Purchased a 7950 WF3 just under two weeks ago, installed it into my system and games using DirectX 9 (i believe its actually DX9c) show some seriously terrible flickering. I've read this is a driver issue and AMD are 'working' on it but from searching and reading around the internet this issue is a long standing one, dating back to August last year - maybe even earlier.
My current system spec includes the following:
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Motherboard rev 1.0 (BIOS Ver F16)
Intel i5 3570k CPU
8GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600
2 x 1TB Samsung F3 HDD (system drive installed as RAID for Intel RST)
1 x OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB (setup using Intel RST as a cache for system drive)
Coolermaster SilentPro 600w PSU
And of course the Gigabyte WF3 7950 (1GHz Version) powering a 24inch BENQ GL1250 @ 1920x1080
I've not seen the card go above 61 degrees C whilst gaming and at idle it's hovering around 28-30 C.
Also everything is running at stock, nothing is overclocked except the 7950 but obviously that's how it came out of the box
The system is running Windows 8 64bit, all drivers are upto date, all patches/updates from Microsoft are installed and the system is solid as a rock, the previous card was a Sapphire 6870 which played all games flawlessly.
The flickering is random, I can play a game for 10 minutes and the flickering starts and won't stop until I exit the game, I can play for an hour - not see anything flicker and it'll do it for 5-10secs and disappear for another hour.
I've tried various AMD drivers, including 12.8, 12.10, 12.11 beta11 (including CAPs) - the drivers on the disc, drivers from Gigabyte download section, all have the flickering, the older drivers have it worse than the newer ones.
Is there anything you can suggest, or am I at the mercy of AMD to fix their drivers OR have I gotten it wrong and its actually a faulty card. As I say, it only seems to affect DX9 games and from what I've read on the internet its actually DX9c. I've sat and played DX11 & 10 games and it doesn't happen, but I have a large library of games that are DX9.
A couple of Youtube links & images below to illustrate what is happening.
Torchlight 2: slight flickering of the textures, about 1 minute into the video you'll see slightly more flickering (I can handle this, its not so bad, could be the game but didn't happen on 6870) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWe9_Kmu0fEEuro Truck Simulator 2: seriously bad flicker, the night time video is quite dark obviously but if you look closely you shouldn't miss it -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvKDciTofM and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNicjaFOiPY World of Tanks: Those shapes move about just like Euro Truck Sim 2 -
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4941/shot007vl.jpg and
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7835/shot005ty.jpgIf the card is faulty, that's fine, I have no problem sorting out an RMA but from what I've read at various forums such as Guru3D and Overclock.net - this is a driver issue, I'm just wondering if you have any suggestions as at the moment I have an expensive card sat doing nothing. Sorry for the long post but I've tried to include as much info as possible.
Any help would be appreciated
