Weird low FPS in some games

David Bouchard

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Just bought a new video card to go in my computer. It's an EVGA GTX 750 Ti Superclocked.

It's running very well in a lot of games all in 1080p, like Rome 2 (Everything on very high, average 45 FPS) and Bioshock Infinite (On ultra, over 60 FPS on average) for exemple.

But in some other games, like GTA 4, Just Cause 2 and Skyrim, I can't seem to ever get over 25 FPS with everything on the lowest settings, still 1080p.

Here's the rest of my rig :

I3-540
6GB RAM DDR3 1333 MHz
Windows 7 64 Bits Home Premium
400W decent PSU (shouldn't need more than that with a 60W video card)
 

freshbakd

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I notice the games with trouble can have a lot of draw distance. More than likely its simply trying for more vram than you have. Just turn that setting down and i bet you will get a lot better frames.
 

David Bouchard

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Drivers are all up to date.

CPU usage doesn't get over 80%, GPU usage is at 99%, so no bottleneck there, looks like.

On those games, render distance, as every single other setting is on the very lowest, and there's 2GB of VRAM on this card, so I don't think that this is the problem.
 

ferooxidan

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Idk about skyrim and just cause 2 there. GTA 4 is a well-known bad port and CPU bound game, so meaning most gpu won't mean anything if your cpu is low end. Just cause 2 should be fine with your rig, so idk why it behaves like that. Meanwhile, have you update your Skyrim to the latest version or are you using any mod? If it is modded, don't mod graphic/visual too much as a minimum requirement for that is 2GB of VRAM, esp w/ ENB it pushes even more. But if it is Vanilla, I have no idea then

Quick edit: have you tried using Geforce Experience so it can automatically detect best setting for each game, then try to use nvidia-optimized-setting from that software and launch the game. Geforce Experience should be bundled already w/ latest driver.