HELP! AMD 5970 2gb video card questions.?

I just purchased a Diamond amd 5970 video card during neweggs black friday sale for 300$. I have always been Nvidia, and since I have received this card it was been nothing but trouble. First off, I cannot get it to display 120hz in games, it displays 120hz on desktop, but not games. I checked all the settings and vsync is off and I am using a dual link dvi cable to a Viewsonic vx2268wm 22" lcd 120hz monitor, i also have checked the windows settings too. I have used multiple different drivers including the newest one. Any suggestions for this?



Secondly, whenever I play battlefield bad company 2 it displays very weird colors (purple,red,blue) and shutters pretty bad. The performance is not what I expected it seems very choppy and shuttery. Performance in a few other games is pretty good, but all games should run well.



Thirdly, under the ati control panel it says that the second adapter (the second gpu for the video card) is disabled. However this isnt as big of an issue because I believe it is working, but why does it say this?



So to sum it up - Is this card compitable with this mobo/monitor?

Can this card display 120hz on this monitor?

Does the card need to be rma'd, or is it just driver issues?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you!



Now to finish it off I am using Windows XP Professional SP3.(will be getting windows 7 64 bit soon, maybe that will help?)

RIG:

AMD Diamond 5970 2gb video card

Asus nvidia m3n72-d mobo

4gb ddr3 pc6400

amd phenom II x4 @3.4ghz

160gb hd

Viewsonic vx2268wm 22" 120hz lcd monitor

750w ultra psu|||O-k



1. get a 64 bit operating system I know you said you are going to but don't put it off... your operating system can't even use all 4 gigs of memory ... your using like 3.75 out of the 4 if I am remembering correctly been a long time since I used a 32 bit OS



2. Your motherboard is an SLI motherboard ... not an issue untill you try to run dual graphics cards and link them as your motherboard only supports SLI exclusive to Nvidia cards and will not support crossfire Exclusive to ATI .... again not a hug issue until you try to run more than one video card in your setup



3. Did you completely uninstall your last graphics card ? as in go into device manager and remove it from there ? there may be a drive conflict if you simply stepped on the old drivers with the new ones especially in XP



That should do the trick... also try re installing the game that was showing weird colors|||1. drivers would be missing or not properly installed.

2. If u increase VGA u must Increase RAM if needed or able to understand each other. (Mean codes)|||Well that's a long freaking card, have to agree with the first answer go to a windows 64 bit system, max on a 32 bit system for ram without errors is 3.5 gb of ram , also the Bf3 game will only run on windows vista and 7 os mainly 64 bit, kind of elimate windows xp from the newer gaming market and being a dual gpu card should run games smoothly, kind of noisy graphic card, also i notice something about your motherboard and processor, the motherboard is a am2+ and the processor is a am3 , upgrade the motherboard ,a good one is a gigabyte GA 890FXA-UD7 or a msi 890FXA -gd70

both are good motherboards but similar in specs the gigabyte is the better motherboard am3 socket