Aie, ok I'm getting frustrated. I know you guys helped me a bit back in the thread but I just want to clarify step by step instructions to try and fix my issue.
I have a Radeon 7970 with 3 gig RAM. I had 12.3 drivers and tried to put on 12.4 drivers but it still reported as 12.3 drivers. The auto-update told me to update again to 12.4 so I tried it via the update and again, 12.3 drivers are reported in the Catalyst software section. However, there seems to be further mess up since I did this because I believe my card is only reporting 1 gig of RAM now. Although the hardware section of the Catalyst Control Center says 3 gig, the System Information section (via the button at the top) says 1,000,000,000 byes available for Adapter RAM. What made me look is running Crysis, which I'm running at max with hi-res textures added and increased draw distance. Previously it ran okay dipping to 25ish in some areas. But now it was running like 50+ everywhere but I was noticing more texture pop-in. When I do r_displayinfo 1 it says MEM = 1000K.
So I tried uninstalling the AMD Display Driver and the Catalyst Control Center via the new driver installation. ie: when you first run the driver download it gives you the option to uninstall. So I selected that and used Custom and selected just the AMD Display Driver and the Catalyst Control Center. It uninstalled and asked me to reboot. I did.
Then I re-ran the 12.4 driver install, installed and ... still 12.3. And still System Information reporting 1 gig though the Hardware section of the Catalyst Center still says 3 gig.
Ugh, annoying! Crysis runs better, heh, but of course more texture pop-in. I would like to fix this obviously.
Beyond just uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, what else should I do step by step cause I want to get this right. And should I be using the uninstall routine from the 12.4 driver installation or should I uninstall using something else?
I hate stuff not working right! I just dont want to screw something up.
Please help!