I just bought a 8800GTS with 640MB. I seem to be getting really really poor performance in games such as FEAR and CS:S. The weird thing is that i can max everything in FEAR no probs at a resolution of 1280X1024 in the test thing it says that i have 0% under 40FPS and 100% over 40FPS which is good, but when i actually get round to palying the game i get jolt then smooth play, then more jolting. This happens in all of my games, like DOom 3, PRey, CS:S, only exepion would hvae to be wow. Any ideas anyone?? My system specs are:
AMD Athlon 3800+X2
1024 MB of ram (1gb)
400W PSU
IM running Windows Vista Ultimate
and ofcourse the BFG 880GTS 640MB.
IM stuck!
2007-03-20 09:00:41 · 6 answers · asked by shishuzy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
the power supply is weak, thats my first guess .. get a 500w+ one ... try updating drivers if u havent .. make sure directx is the latest release ... and be sure u have enough air moving through ur case so its cool ... if ur running vista ... well.... if all else fails thats prolly the problem ... upgrade back to XPSP2.
2007-03-20 09:04:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dze does have it right the power supply seems a little low, but if it can handle it (not many parts drawing amps). Heat and air flow doesn't slow a card down.
It can be the cpu slowing it down:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/29/geforce_8800_needs_the_fastest_cpu/
and vista WILL, with no doubt slow it down alot.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/
And adding 1gb of ram will help out as well, as Vista really requires 2gb to fuction correctly. (better having XP with 2gb of ram).
2007-03-20 11:43:24 · answer #2 · answered by computertech82 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 8800GTS is likely one in all the optimal selection video enjoying cards out precise now. The 640MB version would be the extra useful fee (while in comparison with the 320MB 8800GTS) because of fact some extreme end video games propose having 512MB of video memory. better than 640 is a waste precise now. this is going to run all the video games that are out precise now. Crysis i think of can attain medium to extreme on that card. in case you SLI it you will get some especially candy overall performance.
2016-11-27 01:10:54 · answer #3 · answered by shiley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would venture a guess that it is most likely Vista related.
Vista is a memory hog, to run smoothly you are going to want at least 2 gigs of memory.
It could also be other issues involved with Vista, various bugs etc. I would make sure you have all the updates installed.
2007-03-20 09:05:50 · answer #4 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like said above, I would consider upgrading RAM & PSU.
MithrilHawk you got to be really stupid, most people don't have 256MB graphic cards. (less than half)
2007-03-20 12:21:30 · answer #5 · answered by INOA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only 640 MB on the video card? What were you thinking?
Sell it and get a card with more RAM on it, two if you have an SLI board.
2007-03-20 09:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by MithrilHawk 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋