Help with my video card

Xypher · Post by **Xypher** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:55 pm

Hello guys, I have a a question.

I have currently a little budget system that I play World of Warcraft in, and in it I currently have 2gbs of PC2-5300 and a XFX Nvidea Geforce 8500 GT. Recently I have had a large drop of FPS on WoW, since the last patch. So my question is, where can I get a program or how can I make my video card work harder or even overclock it, if necesary, to get a better FPS?

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:00 pm

Xypher wrote:Hello guys, I have a a question.

I have currently a little budget system that I play World of Warcraft in, and in it I currently have 2gbs of PC2-5300 and a XFX Nvidea Geforce 8500 GT. Recently I have had a large drop of FPS on WoW, since the last patch. So my question is, where can I get a program or how can I make my video card work harder or even overclock it, if necesary, to get a better FPS?

RivaTuner will do but a driver update may be all that is necessary. I'd look for the newest forceware drivers and see what happens before overclocking.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/

Xypher · Post by **Xypher** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:15 pm

I've downloaded Rivaturner, yet I am lost, how do I use it/update my drivers?

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:30 pm

Xypher wrote:I've downloaded Rivaturner, yet I am lost, how do I use it/update my drivers?

It doesn't you'd have to update them manually or through device manager. RT is an overclocking utility.

Xypher · Post by **Xypher** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:35 pm

I've downloaded the recent drivers, now, where do I look for the newest forceware drivers? Or are they downloaded with my video card drivers?

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:41 pm

Xypher wrote:I've downloaded the recent drivers, now, where do I look for the newest forceware drivers? Or are they downloaded with my video card drivers?

No, if you clicked on the link I provided you'd be at their download section....you want to navigate to the Forceware section. Look for the most recent XP drivers that have been released....

http://downloads.guru3d.com/ForceWare-1 ... -1890.html

If you're not running XP what OS are you running?

Once you've downloaded them take note of where you saved them then right click on My Computer>Properties>Device Manager>Display Adapters and locate your video card....

Right click on that and click on that and uninstall. Restart your computer and then double click/install the new drivers. Report back.

Xypher · Post by **Xypher** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:48 am

I updated it(I'm almost 100% postive I had the most recent update anyhow). The one you gave me didn't work for my 8500 GT so downloaded the most recent from the Nvidia site and reinstalled the Direct X 9.0c(as it told me to).

Same FPS still on WoW, how do I make this RivaTurner work?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:29 am

Doesn't sound like a driver or card issue but the patch...perhaps reloading the game and re-patching will help as it might have caused a problem.

Also nVidia drivers are not called "Forceware" drivers anymore..they are renamed to GeForce.

But I wouldn't recommend overclocking that 8500 card as it really isn't needed cause this is what you said:

Xypher wrote: Recently I have had a large drop of FPS on WoW, since the last patch.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:52 am

Well the change log is quite long for the 2.4 patch so some of that could have effects on fps I assume, also I saw where someone was told to remove their addons as that could be the cause.