Borderlands 2 running very poorly on GTX 970

[jprather]

I just downloaded Borderlands 2, and found that i have to turn down all the settings to even get 30-40 fps at 1080p, with a 970 strix and fx 8350. am i being unreasonable wanting to play this at high details at 1080p with this set up or is something wrong?

 

thanks in advance!

[Amazingasian]

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers? Do you have the latest drivers? Can you post a screenshot of MSI Afterburner or GPUZ while you play the game so we can see your clock speeds?

[Opask]

Do you have physX enabled and if so is it running on your cpu or gpu?

It should be running on you GPU. It Hardcore lags usually on CPU's

 

Also are you using ethernet?

May seem totally random but borderlands 2 and another couple games are unplayable if you are using mobile tethering for whatever reason. Even if you are playing single player.

[Guest Kloaked]

Check drivers. Also, try disabling PhysX and see if your FPS skyrockets. If it does, try installing PhysX manually here, turn PhysX back on in the game and see what happens.

[AllHokage]

If this is a new card, make sure your Display cord is plugged directly into it and not the onboard graphics! Also make sure you drivers are up to date. 

[Ostwind]

I just downloaded Borderlands 2, and found that i have to turn down all the settings to even get 30-40 fps at 1080p, with a 970 strix and fx 8350. am i being unreasonable wanting to play this at high details at 1080p with this set up or is something wrong?

 

thanks in advance!

Verify your games cache in steam, if any files are missing wait for them to download and try again. If problem persists revert your driver back to 353.82, be sure to use Display Driver Uninstaller to remove it and follow all the suggested instructions including booting into safe mode.

[SkilledRebuilds]

I just downloaded Borderlands 2, and found that i have to turn down all the settings to even get 30-40 fps at 1080p, with a 970 strix and fx 8350. am i being unreasonable wanting to play this at high details at 1080p with this set up or is something wrong?

 

thanks in advance!

I can max it out with AMPLE framerates past 120fps, but I locked mine to less due to not needing so much, you should be able to max it out easy.

 

/Reinstall drivers i guess....

[Opeth747]

By the way, you should consider upgrading your CPU. The 8350 is a bottleneck. 

[Morgan MLGman]

By the way, you should consider upgrading your CPU. The 8350 is a bottleneck. 

It doesn't bottleneck a 970 if overclocked.

[Opask]

By the way, you should consider upgrading your CPU. The 8350 is a bottleneck. 

It doesn't bottleneck a 970 if overclocked.

Its also totally irrelevant to the OP. Borderlands 2 is old enough that it wouldn't be a bottleneck until you are getting like 300+ fps.

[Morgan MLGman]

Its also totally irrelevant to the OP. Borderlands 2 is old enough that it wouldn't be a bottleneck until you are getting like 300+ fps.

He said "by the way", he probably didn't mean that it's the problem in this case

[jprather]

im running driver version 352.63 (on linux, which is the most up to date version). my cpu utilization is at like 20% so i doubt that is that issue. from what ive read elsewhere on the internet borderlands is just a bit temperamental. im waiting for a new hard drive to come in the mail before i reinstall windows, maybe that will be better over ubuntu, although a couple articles i saw reported similar performance between os's