Horrible performance on GTX 690?

[TidalKing]

Hey folks!

 

Yesterday, I made a post over on planning section on whether i should upgrade my PC or simply swap out my GPU. Since i only ordered the PC, and didn't build it myself, there may be question i can't answer. 

 

Now to the real question: What in the whole world is wrong with my "beast" 690 GPU? I see other people on Youtube, running games like GTA V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMIfkRjGxj8,

 

running on OK settings with fine FPS, while my card simply lags into hell with low FPS on the lowest settings. My PC's speccs looks like this:

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/wyrWsF9.png

 

 

Many people have told me that switching to a 960/970 wouldn't make any difference, but what i can tell from the tests that i did on 3DMark, i can tell you anything is better than my card: 

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6672657

 

 

The system can run games like Skyrim fairly well on the highest settings, BUT without any ENB's of course. But that might be because of the fact, that it is slightly more driven by CPU power. An example would also be Mortal Kombat X, that lags like a stick stuck in the wheel. I average about 14 fps on low/normal settings...

 

The only thing i can think of, causing these problems, is the fact that i had some boot problems back in February, and that i had to change the Mobo. The Mobo is the same series though (Z77). The earlier Mobo had OC settings on both the CPU and the GPU, and i don't know if this could be conflicting in someway, and alter the performance.

 

 

Thank you for reading this far, i really need help :I

[werto165]

Wait you have dual 690's?

Being retarded.

[blackadder]

Use ddu to clean install drivers, i would think that card would do way better, at first i thought maybe sli isn't enabled but, it looks like it might be, poke around in nvidia to make sure. Maybe a power setting. The cards are clocking up right?

[blu4]

What textures are you running? You might be hitting the 2GB limit. Even though it's 1080p, GTA V textures use up some VRAM.

[Sakkura]

You can't be running two 690s on that board, so I'll assume that's just the program being wonky about displaying SLI.

 

It seems like you have some bugs hampering performance, your 690 should do better than that.

 

However, in some situations the limited VRAM on the 690 will indeed make performance tank. Higher resolutions and higher texture settings are bad news for the 690. You should be able to dial up all the other eyecandy though.

 

I'd try reinstalling drivers first.

[mroz10]

Have you installed drivers?

[TidalKing]

I have all drivers installed through Nvidia Experience, yes.

[Lord_Karango17]

those scores are horrible, the graphics score should be closer to 15000...

 

run something like msi afterburner, to see if the core is clocking up properly/ sli is properly enabled

 

Edit: stuff like 3dmark does not use up very much vram, unless its the 4k versions, so that should not be the issue, and even if sli was not enabled, the graphics cores should be at least 6000-7000

[PineappleHolidays]

I have all drivers installed through Nvidia Experience, yes.

I would :

reinstall

make sure SLI is enabled in the control panel

 

Check MSI afterburner to see if there is any throttling or if you're hitting the Vram limit

[GrimNeo]

What textures are you running? You might be hitting the 2GB limit. Even though it's 1080p, GTA V textures use up some VRAM.

This. That card only have 2GBs of vram.

[Nergale]

Firestrike doesn't use that much VRAM, either your card is broken or some driver / windows.

[TidalKing]

So, i installed MSI Afterburner, and tried playing some New Vegas, to see if the meters bumped. After i left the game, this fell right into my vision:

 

http://i.imgur.com/1yE2CWV.png

 

 

The second part og the GPU is jumping around those numbers, and i have no clue how it's possible - it might be a bug though, since the temperature on the second GPU is only increased by 4 celsius, compared to the first part of the GPU. 

[TidalKing]

those scores are horrible, the graphics score should be closer to 15000...

 

run something like msi afterburner, to see if the core is clocking up properly/ sli is properly enabled

 

Edit: stuff like 3dmark does not use up very much vram, unless its the 4k versions, so that should not be the issue, and even if sli was not enabled, the graphics cores should be at least 6000-7000

Welp, that kinda is my problem, since even Afterburner seems to be acting up. I even restarted my pc after getting these results:

 

http://i.imgur.com/1yE2CWV.png

[dark_xzyph3r]

Ummmmmm that's not even possible to have a 400% increase on power limit.... I would RMA your card and see if your new one does that....

[Lord_Karango17]

Welp, that kinda is my problem, since even Afterburner seems to be acting up. I even restarted my pc after getting these results:

 

http://i.imgur.com/1yE2CWV.png

oh dear. Im guessing it isnt boosting up to where it should because the card thing its over the power limit

 

Weird stuff like that happens every now and then for me after driver crashes, but it should be gone after a restart...

[TidalKing]

oh dear. Im guessing it isnt boosting up to where it should because the card thing its over the power limit

 

Weird stuff like that happens every now and then for me after driver crashes, but it should be gone after a restart

After another restart, i let the pc run for a few minutes, and it still looks like that..:

 

http://i.imgur.com/MBxPi23.png

 

 

I have no idea what's going on here

[Mesiah]

have you tried to remove all driver -totally-  

like so : https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/2ha3q9/howto_fresh_driver_install_for_new_gpu_or_any
and then do a fresh install 

 

I would also reinstall Afterburner. 

and recheck the stats

[gearheadnation3]

i had the same issue on an r2 290 x  drop your direct x to 10 and restart the game should be alot better  i was getting 8-10 fps on the benchmarking utility in gta 5 now running dx 10 and getting 30-40 fps

[TidalKing]

have you tried to remove all driver -totally-  

like so : https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/2ha3q9/howto_fresh_driver_install_for_new_gpu_or_any

and then do a fresh install 

 

I would also reinstall Afterburner. 

and recheck the stats

So, i did both, and nothing changed. This is getting really strange...

[TidalKing]

Ummmmmm that's not even possible to have a 400% increase on power limit.... I would RMA your card and see if your new one does that....

 

Well, i wasn't the one who built the PC, since i bought it through a website with Custom-built PC's back in 2012 (ohh god never again). The warranty on the PC itself ran out last year .

[dark_xzyph3r]

Well, i wasn't the one who built the PC, since i bought it through a website with Custom-built PC's back in 2012 (ohh god never again). The warranty on the PC itself ran out last year .

[Tac127]

Firestrike doesn't use that much VRAM, either your card is broken or some driver / windows.

how would it be broken and still working

[Mesiah]

Could you try your GPU on some friend's PC? 
so it would remove any other issue your pc might have. and you would now if it is broken or not.

[maazster]

Install the latest GTA 5 patch, that helped alot with fixing issues on my 780Ti, there used to be alot of microstutters and frame drops.

[cragger89]

Honestly not seeing the issue really, pal.

 

I get those sorts of figures from my rig - it's about ordinary for the game. Since I upgraded to the 4460 I get a boost of 20fps on average and I can run the high settings without stuff lagging out.