NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

MOOGLEYS · 15 Jan 2015 at 10:17

The Vram issue is weird on the 970. I had it on all my cards but as mentioned it was fine on my 980. I'm now using a 980m in my laptop and this is also fine.

Its a weird issue and I have no idea why it happens unless it is just an error on the software reading the cards usage ? But then why is it ok with the 980 ?

~>Dg<~ · 15 Jan 2015 at 10:45

old gamer said:
have you tried changing limited rgb to full rgb in the nvidia control panel, made quite a difference for me. i also recalibrated my monitor

it is on full. i have tried my old monitor and brought new one and used the colour profiles for them calibrated .AMD quality is better in colour and image quality.i spend many hrs in ps and making videos it is quite clear to see.

would love them to be the same as the performance and everything else is quite frankly a lot better than AMD but as with anything there is always a trade off.

would love just a simple what is best for quality. i dont mind asking. so if anyone has a fool proof guide to get it as good as possible pls share.

MOOGLEYS · 15 Jan 2015 at 10:49

I too noticed on my 1440p monitor the image quality was a lot nicer on my R9 290 than on any of my Nvidia 9x cards even with full RGB enabled.

eyetrip · 15 Jan 2015 at 10:53

~>Dg<~ said:
it is on full. i have tried my old monitor and brought new one and used the colour profiles for them calibrated .AMD quality is better in colour and image quality.i spend many hrs in ps and making videos it is quite clear to see.

would love them to be the same as the performance and everything else is quite frankly a lot better than AMD but as with anything there is always a trade off.

would love just a simple what is best for quality. i dont mind asking. so if anyone has a fool proof guide to get it as good as possible pls share.

I may be mistaken, but those particular settings affect video only.

Unless you have the latest drivers, you will not have the setting discussed, as it appears under the "Desktop Colour Settings" section, or whatever it is called - not in front of PC right now.

If you do not have the latest drivers, you will need to find the utility that was created for fixing this - there is a thread on this somewhere.

Edit:
here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18644029&highlight=nvidia+range+toggle

opethdisciple · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:17

old gamer said:
have you tried changing limited rgb to full rgb in the nvidia control panel, made quite a difference for me. i also recalibrated my monitor

These RGB settings do they affect users using DVI? Thought it was only for HDMI connections.

easyrider · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:18

Could some do a bench running sli and then a single card please?

Heaven bench would do

ICEx21 · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:21

Think that's only for HDMI users, either way I think my 2 970s are about to hit the members market and I may go down the Crossfire route although I'm not gonna like the heat issues again.

almighty15 · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:24

What's this VRAM issue people are banging on about? I've had my cards well over 3.5Gb use and my frame have been flawless??

ICEx21 · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:25

What games are you playing?

~>Dg<~ · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:28

ICEx21 said:
Think that's only for HDMI users, either way I think my 2 970s are about to hit the members market and I may go down the Crossfire route although I'm not gonna like the heat issues again.

yes the option is only for HDMI users not Dvi.

almighty15 · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:28

ICEx21 said:
What games are you playing?

Modded Skyrim, GTA4, Crysis with loads of texture packs... quite a few heavily modded games.

My games are smooth......

eyetrip · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:39

The colour range also affected displayport

easyrider · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:39

ICEx21 said:
Think that's only for HDMI users, either way I think my 2 970s are about to hit the members market and I may go down the Crossfire route although I'm not gonna like the heat issues again.

what 970's are they?

HDMI users? :confused:

ICEx21 · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:42

Assassins Creed, Shadows of Mordor, BF4 are the ones I've tested on which replicate the problem.

ICEx21 · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:46

easyrider said:
what 970's are they?

The OcUK reference cards.

varkanoid · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:47

~>Dg<~ said:
it is on full. i have tried my old monitor and brought new one and used the colour profiles for them calibrated .AMD quality is better in colour and image quality.i spend many hrs in ps and making videos it is quite clear to see.

would love them to be the same as the performance and everything else is quite frankly a lot better than AMD but as with anything there is always a trade off.

would love just a simple what is best for quality. i dont mind asking. so if anyone has a fool proof guide to get it as good as possible pls share.

As eyetrip says thats the wrong screen that settings is only for playing video files.

You need to look on the desktop colour settings screen.

ICEx21 · 15 Jan 2015 at 11:52

http://techreport.com/blog/27143/here-another-reason-the-geforce-gtx-970-is-slower-than-the-gtx-980 as posted by Dewi in another thread.

~>Dg<~ · 15 Jan 2015 at 12:01

varkanoid said:
As eyetrip says thats the wrong screen that settings is only for playing video files.

You need to look on the desktop colour settings screen.

yes but its not available in DVI. only hdmi settings.

eyetrip · 15 Jan 2015 at 12:02

~>Dg<~ said:
yes but its not available in DVI. only hdmi settings.

Is there for displayport

Dirk Diggler · 15 Jan 2015 at 12:03

There hasn't been a new driver for a month or so. I expect some of these issues to be picked up and actioned on the next driver release?

If I get time next week, I'll look into implementation of fixes and workarounds for some of these issues and maybe we can get a new thread for reference?

It's not the first time new tech has had "issues". Quite the opposite in fact! It's the price we pay for operating at enthusiast level and adopting early! Don't get me wrong, I'm gutted that I can't use DSR with SLI and G-Sync but I'm hopeful that nvidia will sort it with the next driver release. If I couldn't handle the issues, I'd just buy a PS4...

But of course, that's completely out of the question.