Trouble Shooting my Gaming PC - Please Help

ThaiM · Dec 12, 2014

Hi guys,

I'm new to the forum. A friend of mine recommended it to me.

I have a PC that is running a Gigabyte GTX 770 and it's not performing as well as it should. It's an upgrade from my 550 but it wasn't a significant upgrade in how it performs.

Could I be bottlenecking somewhere?

I set up my computer myself from ground up and it was my first time. Everything is plugged properly and everything runs perfectly fine expect for when it comes to gaming. I set it up over a year ago so I could play Diablo 3 and right from the hop it was laggy in bigger mobs but I dealt with it. I've recently started playing Call of Duty and the friend who recommended this site is running the game perfectly fine at the highest settings with a lower card (I think its a 750) but when I do the same I can barely move.

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LKK
Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K XPU @ 3.40GHz
Ram: 8 GB
Video Card: Gigabyte GTX 770 2048MB
Hard drive: Intel 250GB SSD

I don't feel like any of these components would bottleneck in anyway.

Could it be faulty hardware? How can I find out?

jnewegger23 · Dec 13, 2014

Make sure your bios is up to date. Everyone confuses drivers and bios; not the same. Make sure your bios for your motherboard is up to date; the latest drivers typically require this. Your system shouldn't really be bottle necked to be beat out by a 750.

Vudue Priest · Dec 13, 2014

Another thing to consider from the above, I understand the feeling of a drastic upgrade, we all throw the most bench marked games on ultra to see how it handles. Keep in mind, while this is an awesome card, there are games out there that will eat its lunch on ultra.

Also keep in mind gaming online is a completely different beast.

ThaiM · Dec 13, 2014

jnewegger23 :

Everything is up to date. My ASUS motherboard is running the latest version 1402.

jnewegger23 · Dec 14, 2014

Ok, now go into bios and make sure everything is at default. Your pci-e lane should be in auto mode then and use the gpu versus onboard. I just noticed, what is your psu info; should be 500W or greater I believe and preferable a tier 1 psu.

ThaiM · Dec 14, 2014

jnewegger23 :

I have a 700w Cool Master Silent Pro. Also, in pretty sure its using the GPU. I don't think my onboard would be this fast.

ThaiM · Dec 16, 2014

jnewegger23 :

Ok, so I went out and bought a Corsair AX860 PSU because I needed to upgrade that PSU anyways. Still the same problem...

ThaiM · Dec 16, 2014

Anyone else care to help out?

jnewegger23 · Dec 16, 2014

The psu you had was more than sufficient. Anyhow, I don't believe you tried this; not guaranteeing it will work but it won't hurt. Try changing this setting to pcie:

ThaiM · Dec 16, 2014

Im doing this right now. Also, I've noticed that my game settings in game only allow my resolution up to 1600X which is strange because my desktop resolution is 1920x. I saw a review for this graphics card on youtube and they were showing optimal settings for for CoD and they were able to select 1920 but for some reason it isn't even an option for me.

ThaiM · Dec 16, 2014

jnewegger23 :

Alright! So after I switched my primary to PCIe I was able to get my Native to 1920 but the issue is still not solved. I know this card is way more capable than this. In the current situation I'm in I can't have V-sync on and Im running my Anti Aliasing at SMAA 2TX when I know this card should be able to do Filmic SMAA 2TX no problem.

jnewegger23 · Dec 16, 2014

That is odd that you were at 1600. Great to hear you got it to 1920 but a lot of this all doesn't make much sense. Try removing drivers and install a previous version - perhaps same as your friends that is working properly. Perhaps there is a driver issue that we cannot pinpoint and this can get you on track until the next update?

ThaiM · Dec 16, 2014

jnewegger23 :

Thanks! I've actually escalated it to NVIDIA. Hopefully they can help me out. It may be a faulty card but who knows... They just got me to uninstall using a program called DDU and have reinstalled all drivers in safe mode as the suggested but still nothing..

Im happy with my PSU upgrade though! I've had that PSU for nearly 5 years so as soon as you mentions the PSU I wanted a new one lol.. Can you say impulse?

jnewegger23 · Dec 17, 2014

If you uninstall and reinstall the same exact driver it may not help. I've recommended that you uninstall the current driver and reinstall a previous version for example, currently it's 344.75; remove this. Perhaps you should try replacing the installed driver something like 340.52. Going back sometimes does the trick!

ThaiM · Dec 17, 2014

jnewegger23 :

This is not actually solved but I'm giving this to you as solved because you were very helpful!

ThaiM · Dec 17, 2014

jnewegger23 :

Also, I was able to figure it out last night. I went to his place and played with some of his settings. His settings in game were being over rided by his NVIDIA settings so I was given false information from him! This whole time I actually didn't have any problems except for the fact that my native was 1600 pixels and we were able to fix that by making my primary PCIe.

Thanks again!

jnewegger23 · Dec 18, 2014

It sounds like you figured it out. Glad I could help you troubleshoot kind of. It was very gracious of you to select my solution. Thanks!

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