Has SWTOR Wrecked my HD5770?

[ThiefUK]

Hi,

I got early access (emailed) through on the 16th and started it all up all well and good, for some reason the graphics defaulted to lowest possible, which was odd, so i raised them all to max, everything.

 

Now, ever since that moment, my GPU has started to act up, badly, not just noticable in SWTOR but in other games, BF3 - SWTOR - Trine2 - All other games i have, here is a description of whats happening:

 

: 10 - 20 Minutes into Gameplay the game starts to lagg extremely bad, i recorded the FPS drop and found it to be a steady 60-70 FPS drop to 5-10 FPS, (unplayable) for a recorded 10-20 seconds.

 

- This would recur about 3 times in an hour

 

I have a ATI HD 5770 and its overclocked to GPU Clock: 900 MHZ - Memory Clock - 1300MHZ, i have tried turning the overclock off, no difference.

 

The worrying thing is, its getting worse, the spikes are occuring more often, the spike times are increasing/

 

The moment i turned SWTOR to full settings, it spiked for a good minute, and then all of the above started happening in sequence

 

(note i reinstalled drivers / reinstalled SWTOR)

 

Any help or resolve would be greatful

[High_Voltage]

whats ur system specs?

[Paralassa]

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