I finally decided to upgrade my pc since it was about 7 years old. I was running an Nvidia 660Ti overclocked to 1306mhz with and FX-6300 cpu, overclocked as well. I swapped them out for a ryzen 7 2700x on an aorus x570 elite board with an EVGA 2070 Super gpu. nothing overclocked.
I've been unable to play games since then. I've experienced a wide range of issues with several different games.
Then I ran the same set of tests on each card. Swapped it, installed latest drivers, set the screen resolution and tested gpu benchmark and a couple of games. Each time the same settings were applied in Nvidia control panel. 1080Px120HZ, limit frame rate to 118FPS, adapative v-sync: on, everything else was left at default.
Here are the benchmark and game testing results.
Benchmark Settings:
Quality: High
Resolution: 1080P
DX11
AAx2
660Ti
50FPS, (min - 30.8, Max - 105.3) score of 1263, smooth video, no stuttering, screen tearing, artifacts. 60C max temp
2070 Super
116.9 FPS (min - 41.2, Max - 118.3) score of 2944. video stuttering (not terrible but noticeable) and some screen tearing. 60C max temp
For the games I am just measuring by gameplay experience as I don't have any monitoring tools to show an OSD. I did not reinstall them after windows install in case they were the culprit.
Forza 4 Horizon
660Ti
loads quickly and plays perfectly fine on low settings. I was able to play on ultra without any issues but I did get a warning about low video memory but that seems normal.
2070 Super
slow to load, locks up in the loading screens, cant get to the game. After several cycles of swapping cards it mysteriously started working but it has stuttering issues.
Metro Exodus
This is where I really noticed something was wrong.
660Ti
loads quickly and plays perfectly fine on ULTRA settings. I was able to play on ultra without any issues and the game looks great.
2070 Super
crashes, won't load, and then after a few cycles of card swapping it started to play, really weird... This has terrible video during the intro scene, major artifacting, some stuttering etc... and oddly everything was really dark in this game. I noticed it because when I put the 660Ti in it was much brighter and more vivid colors. I realized that any dark colors, especially if you are in a sewer for example is pitch black, you can't see anything. impossible to play. With the 660Ti, it seemed fine.
Digging around in the settings for Metro I saw the setting for HDR which reminded that I have it turned on in Windows so I tried turning it on in the game but it didn't help. I turned it off in windows and went back in game and all of the colors were fixed. I could see!
Obviously I came to the thought that HDR in windows might be the culprit so I ran another round of testing. with HDR off the stress test still had some minor stuttering but it was better than before. The video quality is improved, no screen tearing, artifacts etc... but it still doesn't make sense to me.
Does anyone else experience problems like this when using HDR? Is this a windows issue or a bad card?
Shouldn't this cpu/gpu combo be able to play everything on at least high, or ultra, and especially go through a stress test without stuttering? (even with HDR off I still experienced some in the stress test and it wasn't even on extreme)
SYSTEM SPECS
Board: Gigabyte x570 Elite (F11 bios, latest chipset driver)
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X (no overclock)
GPU: EVGA 2070 Super Black Gaming (no overclock)
RAM: Gkill RipJaws (2x8GB) DDR4, XMP profile @ 3200mhz (tried disabling XMP and that didn't help. Tried one stick as well which didn't help either)
PSU: Rosewill Fortress-750
HDD: Seagate 4TB 7200 (tested fine in benchmarks and tried my SSD too)
DISPLAY
TCL 55p607 - 4K HDR 120HZ display connected via HDMI. The TV does show status of refresh rate, resolution and HDR10 in an OSD.
I've been unable to play games since then. I've experienced a wide range of issues with several different games.
- not loading at all, no errors.
- loading slowly
- loading but then locking up forcing me to kill the task.
- Loading then crashing.
- loading in a window instead of fullscreen (alt+enter doesn't fix it)
- Loading and working, but degraded video quality, stuttering, artifacts, screen tearing
- overall buggy experience trying to play any games or even within the XBOX game pass program. Videos seem to play fine in VLC etc...
Then I ran the same set of tests on each card. Swapped it, installed latest drivers, set the screen resolution and tested gpu benchmark and a couple of games. Each time the same settings were applied in Nvidia control panel. 1080Px120HZ, limit frame rate to 118FPS, adapative v-sync: on, everything else was left at default.
Here are the benchmark and game testing results.
Benchmark Settings:
Quality: High
Resolution: 1080P
DX11
AAx2
660Ti
50FPS, (min - 30.8, Max - 105.3) score of 1263, smooth video, no stuttering, screen tearing, artifacts. 60C max temp
2070 Super
116.9 FPS (min - 41.2, Max - 118.3) score of 2944. video stuttering (not terrible but noticeable) and some screen tearing. 60C max temp
For the games I am just measuring by gameplay experience as I don't have any monitoring tools to show an OSD. I did not reinstall them after windows install in case they were the culprit.
Forza 4 Horizon
660Ti
loads quickly and plays perfectly fine on low settings. I was able to play on ultra without any issues but I did get a warning about low video memory but that seems normal.
2070 Super
slow to load, locks up in the loading screens, cant get to the game. After several cycles of swapping cards it mysteriously started working but it has stuttering issues.
Metro Exodus
This is where I really noticed something was wrong.
660Ti
loads quickly and plays perfectly fine on ULTRA settings. I was able to play on ultra without any issues and the game looks great.
2070 Super
crashes, won't load, and then after a few cycles of card swapping it started to play, really weird... This has terrible video during the intro scene, major artifacting, some stuttering etc... and oddly everything was really dark in this game. I noticed it because when I put the 660Ti in it was much brighter and more vivid colors. I realized that any dark colors, especially if you are in a sewer for example is pitch black, you can't see anything. impossible to play. With the 660Ti, it seemed fine.
Digging around in the settings for Metro I saw the setting for HDR which reminded that I have it turned on in Windows so I tried turning it on in the game but it didn't help. I turned it off in windows and went back in game and all of the colors were fixed. I could see!
Obviously I came to the thought that HDR in windows might be the culprit so I ran another round of testing. with HDR off the stress test still had some minor stuttering but it was better than before. The video quality is improved, no screen tearing, artifacts etc... but it still doesn't make sense to me.
Does anyone else experience problems like this when using HDR? Is this a windows issue or a bad card?
Shouldn't this cpu/gpu combo be able to play everything on at least high, or ultra, and especially go through a stress test without stuttering? (even with HDR off I still experienced some in the stress test and it wasn't even on extreme)
SYSTEM SPECS
Board: Gigabyte x570 Elite (F11 bios, latest chipset driver)
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X (no overclock)
GPU: EVGA 2070 Super Black Gaming (no overclock)
RAM: Gkill RipJaws (2x8GB) DDR4, XMP profile @ 3200mhz (tried disabling XMP and that didn't help. Tried one stick as well which didn't help either)
PSU: Rosewill Fortress-750
HDD: Seagate 4TB 7200 (tested fine in benchmarks and tried my SSD too)
DISPLAY
TCL 55p607 - 4K HDR 120HZ display connected via HDMI. The TV does show status of refresh rate, resolution and HDR10 in an OSD.
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