GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW Underperforming

[Chasen6]

Hey,

I recieved my GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW card yesterday, but when I go to play any of my games: CSGO, DayZ, Arc, H1Z1, COD Black Ops 3. The card automatically puts the settings to medium/high or high/ultra. But I get terrible FPS.

3D MARK RESULTS:
https://gyazo.com/4f8e051c4397a7297cf1693b845f5449
https://gyazo.com/29948cd656465fc8ac58da82cc2031ff

*Not sure if I need to be specific to the companies of my PS and Ram, If needed, let me know*

PC SPECS:
CPU: i5 4430 3.00 GHz
PS: 550W
MB: Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
RAM: 8 GB
GPU: GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW

I know my PS and my CPU aren't the best, but would that really effect my game play as much as it does?

 

[Chasen6]

If I wanted to run games such as Dark Souls 3, Witcher 3, ARC. Would I just need to upgrade my CPU? or would my PSU need upgrading aswell.

 

[Alan Caldwell]

If you want. try this.

Try this,
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

 

[Chasen6]

I just wiped Windows yesterday and reinstalled all my drivers and all that jazz but I will go and double check incase that could be the issue.

 

[Wayfall]

Don't start discriminating me. Coz I have a dual core, it doesn't mean idk about PCs. It is in CPU intensive games I say, compared to other processors like an i5 4690k. He needs a better PSU. That's all.

I'm sorry but I really believe what your saying is misleading. Between each Haswell i5 there is a tiny % difference increase in performance which would only be noticed when doing rendering and encoding.

He does NOT need to upgrade whatsoever. Especially a K series of all CPU's as it is very likely he will never overclock (in my option overclocking is pointless, your voiding your warranty and shortening the hell out of the CPU'd life span)

Yes maybe he needs a better quality PSU but its like if my CX hadn't started rattling I wouldn't of upgraded it as it was working so why replace something if it still works totally fine.

Can we please get back to the issue which is that the thread poster is having issues with these games:

CSGO is a very popular game and more than half its users play with Vysnc off to remove mouse lag which I have never noticed really thou there are still many hardware issues imbedded in the game which need fixing and Valve is working hard to fix them constantly

DayZ which i'm presuming you mean the standalone version which I actually own and have tried but my usages never went above 30% on either CPU or GPU pointing towards utter rubbish optimisation, if I turn vysnc off nothing changes (usually the GPU should jump to 99-100% usage as you have unlocked the frames so allowing the GPU to chugg out as many frames as it wants but poor optimization can halt this)

Arc is one of the more GPU demanding games with many settings to tweak thou it comes with its fair share of hardware issues which are mostly the same as Dayz's being that the program is not using all of the hardware's resources correctly, its rather common is games these days sadly.

H1Z1 again I have tried this game and within 10 minutes refunded it as the second I got in the game I was plagued by lag, slow loading textures and frame drop for no reason. It looks like a game a college games development student could create easily.

COD Black Ops 3 is more GPU demanding and requires a lot of VRAM to run thou even if you have over the requirements you can be plagued by problems while other users may not, its very hit and miss. It feels a lot like the issues we had with COD Ghosts (which Is the first COD game I fully prestige on xbox 360, it seemed the only platform that played the game smooth with no issues which was disappointing)

You should really go download Team Fortress 2, buy Skyrim, Shadow of Mordor and so on as these will run so well on your pc.

Hope this helps

 

[Wayfall]

If you want. try this.

Try this,
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

I trust this program way more over what your recommended:
DriverSweeper
http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

I would high recommend you create a system restore before wiping any major driver and then restart your pc in safe mode (http://support.eset.com/kb2268/?locale=en_US) as there are parts of drivers that do not like being removed when in normal desktop mode.

Again I hope this helps your issues, thou this is a last resort well that and an RMA which I do not see that you need.

Message me if you have any more issues.

 

[Chasen6]

Thank you all very much for your time and effort to solve my problem! Very much appreciated!

 

[Alan Caldwell]

If you want. try this.

Try this,
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

I trust this program way more over what your recommended:
DriverSweeper
http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

See, in that page itself, it says, "Driver Sweeper has been replaced with Display Driver Uninstaller". 😛

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Thank you all very much for your time and effort to solve my problem! Very much appreciated!

You are welcome. 😀

 

[Chasen6]

If you want. try this.

Try this,
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

I trust this program way more over what your recommended:
DriverSweeper
http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

Just purchased Shadows of Morodor Lets see how she runs!

 

[Wayfall]

Thank you all very much for your time and effort to solve my problem! Very much appreciated!

Np

Have a nice day

 

[Wayfall]

If you want. try this.

Try this,
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

I trust this program way more over what your recommended:
DriverSweeper
http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

Just purchased Shadows of Morodor Lets see how she runs!

Where did you get it off as I got mine for £9 off G2A, Steam was £19.99 I think.

Also quick note: When I played the game for the first time I was plagued by screen tearing even while vysnced, I fixed this by switching to borderless windowed mode.

 

[Chasen6]

Lol Steam. I didnt check G2A. I paid 49.99 Canadian.

Its on for 7$ Canadian. ****

I refunded steam and bought it on G2A, thanks for the reminder!

 

[Wayfall]

You can get MSI afterburner to monitor all your hardware in game also by the way so you can tweak settings if some are to demanding on the GPU, Ultra set my GPU to 80-100% so I run all on high and it looks no different.

I would also advice you play with a controller as keyboard can be slightly fiddly, controller comes second nature to me. I know what I want to do on-screen and my hands press all the write buttons, I don't even need to think about it.

Look it up on Youtube for a tutorial video on how to set up the on-screen display.

 

[Voyvoda]

Anytime someone says "Bottlenecking" just ignore them because they are clueless.
In order to see a big difference in performance (i mean like 10fps difference) would be using a GTX660 with an i7 and then switching to an i3 1.8ghz. That change causes only a 10 fps drop on Valley Benchmark and 10-15 fps drop on Battlefield 4. But you would still be running at 60-70 fps running an i3 with a 660.