New computer, terrible video performance

[MKOdoric]

Hey guys, I just put together a new rig and I'm getting horrendous performance in games. So far I've tried COD4 and Bioshock, even on low settings it's a slideshow.

Here are my system specs:

M/B: Asus P5Q
Proc: E8400
Ram: Patriot 8500 (4gb)
Vid Card: BFG 9600gt
H/D: OEM Samsung 500gb
PSU: Corsair TX750

All running on Vista 32bit Ultimate.

So far I've installed all the drivers that come with the motherboard, updated Vista and installed the latest videocard drivers from Nvidia (175.16 I believe) In addition I tried re-seating the video card but still no change. Though the drivers are installed for the video card this Asus power saving utility can't see it, but Vista can, so that has me confused. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

[O2Deprived]

According to the Nvidia site, there is a new driver released on Monday 175.19. Give that a try. I had a slideshow type problem along with a slow boot that was solved by this (mine was the XP update for 8800gts).

Hope it works.

 

[MKOdoric]

Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately that's the version that I'm currently running. Perhaps a do-over of my Vista install is in order?

 

[Chosonman]

What's wrong with your performance?

 

[robisbell]

all, motherboard and cpu drivers installed? drivers for the monitor installed?

 

[MKOdoric]

Everything was installed, however I fixed the problem. Vista defaulted to a power saving state, therefore for some reason my video card wasn't getting enough power. Now it's fixed. Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[robisbell]

that's good to hear, odd that Vista was doing that to the GPU, very worrisome, what if it decided to shut off the fans on it, and keep them off while you tried playing a game.