should update the VBIOS. Have you done that?
It enables you to update to latest AMD driver.

Drivers and Downloads

There you go.Hope that helps.

[DarthRyo]

May I ask what you did exactly to fix your problem?

I haven't had much time latelly to test the game, but as far as I tried, i could only play like one minute before it start to lag like hell. Stutter? I don't what it is but it like this => I start MP, beginning is ok (around 30 fps), then when I hear the next level of Fan speed, the game is repeatly freezing for like 1~2 sec (thus unplayable at all).

I did a clean install of CAT 11.10 (with CAP4 from 11.9, but the issue remained exactly the same).
Plus when I try to change display settings ingame, it just freeze and crash (which is the point when i close my m17x-R2, angry...). I unfortunately have no time to debug this, too bad.
Altho I read a lot of post in the thread, I may have missed one giving a olutin, sorry if that is the case

And thanks anyway

So I tried again desabling Turbo Mode in the bios, but still the same issue, unplayable and annoying... any idea of what I should do, as I'm kind of stuck atm :/

[Riftwire]

Anyone able to get the new 285.79 Beta drivers working on there 580m system? Oddly enough I can install the official 285.62 no problem but can't get the beta ones to install.

They fix a bunch of stuff for BF3 so it be nice getting them running.

[Palladium]

I think you should update the VBIOS. Have you done that?
It enables you to update to latest AMD driver.

Drivers and Downloads

There you go.Hope that helps.

How can I check if my VBIOS is up-to-date? Which version do I need?

Thanks!

[darkloki]

So I tried again desabling Turbo Mode in the bios, but still the same issue, unplayable and annoying... any idea of what I should do, as I'm kind of stuck atm :/

Trying flashing the bios to the modded bios on these forums and over-clocking to the 5% somehow that helped me out immensely but I think it's because it cuts back on the throttling. Worked for me.