NVIDIA video card(s) owners read here!

[larsiano]

@meade95: What part of HighEnd dont you understand? How many highend cards have you owned before? What temperatures do you think a videocard with almost the fastest chip (two even) should have? swapping the card will have no effect at all the Dell tech support noob should have spotted this. the next card will sound the same and thats called 'working as designed' as we call it in ICT land. Also remember that the card will not melt at 100 deg.C its not made of water. For drivers usually the latest is the best for me i try them all and each time they get a little better (guru3d.com is your frend) then before but the temps never change!

[meade95]

@meade95: What part of HighEnd dont you understand? How many highend cards have you owned before? What temperatures do you think a videocard with almost the fastest chip (two even) should have? swapping the card will have no effect at all the Dell tech support noob should have spotted this. the next card will sound the same and thats called 'working as designed' as we call it in ICT land. Also remember that the card will not melt at 100 deg.C its not made of water. For drivers usually the latest is the best for me i try them all and each time they get a little better (guru3d.com is your frend) then before but the temps never change!

The sound of the card (with fans) is not a problem at all. In fact, it runs pretty quiet considering the GPU fan goes up to 90%. However, from benchmarks I've seen (on youtube) and read about, on the GTX 590.....Mid 80'sC is high. Especially for gamming less than 20 mins and reaching these Temps. Perhaps mid 80c's is just fine........but is why I'm looking for opinions. 20 mins into gamming, with a tremendous amount of airflow (into and out of box) those temps just seem odd to me. Maybe not.

[Streaks]

lol and here I thought my humble GTX260 was running hot at ~60° C hehe

I was using NvTweak and apparently it came with a mild OC. Because when I uninstalled it the GPU now runs around 50°C under heavy use.

[Kremator]

Also remember that the card will not melt at 100 deg.C its not made of water.

As a science teacher .... at 100degC water will turn to steam Sorry I couldn't resist!

[MiniGunDad]

Curious, what Temp's are other GTX 590 card owners experincing when running A2/OA. My card is reaching mid 80c's (with Fan profile reaching 90%). Seems way too high. My system just RTM my video card for a new one.....But I'm just curious what others are showing for GPU Temps..... Thanks

Well if it helps i get 60c - 63c fan speed 65% playing A2OA - when i played STALKER Clear Sky i was getting temps of 70c - 75c fan speed 70-75%. Fan speed is controlled by EVGA Precision.

In A2OA I'm still having low FPS problems in towns - 20-35FPs with settings on V High and the GPU's are only at 20% usage. In fact my tests have shown that with a single man running around Chernogorsk i get better FPS with Single GPU rather than Multi GPU mode!! (NVCP). Still it seems to me there are too many options in th NVCP and also in the 'in-game' video options and the more you tweak each one the more you become frustrated with the apparant no change.

[Li0n]

Strange, I have GTX560Ti, and I have no option to disable PhysX. Available options are "AutoDetect", "CPU","GPU".

[MavericK96]

I don't believe there is a "disable" setting. You can disable GPU PhysX by setting it to "CPU", but I don't see any reason to do so.

[Nikiforos]

Hi

I would like to ask which drivers perform best for Arma 2.
Im still using some old drivers 275.33 and I would like to know a little more before updating the drivers.

[larsiano]

Wow those drivers are ancient! Just get the latest suitalbe for your OS + bit version (32 or 64) these i know work well: Nvidia Forceware 305.53 + AMD Catalyst 12.8 an here is a good site for 3D drivers: http://downloads.guru3d.com/Videocar...%7C-7_c32.html but dont get the GeForce 305.68 version they are only for the ENGTX6xx version cards

[ht-57]

For all you who run nvidia 400 thru 600 series cards a new driver is out.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us