GTX 970 (Trying this again)

[ThaDon]

I just bought a GTX 970. I installed it and removed all of the AMD drivers from my previous GPU. I loaded up DayZ and experienced tremendous lag, even worse than my last GPU. I got lag in H1Z1 and in Miscreated. Changing the settings had little to no effect. So I did some research and found out that a virus could be causing some of my problems. I ran multiple virus and malware protection softwares and saw a small improvement. I still got FPS drops in both DayZ and in Miscreated. I would only get a few in miscreated but enough to drive you crazy. I took the GPU out of my PC and put it into another, however, I saw that the PSU was only a 450 watt and that explained the FPS drops, so I put the GPU back into my rig and called it a day.

 

The next day I saw a major improvement in my GPU. I was getting little to no lag in DayZ (Still some FPS drops here and there but that's just DayZ) but I still feel like it's not performing to it's maximum potential. The frames would fluctuate, It would go from 60 to 40 to 30 and back to 60 again, averaging about 40FPS, when others are getting 60 on lesser GPU's. Another main reason I feel like the card isn't performing well is because I still play Call of Duty (the very first one) and cannot get a steady 333FPS, which is what most people get with a decent GPU. My buddy has a 6xx somethin GPU and he maintains 333. It makes no sense for my GPU not to be able to reach that.

 

Sorry for the long novel but I just wanted to explain everything so that people can completely see the situation in hopes that someone can identify my problem.

 

My Specs:

CPU: i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (I know it's a bit outdated but I still feel like the GPU should perform better)

GPU: Gigabyte's GTX 970 Windforce

RAM: 14GB DDR3

HDD: 2x 148GB 1x 500GB - No SSDs ;(

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 TR-600W

 

I've posted this before with no luck. I've now downloaded a AAA game, BF4, and I'm getting shit FPS compared to a lot of people on youtube. I can't keep it above 60, I drop as low as 30 and notice some lag. Those I've seen on YouTube are averaging like 80 - 90 and even hitting like 115 on Ultra settings. I just ordered a Xeon x5670 6 core CPU, so hopefully that'll help a bit. But even with my i7 920 I feel like this GPU should be performing way better then what it is now. Did Newegg send me a broken GPU? I'm beggining to get worried.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Edit: Oh, and I even reinstalled windows.

[Dresta]

That i7 920 is bottlenecking your GPU like shit...it would not if you OC'ed it to 4.5GHz

[Nena Trinity]

Try this?

 

DayZ

Quality:

*Very low

*Very low

*Disabled

*Disabled

 

Textures:

*Auto

*Very High

*Very High

 

Rendering:

*Disabled

*Disabled

*SMAA Vey High

*Very Low

*Very High

*Enabled

 

H1Z1 & Planetside 2 is easy!

*Shadows to off and reduce foliage.

[ThaDon]

1 minute ago, Dresta said:

That i7 920 is bottlenecking your GPU like shit...it would not if you OC'ed it to 4.5GHz

Do you think the Xeon will help?

[iiNNeX]

1 minute ago, Dresta said:

That i7 920 is bottlenecking your GPU like shit...it would not if you OC'ed it to 4.5GHz

lol you do realise not every chip will get to 4.5ghz right?

 

Infact the most popular OC for a 920 is 4.0ghz.

 

Also it won't help as much as you think it will, the cpu's IPC is quite low compared to todays standards so it could be that, but what it doesn't explain is how he can't run an old game (Cod 1) as good as people with lesser hardware. So not sure what the primary issue is here.

[ThaDon]

1 minute ago, Nena360 said:

Try this?

 

Quality:

*Very low

*Very low

*Disabled

*Disabled

 

Textures:

*Auto

*Very High

*Very High

 

Rendering:

*Disabled

*Disabled

*SMAA Vey High

*Very Low

*Very High

*Enabled

In the Nvidia settings?

[Dresta]

1 minute ago, ThaDon said:

Do you think the Xeon will help?

No,get a i7 960 since games favor high single core performance and try to overclock it to 4.2GHz stable

[Dresta]

1 minute ago, iiNNeX said:

lol you do realise not every chip will get to 4.5ghz right?

 

Infact the most popular OC for a 920 is 4.0ghz.

 

Also it won't help as much as you think it will, the cpu's IPC is quite low compared to todays standards so it could be that, but what it doesn't explain is how he can't run an old game (Cod 1) as good as people with lesser hardware. So not sure what the primary issue is here.

There was a thread where a guy OC'ed his i7 920 to @4.2 stable and did not bottleneck SLI GTX 970's

 

Those chips are underrated af

[ThaDon]

1 minute ago, Dresta said:

No,get a i7 960 since games favor high single core performance and try to overclock it to 4.2GHz stable

Well, I already paid for it lol. I'll over clock that when I get it. I'll have to do some research as I've never OC'd a CPU before.

[Dresta]

Just now, ThaDon said:

Well, I already paid for it lol. I'll over clock that when I get it. I'll have to do some research as I've never OC'd a CPU before.

OC it and it should run like a dream,just remember to have a solid cooler,if it does not help than surely your GPU is broken or something

[ThaDon]

Just now, Dresta said:

OC it and it should run like a dream,just remember to have a solid cooler,if it does not help than surely your GPU is broken or something

Plus, having more cores may help in Arma 3? Since it is very CPU intensive. And I should probably contact newegg and tell em' their shit is broken and to send me a new one.

[alexhelvetica]

Your PSU is crap. Replace it ASAP with an EVGA G2 or GS or GQ or P2 or B2, anything from Seasonic or XFX (excluding the XT) and the corsair RMx, RMi, HXi, HX, AX, AXi.

Your CPU is a bottleneck, OC it as much as possible. 

What was your old GPU? Do you Still have IT? 

[Dresta]

1 minute ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Your CPU is a bottleneck, OC it as much as possible. 

Like i said,there was a thread where a guy OC'ed his 920 to 4.2 stable and did not bottleneck 970's in SLI

[ThaDon]

1 minute ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Your PSU is crap. Replace it ASAP with an EVGA G2 or GS or GQ or P2 or B2, anything from Seasonic or XFX (excluding the XT) and the corsair RMx, RMi, HXi, HX, AX, AXi.

Your CPU is a bottleneck, OC it as much as possible. 

What was your old GPU? Do you Still have IT? 

My old GPU was a Asus HD 7770 2GB GDDR5, and yes I still have it.

[Dresta]

3 minutes ago, ThaDon said:

My old GPU was a Asus HD 7770 2GB GDDR5, and yes I still have it.

Did you download and install the GTX 970 drivers?

[ThaDon]

Just now, Dresta said:

Did you download and install the GTX 970 drivers?

Of course. I just did a fresh install of Windows as well.

[Nena Trinity]

11 minutes ago, ThaDon said:

In the Nvidia settings?

NEIN IN ZER GAME!

[Dresta]

1 minute ago, ThaDon said:

Of course. I just did a fresh install of Windows as well.

Try to install older drivers,Nvidia is known for fucking up drivers

[ThaDon]

Just now, Nena360 said:

NEIN IN ZER GAME!

Well that kind of defeats the purpose of me coming here. I shouldn't have to lower my settings. I know It'll run fine in low settings.

[Jaqen]

12 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Your PSU is crap. Replace it ASAP with an EVGA G2 or GS or GQ or P2 or B2, anything from Seasonic or XFX (excluding the XT) and the corsair RMx, RMi, HXi, HX, AX, AXi.

Your CPU is a bottleneck, OC it as much as possible. 

What was your old GPU? Do you Still have IT? 

Seconded, if you run gpu z you will see straight away if it is your PSU. If you don't know much about gpu z then post a pic of the sensors tab while you are experiencing performance issues. Although my 970's worked perfectly in everything except dayz where I would experience the frame rate fluctuations and low usage <40% at 30-40fps but that does not explain your other games.  

[ThaDon]

9 minutes ago, Jaqen said:

Seconded, if you run gpu z you will see straight away if it is your PSU. If you don't know much about gpu z then post a pic of the sensors tab while you are experiencing performance issues. Although my 970's worked perfectly in everything except dayz where I would experience the frame rate fluctuations and low usage <40% at 30-40fps but that does not explain your other games.  

Ok, this is what's goin on with no games running. I'll send another one with a game running right now

 

 

[ThaDon]

 

This is when the game is running 

[Jaqen]

Ok so 2 questions straight away. Where you at v-sync in the game or where you struggling for consistant fps?

 

hover over the blue bar at the bottom with your mouse and it should say 'PWR' or 'vREL' please tell me what it is

[ThaDon]

2 minutes ago, Jaqen said:

Ok so 2 questions straight away. Where you at v-sync in the game or where you struggling for consistant fps?

 

hover over the blue bar at the bottom with your mouse and it should say 'PWR' or 'vREL' please tell me what it is

I don't use V-sync in any game, and yes my FPS jumps all over the place, and in big chunks. Should I do this while in game? right now it says vRel and I'm not currently ingame.

[Jaqen]

Oh and what game were you running? Please run something intensive if you own any newer AAA games