So, i just got a 5870, and i must say it is a very good looking card, and is very large. I looked at benchmarks for the 5870 on several games and saw that they were MUCH MUCH higher than my old geforce 8800 gt, so i was happy to see that i was going to have such a huge boost in fps. So, i installed it, and was sad to learn that the cd xfx gave me did not work, so i had to manually install all of the drivers and the catalyst control center application. I talked to my friend who has a 4870 and he said he had to do the same thing, kind of lame. But, once i got everything up and running, i tried running left 4 dead to compare my results with the benchmarks, and ended up getting 60 fps at the same settings i saw on the benchmarks. I was quite startled, because i was supposed to be getting MORE than double that(around 150!). So, i talked to my friend who has the 4870, and asked him to run the game at the same resolution, same settings, etc...and tell me what results he got. He ended up getting 120 fps, now honestly, this makes absolutely no sense. I started realizing in more and more games though, that i am getting the SAME EXACT fps as i was getting with my 8800gt. I have no idea why this is occuring when i have such a superior card, and yes i removed my nvidia drivers. I even tried re-installing my drivers a couple times, but that had no effect whatsoever. I had another display hooked up, and thought for some reason that might be lagging it, but unfortunately that had no difference either. Can anyone help me with this obnoxious problem? I payed 400 dollars for this card, and i'm getting the performance that you would get from a 80 dollar card, which is not fair at all.
I was told by my friend that it might be bottlenecking, for i have a core 2 duo E6600, but i don't think it would be making it so i had the same fps as i would on my old card. Any help would be appreciated!
Either it's bottlenecking or you just have vsync on.
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my 5850 is being bottlenecked by a e8400, go figure.
[QUOTE=ShitBalls;19701073]Either it's bottlenecking or you just have vsync on.[/QUOTE]
I'm fairly certain it is off, thought i did when my friend told me to turn it off, can you tell me how just in case i didn't?
Does it ever go over 60 fps? If it's always 60 and no more, it's vsync
try this in the console, max_fps 300
I'm still getting the same fps's in other games, and way low fps on several cs:s maps. God damn all this shit @_@.
Turn off catalyst A.I. in the CCC.
powerplay
What's the rest of your specs?
Could be a CPU bottleneck.
[QUOTE=TickLe MY eL;19701065]and was sad to learn that the cd xfx gave me did not work, so i had to manually install all of the drivers and the catalyst control center application.[/QUOTE]
First, you don't have to install the drivers and CCC seperately, you can get them in a single package from amd.com, so i really don't know what's the big deal here.
Second, the drivers you get with the cd are probably outdated so it's best to download the newest ones anyway.
As for the framerate issues, turn the Vsync off if you haven't already. Also make sure it's turned off in CCC:
[img]http://www.shrani.si/f/21/ta/1Z4IjemX/ccc.png[/img]
And your cpu is kind of weak for a 5870, for comparsion i have an e6420 overclocked to 2.8GHz (original frequency is 2.13GHz) and it still bottlenecks my [b]4850[/b] in a lot of cases. Well at least you can crank up AA and AF all the way up in most games knowing it probably won't decrease performance.
[QUOTE=pebkac;19707401]First, you don't have to install the drivers and CCC seperately, you can get them in a single package from amd.com, so i really don't know what's the big deal here.
Second, the drivers you get with the cd are probably outdated so it's best to download the newest ones anyway.
As for the framerate issues, turn the Vsync off if you haven't already. Also make sure it's turned off in CCC:
[img]http://www.shrani.si/f/21/ta/1Z4IjemX/ccc.png[/img]
And your cpu is kind of weak for a 5870, for comparsion i have an e6420 overclocked to 2.8GHz (original frequency is 2.13GHz) and it still bottlenecks my [b]4850[/b] in a lot of cases. Well at least you can crank up AA and AF all the way up in most games knowing it probably won't decrease performance.[/QUOTE]
I didn't mean i installed them seperately, i meant more that i had to install them manually. And i read in the instructions that the shit provided by xfx will find the most recent software, etc... Doesn't really bother me that much, was just saying that it was pretty lame. I did have vsync off, and turned it off in all of my games. I got a bit of an fps boost, i'm assuming the rest is bottlenecking. Guess I will have to try and gather together some money and get my cpu/mb earlier than expected :\.
Thanks for all the help guys!
[url=http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=13454]GPU bottlenecking is a myth[/url].
Read it and look at the benchmarks before you rate me disagree/dumb.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;19721934][url=http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=13454]GPU bottlenecking is a myth[/url].
Read it and look at the benchmarks before you rate me disagree/dumb.[/QUOTE]
This really depends a lot on what games you use. Take TF2 for example. Pretty much any 60$+ graphics card can max it out with ease and yet it slows down a lot on most of systems when it comes to big fights, regardless of the graphics settings. Another great example is Supreme Commander.
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