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FusIoN00
04-13-06, 07:10 PM
I am still getting surprisingly low performance after installing the above card.

My PC spec:

P4 3.0Ghz HT 800FSB CPU
1GB RAM
Win XP SP2
160GB HD

PC is fully capable of taking advantage of this card but I am getting quite low performance and can't get much stability with it.

I have updated to latest drivers still no luck.

Any suggestion guys?
a12ctic
04-13-06, 07:14 PM
I am still getting surprisingly low performance after installing the above card.

My PC spec:

P4 3.0Ghz HT 800FSB CPU
1GB RAM
Win XP SP2
160GB HD

PC is fully capable of taking advantage of this card but I am getting quite low performance and can't get much stability with it.

I have updated to latest drivers still no luck.

Any suggestion guys?Did you use driver cleaner?
FusIoN00
04-13-06, 07:16 PM
Nope I didn't, not heard of that could you post link or I will try googling aswell.
a12ctic
04-13-06, 07:19 PM
http://www.drivercleaner.net/

Im not quite sure how to use it, that seems to be the most common situation though (as a linux user i dont need to do that crap )
FusIoN00
04-13-06, 07:24 PM
Ok thanks, I'll give it a go.
FusIoN00
04-13-06, 08:17 PM
Went through all the steps, and it hasn't really made a impact atall.

Any other suggestions? :(
Roadhog
04-13-06, 08:32 PM
whats the performance your getting?
JamesDax
04-13-06, 08:48 PM
Are you getting enough power from your PSU??
Iceman0124
04-13-06, 09:02 PM
what are you upgrading from?
UltraEvo
04-13-06, 10:12 PM
Reinstall it? Or is it because of a spoilt hardware in your computer?
FusIoN00
04-14-06, 04:56 AM
Upgrading from a very low budget ATI Radeon 9550SE. Will answer other questions later, gotta go off to work right now.

Power Supply is a ATX-400 400W so must be enough coming from that I guess.
FusIoN00
04-16-06, 04:50 AM
Any other things I could try guys? :(
sharangad
04-16-06, 05:46 AM
Any other things I could try guys? :(


What do you mean by low performance? How is the card slow?
MattC
04-16-06, 05:56 AM
I found out when I got 6600GT recently several games are CPU limited, such as CSS... I didn't get any better FPS with it than on my 5700, although I could now run with 4xAA and 8xAF and it looked nicer with the DX9 shaders...

Doom 3 / Quake 4 run much, MUCH faster though.

A simple test to see if your game is CPU limited is to run it with no AA and no AF, and then turn AF and AA back on, and if you get roughly the same FPS, it's your CPU that doesn't have enough juice, not your graphics card.
MattC
04-16-06, 06:04 AM
http://www.drivercleaner.net/

Im not quite sure how to use it, that seems to be the most common situation though (as a linux user i dont need to do that crap )

No it's just something clueless people throw up because they don't have a real answer or know the right question to ask. NVIDIA drivers since at least the 5x.xx series have been perfectly capable of uninstalling themselves properly when installing new drivers.
FusIoN00
04-16-06, 02:37 PM
What do you mean by low performance? How is the card slow?

Well with the very low budget ATI card I could gat around 30 - 40 fps. And with this I have only seen an increase of around 15 fps. And when I cap my fps it doesen't stay stable.
MattC
04-16-06, 10:48 PM
Well with the very low budget ATI card I could gat around 30 - 40 fps. And with this I have only seen an increase of around 15 fps. And when I cap my fps it doesen't stay stable.

In what game(s)?
Fathertime36
04-17-06, 12:47 AM
No it's just something clueless people throw up because they don't have a real answer or know the right question to ask. NVIDIA drivers since at least the 5x.xx series have been perfectly capable of uninstalling themselves properly when installing new drivers.


Thats odd, try not using a driver cleaner app, and look in the registry and nvidia drivers folder after installing a couple of different versions and you will find a bunch there in both....can and could cause issues. clueless how?
FusIoN00
04-17-06, 02:07 PM
In game Enemy Territory with graphics on low, as I have always had them. Also 1024 x 768 res setting.
sharangad
04-17-06, 03:33 PM
Well with the very low budget ATI card I could gat around 30 - 40 fps. And with this I have only seen an increase of around 15 fps. And when I cap my fps it doesen't stay stable.


Did you connect the extra power connector to the card?
FusIoN00
04-17-06, 04:03 PM
Did you connect the extra power connector to the card?

Yep :)
FusIoN00
04-18-06, 02:29 PM
I have e-mailed nVidia customer support now about the whole thing. A bit optomistic though as to how helpful that will turn out to be.