[SOLVED] 2080 Ti Struggling with Particle effects?

aronbchek

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I bought a cyberpower pc recently. I was too lazy to build and at the time, the 3900x was in shortage and I figured it would interesting to try a prebuilt system knowing there would be some shortcomings. Over the build was surprising okay, but my main issue is with my GPU.

As a 2080 ti. The brand is MSI and it has aero cooling. It took me a while but eventually i found the site on the CHINESE msi site. Not looking to good. I figured its a cheaper model ti. When running benchmarks it holds up very good frames at 4k consistently. But I have noticed where it fails. Particularly in the particle effects. Smoke, sparkles, little details like that. I was playing HEARTHSTONE, the card game and the card animation was slugging the game. BADLY. Worse that my 1080 founders edition.

I checked for geforce drivers and found nothing. I look for windows updates. I don't know whether I am missing software or its my GPU? I'm blessed to have it run so well at higher resolutions but this particle effect issue is killing me. Any advice?
 
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Likely more an issue of drivers/new hardware, where something did not quite go right in the upgrade, as a legit 2080TI is quite a bit faster in everything than a 1080. (Performance decreasing in any fashion clearly tells you something got botched...

Did you install the appropriate driver package for 2080-series cards? One thing's for sure, you can't just change the card , reboot, let the default MS-installed driver suffice, and hope it all works out :)
Likely more an issue of drivers/new hardware, where something did not quite go right in the upgrade, as a legit 2080TI is quite a bit faster in everything than a 1080. (Performance decreasing in any fashion clearly tells you something got botched...

Did you install the appropriate driver package for 2080-series cards? One thing's for sure, you can't just change the card , reboot, let the default MS-installed driver suffice, and hope it all works out :)
 
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