Geforce 550ti - Crappy Card or Crappy Drivers?

I bought this card about a year ago (PNY 550ti) wasnt my first choice, my CF 5770's burnt out - so I had to make a mad dash to Best Buy and purchase on a budget.

At first, I was astonished how well it performed, but lately it's been giving me problems. And I dont mean on This years games either. 

When I first started Playing Borderlands 2 I could all buy Max out the GFX at 1900x1200, everything on high except for Antroscopic Filtering.

But When i revisited it, Its now Glitchy and and plays like a slide show.? At first I thought it was the latest drives, (which it kinda was - since I rolled back to a 6 month prior driver) But its still not as smooth as it once was.

Anyone else using this card and Having the same problems? And if so - any suggestions?

now that u have nVidia, u haven't accidentally enabled phsyX, that will destroy ur performance on a low end card.

Will you try the following:

Remove all drivers from the PC that associate with the nvidia drivers. Use a driver removal tool

Then install drivers from scratch after reboot.

Try a graphics card program test, like 3dmark or something along those lines

See if your Frame per second come close to what it should be at.....

I think Kungfoo - kitty up there had the right idea, activating the Physx is probably Destroying my perfomance. I'll give that a shot..

Thx all

I think Kungfoo - kitty up there had the right idea, activating the Physx is probably Destroying my perfomance. I'll give that a shot..

Thx all

Xsan3

you may never have encountered that setting before, i know i still enable every setting i can with my rig, but my GF's PC has a GTX275 in it, that runs PhysX pretty well in borderlands 1 and 2

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I think Kungfoo - kitty up there had the right idea, activating the Physx is probably Destroying my perfomance. I'll give that a shot..

Thx all

kungfool69

you may never have encountered that setting before, i know i still enable every setting i can with my rig, but my GF's PC has a GTX275 in it, that runs PhysX pretty well in borderlands 1 and 2

I am considering on getting a new card though. How would you suggest the EVGA GTX 660? $214.00 and factory Superclocked ?

Thanks again for the advice.

general rule of thumb is go ti, or go home, unless ur PSU restriced. 660ti's are awesome compared to the non-ti models. But now, why look at a 660 when the 760;s are out? but what CPU do u have? dont want to over shoot ur CPU

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[QUOTE="Xsan3"]

I think Kungfoo - kitty up there had the right idea, activating the Physx is probably Destroying my perfomance. I'll give that a shot..

Thx all

Xsan3

you may never have encountered that setting before, i know i still enable every setting i can with my rig, but my GF's PC has a GTX275 in it, that runs PhysX pretty well in borderlands 1 and 2

I am considering on getting a new card though. How would you suggest the EVGA GTX 660? $214.00 and factory Superclocked ?

Thanks again for the advice.

general rule of thumb is go ti, or go home, unless ur PSU restriced. 660ti's are awesome compared to the non-ti models. But now, why look at a 660 when the 760;s are out? but what CPU do u have? dont want to over shoot ur CPU

kungfool69

But now after seeing the 760 model, I see the advantage of pricepoint.

My CPU, I'm rockin the i5-2500 @ 3.7GHz. I'm confident that will still hold up to whatever I need it to. Also, my Mobo is an ASUS Maximus IV Formula GeneX.

HERE is an PNY 760 for $249. - Does that look good? There are like 3 or 4 different versions of the same card... I would go with EVGA just the same.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125466

extra $10 for more factory OC, but those skeleton style ones look easier to clean instead of the enclosed one? i dunno.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125466

 

extra $10 for more factory OC, but those skeleton style ones look easier to clean instead of the enclosed one? i dunno.

kungfool69