Graphics Card dilemma!! Plz help!
I was playing Far Cry 2 the other, and the framerate went from good2bad2good over and over, i then realized, the card wasn't connected to the power supply, and now, all other games are running poorly.. Installed bfbc 2 earlier and had major graphics issues, (all sortsa funny colours flashing where explosions were happening. Will the latest nvidia drivers fix this, or've i completely damaged my card for good? Using a 9600 GT btw.
I wouldn't think that too little power would damage your card really. The easiest option is to update your drivers and see if this works. It costs you nothing.
Driver Update should fix it, you can't really damage your card by underpowering it
lol, jsut out of interest, who installed it though ?
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What gfx card is it and yeah, who installed it?
I wouldn't have thought it was possible to permanently damage a graphics card by under-powering it. A drop in performance would be noted, but wouldn't damage the card until sufficient power is provided.
It depends. There may have been too much draw on parts of the psu that caused irregular power to be supplied by it to the card.
I would try the updated drivers first though.
Maybe post some more system specs?
"multiplatform"... the word that ruins games for PC gamers.
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"How boss is this ?" what kinda slang is that
According to him the GPU was not Connected to the PSU.
Yeah Clean drivers should do the trix.
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Use driversweeper to clear out the old drivers
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A family member, but that's not the point. I formatted my 80 gig last weekend, then installed Dark Messiah and noticed it ran quite badly for an old game, I figured that maybe it isn't optimised for Dual Core, that's when I installed Far Cry 2, and for the 1st few seconds it runs as it should, but then the framerate drops to around 5 fps. That's when I decided to install BFBC 2, it ran okay at 1st, but when the explosions come, I get all these graphic anomalies wherever an explosion or something of that kind takes place. Even F.E.A.R. the first one, runs well for a few seconds, then after a while, drops, San Andreas on low does the same, too much smoke or fire animations causes a drop in framerate.
My System Specs Are:
AMD 2.41 Ghz Processor Dual Core
3 Gigs RAM
64 bit operating system
No It was asked out of interest, because all Techies know to power up their cards, although I've heard of some that expect end users to know this kind of thing
Point is, underpowering a card would never damage it unless it was caused by a dip in power or constant fluctuation.
In your case the card was never connected, therefore was performing to a certain degree but as soon as it either overheated from no circulation of the onboard cooling fan or as soon as it required to run at a higher level of processing it would cut out or cause significant stuttering/anomalies.
Did you take temps on the GPU to eliminate the Heat cause?
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