Is my GTX280 Artifacting?

[LupoLover]

Hi all. Been playing grid on my system

Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
2GB DDR3 1600MHZ memory
OCZ SSD
GTX 280 600mhz core and 1100mhz memory

Surley this system should play it at 1680 x 1080 with all setting maxed out? Miy system is jumping in game.

Do I need to clock My q6600 up abit? My GTX280 is hiting 77C load that too hot?

Any advice would be great

Thanks

Sheldon

 

[Nodiggidy123]

77c is fine for that card. there was a issue with earlier cards hitting 105c within a minute or two and that caused a stuttering in games for me when i had mine.

what game is it you are playing. looking at your rig spec im gonna say its either ur cpu (clock it to 3ghz, mine was awful before i clocked it.) or ram. (get another 2 gig of it.)

 

[engstrom0304]

Thats wierd i got a very high frame rate with that rig.

If a card is unstable though the gtx 280 will put down the clock to about 300 so open evga precision and when it starts jumping quickly exit the game and see if the clock speed went down on the graph, if it did your card is unstable, did you overclock?

Put the fan speed up to about 50 and see if that helps.

 

[toxicredcat]

Your CPU is bottlenecking you big time. Bump it upto 3ghz at least.

 

[LupoLover]

Im on 3ghz now and still all laggy.
Using 72% memory (1.44gb)

Turned down to only 2x AA too
Il clock abit more. I thourght 3ghz be plenty tho!

 

[jrodga2k5]

tbh probably ram!

 

[engstrom0304]

Your CPU is bottlenecking you big time. Bump it upto 3ghz at least.

Ha with my i7 my gtx 280 is bottlenecking me big time!! Even with 2 gtx 280s there is a gpu bottleneck that means sli really starts to be worth it with the i7giving sometimes double the performance.

 

[cje]

With my setup, anything below 3ghz and my cpu is the bottleneck.

Anything above 3ghz and then the gpu's become the bottlenecks.

For example in Far Cry 2 benchmark I saw around 10-15 fps average gain from 2.4ghz to 3ghz. 3ghz to 3.2ghz gave me 1 fps gain on average.

Also the SLI indicator shows gpu as bottlenecks, whereas before it was showing cpu bottleneck.

I'm happy with 3ghz now anyway.

 

[reflux]

OP, running Vista or XP?

 

[ConnectionFX]

well grid specs for high settings:
Windows XP/Vista. (If running Windows Vista, SP1 is recommended)
DirectX 9.0c
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz or Athlon X2 3800+
2GB RAM.
Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 or Radeon X1950
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card.
Dual Layer Compatible DVD-ROM Drive
12.5 GB Hard Drive Space

your system should wipe the floor but like with some others here i think you may need 4GB ram to smooth it out. get another 2GB matched pair but make sure your also running a 64bit operating system as 32bit only recognises 3.5GB!


My brother runs grid on the following spec mostly high settings altough some are @ medium.

Athlon X2 6000 @ 3.10Ghz
A8N SLI-Delux
2GB DDR2 800MHZ
8800GTS 640MB

 

[miniyazz]

tbh probably ram!

I presume 72% used was ingame? Seems a litle low to be causng stuttering, but the CPU boost should've reduced it if that were the problem.

It might be worth plugging in your hardware and checking the OS if porting an existing 32-bit install with 4GB RAM. Depending on how much memory allocation the graphics card uses, it may not be worth doing a reinstall with 64-bit. Due to increased length of variables in 64-bit OSs, 64-bit Vista takes up several more hundred MB RAM than 32-bit. Plus the occasional incompatibility with older programs on 64-bit.

If doing a fresh install then deffo go 64-bit though for future upgradeability.

 

[RaiderX]

it will be ram, 2GB just aint enough anymore. even tho its 72%, youll never go near 100% as it unloads low priority apps to make space for higher priority apps.

 

[miniyazz]

it will be ram, 2GB just aint enough anymore. even tho its 72%, youll never go near 100% as it unloads low priority apps to make space for higher priority apps.

Agreed, but on my old laptop running XP with 1GB RAM it sometimes passed 90%. This was with quite a few things running, after a few days of no reboot, most notably Firefox eating up over half a gig. Apparently my browsing habits, sometimes involving up to a hundred tabs open at once, aren't conducive to good memory management..
Maybe that's an extreme example.