Help. Geforce 9600 GT Win7 = terrible performance.

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  1. abc
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    Help. Geforce 9600 GT Win7 = terrible performance.


    Hello!!!!!!!!!

    My system is as follows,

    Windows 7 64bit
    Gigabyte M720-US3
    Phenom 2 945
    2gb corsair XMS2 DDR2 800mhz
    Display driver 195.62

    I'm getting really bad graphics performance. I lost like 10 FPS on RE5 benchmark versus windows XP 32bit. On Left 4 dead 2 my average FPS is around 35-45, and even lower if I turn shader quality up to maximum (which the game recommends)

    On my old system (AMD 3800 X2 Win XP) I never got any slow down on L4D 1 and there isn't much difference between the 2 games graphically.

    I ran SiSoft Sandra GPU benchmarks and my GT 9600 scored quite a bit lower then the reference cards.

    My memory and CPU clock are both at stock.

    Is this a driver problem? What can I do to improve things, please?

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  2. Posts : 74
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    Install the latest chipset/motherboard drivers and also video card driver from NVIDIA's website.
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  3. abc
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    Legacy said:
    Install the latest chipset/motherboard drivers and also video card driver from NVIDIA's website.
    Tried. in my OP it shows I have the latest Nvidia drivers anyway.

    Anyone, please?
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  4. Posts : 74
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    Nobody could give you better advice than what I already gave.

    Maybe you have too much stuff starting with Windows and/or AVG installed.

    In either case, it should be apparent now what to do to fix it.

    Install this too: http://downloads.guru3d.com/nForce-15.51-WHQL-Windows-7-and-Vista-64-bit-download-2402.html

    Or if that doesn't work for your board, install the chipset and all other latest drivers from here:

    http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...4bit#anchor_os
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  5. abc
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    I tried the Gigabyte drivers. It's very strange beccause the installer will only give me the option of installing the Nvidia away mode driver. There isn't much evidence of nvidia in devicemanager / hardware. I'm actually not certain if the drivers are properly installed but I wonder if there is an efficient way to check?
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  6. Posts : 74
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    Yes. You can look at the dates of the drivers in C:\Windows\System32

    You can also use the device manager to install for each driver, but you have to know which ones first:

    Right click. Update driver software. Browse my computer. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Find the extracted .inf from the installer. Double click it. Hit ok. Hit next.

    All NVIDIA drivers start with NV like nvstor.sys etc...
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  7. abc
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    I've attached a S/S of my device manager. It's very hard to know which driver goes where. All the drivers are Microsofts own. I know this just can't be quite right. Auto-update search just says the latest and greatest driver is installed. Sigh.

    I'm supprised Gigabyte are so lazy with their driver installation software. I know I won't be buying from then again!!!
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    Was this an upgrade or clean install?
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  9. Posts : 74
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    You should be able to install the drivers just by running the installer from the link I gave, for "Chipset/Lan" drivers, to completion. It will install anything that needs an update.
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  10. abc
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    No, I tried the gigabyte link (which i've tried in the past) only wants to install the away mode driver, like I could care less about that one lol. The driver from guru 3d said no compatible hardware was detected for the drivers on the system. Facepalm.

    Yes this is a clean install, format > windows 7.
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