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4xxx Radeon to 6850 and WORSE performance..HELP!

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Morphx2

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So I installed new power supply (OCZ 700W from newegg), new rear case fan, new video card (went from a 4xxx to a Sapphire 6850 Radeon HD) and things are acting slower. Seems like my computer is kinda chugging along at times instead of being smooth in games. DCUO was fine and smooth before, but with this videocard it kinda has texture popping and hitches when flying around. I have v-sync on and it is steady 30 sometimes, then dips to 20, then back to 30 and continuously doing that. I think TF2 got a little more sluggish, but I couldn’t tell that well. All my settings in game were the same as before I switched the cards; nothing changed.

Here are my system stats:

GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor BX80571E7400

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ


Things I did in order

Uninstall videocard drivers/catalyst through add/remove programs
Took out old power supply and accidently took out the SATA cables, put sata cables back on HD’s (not sure if I connected them in the same ports as before, I have 2 HD’s)
Put in new power supply
Put in new video card
Connected everything
Booted up fine
Went to store, bought new rear case fan since my old one died
Hooked up case fan, closed case
Installed new drivers for video card from ATI website 11.1a (i think)

Then after some suggestions from other places

Uninstalled drivers/catalyst again
Used Driver Sweeper
Restarted in safe mode
Driver Sweeper again
Rebooted
Installed 11.1a
Rebooted

Same thing as before.




What else should I try to do? Put in my old video card and try it again? Try new video card with old power supply (an Antec 400W)? Try older drivers?
 
Install new chipset drivers and latest motherboard bios.
Make sure you card is running at 16x pci-e. I have seen boards goto 4x or even 1x before for some reason.
 
Morphx2 said:
think that would do it? Why do you think that would be the problem?
Where would i go find them?
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Just a hunch but changing your sata ports could be the problem and installing chipset drivers moght help. A bios change might help also since your going from a pci-e 2.0 card to a pci-e 2.1 (I think).

It never hurts to try.
 
I only disconnected the SATA ports from the HD, not the motherboard. I put them back in the correct place.

I will check the BIOS and things like that later.

Troubleshooting sucks >😀
 
Yeah, i should of probably clarified the SATA part 😀

I hate when im at work and want to go home and try to fix this thing 😀
 
PowerColor AX4830 512MD3-H Radeon HD 4830 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
 
A 6850 should be pretty darn smooth in TF2 at 1680x1050.

I'd start by ensuring you've got all the Catalyst settings under Video, Gaming, Overdrive, etc. set back to defaults. They are supposed to get cleaned up when you reinstall, but...make sure. Same for TF2's settings. Set them to the "recommended" settings. Turn off v-sync and get an idea of the fps range with fraps. Should be a lot higher than 20-30 fps.
 
Use gpu-z , see what it states and use the internal screenshot function and post it here, like this. So we can check it out.
Its the camera in the upper right corner.
a32.png
 
Morphx2 said:
Okie. Will do that later too. I have fps enabled in the game for TF2, so no need for fraps.
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Press the tilde (~) key to open the console. Type the following:

net_graph 1

You can also use "net_graph 2" or "net_graph 3". To turn it off enter "net_graph 0".

You should be beasting TF2 quite easily. Right-click the game in Steam, go to properties, and defrag and verify the local files. Heck, I recommend you defrag your drive while you're at it. TF2 will auto-detect settings if it auto-detects a new card, so I imagine it did this when you installed your card and it may have borked up.

And like mentioned go into the CCC and check over the settings. Make sure something like SuperSampling isn't turned up really high.
 
If you noticed, once the game started loading (desktop goes black), the game take much longer to load than it usually does, then it was auto-reconfiguring itself. So it probably changed some settings. Although the 6850 should be fast enough to handle any settings TF2 uses.
 
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