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nVidia GPU reccomendadtion please.
What I've noticed about GPU model numbers is you want the high-end in
each range. The low-end is equivalent to mid-range in the lower number series. Sorry, but that card makers are going to keep upping their prices as new games come out that require the higher end cards. The home PC that I've had since 2013 was a salvaged unit originally dating back to 2009 (an Acer with an uberboob BIOS so no settings of note there). I had to replace several components that got fried, including the video card. Got an AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB for $145 on a big discount sale. After 4 years, Newegg (where I bought the HD 7870) is selling another for $380. Yikes. I suspect you could toss $1000 USD at a new video card and you'd still be disappointed with that game. Seems something is screwed up as your hardware far exceeds their minimum requirements. Have you ran any benchmarks on your setup to make sure the CPU is running at expected clock, same for GPU, memory, SSD/HDD, etc? I've seen where a user complained about a huge drop in performance which turned out to be the multiplier in BIOS somehow got changed. Before tossing gobs of money at a new video card, I'd go to multibooting (but I wouldn't use Microsoft's dual-booting and instead use a multi-boot manager, like GAG). Create a partition on the SSD for a new instance of Windows, install a fresh copy of Windows in that new partition, install the game in that new Windows instance, and test the game's performance. Note that the latest video driver may not be the best for old video games. When I updated to later released of Catalyst, my old Thief and other old games had problems which went away when I reverted back to an old version of Catalyst. As I recall, I walked forward through about 17 newer versions of the video driver and then had to back off a few versions to find a driver that gave me the best old game behavior and performance along with what fixes the old versions (still newer than my original old version) gave me. The newest driver isn't always the best for your particular setup. Newer versions of drivers drop support for older hardware and older games while adding new code for new hardware and hew games. Right now I cannot move off of Catalyst v15 because going forward means I loss all control of resetting the color and gamma with an easy menu entry and would have to resort to manually making all the adjustments. After The Dark Mod crashes, it leaves the colors and gamma as they were in the game. With Catalyst v15, I just go into that tool and reset color calibration back to Catalyst's defaults. Users have complained that later versions dropped hardware and software options that were convenient in the older versions. |
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