System Is Very Slow After Installing My New Graphic Card

[Serious Gamer]

Asus P8Z68 V-PRO
i5 2500k 3.30Ghz
2 x 4GB Kingston Hyper 1600Mhz

Hi,
I was running for more then 4 years, my system speed was very fast, with gaming and general use. After i installed my MSI R9 290X Gaming yesterday ,and install the AMD cd driver, my system speed Up was too slow ,for example extracting files from winrar, Converting Videos and games are sometimes slow and i am facing some crashing and freezing when playing games (Assassin's Creed The Rogue).

I am using Bandicam program to record games gameplay.
Any help appreciated.

Amine.

 

[3DVagabond]

Never install the drivers from the CD. Go to AMD's website and download the latest drivers.

I would recommend downloading DDU (Display driver uninstaller) from HERE and follow the instructions. Do the whole safe mode thing. Don't cut any corners or take shortcuts. Then install the latest drivers from AMD.

See if that fixes it.

 

[Kenmitch]

What card did you upgrade from? Did you remove the drivers? MB bios up to date?

 

[Serious Gamer]

Thanks for the reply ,i will try those steps i hope they'll work.

 

[Serious Gamer]

What card did you upgrade from? Did you remove the drivers? MB bios up to date?

NVIDIA 520GT ,no i didn't ,for the bios no the bios it's been the same since i bought the Motherbord 4 years ago!

 

[Kenmitch]

NVIDIA 520GT ,no i didn't ,for the bios no the bios it's been the same since i bought the Motherbord 4 years ago!

Remove the old drivers using DDU. Both NVIDIA and AMD's.

When the 290's launched even more current platforms had issues that required a bios update to solve.

 

[Serious Gamer]

Remove the old drivers using DDU. Both NVIDIA and AMD's.

When the 290's launched even more current platforms had issues that required a bios update to solve.

How can i update my Bios ,and isn't risky ?

 

[Kenmitch]

Only real risk is a power failure. Other than picking the wrong bios...As in wrong MB or rev version. There should be instructions on Asus website.

Try driver wipe and reinstall latest drivers 1st.

 

[Burpo]

What power supply?

 

[Serious Gamer]

Only real risk is a power failure. Other than picking the wrong bios...As in wrong MB or rev version. There should be instructions on Asus website.

Try driver wipe and reinstall latest drivers 1st.

yes that's what i am afraid of ,we have a lot of power cut in my country and i can't assure if there will be no power failure. for the DDU i've extract the file but i don't know what should i do now there's no setup file.

 

[Serious Gamer]

What power supply?

Thermaltaker Smart SE 730W

 

[Kenmitch]

yes that's what i am afraid of ,we have a lot of power cut in my country and i can't assure if there will be no power failure. for the DDU i've extract the file but i don't know what should i do now there's no setup file.

Once it's extracted there should be a Display Driver Uninstaller application. You just need to run it and follow the instructions. Do the reboot in safe mode option and remove both the NVidia and AMD drivers.

Bios update usually only takes a couple of minutes to complete. It's somewhat risky and not at the same time. I've never had any issues doing it but one never knows I guess.

 

[schmuckley]

Do NOT update your mobo BIOS if it works OK.
Some later ones don't work,and it's a real pain to get the old one back.
The way I uninstall GPU drivers is by right-clicking the device in Device manager,then ticking the "uninstall drivers for this device" box.
then uninstall All the AMD programs from Programs and Features.
lastly the AMD folder on root drive,then run CCleaner.
The Omega drivers should work good with your card..
I would set the CCC for however you want it..then stop it from starting with Windows from msconfig.

 

[gamervivek]

extracting files from winrar

That doesn't make any sense, why would winrar be affected?

Apparently it's hard to get rid of nvidia's drivers. If it comes to worst, reinstall the OS. Though even with driver troubles your system should be substantially faster in games than NVIDIA 520GT.

 

[Kenmitch]

That doesn't make any sense, why would winrar be affected?

Apparently it's hard to get rid of nvidia's drivers. If it comes to worst, reinstall the OS. Though even with driver troubles your system should be substantially faster in games than NVIDIA 520GT.

Thinking about it depending on what version of windows he's running it could be cured by running WEI. I think part of the process is somewhat of optimizing the OS for such things. Doubt it would cure his gaming issues.

 

[Termie]

Check what your options are in terms of PCIe slot compatibility in your motherboard's BIOS. It looks like this is a PCIe 2.0 board, but PCIe 3.0 cards like the R9 290 are usually backwards compatible. But not always.

 

[3DVagabond]

When I switched from nVidia to AMD I ran DDU a couple of times before it quit detecting any nVidia drivers. I then did the file search and registry cleanup with CC. But I do that for all programs.

I absolutely would not trust the "add or remove programs" method with nVidia drivers though.

 

[tweakboy]

If your going from ATI to nVidia .. or nvidia to ATI. Your going to need a clean OS install. gl

 

[xorbe]

I have seen this exact thread on [H] and TPU, but I don't remember the resolution. Many things were tried. But you are not alone, OP. Check your memory xmp config in motherboard bios, that's all I can remember. Use CPU-Z to check with each card installed.

Here is one of them:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1821875
If poster warm rebooted, then it was fast again. Ah, it was a PCIe setting, disable "DMI Gen 2" in motherboard bios.

 

[Termie]

I have seen this exact thread on [H] and TPU, but I don't remember the resolution. Many things were tried. But you are not alone, OP. Check your memory xmp config in motherboard bios, that's all I can remember. Use CPU-Z to check with each card installed.

Here is one of them:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1821875
If poster warm rebooted, then it was fast again. Ah, it was a PCIe setting, disable "DMI Gen 2" in motherboard bios.

His motherboard is a Gen.2 board, so that's not an option for him to change.

I already suggested he look at the PCIe option, and in fact I had this very issue on a Gigabyte board recently, which is the same brand of board in that [H] thread.

Unfortunately, I don't think the OP is in the same situation - he has an Asus board, and it's not even a PCIe 3.0 board.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Have you checked to see what your CPU temperatures are? Is it possible that you knocked loose the CPU heatsink or fan during installation?

If you put the previous card back in place does the issue resolve?