Hi,
I have an AMD A8-6600K APU with the above graphics card. I recently bought this gaming PC and my other specs are pretty sufficient - 8GB RAM and 3.9ghz quad core processor.
I've recently began playing Rome 2 Total War, a series which were always too much for my previous PCs. I managed to play on auto detected ultra settings for a while before getting a blue screen due to 'display driver errors'. I tried to troubleshoot this for a long while, in the end settling on it being that my graphics card isn't good enough. (After the first blue screen, they were every few minutes on very high/ultra settings, once in around 20 hours on high with directx9, and none in 30ish hours so far on medium settings at dx9.)
I'd like to know if I can get a big improvement on this graphics card with a budget of between £100-200? If not, how much I would have to spend to see an improvement (for example, to play games like Rome 2 Total War on very high settings)? I have no idea what makes a better graphics card, and the number series confuses me (for example I read that the Radeon HD7850 is a good card, but the number 8570 would suggest to me that mine would be better/later).
I think I'd prefer an AMD card so that I can stick with just the catalyst software, but still open to all suggestions.
Also I presume that being an APU, I can still link my monitor to the new card and the CPU will still work fine? This is my first PC that uses an APU - will it clash with a separate GPU? Can I set the system to automatically use the new card?
Thanks in advance!
I have an AMD A8-6600K APU with the above graphics card. I recently bought this gaming PC and my other specs are pretty sufficient - 8GB RAM and 3.9ghz quad core processor.
I've recently began playing Rome 2 Total War, a series which were always too much for my previous PCs. I managed to play on auto detected ultra settings for a while before getting a blue screen due to 'display driver errors'. I tried to troubleshoot this for a long while, in the end settling on it being that my graphics card isn't good enough. (After the first blue screen, they were every few minutes on very high/ultra settings, once in around 20 hours on high with directx9, and none in 30ish hours so far on medium settings at dx9.)
I'd like to know if I can get a big improvement on this graphics card with a budget of between £100-200? If not, how much I would have to spend to see an improvement (for example, to play games like Rome 2 Total War on very high settings)? I have no idea what makes a better graphics card, and the number series confuses me (for example I read that the Radeon HD7850 is a good card, but the number 8570 would suggest to me that mine would be better/later).
I think I'd prefer an AMD card so that I can stick with just the catalyst software, but still open to all suggestions.
Also I presume that being an APU, I can still link my monitor to the new card and the CPU will still work fine? This is my first PC that uses an APU - will it clash with a separate GPU? Can I set the system to automatically use the new card?
Thanks in advance!
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