The Nvidia 280 gtx and 8800 gts
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2stepsteve
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Blimey! I'd be very fed up aswell if I splashed out all that money on *that* card only to have worse FPS! Something is definitely wrong.
How much worse is it compared to the 8800GTX?
What power supply do you have?
Did you uninstall the 8800 gts drivers before putting in and booting up with your new 280 GTX?
How are other games performing? Did you ever run 3Dmark on your old 8800 GTS if so run them and compare them to 280 GTX.
How much worse is it compared to the 8800GTX?
What power supply do you have?
Did you uninstall the 8800 gts drivers before putting in and booting up with your new 280 GTX?
How are other games performing? Did you ever run 3Dmark on your old 8800 GTS if so run them and compare them to 280 GTX.
springtransit
What are you looking at?
I also have a Geforce 8800 GTS, but mine is 640 MB. Crashes on Trainz are fairly rare, and it for the most part performs well on all my games.
robbiehanson
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I'd check heat, make sure it isn't overheating and underclocking itself. Is it slower in all games, or just Trainz?
Also, I recommend http://hardforum.com for general computer stuff like this--they're very professional and knowledgeable and have solved a problem or two for me.
Also, I recommend http://hardforum.com for general computer stuff like this--they're very professional and knowledgeable and have solved a problem or two for me.
Cheers for the reply guys.
Nope it isnt over heating have a fan right next to it keeping it cool.
The frame rates are exacaly the same as what i got with the 8800
on RS and TC3. Ive completely reformatted Vista.
Ive got a 650 watt power suply but the computer hasnt switched of yet due to it useing to much power
I had a 1000 wat power suply in it yesterday and the frame rates were just as rubbish.....
Something other than the graphic card is the performance bottleneck in the configuration. Probably a hardware setup thing less likely in view of recent OS-reinstall a 3rd party software issue.
Take a look at these testers. Maybe one of them can help you.
http://www.rightmark.org/
Take a look at these testers. Maybe one of them can help you.
http://www.rightmark.org/
2stepsteve
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Very strange that you have these problems even after a full reinstall of vista.
It leads me to think that there is a problem with the card or a driver issue. There is no way your CPU is a bottleneck.. if that is the CPU you are using in your sig (E8400).
Are you sure the card isn't over heating? Do you see any artifacts of corrupt graphics while running games? What temp does the nvidia control pannel state? Is it in the green?
It leads me to think that there is a problem with the card or a driver issue. There is no way your CPU is a bottleneck.. if that is the CPU you are using in your sig (E8400).
Are you sure the card isn't over heating? Do you see any artifacts of corrupt graphics while running games? What temp does the nvidia control pannel state? Is it in the green?
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IMO the newest video-cards don't have any good drivers. I belive the makers find it difficult for them to work well in Vista.
My experience is that the very latest drivers at the Nvidia site are more or less beta-versions. In fact, I've had latest drivers crashing Vista and made it lose track of some hardware inside. After rolling back to the drivers you get at Windows Update, it's been up and running again.
My experience is that the very latest drivers at the Nvidia site are more or less beta-versions. In fact, I've had latest drivers crashing Vista and made it lose track of some hardware inside. After rolling back to the drivers you get at Windows Update, it's been up and running again.
meatloaf747
Spotter...
Try 178.13
Recently installed NVidia GTX 280 into a PC running XP Pro. Used Nvidia's 177.92 drivers. Card seems to be going great.
The guy is really happy with it and reckons he's getting a far better frame rate than his old 8800.
(I didn't benchmark it, so I'm not to sure percentage wise what sort of increase in frame rate he is getting).
All of the new 280 benchmarks that I have seen in computer magazines, etc, show that the 280 leaves all of the 8800 series cards for dead. And I mean for dead. (No Ultras were included in the benchmarks tests)...
The only cards that came within koo-eee where the N GTX 260, ATI's 4870 & N 9800 GX2.....
Check that you have installed the latest Vista 64 bit drivers... (178.13)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_178.13_whql.html
Cheers, Mac...
Recently installed NVidia GTX 280 into a PC running XP Pro. Used Nvidia's 177.92 drivers. Card seems to be going great.
The guy is really happy with it and reckons he's getting a far better frame rate than his old 8800.
(I didn't benchmark it, so I'm not to sure percentage wise what sort of increase in frame rate he is getting).
All of the new 280 benchmarks that I have seen in computer magazines, etc, show that the 280 leaves all of the 8800 series cards for dead. And I mean for dead. (No Ultras were included in the benchmarks tests)...
The only cards that came within koo-eee where the N GTX 260, ATI's 4870 & N 9800 GX2.....
Check that you have installed the latest Vista 64 bit drivers... (178.13)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_178.13_whql.html
Cheers, Mac...
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Captain_Collins
Clovis Sub Fan
I agree entirely with Nismit. If you are getting exactly the same frame rates then it is most likely to be the hard drive not supplying content as fast as the other components can take it.
I would download IObit SmartDefrag. It can defrag and optimise your hard drive by moving content to intelligent positions to speed up access time.
Either that, or look into a faster hard drive. Perhaps a raptor 10,000 RPM drive or a solid state drive.
2,800 RPM 10,000 - 7,200 = 2,800 simple.
Don't worry about it I run 3 7200RPM 500GB in RAID 1 with no problems in my setup.
If anything I believe it to be the motherboard. The Intel chipsets are designed for ATI. I'm fairly certain the GTX280 follows previous designs on nVidia boards where unless you have the latest version of their chipset (in this case the 7xx series) you will not get maximum performance from the card.
Don't worry about it I run 3 7200RPM 500GB in RAID 1 with no problems in my setup.
If anything I believe it to be the motherboard. The Intel chipsets are designed for ATI. I'm fairly certain the GTX280 follows previous designs on nVidia boards where unless you have the latest version of their chipset (in this case the 7xx series) you will not get maximum performance from the card.