So I got the card in the mail and it looks incredible. I put it in and installed the Catalyst control center and it seems fine. When I launch Battlefield 4 I get an error that says the card is not DX 10.0 compatible. I put my GTX 780 back in and BF4 works pefectly. There's not one specific driver for the card, just the CCC which every Radeon uses. I just found a driver for it on Dell's site, since it's their Alienwares that the card was made for. Besides that, Any ideas?
Have you uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers...? Downloading the latest drivers from the AMD website would do the trick fine. It's still their drivers that are being used. Download 14.3 I think it is. If all else fails, and you will see a performance drop if you don't, a fresh install of Windows will do the trick.
I've also found that going from different cards, even when they're both AMD based, and from NVIDIA to AMD and vice versa, there's a noticeable drop in performance unless you do a fresh install. I didn't bother with driver sweeper or anything like that. A clean install is always going to be your best option.
If you have to spend two hours messing about to get it working, it very much is. I always do a clean install if I'm going AMD - Nvidia or vice versa, and so far, no problems.
Realistically I won't actually see any difference between a 780 and a 8990 anyway. I have a friend trying to Litecoin on it right now. Worst case, he buys it or I eBay it with how well it hashes.
WTF is a Radeon 8990? Ed. Never mind, it's an OEM 7990. Run Driversweeper in safe mode, that should leave you nice and clean to install the AMD drivers. Don't uninstall Physx though you'll need that.
That's too much effort apparently, Andy. It bugs me when people do things half arsed. You should NOT be into computers with that attitude. They need loving and time. :/
It's not the booting into safe mode that TGS is saying is too time consuming. I think it's the having to reinstall all software/games afterwards and remembering all your license keys etc. I'd do as andy suggested and run driversweeper in safemode. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
To be fair though, it isn't a requirement of being on a forum. Maybe it was a little harsh hearted. I apologise about that.
I can only love a few machines at a time. My GTX 780 works no problem for my game and I have the money to buy the Ti if need be. I will not do a complete reinstall just because I upgraded the video card. I have eight computers and they all need my equal lovin'.
