OK, so the other day, me and my brother switched computers, as I use mine for gaming, but his is better equipped for gaming (2gb GPU, Intel Core i5-3330, 8gb of Ram).
All we switched is hard drives. We didn't switch the towers, motherboards, PSUs, not even the monitors. As his Graphics Card is an MSI Radeon HD 6670 and mine was an Nvidia Geforce GT 640, I knew I had to install the drivers, so I went and did so, making sure to uninstall the Nvidia items first.
Here's where the problem lies. Everything went all fine and dandy. I switched the Intel HD Graphics with the Radeon Drivers. So I went to play some Sniper Elite V2 (as a test) and as the motion from the promotional materials went to the main menu, I noticed that the framerate was quite off. To test this, I went to try everything on the lowest settings possible (everything unticked, anisotropic off, graphics detail low) and was shocked to find that my test came back that I only averaged 21.87fps. As a comparison, my old Geforce (1gb) could output 30fps comfortably on high (not maxed) with anisotropic on 6.
I then gave Payday 2 a try. Turned everything down, and everything was STILL laggy. 2 game that aren't as hard on a GPU as people would expect, yet a superior one struggled? I have reason to believe that I may have not uninstalled the Geforce Drivers properly (removed from the Device Manager) but I don't want to download any software to purge my drivers unless it really is the only option. I've had this problem since we swapped, and it's really starting to get to me.
The GPU and all of the components work fine, so nothing hardware related. It's probably something software related, but what, I don't know. Any solutions?
EDIT: Don't recommend uninstalling Nvidia stuff. I tried doing it from the Control Panel but it just won't delete?
All we switched is hard drives. We didn't switch the towers, motherboards, PSUs, not even the monitors. As his Graphics Card is an MSI Radeon HD 6670 and mine was an Nvidia Geforce GT 640, I knew I had to install the drivers, so I went and did so, making sure to uninstall the Nvidia items first.
Here's where the problem lies. Everything went all fine and dandy. I switched the Intel HD Graphics with the Radeon Drivers. So I went to play some Sniper Elite V2 (as a test) and as the motion from the promotional materials went to the main menu, I noticed that the framerate was quite off. To test this, I went to try everything on the lowest settings possible (everything unticked, anisotropic off, graphics detail low) and was shocked to find that my test came back that I only averaged 21.87fps. As a comparison, my old Geforce (1gb) could output 30fps comfortably on high (not maxed) with anisotropic on 6.
I then gave Payday 2 a try. Turned everything down, and everything was STILL laggy. 2 game that aren't as hard on a GPU as people would expect, yet a superior one struggled? I have reason to believe that I may have not uninstalled the Geforce Drivers properly (removed from the Device Manager) but I don't want to download any software to purge my drivers unless it really is the only option. I've had this problem since we swapped, and it's really starting to get to me.
The GPU and all of the components work fine, so nothing hardware related. It's probably something software related, but what, I don't know. Any solutions?
EDIT: Don't recommend uninstalling Nvidia stuff. I tried doing it from the Control Panel but it just won't delete?
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