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So I just bought a 9800 GT 1gb ddr3 today and installed it, but I'm getting noticably worse frames than previously on a stock 7300 LE.....

I was averaging around 40 FPS in TF2 where there's alot going on, on the screen with my old card. Now I'm getting at best 30 in crowded areas where there's lots of action? Sometimes it'll dip down to 18 frames. I've tried messing with the resolution and the graphics settings but it seems that the lower res I got and the lower I turn my graphics settings I lose frames, which is odd.

I've got an intel core 2 duo E6300 processor, 2 gigs of RAM
 
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could be a driver issue
 

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the 2gigs of ram might be a problem, if some is used by the os and then 1gb used by the gfx card, that leaves tf2 with precious little to use
 
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What drivers did you install and did you update DirectX?
 

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What drivers did you install and did you update DirectX?

Well I installed the drivers from the disc, but I just now got done installing drivers from the nvidia website so I haven't checked to see if it works yet.
 

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the 2gigs of ram might be a problem, if some is used by the os and then 1gb used by the gfx card, that leaves tf2 with precious little to use

Yeah I'm using Vista 32bit, I was thinking it was the RAM because from what I understand my CPU is more than capable of handling the 9800 GT and that it wasn't bottlenecking.
 

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Try what erocker said first, uninstall all the previous driver and then reinstall the newest stable ones. if it doesnt work, then I think it is time to consider other options
 
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the 2gigs of ram might be a problem, if some is used by the os and then 1gb used by the gfx card, that leaves tf2 with precious little to use

I run the game with a similar system and average over 60 so that shouldn't be the issue. He is using drivers off of the disc. I'd try new ones.
 

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I run the game with a similar system and average over 60 so that shouldn't be the issue. He is using drivers off of the disc. I'd try new ones.

Where would I find these on the nvidia site? Because I DL'd the new drivers off there and still get low FPS. I'm thinking I need to do some tweaking to the settings but I don't know where to start.

EDIT: I have a Physx system installed or something I might try to download latest physx drivers and see what that does.
 
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I run TF2 on a 9800 GT 1GB @ 1920*1080 60+FPS no sweat. TF2 usually uses about 800MB-1.2GB of system ram on my 64bit OS (4GB RAM total). Slowdowns in TF2 are likely to be caused by a crappy CPU or low system memory. I would assume the latter with your system because I bet your 7300 had only 256MB or even 512MB of RAM, and now you have a 1GB framebuffer in your address space, plus DX9 I believe needs to cache VRAM on System RAM, plus hl2.exe using nearly a GB of RAM and I bet you are running out of memory.
 

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I run TF2 on a 9800 GT 1GB @ 1920*1080 60+FPS no sweat. TF2 usually uses about 800MB-1.2GB of system ram on my 64bit OS (4GB RAM total). Slowdowns in TF2 are likely to be caused by a crappy CPU or low system memory. I would assume the latter with your system because I bet your 7300 had only 256MB or even 512MB of RAM, and now you have a 1GB framebuffer in your address space, plus DX9 I believe needs to cache VRAM on System RAM, plus hl2.exe using nearly a GB of RAM and I bet you are running out of memory.

I kinda figured that's what it was...

Guess it's back to DX8 for me then.. :mad:
 

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a 9800GT should play that game well above 60FPS! my old 8800GTS 640mb (OLD G80 Chipset) would get over 70 with 1600x1200 res and everything on max
 

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a 9800GT should be able to play that game at max settings (with low AA) and still get 60FPS average (sure, it dips at times - but so does my system)


you havent filled out the specs in your user CP, please do so. its likely that the rest of your PC is holding it back somehow.

you gave us CPU and ram amount, but you didnt give us PSU details, or what settings you're trying to run the game at
 

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TF2 ran smooth like butter @ 1280x1024 with all settings maxed on my single-core Athlon 64, 8600GT 512MB and 1GB RAM.
 

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a 9800GT should be able to play that game at max settings (with low AA) and still get 60FPS average (sure, it dips at times - but so does my system)


you havent filled out the specs in your user CP, please do so. its likely that the rest of your PC is holding it back somehow.

you gave us CPU and ram amount, but you didnt give us PSU details, or what settings you're trying to run the game at

New PSU, just installed it last week. It's a Thermaltake Black Widow 550 watt. I've played the game in all settings combinations. Low res high graphic settings, high rez low graphic settings, high rez high graphic settings and low res low graphic settings. I've noticed that low res with low settings gets me even worse FPS, it'll dip down to the teens. But at higher res and medium settings it wont dip down below 25.

Just played the game in DX8 like I have been before I got the 9800 and it's mostly the same, but a bit more stable as far as frames go.

Specs:
Intel Core 2 duo E6300 (dual core 64 bit processor, each core at 1.86 ghz 2 mb l2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
BFG 9800 GT EcoIntelligence 1GB DDR3
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New PSU, just installed it last week. It's a Thermaltake Black Widow 550 watt. I've played the game in all settings combinations. Low res high graphic settings, high rez low graphic settings, high rez high graphic settings and low res low graphic settings. I've noticed that low res with low settings gets me even worse FPS, it'll dip down to the teens. But at higher res and medium settings it wont dip down below 25.

Just played the game in DX8 like I have been before I got the 9800 and it's mostly the same, but a bit more stable as far as frames go.

Specs:
Intel Core 2 duo E6300 (dual core 64 bit processor, each core at 1.86 ghz 2 mb l2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
BFG 9800 GT EcoIntelligence 1GB DDR3
Thermaltake Black Widow 550w PSU
320gb sataII hard drive
2048 system memory
Windows Vista 32 bit


http://forums.techpowerup.com/profile.php?do=specs

^ you fill the specs in there.

CPU should be enough for TF2 - unless somethings in the background chewing the FPS (Fraps, Xfire, antivirus, whatever - quit EVERYTHING not steam or the game)

9800GT eco: thats a green model. its clocked fairly low. 550MHz core seems low to me when i ran my old 8800GT at 740Mhz core

At idle, when doing nothing: can you check how much of your CPU is being used in task manager?
 

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http://forums.techpowerup.com/profile.php?do=specs

^ you fill the specs in there.

CPU should be enough for TF2 - unless somethings in the background chewing the FPS (Fraps, Xfire, antivirus, whatever - quit EVERYTHING not steam or the game)

9800GT eco: thats a green model. its clocked fairly low. 550MHz core seems low to me when i ran my old 8800GT at 740Mhz core

At idle, when doing nothing: can you check how much of your CPU is being used in task manager?

CPU Usage = 1%

EDIT: Also, just downloaded EVE Online and I'd just like to say that game looks beautiful on this card and runs fantasic (even though EVE doesn't work well on Vista because of some DX problem I keep running into)
 
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EDIT: Also, just downloaded EVE Online and I'd just like to say that game looks beautiful on this card and runs fantasic (even though EVE doesn't work well on Vista because of some DX problem I keep running into)

directX problems eh?


update directX manually from here
 

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directX problems eh?


update directX manually from here

Well the DX problem is with Vista. Apparently Vista can't run anything lower than DX10 or something and Eve is a DX9 game so the background looks crappy but the models and everything are mind blowing, also get's like 100+ frames.

So in short it's a OS compatibility issue.
 

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Vista runs DX9 games just fine.
 
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