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Problem with 8800GTS?

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sthaznpride17

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So I recently upgraded my old 6800 Vanilla to a brand new 8800GTS 320MB by eVGA. I expected to see a huge increase performance and image wise across all my games. I was surprised to see that in Counterstrike Source, my FPS still stayed the same at around 45-70 FPS. Guild Wars increased only slightly, LoTR: Online Beta gets only around 20fps in the towns with 8x AA and settings on Ultra High. Dark Messiah gets 20-30FPS average. All games run at 1280 x 1024 and every setting is turned to the max. I was even more shocked to see that the autodetect/reccomended settings for each game was LOWER than the reccomended settings when I had my 6800 in. (Example in CS under advanced options). What is going on? Should I be worried or is it just premature drivers (97.92) that nVidia has to work on? Am I expecting too much?
 
Well, I wouldn't use 8xAA, I'd try 8xCSAA or 16xCSAA as both would most likely have better framerates.

Also I never trusted auto-detect, that stuff is broken to me 😉

Now do you overclock the video card at all?
Because I've found that an overclocked 8800GTS can almost, just almost touch a stock GTX. Of course the reduced RAM will also lower performance slightly but still, it should be close.

It may be a little bit of both but I think that you should get slightly higher FPS then your getting now. In Dark Messiah a big thing was the (I think) texture detail. That just ate up RAM and you almost had to have a 512mb video card or higher to run. At least thats what I think.
 
Man, something has got to be wrong there. You sure some one didn't stick a 9800pro in your 8800gts box and return it?
 
So I should use driver cleaner and reinstall 97.92's? Yeah PingSpike that what I thought too. It certainly runs some games better than my old 6800 but not by that much. I thought 8800's should rip through all these games.
 
Oh and I forgot to mention that in the Lost Coast Video Stress test, the buildings and the oil rig towers look like they are flickering. That can't be normal can it.
 
8X AA in EQ2 with max detail at 1280x1024? On a 4000+ with 1GB RAM? I think you are expecting a lot from the card. Try 4x AA 16x AF and see what your frame rates are.

More importantly, use 3DMark05/06 to benchmark and see where you stand compared to similar systems.
 
Id say your processor is definitely the bottleneck. See if you can squeeze a few more hundred megahertz out of the 4000sandiego.
 
Thanks a lot guys. I was hoping that a 4000+ would make a difference, but I guess it is better than my old 3000+ that I had in there earlier. Now that would have been painful.
 
Originally posted by: sthaznpride17
Thanks a lot guys. I was hoping that a 4000+ would make a difference, but I guess it is better than my old 3000+ that I had in there earlier. Now that would have been painful.
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I guarantee your cpu is holding you back. I have a GTS 640mb and a 3500+. I had to overclock the cpu to 2.6 to break 6500 in 3DMark 06.
 
Originally posted by: JPB
Originally posted by: sthaznpride17
Thanks a lot guys. I was hoping that a 4000+ would make a difference, but I guess it is better than my old 3000+ that I had in there earlier. Now that would have been painful.
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I guarantee your cpu is holding you back. I have a GTS 640mb and a 3500+. I had to overclock the cpu to 2.6 to break 6500 in 3DMark 06.
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No question that your CPU is limiting performance quite a bit, HOWEVER you should still be seeing a substantial performance increase in any newer game with that upgrade at 1280x1024.

Follow the advice about running driver-cleaner in safe-mode, then re-install the drivers clean & report back.
 
Originally posted by: sthaznpride17
I just ran 3dMark06 and got a score of 6179. Is this in line with my system specs or is it a little to low?
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hey i got higher than than (62xx) with less ram. but it inline. my specs are quite similar to your and i too have a 8800gts (evga) (haven't updated the sig yet).

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just because 3d mark score is low due to PCU should not mean anything to real games.
for ex. FEAR maxed at 12x10 put 100% load on my cpu. oblivion at 12x10 put only 50% so i knkow my grpahic card is holding it back .

btw oblivion is so pretty on 8800gts. i love my 8800.
 
Originally posted by: Captante
Originally posted by: JPB
Originally posted by: sthaznpride17
Thanks a lot guys. I was hoping that a 4000+ would make a difference, but I guess it is better than my old 3000+ that I had in there earlier. Now that would have been painful.
Click to expand...

I guarantee your cpu is holding you back. I have a GTS 640mb and a 3500+. I had to overclock the cpu to 2.6 to break 6500 in 3DMark 06.
Click to expand...


No question that your CPU is limiting performance quite a bit, HOWEVER you should still be seeing a substantial performance increase in any newer game with that upgrade at 1280x1024.

Follow the advice about running driver-cleaner in safe-mode, then re-install the drivers clean & report back.
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It's cool though because I have a X2 5400...M2N...and 2 gig of memory DDR 800 on the way. So it will be taken care of.🙂
 
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