SlasherMan

@Doctorchimp: You don't need two monitors to check out your temps while in-game. I don't know about EVGA Precision, but there are plenty of other tools that will show this information in-game on an overlay or log it to a file. Others, such as Speedfan, will keep track of the highest and lowest temperatures the card gets to during their runtime.

@Doctorchimp: I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "backplate". Could you elaborate?

Anyway, this sounds to me like either the card is clocked beyond its capacity (but if you're not overclocking then that's probably not it), or the VRAM somehow got corrupted. My first guess would have been temps as well, but they seem to be fine from what you're reporting.

@Doctorchimp: Is your card by any chance overclocked?

@Doctorchimp said:

@Robinson said:

RMA that bad boy, sounds like a failure of the cooling system

That's the thing...when I come out of a game and I check temps it's never above 55 degrees

Temperatures drop too quickly when you alt-tab or exit a game, so it's not a good way to gauge it. Try running something with an in-game overlay or a log (MSI Afterburner or Rivatuner are good options).

@emkeighcameron said:

ignore this madman - GOTY hands down - in fact GOTD, really

Game of the Day?

@phrosnite said:

No. Vsync matches the refresh rate of your monitor.... But from what he has written I would say that he didn't properly enable it on his stupid radeon video card. I enabled vsync on my awesome nvidia card and the fps never went above 60 even on menues.

Edit:

P.S. - Why do people still fall for that trap and buy radeon videos cards? Cheaper isn't better, guys. 9 out of 10 people who complain about crashes and whatever problems with the game turn out to have radeon video cards.

9 out of 10 people who throw around numbers to try and prove a point on the internet turn out to be pulling said numbers out of their behinds.

@SkullcrusherMountain said:

This game is driving me up the wall.

FX-8120

Sapphire 6850 CrossfireX

8 GB ram.

I run the benchmark, get around 60-70 average, 120+max, and SEVENTEEN minimum. Latest drivers, did a full uninstall, clean, then reinstall of drivers and profile. Driving during day or night causes the game to shake like Michael J. Fox is holding my tv. The FPS drops INCREDIBLY low, and makes it unplayable. I don't understand. Anyone have any suggestions?

Maybe try disabling Crossfire?

I treat it just like any other day.

@insane_shadowblade85 said:

How high should my FPS be during the game? I have VSync enabled on my card and during the opening 3rd party stuff I'm getting over 2k fps. In the menu and title screen I'm getting around 200 - 400 fps and during gameplay I get around 100+ fps. However, whenever Death opens a door I get 60 fps. Not sure how that works O_o.

This is...this is normal, right? Nothing to worry about, right?

EDIT: Yeah, I disabled VSync on my card using Catalyst Control Center and my FPS is the same as when I turned it on. Still getting the exact same fps in all of the areas I typed down.

By default, V-Sync is already off in CCC unless a 3D application requests it. You have to move the "Wait for Vertical Refresh" slider all the way to the right to turn it on. Might want to try this before launching the game.

If it still won't work, I'd recommend downloading Rivatuner and using D3DOverrider that comes bundled with it. It's a great tool that forces V-Sync and enables Triple Buffering for DirectX games. Used to use it all the time, and it worked wonders especially when V-Syncing caused input lag and such.

Picked it up on the latest Steam sale and playing through it right now. Love it.