- Oct 15, 2010
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Hello. Yesterday I got a new EVGA , upgrading from the GTS 450 I purchased back in October when I first built my PC. This is my very first home built PC, so if I come off as rather noobish, I apologize, this is all still fairly new to me.
I was all excited to finally be able to play games like Crysis on this card, but I was somewhat disappointed by the performance of the game when I first tested it out last night. Even on 1280x720 resolution, with all settings at Medium, the game would chug, and frames would wildly vary from 35 to 60. So I decided to test the card out on STALKER: Clear Sky Complete, and while it performed better, there were still points where the game would struggle when people started to, you know, shoot guns and stuff.
So then I tried out Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, and bad news got worse, as this game, again only at 1280x720, couldn't top 50 FPS. Now, reading up on this, I guess the game has a problem running on Windows 7, so when I get home tonight, I'll have to try running it in XP SP3 compatibility mode.
Here are my system specs:
MSI H55-GD65 Motherboard
Intel Core i5-750 Processor at stock speed (2.66 GHz)
4 GB Patriot DDR3 RAM
Cooler Master GX series 650W 80 Plus PSU
Seagate 500 GB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
I tried a couple more games tonight, and things are only getting worse. All of these are at 1920 x 1080
Borderlands runs terribly. Not even 25 FPS. If my CPU has to be overclocked, just to run a nearly 2 year old game at 30 steady FPS, then something is seriously wrong.
Bioshock 2, pretty much the same thing. Choppy, stuttering.
I tried using Driver Sweeper to clear out my old GTS 450 drivers. That seemingly had zero effect.
I tried monitoring my CPU usage and GPU usage, and for something like Crysis, it's not taxing my GPU OR CPU. I honestly have no idea what is going on here.
Is it possible that my processor, motherboard or RAM is the cause of this issue? I researched the 570 like crazy for 2 months before I bought it, and I read countless claims that "it runs all my games at max settings no sweat", and that wasn't the case for me, at least not from what I tried playing. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, as I am a primarily console gamer who was always hesistant to jump into PC gaming because I was afraid of issues just like this.
I was all excited to finally be able to play games like Crysis on this card, but I was somewhat disappointed by the performance of the game when I first tested it out last night. Even on 1280x720 resolution, with all settings at Medium, the game would chug, and frames would wildly vary from 35 to 60. So I decided to test the card out on STALKER: Clear Sky Complete, and while it performed better, there were still points where the game would struggle when people started to, you know, shoot guns and stuff.
So then I tried out Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, and bad news got worse, as this game, again only at 1280x720, couldn't top 50 FPS. Now, reading up on this, I guess the game has a problem running on Windows 7, so when I get home tonight, I'll have to try running it in XP SP3 compatibility mode.
Here are my system specs:
MSI H55-GD65 Motherboard
Intel Core i5-750 Processor at stock speed (2.66 GHz)
4 GB Patriot DDR3 RAM
Cooler Master GX series 650W 80 Plus PSU
Seagate 500 GB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
I tried a couple more games tonight, and things are only getting worse. All of these are at 1920 x 1080
Borderlands runs terribly. Not even 25 FPS. If my CPU has to be overclocked, just to run a nearly 2 year old game at 30 steady FPS, then something is seriously wrong.
Bioshock 2, pretty much the same thing. Choppy, stuttering.
I tried using Driver Sweeper to clear out my old GTS 450 drivers. That seemingly had zero effect.
I tried monitoring my CPU usage and GPU usage, and for something like Crysis, it's not taxing my GPU OR CPU. I honestly have no idea what is going on here.
Is it possible that my processor, motherboard or RAM is the cause of this issue? I researched the 570 like crazy for 2 months before I bought it, and I read countless claims that "it runs all my games at max settings no sweat", and that wasn't the case for me, at least not from what I tried playing. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, as I am a primarily console gamer who was always hesistant to jump into PC gaming because I was afraid of issues just like this.
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