Framerate Drops With Powerful System

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Hi everybody,

I recently built a PC with some pretty powerful hardware. My specs are as follows:

AMD FX(tm) 6100 Six-Core processor
GeForce GTX 660 GPU
8.00 GB ADATA Gaming ram
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
700w Corsair PSU

I have GeForce Experience downloaded which allows you to set optimized setting for your games through GeForce Experience. But GeForce wants to set most all of my settings to low despite the power of my hardware. On Battlefield 4 I get pretty bad framerates when I set it to ultra. I also periodically get frame drops on games like Far Cry 3. I unparked my CPU yesterday with little results. Any ideas?

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
 
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Yep, those framerates look normal to me, the 660 would be able to manage very high settings in modern games without any intensive options on such as AA, tessellation etc. It is not a high end card so running games at those settings of course you'd be seeing less than 60FPS.

2GB of VRAM is definitely enough for the latest games at 1080p, the problem is that you're treating a mid range card like a high end card. It would defeat the purpose of having a higher end card if the 660 would run games fully maxed smoothly don't you think? The 660 is still no slouch so you'd have no problem playing upcoming games at all. You may have to lower a few settings but come on, you're not going to be cranking up tessellation, PhysX and AA with a 660...
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I updated the original post, I posted it without finishing it on accident lol.
 
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Harry Turner

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Have you tried the newest game drivers from Nvidia? Or previous versions??
 
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mr195

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I'm on the current Nvidia driver and previous versions give me the same issues
 
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Are you using MAX MAX settings on both those games? can you give me your lowest and highest / average fps during a session? What I mean by MAX is, is everything up the highest it could possibly go??
 
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Yeah I set everything as high as it can go. Average fps on Blood Dragon is about 55 FPS and can range from 30 to 75. On Battlefield I average around 45 and range from 25-75
 
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I don't quite know what sort of frames you were expecting to get from those games but those are entirely plausible framerates... if you could manage higher then that would be the point in the 7 series GPU's? the 660 is an old card and with only 2GB VRAM it wont be able to play next years games at max. If you want smooth frames you'll have to drop your settings a little, maybe use a less demanding AA or lower it, lower the shadows quality, or whatever you're willing to give up tbh. The only other thing I can recommend is to upgrade your graphics card to something better. However if I were you I'd stick with that card until the next gen of cards come out. I can't see this gens putting up a good fight with the games coming out next year, not with all the high end graphical details they keep pushing, look at crysis 3 for example.
 
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Yep, those framerates look normal to me, the 660 would be able to manage very high settings in modern games without any intensive options on such as AA, tessellation etc. It is not a high end card so running games at those settings of course you'd be seeing less than 60FPS.

2GB of VRAM is definitely enough for the latest games at 1080p, the problem is that you're treating a mid range card like a high end card. It would defeat the purpose of having a higher end card if the 660 would run games fully maxed smoothly don't you think? The 660 is still no slouch so you'd have no problem playing upcoming games at all. You may have to lower a few settings but come on, you're not going to be cranking up tessellation, PhysX and AA with a 660, though it will be putting up a good fight with newer games.

Metro Last Light uses a fair bit of video memory for instance, with very high settings without AA, tessellation or PhysX the menu and game itself uses around 1.3gb of VRAM at 1080p, so expect upcoming games to be at that standard of demanding, Crysis 3 is just a different beast which not even the 780 Ti can max (including AA) at 1080p.

Another limiting factor in CPU intensive games would be your Bulldozer FX-6100, you should have went for an FX 6300 or FX 8320 instead.
 
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