I just installed my new MSI Cyclone GTX 460 today, as a replacement for my EVGA 8800GT that busted, and so far it's everything it promised to be. Running cool even on load, nice and quiet even running the fan full-bore. I look forward to my gaming and animating days to come with the last old component in my computer finally brought up to date.
There was a bit of a snag though. My first time playing Left 4 Dead 2 with the 460, Steam told me it didn't recognize the card my machine was using, and issued me a warning about it. Entering the game, since I use reccomended settings, it dropped everything down to lowest graphics as a precaution, including dropping the resolution to 640x480.
This didn't stop me from bringing everything up at max, including all anti-aliasing options set to highest, and having an unbelievable time playing the game at a higher level than I've ever played it before with nary a cough.
All the same, I'm rather confused. The GTX 460 is a newer card, certainly, but surely it's been around long enough that Valve of all people would add it to their database? It's not that I have any trouble playing the game, but given my unfamiliarity of the card's capacities, it'd be good to know what the card considers optimum quality over performance for a given game, and since nearly all of my games use Steam, that makes it all the more nebulous.
Did you install the latest drivers? That's usually the problem I think.
No, believe me, the driver is up to date.
Even aside from that, I never understood why having updated drivers would make a real difference anyway.
I mean, if the driver already works, the update only has the slightest possibility of containing a fix for your issue because the developers realized it late. I'd think the only time the driver would really make a difference is if you didn't have one at all, in which case yes, you'd have lots of easily fixed problems.
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