Geforce GTX 580

[twiz90]

Hello there tom's hardware I have just joined and have heard good reviews about this website and was hoping that someone here could possibly help me with my problem.

My problem is that I recently bought a GTX 580 off of newegg. After installing the card into my motherboard and installing the drivers I went to www.systemrequirementslab.com to see if I could run some games before buying them.

I click battlefield 3 and I get this, http://i39.tinypic.com/14nfynl.png

It is saying that my brand new graphics card isn't good enough to run the game!? I do not see how this is possible, I checked on the Geforce website and it says it has a model shader of 5.0 so I do not see why it is coming up as a 3.0?

My system is in the screenshot above.


EDIT: by the way in that screenshot I cropped out the thing where it says FAIL. Thought that would be an important piece of information.

 

[twiz90]

Make sure you are running .NET framework 4 too.

Where can I check what version of .NET framework I have? And if need where can it be downloaded?

 

[twiz90]

Ok, installed .NET framework 4 and did a restart, tried and gave me the same error.

 

[twiz90]

Well, after a night of rest I was thinking of what someone said about it could be my motherboard that was giving me the problem? And I thought about when I flashed my BIOS I installed the F9B BIOS which was a beta driver, and maybe something could've messed something up so my card is reading as something different? Anyway maybe I am completely wrong and am just rambling.

 

[amuffin]

Can you even play games? Such as good fps in a game like crysis. Or is everything screwed up?

 

[twiz90]

Can you even play games? Such as good fps in a game like crysis. Or is everything screwed up?

Well I do not own crysis the only game i have that is most recent is Dead Island and i can run that game like a charm. zero fps lag, its great, its just BF3 it's really ticking me off.

 

[gmcizzle]

Go to Start -> Type in dxdiag -> Click on dxdiag, hit yes if it asks you to check if digitally signed. Check what directx version shows up there.

 

[gnomio]

why go to a website. Install the game and run it. Theres your best requirement notifier you can get

 

[bigkid]

Here is what it ran.

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/11/11/03/fd9.png

it says "pci x16" it should say 'pci x16 2.0' .... so that's a prob i think...i'm not home now but i'll post how it should look later -- pretty sure you can google the remedy

 

[gmcizzle]

it says "pci x16" it should say 'pci x16 2.0' .... so that's a prob i think...i'm not home now but i'll post how it should look later -- pretty sure you can google the remedy

When I run GPU-Z at first it comes up at PCIe 2.0 16x but after a few seconds it goes to PCIe 16x, probably a bug or something.

 

[twiz90]

Go to Start -> Type in dxdiag -> Click on dxdiag, hit yes if it asks you to check if digitally signed. Check what directx version shows up there.

It is showing up as DirectX version 11 on the DX diag.

 

[gmcizzle]

Do you have any other dx11 games you can try to see if dx11 is working properly?

 

[ragetg]

twiz90 you have a lot of explaining to do, get in vent.

 

[twiz90]

Do you have any other dx11 games you can try to see if dx11 is working properly?

What is a directX11 game that I could try it with besides bf3, they gave me a free batman arkam city with my GPU purchace

 

[gmcizzle]

Try the Unigine Heaven benchmark http://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/

If you can run that in dx11 and switch tessellation on/off then dx11 is working fine. While in the benchmark hit F3 to switch tessellation on/off, and F2 for wireframe on/off so you can see the polys.

 

[bigkid]

When I run GPU-Z at first it comes up at PCIe 2.0 16x but after a few seconds it goes to PCIe 16x, probably a bug or something.

here is the problem i think ....it shouldn't do that ....i dont have a solution though --- good lick

 

[bigkid]

ooooppppsssss.......lol.....good LUCK

 

[bigkid]

your mb does supoport x16 2.0 ... did you re-install mb drivers after you flashed the bios....also when flashing bios you need to reset all valus to default on the first boot...then do any tweaks later...dig into this

 

[twiz90]

well i was talking to someone over the phone somone on another forum helping me and he was saying that since i upgraded from windows xp to win 7 that it could have left some things behind. He told me to run a virtualbox program but what one can run 64bit 7

 

[gnomio]

Did you try and fine tune the profile for the game? Nvidia got profiles for their games and you can tune them further with a advance profile editor like Nhancer. Give it a try

 

[twiz90]

In my dxdiag it is saying that my DDI VERSION is 9ex

 

[gmcizzle]

Ok read this http://www.squidoo.com/uninstalldirectx

Apparently there are tools you can use to attempt to remove directx, but from what I understand directx is basically part of the OS. You can attempt to remove directx using the tool mentioned in that link but you definitely want to backup your computer in case something goes wrong, and do this at your own risk. If the uninstaller doesn't work, then you will have to reformat and reinstall windows 7 from scratch in order to get directx 11 working properly.