Pic related is an AMD R7 200 series graphics card. According to DxDiag, it has DirectX 12 support and 2 GB of on board RAM. Ordered it from Newegg a while back and I obviously have no cash to buy a new one (or new anything for that matter). So now that that's out of the way.
Why does this piece of shit play even low graphical games like Payday 2 at 15-18FPS?
I'm aware this isn't Holla Forums but faulty PCI-E slot maybe? If it has even a slight bit of 3D, my frame rate crawls to the bare minimum. What the fuck?
What is the exact GPU you bought? Maybe you bought a low end piece of shit. Maybe you're running off of the integrated graphics instead of your gpu.
Jason Gomez
You bought a low low tier old card and you are surprised it doesnt run modern games? Yes, it may support the DX12 API but that doest mean shit if your card doesnt have the power to utilize it. Ok, start by lowering your standards, then lower all of your settings. No AA, no shadows, no texture filtering, no blur, no HDR, absolutely no tessellation, 800x600. Deal with it or get a newer card since yours was meant for office computers.
Carson Cooper
How is that NOT low end? That motherfucker is 2-3 generations old and was a low end card even when it came out.
Colton Bennett
Well gee if only I knew back when I had cash a few years back when I got it. Thanks for the tech advice, anyhow.
Reposting image because it's 6 AM and I accidentally doxxed myself in the first one.
Carson Lewis
here is what you should have done:
if your card isn't getting that performance, see what is different. What RAM did they have? CPU? Storage type? OS? Maybe the game ran better at that time, for example my PC used to get 300 FPS in TF2 because the hardware I have in my system wasn't even theoretical when TF2 was first released, and by the time my hardware was released it could run games likt TF2 at 300FPS average, but after enough time the performance was knocked down to 140FPS. Some games degrade in performance over time due to developer incompetence.
Colton Baker
also, if your card isn't getting the correct performance? Maybe you're not actually using the GPU. Maybe you have an IGP that the system is using instead. Maybe your driver install is fucked. Maybe your actual card is just broken in which case RMA that shit.
Cameron Nguyen
Play different games, you double nigger.
Caleb Lewis
It still should run games better than what OP describes.
John Rodriguez
I didnt mean to be a jerk, it's just my average demeanor. When it comes to AMD cards, the ranking in cards goes like this: *95x2 is a special dual GPU card, then *90, *80, *70, *60 and below is not usable for video games. A capital X at the end usually means it has a higher core and memory clock than the other cards. Your card was low end in 2013, the same year that Payday 2 was released. Generally, whatever game you want to play, and then compare it to the average tier video card of that year. If your card is less 'powerful' then you might have trouble running the game.
Video games can be an expensive hobby, but if you compromise somewhere between price and performance you can have an enjoyable time.
Go here for more info on this topic and choosing an appropriate card; logicalincrements.com/
Gabriel Kelly
Would be a fair assumption if I don't run all my games on 1920x1080
Thank you for informing me. I wasn't intending to sound snappy in that reply, so I apologize if I did.
In all honestly it seems more logical to me to just get a new desktop instead of constantly replacing cards by now, even if it isn't cost-effective. The desktop I currently have is 6 years old with added RAM but the motherboard is very obsolete and some USB ports are already broken. I might just install the hard drives into the new one when I get it and call it a day from there.
Regarding that, I assume the NVIDIA GTX960 is a good card, correct?
Samuel Scott
The GTX960 isn't amazingly strong, however at 1080p it'll run anything as long as you don't try shit like 16x AA.
Kayden Watson
NVIDIA names their cards in a similar way. *90 being high, *80 mid, *70 low. *60 and below are for low tier and media PCs and office computers.
Carson Reed
*70 is mid tier these days since they stopped doing the *90 cards.
Jackson Barnes
That is true only for the 900 series cards. GTX 1090 is on the way. logicalincrements.com/
Kayden Rivera
Acknowledged. So then 980 would be better… and a 1080 would be best if I understand it correctly.
Anyhow, I can't stay any longer. I've got work to get to.
I'm going to leave the thread open for discussion instead of deleting it unless you guys vote otherwise.
Levi Cook
But would you say the 1070 is a low end card? That fucking thing has more power than previous gen titans or the 980TI.
Oliver Foster
I got a R7 360 which is basically a overclocked 260x. I can run PD2 at max at 60 fps.
What card do you have? 200 series tells me nothing because it contains the 240, 250, 250x, 260 and 260x.
Cameron Turner
It's all relative and each generation has very different performance. For the 1000 series, the 1060 is the lowest and the 1090 is the highest. How would would you rank them relative to their series? I figure that the lowest was never intended for video games so i put it into a different category.
Zachary Stewart
1060 is still a very good mid tier card, and performs better than the Rx 480 (according to the leaked benchmarks).
Bentley Johnson
1060 is more expensive then the 480. 250 instead of 200, even worse in Europe.
Alexander Morales
I'm aware, and it's also stronger. They're both mid tier cards.
Nolan Brown
I'm considering upgrading from an r9 270 to an r9 380, is it worth it, or should I wait for the inevitable rx 480s with aftermarket coolers?
Cooper Jackson
But the price doesn't make up for it, it isn't that much more powerful.
Jayden Green
The 380 is a rebranded 285, I'd wait for the 480's.
Jeremiah Baker
don't buy new gpus until good games come out
Brayden Wright
Will do user
Connor Stewart
I got myself an rx 480 and it's been working great so far, I can't run Metro at 4k but I really didn't expect it to, If you're American the 480 is cheap as fuck so I would still advise that over the r9 380. If you want to wait or not, that's your decision.
Wyatt Stewart
why not play a good game instead. I have a PC with a Radeon 9600M that can play better games than Metro.
Blake Carter
That's good to know. I'm not bothered about 4K right now anyway, seeing as I don't have a 4K monitor. Still, I've never been a fan of reference coolers, so I'll give until christmas to see if any get released with better coolers.
Wyatt Lee
You fucked up, you fucked up bad.
Literally the same exact card with GDDR5 would be at the very least 30% faster, and that's just a generic figure you could probably get your FPS doubled in VRAM intensive games since the bandwidth is something like 30 vs 75 Gbps.
The card is performing as expected, it's just the DDR3 bottlenecking the shit out of it.
Robert Robinson
Why buy GPUs if you want to play good games?
It even runs unoptimized garbage like Evolve at 60 frames, it's pretty good for how cheap it is.
Henry Sanchez
haven't upgraded my GPU since 2012, planning a mild upgrade but mostly focusing on cpu, ram, storage. Frankly PC gaming is a fucking joke with the retarded hardware prices, god awful ports and pathetic developer support. Not worth the time.
Isaac Adams
First time I upgraded since 2011, You should prioritize everything but GPUs at this point, they are way too expensive and even low range ones can run most games out there right now, unless they have a terrible optimization. This is my current build of you want some reference. Yeah I know, windows 8.1 is shit, I lost all my windows 7 copies and the only copy that a guy gave me that worked was 8.1, it was either that, a vanilla version of 7 or windon't 10
Angel Reyes
I'll be moving to windows 10 after using it on a laptop I recently bought. Very happy with it after tweaking it, and it's far better than win7.
Appreciate the reference, but I'm alright. Probably won't be upgrading for a few months, I do want to see how Zen turns out and how Intel responds.
Tyler Cooper
It's not that it's a terrible OS, it's more about the stuff it does behind your back. Not sure how much of it you tweaked though.
Kevin Lewis
There's been shit like this since XP. If they didn't get me for pirating the Matrix back in 2001, I don't think they'll get me for downloading sega saturn bin/cues now.
Justin Gutierrez
should've waited for an RX 460
Hudson Sanchez
Shitty graphics doesn't mean the game is going to run well. Payday 2 is probably one of the most unoptimized games I can think of.