NVidia Settings

[alanwbrown]

Hi All
I have had to replace my video card with a Nvidia 9800GT and I wondered if I have the correct settings for it. I have used the same as my old 8800GT but my frame rate has dropped considerably.16-20 FPS on Wales & Borders for example.
Any advice helpfull advice would be appreciated.
Alan

[markpullinger]

Hi shame it died - mines still good - with a regular clean! If you are running vista it is probably running in slow mode - sorted by going to performance information in control panel & updating your score. Failing that go into settings tab on railworks page & retest video settings & save them & hopefully should be sorted.

Mark

[alanwbrown]

Hi Mark
I am running on XP. With my old card I was getting 50+ FPS.
Alan

[markpullinger]

Hi, yep the 8800 gt is a great card - even if it is a dust magnet! not sure why there is a problem with the 9800 though in theory it is a better card - have you reinstalled the drivers & done the test of screen res within railworks - I'm assuming it has the same or more memory onboard as the 8800.

[alanwbrown]

Hi Mark.
When I had the card fitted I was told it was better than the original. Memory is OK and the drivers are up to date. I wondered if the 'Manage 3D Settings' I am using are correct.
Alan

[markpullinger]

Hi I tell mine to use application settings & that seems to be ok but I use x8 antialiasing rather than x16 in game as it looked grainy & almost the same as x4 but overdone rather than underdone!

[Wikkus]

When I had the card fitted I was told it was better than the original.

That's something of a fib, I'm afraid: the 9800GT is little more than a badge-job, tbh: same chip (G92a or b compared to the original G92), the same memory, the same clock speeds, etc...

As such, it's even more puzzling as to why it's under-performing

May be an idea to uninstall the driver set, clean and re-install

Rik.

[markpullinger]

only other thought is that the 9800 chipset might be optimised for pcie16 v2 rather than 1. My MOBO is v1, so graphics card has to scale down to this - some of the later chipsets only want to work on v2 - allegedly so it might be that! It might scupper any chance of a quick upgrade for me though!
Mark

[Wikkus]

only other thought is that the 9800 chipset might be optimised for pcie16 v2 rather than 1. My MOBO is v1, so graphics card has to scale down to this - some of the later chipsets only want to work on v2 - allegedly so it might be that! It might scupper any chance of a quick upgrade for me though!
Mark

Would be a surprise as there's a certain minimum level of performance to be expected in backwards compatibility terms...but stranger things have occurred. Having had a think, it's not the first time I recall someone having issues when "upgrading" from a 88 to 98 GT

R.

[dean1986]

New drivers out as of yesterday

[longbow]

New drivers out as of yesterday

Do they make any difference in RW?

[Klaabu]

Hi, yep the 8800 gt is a great card - even if it is a dust magnet!

I have ASUS 8800 GTX 768 MB ... with separate watercooling (one watercooler for CPU and one for the GPU, both passive Zalman coolers) and never met any problems. In my opinion those graphic adapters are too hot for air cooling. I mesured temperatures with aircooling and watercooling. Results were: air 75-80 degrees, water 48-53. No comments. It's my recommendation - If You need power graphics use watercooling. Even passive Zalman Reserator keeps temperatures below 55 degrees. No dust no noise no lost power.

[Wikkus]

I have ASUS 8800 GTX 768 MB ... with separate watercooling

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Right, we're way off-topic now -- I too have a watercooled set-up (a proper one, none of this Zalman passive junk, lol) but it's irrelevant to this thread...

Now, back on-topic, what would be *really* beneficial at this juncture, rather than any epeen waving, would be to know if Alan had managed to upgrade his drivers and whether this had impacted the performance of his 9800GT at all...

Rik.

[Klaabu]

a proper one, none of this Zalman passive junk, lol

The result is most important. I don't think You can get any better results with Your "superb" active cooling system. Maybe 2-3 degrees but this is not enough to call Zalman passive cooling "junk". For me it's working. Matter of taste what somebody likes.

[kirkheath]

I have a 9800GX2 and I use nhancer for RW. all settings ingame set at medium settings, but object texture is high. and with nhancer I have supersampling 4xSQ Anti-alising and AF x4 and I get 75fps pretty nice drops and minor stutters on tile loadings.