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How can you tell if you are stressing your Videocard too much ???

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kuanaco   02-20-2009 at 04:38:57 PM

How can you tell if you are stressing your Videocard too much when playing games?

I just bought a GTX 295 and wanted to have something similar to the CPU monitor on Vista that shows you how much exactly are you using of the Videocards potential.

How can you know tell if you are maxing out your videocards potential or killing it?

I know you can tell if it crashes on you but that is a bit archaic.

Let me know.

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kuanaco   02-20-2009 at 06:11:19 PM
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So no one here manages their videocards eh?

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cjl   02-20-2009 at 06:31:22 PM
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In most games, you will tend to max it out. The exception is CPU limited games. As for a monitor - I can't help you. ATI has a monitor built into the Catalyst Control center, but I'm not familiar with a similarly functional monitor for Nvidia.

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Kari   02-20-2009 at 06:37:36 PM
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and you can't really stress it too much unless you are overclocking the cr@p out of it or overheat it with dust blocking the heatsink or with poor case ventilation...

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kuanaco   02-20-2009 at 06:53:24 PM
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I meant in regards to putting the game on MAX settings. I always wonder if I am lagging in the game due to LAG in internet connection or LAG due to having graphic settings too high.

How can I determine this?

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tsd16   02-20-2009 at 08:23:17 PM
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kuanaco wrote :

I meant in regards to putting the game on MAX settings. I always wonder if I am lagging in the game due to LAG in internet connection or LAG due to having graphic settings too high.

How can I determine this?




from my experience internet lag has a distinctly different feel than video performance lag. try getting riva tuner or something of the like and have it display your fps on screen. I dont think (someone correct me if im wrong) that it factors in internet lag. so when you see your fps, that should be a good way to judge whether your graphical settings are impacting your performance. So if you were getting 30 fps or over its a good bet its internet lag you are experiencing, if you are getting between 20-30 fps or lower, good chance its video performance.

If you dont want to install riva tuner and do that, just lower the graphical settings and see if the lag goes away or not.

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