Guest Vendayn Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 My current 660GTX 2gb factory overclocked, keeps running out of video ram on my modded Skyrim (I ran a program and severe FPS loss quickly past 2gb ram used and then instant crash to desktop. Not mod related as without ENB it plays a lot better, but still runs out of video ram and crashes (like I said, I ran a program to track GPU usage). It lags in DayZ on anything but the lowest and still lags in towns. I can't play Witcher 3 when its out as my 660 doesn't even meet minimum requirements. My geforce drivers crash all the time once it passes 2gb used, and my monitor shuts down and then boots back up with driver recovered. No matter driver used, it happens if my GPU goes past its 2gb limit. I can't play GTA 5 as my GPU is too weak and lowest settings look ugly lol. Can't play Rome 2 Total war or attila total war, because I prefer giant unit sizes (or whatever big unit size is) and my GPU can't keep up with all the units. Can't play Warband on 500 unit size either, my GPU can only do the default really small unit size and that isn't fun at all to me. Rest of my system specs: i5 660 3.3 Ghz CPU (its sorta old, but I can't afford to replace it and I was told its good enough anyway. So GPU comes first ) No SSD drive (can't afford a new GPU, let alone an SSD drive) 8gig DDR3 Ram Windows 7 64bit My 660 just can't keep up in modern games, or modded games. And I really want to play Witcher 3, but my card isn't even supported in minimum requirements. Can't do anything fun at all, because in warband/total war I have to play tiny unit sizes and that is SUPER boring to me and ruins the whole aspect of a huge battle. Skyrim uses up 2gb video ram pretty quickly, even with ENB off. Even with ENB off, I only get 30-40 FPS...with ENB its 15-25 FPS lol. Probably cause I use grass mods+1k texture mods...but no one really likes a boring plain vanilla looking Skyrim...I never see those screenshots get any likes or feedback at all and I wouldn't thumbs up my own screenshots if they looked like vanilla In fact, I wouldn't want my Skyrim to look like vanilla I would instead just not play. I'd rather play at 15-20 FPS or whatever than play an ugly looking game (compared to modded) But I can't play other games too. Like DayZ lags in towns even on lowest settings, but lowest settings look ugly as hell and it still lags anyway. My GPU is quickly not able to play any game with at least medium/high settings...most modern games I can play on low...which means its definitely time to upgrade cause low settings are not very nice to look at I remember I had this problem when Crysis came out lol. Crysis was THE game to test your PC. Now its Witcher 3 and my PC isn't even supported at all Maybe someone on here has an upgrade they have a spare of that can run Witcher 3 as well I did try a gofundme thing, but that didn't really work out. I had a couple people donate from here, which was really awesome...but it never took off. Probably cause I didn't go everywhere spamming my link, since I don't like doing that.
Guest Vendayn Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 I guess I just BARELY meet Witcher 3 requirements. I saw somewhere else the minimum (and optimal requirements) were higher, maybe they optimized it a bit since I last looked. But, that is like the bare minimum I have as far as requirements are met lol.
Guest endgameaddiction Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 My 660 just can't keep up in modern games, or modded games. And I really want to play Witcher 3, but my card isn't even supported in minimum requirements. Can't do anything fun at all, because in warband/total war I have to play tiny unit sizes and that is SUPER boring to me and ruins the whole aspect of a huge battle. Skyrim uses up 2gb video ram pretty quickly, even with ENB off. Even with ENB off, I only get 30-40 FPS...with ENB its 15-25 FPS lol. My infamous 260 GTX (I know piss your pants of laughter har har!) gets the same amount of frames per second as your 660 GTX. No ENB 30fps capped. But with HQ textures 2k-4k. My card would probably pop if I even try 8ks -.- Super Performance ENB 30fps max Performance ENB 16-25fps Quality+ ENB 8-10fps lol
Guest Vendayn Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 My 260 GTX got the same exact FPS as my 660 GTX. When I upgraded, I saw a 2-4 FPS increase in Skyrim and none of my games got any increase. If I thought about it when it was under warranty, the card was probably faulty in some way. It does crash a lot when its under stress. And I ran a stress test on my GPU (or my dad did) and my whole system froze and crashed with a fatal system error. Temperature was good (only 40 or something), CPU was good, power was completely normal...but as soon as the video ram was being used it caused MAJOR issues during the stress test. My 660 probably has faulty video ram. And I can't get it replaced cause its not under warranty. Plus even if it was, I still have to pay 50 dollars to send it to them (or I can send it for free, but wait 1-2 months to get a new card. No thanks lol)
Guest Vendayn Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 But literally, my 260 GTX got the same exact FPS in every game as my 660 GTX does. Which...my 660 should blow it out of the water. It never did. When I got it, I saw a measly little 2-4 increase in Skyrim and none in other games...I probably should have taken that as a faulty card. But I thought it could have been something else. (edit: I even bought a high end, high quality power supply for the 660 GTX (when I first got it, my old one was being used and still no FPS increase )...a really good seasonic one off amazon that is 600 wattz. But power isn't the issue as it ran fine on the tests. I think its just a faulty card in some way.)
Guest endgameaddiction Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Yeah, For the longest I was saving up for a 760 GTX. Sounded very reasonable for my rig for a giant leap. Then I thought about if it's really worth the jump for a few more FPS let alone on my 6 year old gaming rig. Having enough watts from my old PSU wasn't really my concern I was more concern on my old mother board. At first I thought my card was dying. I get these artefacts and black screens and display errors from time to time, but it only happens with Skyrim. Works perfect for Fallout with no issues except low frames from HQ textures and/or ENB depending the quality of the preset. I wonder if the black screen and artefacts is just me putting far too much stress on my card and ram.
Guest Vendayn Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Maybe the card isn't the issue, or we both have faulty cards All my modern higher-end games get artifacts and black screens and all kinds of weird things. Oblivion is fine, Fallout is fine...older games are fine. Just can't do any of the new ones or like mount and blade I can play, but no point in such tiny battles. Probably putting too much stress on the GPU Sadly, we are barely affording rent here. We'll be lucky to make it to the end of our lease (in December) so we can move somewhere cheaper. Literally paying SO much rent, and then my parents are paying rent FOUR times in one month because the bills are crazy as hell.
Guest endgameaddiction Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Yeah, I was very close to getting the 760 and a so called friend showed up to my house all bummed out looking for a place to stay. I'm stupid enough to believe his story and lent him money telling me where he used to stay his 5yo sons stuff was there and if he doesn't pay the guy up he'll never get it back. Family pictures. Shoes he bought him for a gift etc... Turns out he lied (he does have a 5yo son) and was spending it on heroin. sigh... And well, there went most of the money I was saving for the GPU. I'm sorry to here, bud. Hope you guys mange to pull through.
Guest Vendayn Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 How safe is it to buy hardware parts on Craigslist or Ebay?On Craigslist, someone is selling their GTX 970 for 220. Pretty good deal. But...I dunno...I don't think I'd want to take the chance that it is a rip off. Too good to be true kind of thing. And Craigslist tends to be kinda weird. (edit: I don't think I want to be desperate enough to get scammed out of that much money If I even had 200 dollars (I don't even have close to that amount lol) or whatever, I'd probably want to save for a legit seller lol. That is like going to a pay day loans and getting money, but you get ripped off and have to pay LOTS back and then you end up in an even worse position lol.
Guest endgameaddiction Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Craiglist is weird. I used to use it to find other musicians and I've met some really weird people. It's hard to trust it to buy stuff. 220 is a lot of cash and it's a gamble. I would tell him to install it in his PC and show you it's a 970. Have you checked newegg?
Guest Vendayn Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Yeah. The GTX 770 is pretty much same price as a GTX 970 on Newegg. A GTX 770 for about 270 and a GTX 970 is 320 or so. Price varies between models. On Amazon (my favorite online store) has a GTX 770 for 200. I still don't have that kind of money. And if I did, I'd rather spend an extra 100 for something newer and more modern. Which is the problem when it comes to upgrading when you have no money..."well I can get this earlier version for 100 dollars less. But why not save up an extra 100 and get something newer, better and modern"
Buddy Christ Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Which is the problem when it comes to upgrading when you have no money..."well I can get this earlier version for 100 dollars less. But why not save up an extra 100 and get something newer, better and modern" Yeah, and as soon as you have the extra 100 bucks, it goes something like this: "Oh wow, there is a new generation of cards out now. Just need another 100 dollars to get that one. I guess I will save up on it instead of buying the previous model." At least it happened to me more than once
Guest Vendayn Posted May 9, 2015 Posted May 9, 2015 Well, I got my Skyrim to be a lot more stable. I just turn off the ENB and no more crashes. In fact, all the crashes are gone. I don't think my video card can run any ENB Even with the ENB effects all off except bloom, it doesn't do ENB Game looks kinda ugly lol. And I don't like any of the other lighting mods (realistic lighting, sweetfx etc)...ENB made the game look a lot more realistic and better looking than Witcher 3. I bet part of it is the parallax textures are too taxing on my video card too on top of the ENB. This is what my game looks like with the ENB on (with it off it looks so damn ugly compared with it on rofl) http://static-5.nexusmods.com/15/images/110/15461404-1427258414.jpg http://static-7.nexusmods.com/15/images/110/15461404-1422778202.jpg http://static-3.nexusmods.com/15/images/110/15461404-1427258457.jpg too good looking for my GPU
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