HD4870X2 can't run Crysis Warhead? What?

I recently bought a brand spankin' new Sapphire RADEON HD 4870X2. After managing just about to shove it into my case with the aid of a hammer (I'm kidding...) I wasted no time installing the drivers (8.10) and booting up Crysis Warhead. First of all, I tried setting the graphics to optimum levels with the one-click button in options (expecting it to set to Enthusiast) - imagine my shock horror when it set the game to Mainstream. Mainstream?! I then set the settings to Enthusiast myself, and attempted to load the game. The one time the game DID load, it ran incredibly slowly before crashing. Now, the game won't load past the level loading screen (in my case, the screen for the first level, "Call Me Ishmael"). Whenever I have to Control+Alt+Delete out of the game, my PC continues to be sluggish, but only after booting up, then closing Crysis Warhead. I really don't know what's wrong, but it's pissing me off.

Possibly the drivers.

I've just bought a whole new PC (Vista still installing as I type) with a Radeon HD4850. I looked on the ATI site for Vista 64-bit drivers, and while there are drop down options for lots of specific cards the only one relevant for us is the 4800 series option. So it looks like this is a fairly new addition to their drivers and may take some time to make full use of them.

I think the latest drivers are 8.11 - I think they came out yesterday by the date on the site, so you might want to give them a try. I will in a few hours once everything else has finished installing :D

This is why ATI sucks. You should get the GTX 280... It runs a lot better.GaMeR_Willz

I would've done, 'cept I've had problems with nVidia cards as of late, and I'm on an Intel X48 chipset. :P

I'll try updating the drivers to 8.11 and see what happens.

All wrong, the game just sucks, i still don't get why people are trying to run it desperately. It's just a tech demo IMO.X360PS3AMD05

Do you have the hotfix for Vista installed?Sordidus

[QUOTE="Sordidus"]Do you have the hotfix for Vista installed?skapunkclarence

Forget what I said, you just need SP1.

All wrong, the game just sucks, i still don't get why people are trying to run it desperately. It's just a tech demo IMO.X360PS3AMD05

Agree to that.Crysis warhead was a pure waste of my money.The only reason i bought it was to test my 8800GTS and crucial blaster ram,only to find out that its far lighter than original Crysis.

This is why ATI sucks. You should get the GTX 280... It runs a lot better.GaMeR_Willz

No way dude.4870x2 can slay a GTX 280 anytime.2GB GDDR5 ram...is that a joke to you ?

Umm... I have SP1. :(skapunkclarence

Did you tried any other game?

All wrong, the game just sucks, i still don't get why people are trying to run it desperately. It's just a tech demo IMO.X360PS3AMD05

Why exactly does it suck?

[QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"]All wrong, the game just sucks, i still don't get why people are trying to run it desperately. It's just a tech demo IMO.6matt6

Why exactly does it suck?

Because its small,pointless and hell the timeline doesnt even match with Crysis 1 :lol:.Its only fun to play because of the super advance AI,physics and graphics.

Its only fun to play because of ...devil_han

[QUOTE="devil_han"]Its only fun to play because of ...CellAnimation

[QUOTE="devil_han"]Its only fun to play because of ...CellAnimation

lol congratulations thats a nice win :D

All wrong, the game just sucks, i still don't get why people are trying to run it desperately. It's just a tech demo IMO.X360PS3AMD05

It's way more than a tech demo. A game that lets you complete missions going stealthy, all guns blazing, etc. is not a tech demo at all. Great gameplay also. 

I wish people would stop going on like all I ever want to do is play Crysis. I'm only using this game as a test for the card - my 8800GT could run it on Enthusiast at about 15fps at 1280x1024 with no AA. I expect this card to at least be able to do that. I tried playing Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 today, and that loaded a few choppy graphics before crashing on me as well. I don't know if I have DirectX 10 installed, but I tried to install it and it keeps saying the file cannot be downloaded (through the Windows Vista DirectX SDK).

Surely it can't be that bad a card if I can use it in Windows? I just thought it would be able to run my games...

EDIT: Also, I said in an earlier post - my graphics driver likes to stop responding and "recover" or "reset" itself (it comes up as either ati2dvag or another one that I can't remember the name of. I think it's an "infinite loop". Anyone any ideas?

EDIT 2: The other one is called atikmdiag. I don't know what is wrong with these files.

All wrong, the game just sucks, i still don't get why people are trying to run it desperately. It's just a tech demo IMO.X360PS3AMD05

The game is nice, what are you talking about.

I wish people would stop going on like all I ever want to do is play Crysis. I'm only using this game as a test for the card - my 8800GT could run it on Enthusiast at about 15fps at 1280x1024 with no AA. I expect this card to at least be able to do that. I tried playing Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 today, and that loaded a few choppy graphics before crashing on me as well. I don't know if I have DirectX 10 installed, but I tried to install it and it keeps saying the file cannot be downloaded (through the Windows Vista DirectX SDK).

Surely it can't be that bad a card if I can use it in Windows? I just thought it would be able to run my games...

EDIT: Also, I said in an earlier post - my graphics driver likes to stop responding and "recover" or "reset" itself (it comes up as either ati2dvag or another one that I can't remember the name of. I think it's an "infinite loop". Anyone any ideas?

EDIT 2: The other one is called atikmdiag. I don't know what is wrong with these files.

skapunkclarence

Do you have hotfix driver installed?

Did you plug both pci-e cable from PSU for extra power for your card.

Hopefully you're not putting AA for crysis.

Heat probleme, temps?

This is why ATI sucks. You should get the GTX 280... It runs a lot better.GaMeR_Willz

Beg to differ ati does not suck....

Ok, now I'm hitting a problem I haven't seen before. When trying to install any GPU drivers (older or newer ones), I get the error, "INF file not found" and the driver install fails. This is really beginning to piss me off. I have plugged in a six pin and eight pin connector to the graphics card, and it's running at 27% fan speed and 71 degrees idle (that's quite hot, I must say - though I understood that the card ran hot before I bought it). I'm updating the Intel chipset drivers at the moment, but I'm coming to the end of my tether with this.

Ok, now I'm hitting a problem I haven't seen before. When trying to install any GPU drivers (older or newer ones), I get the error, "INF file not found" and the driver install fails. This is really beginning to piss me off. I have plugged in a six pin and eight pin connector to the graphics card, and it's running at 27% fan speed and 71 degrees idle (that's quite hot, I must say - though I understood that the card ran hot before I bought it). I'm updating the Intel chipset drivers at the moment, but I'm coming to the end of my tether with this.

skapunkclarence

PS. 71 C under load is warm but not dangerous for an enthusiast's graphics card. You don't really need to start worrying until it get close to around 90.

ok so in catalyst control center set your cards fan speed to between 50-60%, that should help your temp problems for that. Another cause could be your overclock on your cpu and the game not liking it try a downclock trial, maybe temp problems there. also the fact it gave you a INF file error means your chipset drivers need to be updated or re-installed.

thats why you should gho with nVidia ;) .... my gt could play it on 1280 with 8X ,enthusiast and gamer and get around 20 Fps+ (20-30)sentenced83

*cough*

[QUOTE="sentenced83"]thats why you should gho with nVidia ;) .... my gt could play it on 1280 with 8X ,enthusiast and gamer and get around 20 Fps+ (20-30)Ztxl

*cough*

So it can run but it crashes at some point?

Maybe a Warhead patch or an ATI hotfix for the game can correct this issue.

u might have 2 wait for a fix its funny how nvidia hardly has these problems kemar7856

its probably because the game is sponsored by nvidia,

but that sucks about your fan speed, is it really that loud at 50%?? my gtx 260 runs nice and cool and doesnt make a sound at 75% fan speed, you could have a damaged fan or somethin, that would explain the overheating, dont know if ati cards are supposed to be that loud or not, but that sucks if they are

Ok, now I'm hitting a problem I haven't seen before. When trying to install any GPU drivers (older or newer ones), I get the error, "INF file not found" and the driver install fails. This is really beginning to piss me off. I have plugged in a six pin and eight pin connector to the graphics card, and it's running at 27% fan speed and 71 degrees idle (that's quite hot, I must say - though I understood that the card ran hot before I bought it). I'm updating the Intel chipset drivers at the moment, but I'm coming to the end of my tether with this.

skapunkclarence

I had that problem. and I tried everything out there. Save yourself the time and do a clean install. It will fix it right up. It's definitely a driver issue.

u might have 2 wait for a fix its funny how nvidia hardly has these problems kemar7856

I had random crash with Nvidia 780i mobo... **** happens to anybody.

I recently bought a brand spankin' new Sapphire RADEON HD 4870X2. After managing just about to shove it into my case with the aid of a hammer (I'm kidding...) I wasted no time installing the drivers (8.10) and booting up Crysis Warhead. First of all, I tried setting the graphics to optimum levels with the one-click button in options (expecting it to set to Enthusiast) - imagine my shock horror when it set the game to Mainstream. Mainstream?! I then set the settings to Enthusiast myself, and attempted to load the game. The one time the game DID load, it ran incredibly slowly before crashing. Now, the game won't load past the level loading screen (in my case, the screen for the first level, "Call Me Ishmael"). Whenever I have to Control+Alt+Delete out of the game, my PC continues to be sluggish, but only after booting up, then closing Crysis Warhead. I really don't know what's wrong, but it's pissing me off.

skapunkclarence

[QUOTE="skapunkclarence"]

I recently bought a brand spankin' new Sapphire RADEON HD 4870X2. After managing just about to shove it into my case with the aid of a hammer (I'm kidding...) I wasted no time installing the drivers (8.10) and booting up Crysis Warhead. First of all, I tried setting the graphics to optimum levels with the one-click button in options (expecting it to set to Enthusiast) - imagine my shock horror when it set the game to Mainstream. Mainstream?! I then set the settings to Enthusiast myself, and attempted to load the game. The one time the game DID load, it ran incredibly slowly before crashing. Now, the game won't load past the level loading screen (in my case, the screen for the first level, "Call Me Ishmael"). Whenever I have to Control+Alt+Delete out of the game, my PC continues to be sluggish, but only after booting up, then closing Crysis Warhead. I really don't know what's wrong, but it's pissing me off.

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