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02-01-2009
|  | Knight | | | Join Date: Jan 2009
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Reputation: 65 | | | Major problems with a 4870 512MB
My setup
E6400
3 GB ram
Sapphire 4870 512 MB PCI-E
Asus P5B
Chieftec 560W
Anyhow, i had a 7950GT previously, and 160+ FPS EVERYWHERE from the beginning. But i guess they've added more content, thus making it more needy of good hardware.
Now, i have ~15-30 FPS which is WAAAAAY to low for my setup.
Disabled all addons, turned off windowed mode, changed drivers, cleaned the old ones away etc.
Anyone how any idea on what to do? |
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02-01-2009
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Reputation: 45 | | | Windows Vista? |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 27 Level up: 40%, 422 Points needed |    | | | I have the same Gfx, no problems like that for me. I did however have a graphic glitch problem that locked my pc up with strange artifacts when playing certain games, fixed it however.
EDIT: and yes it is sapphire too.
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02-01-2009
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Reputation: 65 | | | Running Windows XP SP3 32 Bits.
Thing is, all other games works great on really high resolutions, but WoW doesn't provide a playable FPS.
Got higher FPS i a maxed out Fallout 3 than in World of Warcraft. |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 40 Level up: 38%, 310 Points needed | | | | that looks like it's a driver problem , i had the same issues when i went from ATI to nvidia , mine were diferent models tho , took a while searching google , but i found out i had to use older drivers to make it work correctly with wow |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 65 | | | Well, i did clean out all old drivers with Driver Cleaner pro, guess i'll just have to formate the computer to see if it improves. |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 1 Level up: 67%, 134 Points needed | | | | i use vista and 9800GT but my fps only 30 |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 40 Level up: 38%, 310 Points needed | | | | the bottleneck could also be caused by your cpu assuming by E6400 you mean ---->
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 / 2.13 GHz processor
This is a very good mid-entry level processor. |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 65 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Evilphtbstrd  the bottleneck could also be caused by your cpu assuming by E6400 you mean ---->
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 / 2.13 GHz processor
This is a very good mid-entry level processor. | Well, shouldn't provide such worthless FPS? Doesn't matter if i run it at 3 Ghz, still pissy FPS. |
02-01-2009
|  | Site n00b.. (A leecher if I've been here for more than a month and can't earn 5 rep) | | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Sweden
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Reputation: 1 Level up: 82%, 75 Points needed | | | | this really looks like a driver problem yes, i had some trubbels with my 4870 saphire aswell tho i have the 1gb version:> but anyway with such important hardware change as a graphic card i recommend reinstalling ur OS just 2 get rid of every old graphic driver that could lure in ur computer (if you unistall a driver via clicking uninstall in windows own tool thing its known that it wont remove the driver completly and it will interfair later) you can try a program called "driver cleaner aswell" work quite well if you dont wanna reinstall ur OS and be 100% sure:P AND a very important thing! espacially with saphire card imo, you gotta flash ur bios to the newest version.
hope this helped |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 65 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Xc3 this really looks like a driver problem yes, i had some trubbels with my 4870 saphire aswell tho i have the 1gb version:> but anyway with such important hardware change as a graphic card i recommend reinstalling ur OS just 2 get rid of every old graphic driver that could lure in ur computer (if you unistall a driver via clicking uninstall in windows own tool thing its known that it wont remove the driver completly and it will interfair later) you can try a program called "driver cleaner aswell" work quite well if you dont wanna reinstall ur OS and be 100% sure:P AND a very important thing! espacially with saphire card imo, you gotta flash ur bios to the newest version.
hope this helped | Wrote above that i did use driver cleaner. But i'm downloading the Windows 7 Beta now to reinstall with that one.
But thank you anyhow.  |
02-01-2009
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Reputation: 14 Level up: 72%, 116 Points needed | | | | Shoulda got a nVidia GTX series 250fps anywhere in WoW. lol |
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Originally Posted by BottMaster Shoulda got a nVidia GTX series 250fps anywhere in WoW. lol | I sense a fanboi.  |
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02-01-2009
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Reputation: 65 | | But the Gtx 280 costs the double compared to 4870. Bang per buck.
Besides, Gtx 285 is available now.
Anyhow, Ati got better image quality. But now that i have this card, i'd like to do the best of it and atleast get a decent framerate. | | |
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