1080, not really impressed with the results...

[HatMan]

Greetings. Have gone from a GTX970 Infiniti Black to a Gigabyte G1 1080. My PC would not boot for the first ten tries after fitting the card. Went back to the 970 and it booted as usual. After refitting the 1080 i was able to install the driver in SM. No boot issues thus far. System is clean format install of 10 Pro x64.

Regardless of settings Spintires is lagging all over the place so much so it can be down to 7fps. It does run a 60fps at 4k then down to 7fps. Same happening at 1440 and less so at 1080.

Also on load using performance test, the fractal test makes the GPU sing. My first 970 Black did that, but I was able to exchange it for an Infiniti and that stopped the singing.

Anyway I am running an i7 3770K at 4.6GHz, with 8Gb of 1866 RAM on a Gene V Z77. PSU Corsair 850W

Anyone got an idea? Thanks

 

[TheRealDeal]

You could try a bios update if you are not running the latest. Have you been monitoring temps and clocks in afterburner to see if anything is throttling.

 

[Undesirable]

Shouldn't have had boot issues in the first place, and it certainly shouldn't be causing lag. Either the card's faulty, there is a motherboard incompatibility (latest BIOS?) or it isn't connected properly.

 

[Wrinkly]

I had the same odd boot behaviour when swapping out a 290 for a 980Ti. This was with a Z77X-D3H. No issues since though.

If you are using Steam then 'verify integrity of game files' incase your game is specifically configured for the feature set of a 970. It's also worth looking for any temporary shader cache that should be deleted when swapping cards.

You can also try reinstalling the drivers with the custom/clean option then as a last resort installing after using DDU. Make sure any overclocking utilities such as Afterburner are disabled during this process.

 

[spoffle]

Low frame rate isn't lag. It's low frame rate. Try updating the board bios. Worst case scenario to rule software out would be a fresh install of windows, or a temporary new install if you've got a spare drive to do some tests.

 

[opethdisciple]

Test performance in other games.

Also 8Gb of ram could be an issue.

 

[Brazo]

Motherboard bios update. I'm surprised you've got as far as you have without it as my pc wouldn't boot or just black screened.

 

[tyler_jrb]

Shouldn't have had boot issues in the first place, and it certainly shouldn't be causing lag. Either the card's faulty, there is a motherboard incompatibility (latest BIOS?) or it isn't connected properly.

It depends on things like the age of the board and it can have a big impact.

Having said that from experience a 1080 leaves a 970 for dust. Something like 2-2.5x in performance. Something is wrong here.

Update the bios. Then DDU the current drivers and then install the latest drivers.