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Huge drop in peformance - 9800GT
- Nov 17, 2012 10:28 pm GMT
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I had a previous build consisting of a Corsair 500W PSU and a 1GB 9800GT slapped into a 5 year old HP M8000N. The M8000N had an Athlon X2 processor, 2GBs of DDR2 RAM, etc. Games ran OK on it, not great.
Recently that computer died, and I recycled the 9800GT & PSU into the following build:
i3-2120 3.3 GHz 3 MB Cache
- Win7 X64
- Gigabyte H61 Micro ATX Mobo
- 4GBs Corsaird DDR3 1333Mhz RAM
- WD 500GB HDD 7200RPM
Once I had it together, I installed the Nvidia drivers from the manufacturer CD. The Windows Experience Index ranked my GPU ay 6.6. Later, after I updated to the latest Nvidia drivers off their website, it dropped to 4.6 GPU processing power, and 2.0 Aero perforamce. I thought that was ridicuous, and rescanned the index. GPU stayed the same at 4.6, but Aero index increased to 3.2.
Great.
I ran BC2 just to check it. Single player ran fine on medium settings. Funny thing is, I tried playing BC2 about eight hours after that with the same settings. Framerate chugged and slugged through the opening cutscene at maybe 5FPS.
Anyoone know whats going on?
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- Nov 17, 2012 10:34 pm GMT
try different drivers. 9800 doesn't like the new stuff.
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- Nov 17, 2012 10:40 pm GMT
As I said though, the game ran fine earlier in the day with the new drivers installed. Card is only 9 months old, it cant be dying on me already!
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As I said though, the game ran fine earlier in the day with the new drivers installed. Card is only 9 months old, it cant be dying on me already! :?
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- Nov 17, 2012 11:45 pm GMTGameHog9 wrote:
As I said though, the game ran fine earlier in the day with the new drivers installed. Card is only 9 months old, it cant be dying on me already!
Maybe try a clean install of windows, and then all drivers. That and make sure you get all the important Windows updates.
[QUOTE="GameHog9"]As I said though, the game ran fine earlier in the day with the new drivers installed. Card is only 9 months old, it cant be dying on me already! :?
[/QUOTE] Maybe try a clean install of windows, and then all drivers. That and make sure you get all the important Windows updates.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 18, 2012 8:12 am GMT
Was your CPU recycled or re-assembled in anyway? I can say that performance drops over time are normally due to overheating. It can be overheating on both your cpu or gpu. If your gpu hadn't had a record of overheating, then it's unlikely to be the culprit. However, if you re-assemble all of your pc components and depending on how much of a newbie you are to assembling pc hardware, you couldn't have forgotten your thermo paste for your CPU right? That, or maybe your heat sinks are clogged up.
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- Nov 18, 2012 11:19 am GMT
Is the GPU going to max speed when you game?
GPUs these days run at slow clocks in windows to save power, but clock up for 3D games, maybe it isn't speeding up.
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- Nov 18, 2012 12:16 pm GMT
System
|CM 690II Lite|Corsair TX750W|Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3|AMD Phenom II X4 955 C3 @3.8GHz cooled by Corsair A50|8GB DDR3 Kingston HyperXBlu @1333MHz|Gigabyte GTX570 1280MB|Onboard Audio|Western Digital 500GB|Windows 7 Professional x64|LG Flatron W2261VP 22Inch 1920x1080 Monitor|Steam = Roderz
[QUOTE="kraken2109"]Is the GPU going to max speed when you game?
GPUs these days run at slow clocks in windows to save power, but clock up for 3D games, maybe it isn't speeding up.
[/QUOTE] This has happened to me before- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
