Hardware & Technical Poor FPS with new card

S.H.A.D.O

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I bought an EVGA 770 GTX to upgrade my old 650 GTX, and I'm not really blown away by the FPS I am getting with this.

I didn't expect it to be 10x better but I'm only getting 30fps in stations and after paying £230 for this card I expected a bit more. (tbh I've never paid more than £100 for any card before but I got the best one I could possibly afford just for ED and well.. i'm really not impressed)

I've reinstalled the drivers today but still I'm lucky to pull 30fps in Aulin station, at Beagle 2 I was getting 32-35 but still considering the money I threw at this and this is really the only PC game I play, I'm not very impressed.

anyone else with this card? what are you getting?
 

Calico Jack

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My weaker GTX 670 gets 50fps in stations and 100fps (if I had Vsync off) in space, so I would expect substantially better performance from your card.

Perhaps some other component is holding it back?
 
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SUPRARZ

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You have a bottleneck...either your cpu is using integrated graphics or you have a wrong bios setting...please post your other specs including your psu ..your gpu is not the problem ...
 

Nagual

Nagual
Aye, something definitely wrong somewhere. Got a MSI 770 2GB and it eats ED for breakfast, most of the time I'm well over 150fps, topping out at around 180. (i7 4770, 8GB ram)
 

Sir.Tj

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If you post your system specs it might give a clue. :)
 

S.H.A.D.O

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Sorry guys

Cpu: AMD FX 6300 (3.5ghz six cores)
Mobo: Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3
Ram: 8gb DDR3
Gpu: Evga 770 GTX
OS: Win 7 64bit Home Premium
HD: 500gb (264gb free)
Main Monitor (gaming) 1680x1050
2nd Monitor (browsing) 1280x1024
PSU: Corsair CX750M
Case: Corsair Carbide SPEC-01
 

Zephyriel

Zephyriel
Hm you should be getting much higher performance than what you have... Strange. Sorry I don't know how to help you.
 

Philip Coutts

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I'm sure Dr Wookie had issues with ED not using his graphics card and using the built in card instead. Hold on till I have a look for the thread, it might be that......

Edit:

Have a look here, Dr Wookie's post is the last one on the first page:

http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50275

In fact that whole thread might be of use to you, I know it's a different card but it seems to be similar issues.
 
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Surfinjo

Surfinjo
Philip Coutts said:
I'm sure Dr Wookie had issues with ED not using his graphics card and using the built in card instead. Hold on till I have a look for the thread, it might be that......

Edit:

Have a look here, Dr Wookie's post is the last one on the first page:

http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50275

In fact that whole thread might be of use to you, I know it's a different card but it seems to be similar issues.
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Super.

Now how do you go about checking and changing that?
 

Philip Coutts

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Surfinjo said:
Super.

Now how do you go about checking and changing that?
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I think if you look on the second page of that thread Dr Wookie runs through it. Hold on a minute I'll have a check......

Here is the very little fellow of a post:

"There's an icon on the taskbar which shows the number of programs that are using the GPU; it looks a bit like a multi-coloured rectangle... maybe. You could see how many processes are running before ED is started, and then check again while it's running. When I did this, the number of processes running was 0 even after ED launched before I fixed it.

To fix it, I right clicked the ED icon, and it gave me a choice of what to use when running the game: integrated graphics or GPU. The integrated graphics was highlighted as default. On second thoughts, meaybe you could just do this bit to see if that helped.

Another issue I have had with other games is the output that I used. My PC has two HDMI outs, and some games will only work properly if I use the HDMI on the graphics card itself"

Thanks to Dr Wookie for all that!
 

STABB666

STABB666
Looking good?

If this very helpful advice (I didnt know about that GPU bug), doesn't solve it, also check your NVIDIA settings to make sure Physx is actually using the GPU and not the CPU.

You have an odd resolution on the main monitor there. Is this the native mode of the screen and do both game and the card have the same setting?

One last question- What's the refresh rate set at and the max on your main monitor?
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
Philip Coutts said:
I think if you look on the second page of that thread Dr Wookie runs through it. Hold on a minute I'll have a check......

Here is the very little fellow of a post:

"There's an icon on the taskbar which shows the number of programs that are using the GPU; it looks a bit like a multi-coloured rectangle... maybe. You could see how many processes are running before ED is started, and then check again while it's running. When I did this, the number of processes running was 0 even after ED launched before I fixed it.

To fix it, I right clicked the ED icon, and it gave me a choice of what to use when running the game: integrated graphics or GPU. The integrated graphics was highlighted as default. On second thoughts, meaybe you could just do this bit to see if that helped.

Another issue I have had with other games is the output that I used. My PC has two HDMI outs, and some games will only work properly if I use the HDMI on the graphics card itself"

Thanks to Dr Wookie for all that!
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I did see that, but thank you for your trouble.

However, no such icon is on my tasbar
 

GHDW

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STABB666 said:
If this very helpful advice (I didnt know about that GPU bug), doesn't solve it, also check your NVIDIA settings to make sure Physx is actually using the GPU and not the CPU.
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Does this game support/use PhysX? I asked a while back and got no hint if it does.
 

STABB666

STABB666
Curious.

GHDW said:
Does this game support/use PhysX? I asked a while back and got no hint if it does.
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It would seem an awful shame not to. I'm going to turn it off later and see what impact it has if any. Saying that, if the game does support it, then it might be worth holding on to that old 650 and offloading the physx work to it and let the new card stretch its legs, if the MB supports two cards.
 

kilvenny

kilvenny
Stupid question - how are you connecting to your monitor - HDMI from the GPU? Seen a few times monitor connected to the motherboard.

I have a 760 and it has no problem but I do have an I7.
 

Adam Lusardi

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STABB666 said:
It would seem an awful shame not to. I'm going to turn it off later and see what impact it has if any. Saying that, if the game does support it, then it might be worth holding on to that old 650 and offloading the physx work to it and let the new card stretch its legs, if the MB supports two cards.
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I doubt it, any calcs they need in this and possibly any others will be hard coded in Cobra. I would have thought this is where the real savings are to be found.
 

S.H.A.D.O

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Thanks for the help, I've checked in the bios and I can't find that setting anywhere.. perhaps its called something else on mine?

Anyway I took some pics just in case it helps
bios1.jpg

bios2.jpg

bios3.jpg

Not sure if that helps?
 
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