Long story short, I bought a graphics card off Craigslist. Was looking for a cheap way to upgrade my pc a wee bit...found what I believe to be a Nvidia GTX 960. My first tip off was pretty much any game that is semi graphically intense straight up refuses to run. I can run old crap like CSS or Vice City no problem but I try to play Far Cry 5, Beam NG or Carmegeddon: Max Damage and the game will straight up crash to desktop. I included the GPUZ so you guys can have a look and tell me how much of a POS I bought. Otherwise my Windows installation has been acting a little weird so I was thinking of reinstalling Windows and giving it a go again.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113827/d46d7c4c-840b-4bda-a00d-57e8cd068956/fuck.png
Check the Nvidia control panel to see what the application settings are. Because those old games run fine, It sounds like your system might be trying to use the integrated graphics on your CPU instead of the GPU card.
To troubleshoot this: Right click anywhere on your desktop and click the "Nvidia control panel" from the menu. Then go to "manage 3D settings". Go to the "program settings" tab and select the .exe of the game you want. Change it to use the "high-performance NVIDIA graphics processor".
Click apply and close out of the Nvidia control panel. Launch the game and see if it works now.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113827/a3d6b89a-7dc8-4c3c-8576-514f9f193ccc/now where.png
Where am I going?
Hmm, you're in the right spot but I'm not sure why the option isn't visible to you. Make sure the monitor cable is plugged into an output on the actual graphics card and not the i/o of the motherboard.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58015/71336c2c-ca5a-4274-8b93-f36550e5e024/diagram.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58015/fb8104f5-e569-4f37-b374-0963bbb61c52/this is what i see.jpg
^ This is what I see on my system, and is what you'd be looking for.
It is lol
What I'm thinking happened is this is one of reflashed fake cards off ebay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ved84d_6occ
go to 1:10, not looking good sry
Yeah, I'm thinking the guy bought one of these and then realized it was garbage and then pawned it off on craigslist.
Pulling the heatsink off the card is pretty much foolproof in determining if its a fake one, since the gpu die can't be physically changed.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113827/4af3053a-4ac6-43e2-8670-15c3e146c37b/20180423_010502.jpg
I literally got the exact same card as the guy in the video.
How much did you pay for it?
$60
$60 ($83.6 NZD) for a 960? Ya dreaming
I paid $160 NZD for a used 760 2 years ago. A 960 now days goes for IDK like $160-$200 NZD Used on an auction site.
If it's too good to be true...
Yeah, I know...
If you used PayPal you should have a pretty good chance of getting your money back.
Nah I paid cash in person. What gets me is I met the guy at his house, I know his name and everything...I feel like if he was trying to truely scam me he wouldn't have done that...I'm wondering if he bought it (off one of the scam ebay listings) and just saw it preformed like crap and just figured the card was old and didn't go much farther then that and just decided to sell it. Was a older guy in like his 50s.
The problem is I think sales on craigslist fall under the same thing as buying a car from a private party...once the money has been exchanged its your problem now
throw toilet paper all over his house.
It's still fraud and it's still a crime.
You can just go back and explain what's going on and ask for a refund, or partial refund.
$60 is a bit low but you can find them around that. Comparing it to the fucked up wasteland that is the NZ used market is silly.
I won't posit that I'm an expert on US law, but I'd be very surprised if you can sell something purported to be one thing, and then not have to deal with any repercussions when it turns out your characterization of the product was completely untruthful. I mean, that's fraud at its most basic level.
You can't prove that he had any intentions on selling a bad product, especially since it's from Craigslist, you can take it small claims court and it will probably get thrown out. $60 is not the worst thing in the world. You could talk to him about it and see if hes willing but than that, it's a loss. For now on, I would ask for a day of testing or money back
Theres nothing to test, its a fake. Anyways I called him back and told him I wanted my money back. He agreed after feeding me BS about how he's been doing this forever. The best part was that he admitted it was from China
Glad to hear that you got your money back. So what you gonna do with the free fake one? The dude in the video a few posts back reckons you can flash the right BIOS on there with the right tools and have it function correctly
I'm assuming the guy is gonna want the card back when I meet him today...
You can flash the card with the original BIOS, i managed to get hold of a "gtx1050ti" that turned out to be a 650ti. Reflash it with the right BIOS and it behaves fine.
The card I currently have is better then what the fake 960 actually is
How do you even know???
You have no idea how bad the retail market is... The used market can be a god send by comparison.
I got a used i5 3570 for $35 USD, yet you're saying it's a wasteland? Quite xenophobic if you ask me and very ignorant.
I've dealt with the used market quite a bit helping out other users here, I'm pretty aware of both the retail and used market in the country. The used market may be better than retail but it's still much worse than the US. I don't see how that's xenophobic at all lmao
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