3870XT Problem?

[DAnDan]

Hello all, bit of a problem here, not sure quite what's going on.

I received my new 3870XT today, and installed it, but it doesn't seem to be performing well. I've only been able to test it on WoW at the moment, but it is only getting around 20fps.

This is at 1440x900, my system is poor, but I would expect more from it than this?

Athlon 64 3800+ @ 2.6Ghz;
2Gb DDR Ram;
Usual hard disks, sound card etc etc...

I installed the latest 8.3 drivers, and removed all old Nvidia drivers.

 

[DAnDan]

I had a Nvidia 7100GS before .

I got around 10FPS with the settings on max, compared to the 20 I get now. If I up the clock speed from standard 2.4Ghz to around 2.6Ghz it does improve. But seriously, is WoW actually that demanding? I should still get better than this shouldn't I?

 

[DAnDan]

All seems okay there, unless I've missed anything? System specs aswell.

 

[DAnDan]

All of the settings for the card have been set to performance.

It wouldn't be so bad at 20FPS for now, I could deal with that, except that whenever I turn a corner or anything it only shows about 3 frames while turning.

 

[DAnDan]

I don't have 3d06, so I can't comment on that one, but all drivers for the board are installed.

Just running rivatuner while I play, see if I can find anything there.

 

[DAnDan]

seems your CPU is bottleneckign the card, Can you not get a better one?

In about 2 months I will have the cash for an upgrade, as I will need a processor, motherboard, ram and a new PSU to upgrade.

After running rivatuner, the card is usuing about 30/50% of the core, which is what I expected from WoW.

 

[DAnDan]

20fps is not bad at Max Settings.

20fps is the TOP I get, that's wandering around an area where nothing, at all, is going on. As soon as any buildings are near me it drops to around 15, and further when anything else happens. I haven't even dared go to a capital city yet!

DOwnloading 3d06 now, should be done in about 45 mintues

 

[DAnDan]

What PSU do you have btw?

It's a 450W PSU, I doubt there's a problem with it as the computer would cut out, right?

 

[DAnDan]

It's an X-Power one, nothing special, but seems to be doing the job alright.

 

[DAnDan]

From what it says on the PSU it's 18A on the 12v. Im still not convinced it's that though, as wouldn't there be other issues if it was underpowering it?

 

[DAnDan]

Still leaves me stuffed as to what else is going on.

Not sure if it's related, but task manager is showing 75% cpu usage, even with next to nothing going on, maybe something else is at work here.

 

[DAnDan]

That was the GPU core, I wish it was the CPU .

Just cleaning out all drivers and re-installing them, once more.

 

[DAnDan]

All sorted now, as far as I know! I'm a very happy person, thanks for everyone's help!

Uninstalled everything, the did a system restore, as there were still some issues, and then went from there. Getting up to 70fps now.