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Upgraded my video card, and the preformance decreases
I upgraded my video card from an 8800 GTS to a 5850 ATI Radeon. Most of my games installed with no longer work, or lag more. Team fortress lags, Dragon age does not work anymore, Borderlands does not work anymore.
The drivers I downloaded put the "Control center" on my computer, and they never work correctly and always crash whenever I try to update the drivers. I can update the drivers, just not through catalyst control center.
Any idea what is causing the slowdown?
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did you go to their site and use the latest drivers?
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Tell us your complete specs.
This bottlenecking can be a pain so we must know exactly what's creating it.
Did you make sure you completely erased all traces of your nvidia drivers? They may be conflicting
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Have you also recently changed your OS to Windows 7? if so then it may be your motherboard. My wife had a similar issue and we worked out it was Windows7/motherboard problem, even though it looked like a graphics problem.
Check your motherboard compatibility for windows 7.
ok first dont use microsoft update to update driver video card ,use manufacturer website. for a weird reason
i always end up with problem with i use microsoft site to update graphic card driver
best bet is to erase everything that is of the graphic card driver and go to ati website to upgrade to latest driver
if you dont mind i suggest you reinstall os and graphic driver (clean install)
that way you ll be sure no nvidia left over are bugging your system
how do you check motherboard compatibily?
The first HD 4870 ATI card I bought had screen flickering issues. However that was an issue on the internal BIOS of the graphics card itself, the manufacturer's fault really.
Dunno, there's plenty of factors as to why that may be, best suggested above are deleting all traces of the Nvidia drivers though. You can use a program like this to make all necessary changes possible for getting rid of un-needed drivers.
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how do you check motherboard compatibily?
Well, for Asus mobos you can just search on their site. They'll tell you what you need to know: compatible CPU/RAM list, BIOS updates, etc.
Try downloading the latest from ATi website, manually delete the old drivers and then install the new ones in VGA mode. Its the only way I tend to install new drivers for video cards now as they seem to fight me all the way otherwise.
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Yeah, when I did that was when the Catalyst Control Center stopped functioning correctly, it crashes sometimes on startup now. Uninstalling then doing it again doesn't help it work correctly.
I use Windows Vista, and I just installed a new mobo (same model, my old one one broke) / Video card / power supply at one point. Also, if it helps, My router is messing up recently, which may be the cause of my WoW / TF2 lag.
Specs - Windows VIsta 32 Bit
VC - ATI radeon 5850
Processor - Intel core 2 duo e8500 3.14 ghz (overclocked to 4.14)
4 gigs of corsair ram
Corsair power supply 750w
Asus P5Q deluxe mobo.
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Walk like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck... its prolly a fucking duck. If you are certain you have installed the correct drivers and ruled out all software conflicts, put in your old card, load the drivers. If it works, you most likely have a bad hardware. Considering the video card is the most recent change.
Yeah, when I did that was when the Catalyst Control Center stopped functioning correctly, it crashes sometimes on startup now. Uninstalling then doing it again doesn't help it work correctly.
I use Windows Vista, and I just installed a new mobo (same model, my old one one broke) / Video card / power supply at one point. Also, if it helps, My router is messing up recently, which may be the cause of my WoW / TF2 lag.
Specs - Windows VIsta 32 Bit
VC - ATI radeon 5850
Processor - Intel core 2 duo e8500 3.14 ghz (overclocked to 4.14)
4 gigs of corsair ram
Corsair power supply 750w
Asus P5Q deluxe mobo.
Theres the problem in it all if you get a new Mobo you HAVE to format your system hard drive and reinstall windows, I can pretty much bet all my current money on that, Just format you hard drive and do a clean install of everything and youll have a great system.
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First I'd try the system at regular clock and if it works better try a more conservative overclock. Running parts out of spec should be your first suspect when things start acting weird.
If the mobo was the exact same model you should be ok on the Windows drivers, but to me it seems like a reinstall of Vista is in order anyway, it'd probably clear your problems up. I don't think you need to reformat though, just do a full install on top of the old one it'll cleanly replace the OS, but does leave behind your user folder which can get messy.
throw the ati away and get a newer nvidia card, not that ati doesnt make some ok cards, but their driver support sucks ass, always has, always will.
Actually, its been nVidia sucking lately for driver support. They update less frequently and have more bugs. Like if you want a DX10.1 card from nVidia, lol good luck with those drivers.
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I'd guess you haven't removed your old nvidia drivers before installing the ATI ones.
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Im in agreement with the reinstalling the os. Sometimes you just gotta do it.
1. make sure to remove the old drivers. ATI or envidia.
2. install the new card. when windows tells you it found a new VGA adapter point it to the latest ATI driver. (dont use the CCC suite when troubleshooting...just the bare driver)
if you still have problems
see if the card manufacturer has their own driver (xfx,sapphire,etc) if it is one of the volt modded cards they probably do.
run the pc without any overclock. the fact that TF2 is screwed up points to a potential problem there as source games are cpu dependent not gpu.
Gotta go with the other two here, reformat, especially if you just installed a new mobo. Whether it's the same model number or not, EVGA used to do this, it may be a different version. Ran into this with my girlfriends old computer. Sounds like you're starting with a fairly new computer anyway, no reason not to start fresh with the OS after you backup. Besides, if it is anything besides the video card this will fix that issue as well. Just make sure you download the latest drivers from whoever your motherboard manufacturer is before you reformat and if you think it's the router try to find a firmware update for it as well. Good luck.
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