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Bad FPS Problems With Nvidia GTX 570, Could Be CPU?

Kestryn

Kestryn

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Posted this is Card and CPU section sorry for posting twice but wasn't sure where to put it as I am new to these forums. I recently picked up a Nvidia GTX 570 and installed it fine.
Although it doesn't play well as there is bad fps on most games. I have a friend with this card with similar specs as me and he gets triple if not quadruple the fps that I get. For example a game that isn't graphic hungry is League Of Legends. I only get around 60-80 on it with everything set to ultra, this is not much better then my old built in card. He gets around 450...He can also max out games such a Mass Effect 3 still with around 60-80 fps. I try and max out games such as Skyrim, I get 25-35...On Arma 2 benchmark on Ultra I get around 5-10fps. I should be getting much better fps on games acording to the Nvidia website and other forums. I have read that people with the same card as me can max Battlefield 3 on ultra and get 60-80 fps. Please could someone help me as I am not sure what is wrong. Please if anyone could help I would be very appreciative.

My Specs are:

AMD A8-3850 APU 2.90GHz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 x64 also run Windows 8 Preview (I have the correct drivers for both)
Nvidia GTX 570 Graphics card

Thanks in Advance.
 
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1.) You've got a CPU bottleneck, quite a hefty one.
2.) Does the problem occur in Windows 7?

I'd try a fresh install on W7 before doing anything, but my God, that CPU bottleneck is hefty.
 
League of Legends you have pretty good FPS, I don't get much more with my 7970. That game seems to soak GPU power for some reason, I remember when I applied max settings for it in CC it ran at 30fps. Do you have reasonable nvidia settings out of game?
 
Freddie589 said:
I doubt its that big of a bottleneck to make FPS drop down to 5-10 in ARMA2?
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My thoughts exactly, hence I said a fresh install.

OP, have you got the monitor plugged into the GPU, or the motherboard? That 5 FPS sounds like it could possibly be the IGP, obviously I'm grasping at straws, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility.
 
Thanks for the quick replies! And yea happens in Windows 7 as well. Any other ideas as fresh install of Windows 7 would involve me having to back everything up and I don't currently have enough hard drive space or big enough external drive/usb to do that :(
 
Do you know how to get into the BIOS? You can overclock your CPU with that, all you do is raise the bus speed speed. I would also disable the onboard GPU since you don't need that anymore... which brings another point, you have the monitor connected to the 570 right?

Here's a review on what you can achieve by overclocking the A8: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/31057-overclocking-amds-a8-3850-apu-close-look/
 
Not sure really. When physX is set to CPU it doesn't change the fps at all, Not even sure if it should or not but that's about the only idea I could think of for fps improvement. As I said I will try a fresh install in the future but won't be able to for quite a long time. Therefore I am just assuming that it must be my Motherboard/CPU as it just wont run any games well :P Although thanks for your help.
 
Having a look and read around it seems yes, ARMA2 does seem to use more CPU then it does GPU, I did find that using v high shadows switches the renders from the CPU to the GPU which may improve performance in some cases.
 
Kestryn said:
On Arma 2 benchmark on Ultra I get around 5-10fps.
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Sounds like its using the processor for graphics instead of the 570.

The following benchmarks were done at high quality at 1080P (the 570 is better than a 6850):

AMD A8-3850 (3.33GHz with HD 6850 1GB) 61-71 FPS
AMD A8-3850 (3.33GHz) 18-22 FPS
 
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