Low FPS

Jumper118 · 13 Nov 2012 at 18:37

i"ve only been getting a maximum of 25fps and a minimum of 9fps on the lowest setting and it goes down to 4/5fps if i turn the setting on medium. It is getting about 14.5fps on cinebench 11.5 too

. Can i do anything to improve these scores without buying a better graphic card?

psychodil · 13 Nov 2012 at 18:39

Why on earth did you buy that gt 610? :confused:

or was it given to you?

Gregster · 13 Nov 2012 at 18:39

No sorry. That GPU is only for media basicaly and not a gaming GPU

Jumper118 · 13 Nov 2012 at 18:44

I see. the reason i got it was i only had 300 to spend on my pc and that graphics card was all i could afford.

Gregster · 13 Nov 2012 at 18:53

Jumper118 said:
I see. the reason i got it was i only had 300 to spend on my pc and that graphics card was all i could afford.

Christmas coming brother

Dear Santa...

psychodil · 13 Nov 2012 at 18:55

Jumper118 said:
I see. the reason i got it was i only had 300 to spend on my pc and that graphics card was all i could afford.

Fair enough

Yes unfortunately you are looking at paying realistically around £100 for a card that is adequate for gaming

weehamish · 13 Nov 2012 at 18:57

Why does a 610 have 2gb vram?

Jumper118 · 13 Nov 2012 at 19:29

psychodil said:
Fair enough

Yes unfortunately you are looking at paying realistically around £100 for a card that is adequate for gaming

good job Christmas is not too long then. I think i'll have to make do till then, I still need to get windows 7 and a 16:9 screen.

arc@css · 13 Nov 2012 at 19:42

weehamish said:
Why does a 610 have 2gb vram?

Marketing; well, at least a part of it is.

NightSt@lk3r · 13 Nov 2012 at 19:54

weehamish said:
Why does a 610 have 2gb vram?

For suckering people into thinking its a decent card.

weehamish · 13 Nov 2012 at 19:59

That is just dumb! The 680 has only 2gb! Why not stick 3gb on the 680 and keep it on par with AMDs cards?

Gregster · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:01

weehamish said:
That is just dumb! The 680 has only 2gb! Why not stick 3gb on the 680 and keep it on par with AMDs cards?

Guessing, it will be GDDR2 or some cheap rubbish and not GDDR5 which is expensive.

I remember years ago a mate bought a 8500GT with 1GB VRAM and gave it the biggun that his card was better than my 8800GT because it only had 768mb of VRAM

Jumper118 · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:03

gregster said:
Guessing, it will be GDDR2 or some cheap rubbish and not GDDR5 which is expensive.

I remember years ago a mate bought a 8500GT with 1GB VRAM and gave it the biggun that his card was better than my 8800GT because it only had 768mb of VRAM

it's gddr3 at 1000mhz

arc@css · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:06

Not everyone looks beyond the fancy marketing on the box. More memory can suggest that it's a better product than it really is, and unfortunately, people part with their hard earned cash thinking it's some dx11 heavy weight contender.

psychodil · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:08

Yep, 6GB sapphire toxic FTW! You're base are belong to us!

Gregster · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:09

arc@css said:
Not everyone looks beyond the fancy marketing on the box. More memory can suggest that it's a better product than it really is, and unfortunately, people part with their hard earned cash thinking it's some dx11 heavy weight contender.

Spot on.

Jumper118 · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:12

well i got it because it was cheaper than the 1gb version at the time so it didn't do me any harm getting a 2gb one. It can't be any worse than the 1gb version.

Gregster · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:14

Jumper118 said:
well i got it because it was cheaper than the 1gb version at the time so it didn't do me any harm getting a 2gb one. It can't be any worse than the 1gb version.

Agreed and older games it will be okish with. Just not modern games sadly.

What is the rest of your system Jumper?

psychodil · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:17

gregster said:
What is the rest of your system Jumper?

See his sig

(face palm moment)

Jumper118 · 13 Nov 2012 at 20:18

^beat me to it XD and a gigabyte 970a ds3 board