Folks,
I have a dual core high end PC with 4 GB of RAM and a GTS 8800 nVidia card. I have just refreshed the drivers for it today. I am running Windows 7.
I am playing the game at 1280x900 and performance is awful. I am playing on the initial levels (borg and asteroid) and the game simply lags and jerks continuously. If I lower the resolution to ridiculously low levels, the game performs fine ... so I know it isn't network lag, I am at a loss to know how to progress ... the game can't be played at this rate and I don't know how to debug.
It is a know issue that latest nVidia drivers doesn't performs well. Recommended drivers are 190.6 (If i'm not wrong, anyway they are the WHQL 190 one, not the beta).
I have a similar configuration than yours, but my graphics is 8800 GT 512Mb (yours is a bit more powerful I think) but I have to disable some high details (many).
Look for the forum, there is a graphic performance guide very useful.
It is a know issue that latest nVidia drivers doesn't performs well. Recommended drivers are 190.6 (If i'm not wrong, anyway they are the WHQL 190 one, not the beta).
I have a similar configuration than yours, but my graphics is 8800 GT 512Mb (yours is a bit more powerful I think) but I have to disable some high details (many).
Look for the forum, there is a graphic performance guide very useful.
Good luck!
Actually the latest drivers perform very well with STO. They do however have problems with the very latest high end cards. Somethign which Nvidia has already acknowledged, which is why theyre pushing releases out faster lately.
From looking at your dxdiag log, i'd say at a guess it's your card. Does it have 256 mb ram by any chance? And possibly DDR2 ram at that? Even with DDR3 ram, the card will still need at least 512mb ram or it will be straining the rest of your system. And thats not really a good idea, especially with your mid range proc.
A workaround you could try and test is roll back your drivers to the 190.** series. These seem to work the best with the 8*** series cards.
On a hunch, I installed STO on my work laptop. A relatively modern thing but not a graphics work horse. On my laptop, the game played flawlessly at ultra high speed compared to my grossly more powerful deskside with a high end graphics card. I know that my laptop is nowhere near as powerful. For example, on my deskside, I play Call of Duty: MW2 ... and it plays at high resolution with great FPS.... on my laptop, it will hardly play at low resolution. Yet STO is just the reverse. Again ... I play all kinds of graphics games on my deskside ... Dragon Age, COD: MW2, BioShock etc etc ... and this is the very first time I have had a graphics slowness.
Folks,
I have a dual core high end PC with 4 GB of RAM and a GTS 8800 nVidia card. I have just refreshed the drivers for it today. I am running Windows 7.
I am playing the game at 1280x900 and performance is awful. I am playing on the initial levels (borg and asteroid) and the game simply lags and jerks continuously. If I lower the resolution to ridiculously low levels, the game performs fine ... so I know it isn't network lag, I am at a loss to know how to progress ... the game can't be played at this rate and I don't know how to debug.
Neil
i have the exact same card with 512, 4 gigs of ram, intel quad processor each running 2.97 windows vista 32bit and im haveing the exact same problems. i can run crysis, age of conan and many others on full with shadows at 1680 by 1050 no prpoblem... but this game... wow its killing my card
Auxthil,
Wow ... I am sorry that you are having the same problem but it does make me feel better that I am not alone. If there are a number of us, I am thinking that the likely hood of us working together to find a solution is higher and, if it is a defect, then the developers may be able to patch.
I noticed there is 2 monitors listed are you using 2 monitors and are you running in windows mode?? Plus your 8800 is only showing 295mb dedicated ram so im guessing you have one of the 320's could mean something on the graphics card is wrong.
I do have two monitors attached. I tried disabling one and trying again ... but that didn't help. Auxsthil ... do you have two monitors?
I am not opposed to the idea that my card doesn't have enough "oomph" ... but with all my other highly graphicly intensive games there has been no issue at all even at high resolutions with deep AA switched on. I also found that when I installed STO on my laptop with a poor card, the performance was good on that laptop.
I have a 8800GT and it runs terrible when lighting isn't set to low. I can play any other game (Crysis, COD, LOTRO) without a hitch so it is STO related.
I have a 8800GT and it runs terrible when lighting isn't set to low. I can play any other game (Crysis, COD, LOTRO) without a hitch so it is STO related.
Runing lighting on High adds normal maps to the game and they are used just about everywhere. I notice the high quality lighting model is optimized and runs quite well. There are some other graphical features that will destroy performance on the 8800's. The trick is finding the sweet spot. I would leave the High Quality lighting on though as it doesn't seem to be a primary offender to some of the client problems or zone related peformance issues.
The introduction isn't optimized very well. Performance in that area is sketchy at best. Again with the 8800's im seeing a massive performance hit with the environment mapping and lighting features. Naturally your going to have to run low to medium for most settings and some just leave disabled. We do however need a few more video options to better scale the performance to some of the older GPU's. Lastly performance can only go up from here as Cryptic tweaks the engine and there is definantly a sweet spot hiding in the engine for these cards we just need to find out how to disable a few of the problematic GPU functions causing it.
I was running the 8800 GTS 512 and i cant say I noticed any severe problems, altho to be fair, it was pre-server upgrade and the game was generally laggy all round anyway.
What was alarming however, is in the 2nd day of headstart, my GPU burned out and I've been forced to purchase a ATI 5770.
Been great ever since (altho the 4 days inbetween Cryptic updated the servers)
I've been having problems also and I have an 8800. This game really bogs down on my system, which is also a quad-core with 4gb. I wasn't sure if it was just horrific server lag, as everything runs slow when it bogs, but it sounds like STO and the 8800s don't play nice.
I'm no techie but here is what worked for my Nvidia card:
I'm using the 196.21 driver whql downloaded from Guru of 3d.
Open your Nvidia control panel through control panel or taskbar icon then go to 3d settings and select manage 3d settings in global settings scroll to the bottom and set the vertical sync drop down menu to force on and apply.
On the log in screen click options and in the advanced command line box type /maxfps 60 and enter, the options box then dissappears. Do this each time you log on.
Launch the game and load your character.
In options under the video tab I set Monitor vertical sync on, set dynamic lighting to offand set post processing to off.
You may need to increase brightness a bit to compensate for these changes. Mine is set at 120% brightness.
This made the insane fan noise stop for me and the game runs okay with world texture quality and character texture quality at 200%.
I must stress that this worked for me. it may not work for you. We all have to find that just right mix and matchof settings and drivers for each game these days.
NB I found this info in various posts here and elsewhere. Many thanks to those posters.
Runing lighting on High adds normal maps to the game and they are used just about everywhere. I notice the high quality lighting model is optimized and runs quite well. There are some other graphical features that will destroy performance on the 8800's. The trick is finding the sweet spot. I would leave the High Quality lighting on though as it doesn't seem to be a primary offender to some of the client problems or zone related peformance issues.
The introduction isn't optimized very well. Performance in that area is sketchy at best. Again with the 8800's im seeing a massive performance hit with the environment mapping and lighting features. Naturally your going to have to run low to medium for most settings and some just leave disabled. We do however need a few more video options to better scale the performance to some of the older GPU's. Lastly performance can only go up from here as Cryptic tweaks the engine and there is definantly a sweet spot hiding in the engine for these cards we just need to find out how to disable a few of the problematic GPU functions causing it.
That pretty much answers the question.
Normally, I would just scale back the resolution while keeping the graphics settings high. But with this game (and EVE Online) really is built for high resolution settings. I've got mine set to my monitor's native res at 1680x1050, but had to set my graphics settings down to "LOW" in order go obtain a high FPS rate and be consistent too. I've tried setting it to "HIGH" and then playing around with the settings to nail the performance killing culprate, but to no avail.
Do you have an ETA of when Cryptic will resolve the issue on the nVidia 8800 series?
I just started a thread that recommends that you update directx. If you have tried everything else, you might try this, just run a search for: directx redist feb 2010 (I downloded from softpedia, bout 110mb). This fixed all my problems with an ati card on windows 7 (I think its a windows 7 issue and not a card/driver issue). If you have tried everything else, might as well give it a shot. Note: the exe extracts the files to a folder of your choosing, just run dxsetup as an administrator after that then reboot.
I reinstalled DirectX and my fps jumped up to a constant 60 fps with most settings maxed. It had been like this during Headstart, but for some reason, the first retail patch made my max out at around 25fps...
However, it is now messed up again after 2 minutes or so in space combat. I saw some green squares on the screen for a second, then the fps dropped. Reinstalling directX is the only thing that fixes it.
Okay so I was able to drastically change how well my system runs STO. This worked for me, I cannot garentee that it will work for you, however the steps I added do help most games run better across the board for myself, so i recommend you try this.
PC Specs:
Intel core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.4GHz
4 gigs ram
8800 GTS 1 gig ram
Vista 32
1. Made sure windows was up to date.
2. Installed the latest direct x drivers.
3. Downloaded Driver sweeper from 3d Guru, and the 196.21 drivers from nvidia.
4. Ran Driver sweeper and checked off Nvidia - chipset, physx, display. Then analyzed and removed.
5. Restart.
6. Install 196.21 Nvidia drivers.
7. Restart.
8. At desktop go to advanced display settings and open Nvidia control panel. Click on the tab "Manage 3D settings." Find the options for triple buffering, set to "On", in the next row, Vertical sync, set to "Force On." Now press apply and close.
9. Start up STO and log in. Once at Character select press back and open options (Bottem left of screen). Go to video options and turn vertical sync on and once logged in type /maxfps 60 in chat pane. (Ty to trellis for command/idea)
Now I know some of you wont have 4 gigs of ram or a quad core processor, but doing all this made a drastic difference in my game preformance. Not only have I almost completely eliminated the graphical freeze lag I was having. I can now run the game at max, yes everything you can possibly turned up I have turned up. (Even bloom =P) and I run between 25-30 fps on ground and in space (Slightly lower in sol space dock, probably because of all the custom toons) which is prefectly playable by my standards.
If you still are having problems with FPS, a few things to try disabling that have the least effect on overall snazziness of game.
1. Set dynamic lighting to "off"
2. Set Shadows to "Medium"
3. Lower antiscropic filtering to x8 or x4
4. Set reflections to "Low"
5. Lower anti-aliasing or disable.
I hope this helps more frustrated peeps like me!!! (I don't know if this actually helped but I also put a 12" diameter desk fan on the side of my computer to remove all the heat issues (Minor heat issues) I was having)
Finally! TYVM Trellis!! You are a life saver, went to guru, found that driver sweeper looking for the drivers you mentioned. Also did the Vsync trick. Gooooooood Job!
*Edit* Was able to get my FPS to go from 25-30 to 30-40 by simple decreasing my anti-ailiasing from x8 to x4, and I honestly cant tell the difference.
ok i have a dual core 2.4ghz 4gb ram and a XFX 8800gts 640mb and yes when i was in open beta i was getting alot of gfx lag and it was horrible to play as i would have to drop my GFX right down but i rolled back to drivers 190.62 i think it was and i have had no problem even with gfx on max
A few ppl in my fleet had the same problem they have rolled back and again solved there problem
so i would say for now roll back and go from there once nvidia release new drivers give them a try but for now im staying with these
Geforce 9800GTX+
Athlon 4200+ (939)
4gb DDR400 (Even tho XP only sees 3)
XP Pro
74gb Raptor
Latest drivers
I get the occasional stutter or skip in the framerates, but nothing too serious. But given that the 9800GTX uses the same chip as the 8800s (In 55nm, but still), I think that the issues need to be fixed. My 9800GTX+, even in a dated rig, can play anything else on the market, cranked. STO's the only game in my library with any stuttering or framerate issues at all..
But what's even more irritating are the wavey lines going across the hull when the ship is moving. That's the only thing that I can honestly say I can't live with. As a guy who's crazy for ship TRIBBLE, having wavy lines going all over the model while it's moving is inexcusable.
The 8800GTX and the 9800GTX are still fairly high-end cards, even if they are a couple generations old. They benchmark very well and handle games that, theoretically, would be MUCH more demanding then STO, yet STO's giving issues?
Geforce 9800GTX+
Athlon 4200+ (939)
4gb DDR400 (Even tho XP only sees 3)
XP Pro
74gb Raptor
Latest drivers
I get the occasional stutter or skip in the framerates, but nothing too serious. But given that the 9800GTX uses the same chip as the 8800s (In 55nm, but still), I think that the issues need to be fixed. My 9800GTX+, even in a dated rig, can play anything else on the market, cranked. STO's the only game in my library with any stuttering or framerate issues at all..
But what's even more irritating are the wavey lines going across the hull when the ship is moving. That's the only thing that I can honestly say I can't live with. As a guy who's crazy for ship TRIBBLE, having wavy lines going all over the model while it's moving is inexcusable.
The 8800GTX and the 9800GTX are still fairly high-end cards, even if they are a couple generations old. They benchmark very well and handle games that, theoretically, would be MUCH more demanding then STO, yet STO's giving issues?
I hope to see this resolved.
the 9800GTX is a low-end high end card.
the 8800 is a mid range card, plus the entire 8*** series cards had known problems. From oerheating issues, to basic chipset failure. When these card were the best you could get, thousands upon thousands of people complained about them. Thats why Nvidia brought out the 9*** pretty damn fast. They even took soe of the old "popular" 8*** cards, fixed some of the issues, and had the gall to rebadge them as 9*** series cards.
Sorry dont wanna be a TRIBBLE but that pc isnt high end at all , its med range to be honest. Did have some problems with game to at start play a bit around with shadows no aa stuff like that and see what helps the best for you . Also i am running the new nvidia drivers and they seem to perform well with sto.
8800 and 9800 series GTX cards all like to heat up, my laptop has an UNDERCLOCKED GTX 260 (Desktop 9800GTX rebrand) and underclocking it to run below 87C gave me Superb performance, overclocked (over 92c) has a disaster of a performance.
Perhaps, if you underclock and keep it below 87c, this could be the trick you are looking for.
Also, I have found with this type of GPU, only a very very small underclock can mean a world of diference, as in less then 1/10th of a % can raise or lower the temp of my card by a wopping 12c, perhaps if you find your cards sweet spot.
also, to test my GPU performance and Temp's I use FURMARK at 15 min test intervals.
mines is set to run at GPU500/MEM800/SHADE1250 with 195 (latest drivers) and have perfect-good performance with 2x-8x AA as long as it stay's at those clock rates
ASUS 72GX
"If it wasnt for the glossy finish on laptops, gamers would never clean their laptop shells"
Also running an 8800GTS 512 with 2.4 duo and 4 gigs of ram. Was experiencing heat issues until I tried many of the suggestions here (frame rate limits, lower setting, Feb 2010 directx, latest drivers etc) all of those combined dropped my max temps from 90 to 78. I should note most other games I play max my temps at 65, so I went from 25 above normal to just 13 above with recommendations I saw in this forum.
Not entirely satisfied I began experimenting with the settings under the "troubleshooting" section and found one setting that greatly improved my temps I haven't seen mentioned yet.
GPU-accelerated particles : setting this to "off" dropped my temps nearly another 10 degrees to sub 70 max and mid 60s average in every area I have been so far.
Hopefully this will help someone still having problems.
Thanks for the tips guys , although itsd hardly worth playing when you are forced to lower detail in a game that didnt look as good as other titles anyways , it looks horrible playoing like this. My friends have allready left STO and im stuck on my own as i like it , but this performance issue is a pain.
Cant cryptic code for geforce? there must be a way they can fix this.
I'm in the same boat. After doing everything that the forums say "might" help, nothing has thus far.
I'm running:
OS: Vista x64
Video: Nivida GeForce 9800M GTS - 512MB
Ram: 4 Gigs DDR3
Processor: Intel Duo 2.26GHz
Fully upgraded drivers, DX, etc.
I've went from 190 drivers to even the beta 195.62. I'm useing GPU-Z for the temp and I go from 47 C standby all the way up to 108 C on recommended video settings WITH the "new" options just added to lower temps. I know it's not my video card "going out", as people always put it, since the laptop is only 2 months old. IMHO they should of kept it in beta until all these problems were fixed. Why should people pay for a game that isn't playable by some Nivida video cards...?
I am in the same boat. I ahev a GeForce275 Factory Over Clocked with 896MB of ram. I am using 196.21 nVidia Drivers. I have a seperate 8600GT dedicated to PhysX. I was annoyed when I installed it defaulted to 4:3 and didn't give me the option to correct it till after I was in the game, but when I did correct the ratio and changed to a 16:10 resolution just rotating the camera was choppy. I had to disable antialiasing (defaulted to 4x) which has made it far better but still not 100%.
This is all surprising considering I far exceed the specs needed to run the game, heck all but my hard drive has a score in the 7.x's in Windows 7, but then the nVidia control panel does not list the program as able to select custom configurations.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 (3.2GHz)
8GB of DDR3-1600 RAM.
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Geforce 275 (648Mhz) w/ 896MB RAM (1152MHz GDDR3)
Folks,
I have a dual core high end PC with 4 GB of RAM and a GTS 8800 nVidia card. I have just refreshed the drivers for it today. I am running Windows 7.
I am playing the game at 1280x900 and performance is awful. I am playing on the initial levels (borg and asteroid) and the game simply lags and jerks continuously. If I lower the resolution to ridiculously low
Neil
Perhaps you solved your issue regarding your GTS8800, but it very understandable that you can't play in high settings. The card is obsolete if you like playing in the new generation MMO's like STO, Guild Wars 2, The Secret War and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
E.G. if you like playing Ultra settings in The Secret War recommend is to get GTX550 or Radeon HD7700 or better. GTS250 1GB will do, but you have to lower some settings. Recommodation: upgrade Windows tot 64-bit so you can use 8GB, 32-bit OS has a limitation up to 4GB only!
Comments
Even a manufacturer and serial number would be enough to see if it is the card.
It is a know issue that latest nVidia drivers doesn't performs well. Recommended drivers are 190.6 (If i'm not wrong, anyway they are the WHQL 190 one, not the beta).
I have a similar configuration than yours, but my graphics is 8800 GT 512Mb (yours is a bit more powerful I think) but I have to disable some high details (many).
Look for the forum, there is a graphic performance guide very useful.
Good luck!
Actually the latest drivers perform very well with STO. They do however have problems with the very latest high end cards. Somethign which Nvidia has already acknowledged, which is why theyre pushing releases out faster lately.
As requested, here is my dxdiag output at pastebin.com
http://pastebin.com/m7b8e92fd
As for nVidia driver levels, I am running 196.21
Neil
A workaround you could try and test is roll back your drivers to the 190.** series. These seem to work the best with the 8*** series cards.
i have the exact same card with 512, 4 gigs of ram, intel quad processor each running 2.97 windows vista 32bit and im haveing the exact same problems. i can run crysis, age of conan and many others on full with shadows at 1680 by 1050 no prpoblem... but this game... wow its killing my card
Wow ... I am sorry that you are having the same problem but it does make me feel better that I am not alone. If there are a number of us, I am thinking that the likely hood of us working together to find a solution is higher and, if it is a defect, then the developers may be able to patch.
Neil
I am not opposed to the idea that my card doesn't have enough "oomph" ... but with all my other highly graphicly intensive games there has been no issue at all even at high resolutions with deep AA switched on. I also found that when I installed STO on my laptop with a poor card, the performance was good on that laptop.
Neil
Runing lighting on High adds normal maps to the game and they are used just about everywhere. I notice the high quality lighting model is optimized and runs quite well. There are some other graphical features that will destroy performance on the 8800's. The trick is finding the sweet spot. I would leave the High Quality lighting on though as it doesn't seem to be a primary offender to some of the client problems or zone related peformance issues.
The introduction isn't optimized very well. Performance in that area is sketchy at best. Again with the 8800's im seeing a massive performance hit with the environment mapping and lighting features. Naturally your going to have to run low to medium for most settings and some just leave disabled. We do however need a few more video options to better scale the performance to some of the older GPU's. Lastly performance can only go up from here as Cryptic tweaks the engine and there is definantly a sweet spot hiding in the engine for these cards we just need to find out how to disable a few of the problematic GPU functions causing it.
What was alarming however, is in the 2nd day of headstart, my GPU burned out and I've been forced to purchase a ATI 5770.
Been great ever since (altho the 4 days inbetween Cryptic updated the servers)
I'm using the 196.21 driver whql downloaded from Guru of 3d.
Open your Nvidia control panel through control panel or taskbar icon then go to 3d settings and select manage 3d settings in global settings scroll to the bottom and set the vertical sync drop down menu to force on and apply.
On the log in screen click options and in the advanced command line box type /maxfps 60 and enter, the options box then dissappears. Do this each time you log on.
Launch the game and load your character.
In options under the video tab I set Monitor vertical sync on, set dynamic lighting to offand set post processing to off.
You may need to increase brightness a bit to compensate for these changes. Mine is set at 120% brightness.
This made the insane fan noise stop for me and the game runs okay with world texture quality and character texture quality at 200%.
I must stress that this worked for me. it may not work for you. We all have to find that just right mix and matchof settings and drivers for each game these days.
NB I found this info in various posts here and elsewhere. Many thanks to those posters.
That pretty much answers the question.
Normally, I would just scale back the resolution while keeping the graphics settings high. But with this game (and EVE Online) really is built for high resolution settings. I've got mine set to my monitor's native res at 1680x1050, but had to set my graphics settings down to "LOW" in order go obtain a high FPS rate and be consistent too. I've tried setting it to "HIGH" and then playing around with the settings to nail the performance killing culprate, but to no avail.
Do you have an ETA of when Cryptic will resolve the issue on the nVidia 8800 series?
However, it is now messed up again after 2 minutes or so in space combat. I saw some green squares on the screen for a second, then the fps dropped. Reinstalling directX is the only thing that fixes it.
PC Specs:
Intel core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.4GHz
4 gigs ram
8800 GTS 1 gig ram
Vista 32
1. Made sure windows was up to date.
2. Installed the latest direct x drivers.
3. Downloaded Driver sweeper from 3d Guru, and the 196.21 drivers from nvidia.
4. Ran Driver sweeper and checked off Nvidia - chipset, physx, display. Then analyzed and removed.
5. Restart.
6. Install 196.21 Nvidia drivers.
7. Restart.
8. At desktop go to advanced display settings and open Nvidia control panel. Click on the tab "Manage 3D settings." Find the options for triple buffering, set to "On", in the next row, Vertical sync, set to "Force On." Now press apply and close.
9. Start up STO and log in. Once at Character select press back and open options (Bottem left of screen). Go to video options and turn vertical sync on and once logged in type /maxfps 60 in chat pane. (Ty to trellis for command/idea)
Now I know some of you wont have 4 gigs of ram or a quad core processor, but doing all this made a drastic difference in my game preformance. Not only have I almost completely eliminated the graphical freeze lag I was having. I can now run the game at max, yes everything you can possibly turned up I have turned up. (Even bloom =P) and I run between 25-30 fps on ground and in space (Slightly lower in sol space dock, probably because of all the custom toons) which is prefectly playable by my standards.
If you still are having problems with FPS, a few things to try disabling that have the least effect on overall snazziness of game.
1. Set dynamic lighting to "off"
2. Set Shadows to "Medium"
3. Lower antiscropic filtering to x8 or x4
4. Set reflections to "Low"
5. Lower anti-aliasing or disable.
I hope this helps more frustrated peeps like me!!! (I don't know if this actually helped but I also put a 12" diameter desk fan on the side of my computer to remove all the heat issues (Minor heat issues) I was having)
Finally! TYVM Trellis!! You are a life saver, went to guru, found that driver sweeper looking for the drivers you mentioned. Also did the Vsync trick. Gooooooood Job!
*Edit* Was able to get my FPS to go from 25-30 to 30-40 by simple decreasing my anti-ailiasing from x8 to x4, and I honestly cant tell the difference.
A few ppl in my fleet had the same problem they have rolled back and again solved there problem
so i would say for now roll back and go from there once nvidia release new drivers give them a try but for now im staying with these
Athlon 4200+ (939)
4gb DDR400 (Even tho XP only sees 3)
XP Pro
74gb Raptor
Latest drivers
I get the occasional stutter or skip in the framerates, but nothing too serious. But given that the 9800GTX uses the same chip as the 8800s (In 55nm, but still), I think that the issues need to be fixed. My 9800GTX+, even in a dated rig, can play anything else on the market, cranked. STO's the only game in my library with any stuttering or framerate issues at all..
But what's even more irritating are the wavey lines going across the hull when the ship is moving. That's the only thing that I can honestly say I can't live with. As a guy who's crazy for ship TRIBBLE, having wavy lines going all over the model while it's moving is inexcusable.
The 8800GTX and the 9800GTX are still fairly high-end cards, even if they are a couple generations old. They benchmark very well and handle games that, theoretically, would be MUCH more demanding then STO, yet STO's giving issues?
I hope to see this resolved.
the 9800GTX is a low-end high end card.
the 8800 is a mid range card, plus the entire 8*** series cards had known problems. From oerheating issues, to basic chipset failure. When these card were the best you could get, thousands upon thousands of people complained about them. Thats why Nvidia brought out the 9*** pretty damn fast. They even took soe of the old "popular" 8*** cards, fixed some of the issues, and had the gall to rebadge them as 9*** series cards.
Perhaps, if you underclock and keep it below 87c, this could be the trick you are looking for.
Also, I have found with this type of GPU, only a very very small underclock can mean a world of diference, as in less then 1/10th of a % can raise or lower the temp of my card by a wopping 12c, perhaps if you find your cards sweet spot.
also, to test my GPU performance and Temp's I use FURMARK at 15 min test intervals.
mines is set to run at GPU500/MEM800/SHADE1250 with 195 (latest drivers) and have perfect-good performance with 2x-8x AA as long as it stay's at those clock rates
ASUS 72GX
"If it wasnt for the glossy finish on laptops, gamers would never clean their laptop shells"
Not entirely satisfied I began experimenting with the settings under the "troubleshooting" section and found one setting that greatly improved my temps I haven't seen mentioned yet.
GPU-accelerated particles : setting this to "off" dropped my temps nearly another 10 degrees to sub 70 max and mid 60s average in every area I have been so far.
Hopefully this will help someone still having problems.
Cant cryptic code for geforce? there must be a way they can fix this.
I'm running:
OS: Vista x64
Video: Nivida GeForce 9800M GTS - 512MB
Ram: 4 Gigs DDR3
Processor: Intel Duo 2.26GHz
Fully upgraded drivers, DX, etc.
I've went from 190 drivers to even the beta 195.62. I'm useing GPU-Z for the temp and I go from 47 C standby all the way up to 108 C on recommended video settings WITH the "new" options just added to lower temps. I know it's not my video card "going out", as people always put it, since the laptop is only 2 months old. IMHO they should of kept it in beta until all these problems were fixed. Why should people pay for a game that isn't playable by some Nivida video cards...?
This is all surprising considering I far exceed the specs needed to run the game, heck all but my hard drive has a score in the 7.x's in Windows 7, but then the nVidia control panel does not list the program as able to select custom configurations.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 (3.2GHz)
8GB of DDR3-1600 RAM.
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Geforce 275 (648Mhz) w/ 896MB RAM (1152MHz GDDR3)
Perhaps you solved your issue regarding your GTS8800, but it very understandable that you can't play in high settings. The card is obsolete if you like playing in the new generation MMO's like STO, Guild Wars 2, The Secret War and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
E.G. if you like playing Ultra settings in The Secret War recommend is to get GTX550 or Radeon HD7700 or better. GTS250 1GB will do, but you have to lower some settings. Recommodation: upgrade Windows tot 64-bit so you can use 8GB, 32-bit OS has a limitation up to 4GB only!
Kind Regards,
Generix