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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating

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a66as said:
i received my 290x lightening edition from ocuk today

i took out my 970s and put this single card in, fully maxed out all the settings at 1440p

guess what? the game is much smoother on my single 290x, no flickering, no stuttering, no random 3 sec slow mo freezes and then back to full speed. then i checked the memory usage and it was around 3700-3800, so this is probs why my 970s were tanking

dont get me wrong im not getting a solid 60fps more like 30-40 but the game is so much more enjoyable

i will test it on a single 970 as well to see if it was an sli problem but so far this 290x feels very nice
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Kaapstad said:
Which game ?
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a66as said:
dragon age inquisition
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That is a pretty awful game to use as a test.

It also runs better on one of my 290Xs using Mantle than it does on one of my 6gb Titans or 4gb 980s.:)
 
Well I've been reading this thread for days. And I'll be keeping my cards.

Hate the fact that I feel like I've been misled, But they are still great cards.

And god this thread is one big mess with the baiting and trolling. :(
 
I was going to return my G1 970 but have decided to keep it until the new AMD cards turn up before I switch back...no way in hell I'm giving nvidia more money for a 980.

And buying a 290x now makes no sense to me either with next gen AMD cards just round the corner.
 
NeilChill said:
I was going to return my G1 970 but have decided to keep it until the new AMD cards turn up before I switch back...no way in hell I'm giving nvidia more money for a 980.

And buying a 290x now makes no sense to me either with next gen AMD cards just round the corner.
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I've learned my lesson on buying new tech from the off. So what ever I have now, whether keeping my 970 or going to a 290x it will be with me for at least 9months +
 
Gibbo said:
4. There will not be an influx in B-grade as OcUK has negotiated good support with it's partners to return the returned cards for brand new replacement or credits
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What will the card manufacturers do with them? are they going to pull the GPUs out and send the GPUs back to Nvidia? Destroy them all?

Nvidia seem to be forcing the situation into the most expensive waste possible, lawyers must be rubbing their hands with glee. Sure the legal obligation in most regions is only for return and refunds, but they could head off a flood of returns by offering a game code or say ~5% rebate. I wonder if Nvidia did already crunch the number and conclude that that not enough people will return their cards and they'll get away with less financial damage in the short term by being stubborn?
 
Icm76 said:
What will the card manufacturers do with them? are they going to pull the GPUs out and send the GPUs back to Nvidia? Destroy them all?

Nvidia seem to be forcing the situation into the most expensive waste possible, lawyers must be rubbing their hands with glee. Sure the legal obligation in most regions is only for return and refunds, but they could head off a flood of returns by offering a game code or say ~5% rebate. I wonder if Nvidia did already crunch the number and conclude that that not enough people will return their cards and they'll get away with less financial damage in the short term by being stubborn?
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I think you'll find across ALL 970's sold (which is A LOT), the % returned will be minuscule. The vast majority of PC owners don't even know about this problem, and most probably don't care either.
 
sprite1275 said:
I've learned my lesson on buying new tech from the off. So what ever I have now, whether keeping my 970 or going to a 290x it will be with me for at least 9months +
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This is true there is always a risk, like my launch day 360 that lasted all of a month before RROD. I would probably give it a few months until I buy from now on, but until then this 970 will do, I only have an issue with a few games that may improve with patches / drivers.
 
The other thing I just learned was even though my 970 appeared stable in most games with my OC, I was having radom issues with assets corsa stuttering with an occasional driver crash. Ran OCCT DX11 test and after 5 mins cofirmed 10 errors. I have backed off the oc to 1450/1950 and OCCT was stable for over an hour and assets corsa now runs perfect.

OCCT will now be my GPU OC stress tested of choice.
 
jwilliamson47 said:
I think the problem is, a lot of the stutter may be caused by lazy porting and not the cards. Dying Light seems to be a disaster due to the pathetic lack of multi core support.
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Have you tried it since the latest patch....

seems to run fine for me with my GTX 970 at 1440p, the loading across the four cores of the CPU is pretty balanced.


I still can't make my mind up about my MSI GTX 970 and what to do....
Choices choices.
 
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