Hi

I had a BFG GTX280 that finally died about a week ago. I bought a ASUS GTX680 and installed it Friday, downloaded the latest drivers but seem to have issues playing the game.
When I play, I will lose a second or two throughout the game. Basically it looks like I drop out and come back in several times a game (seems like I am in a spot...no one there....and it lags and someone is now in front of me). My system info is attached and card info is below:

ASUS GTX680-DC2-4GD5 GeForce GTX 680 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card  
Free Metro: Last Light w/ purchase, limited offer ASUS GTX680-DC2-4GD5 GeForce GTX 680 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card  
Chipset Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Core Clock: 1006MHz
Boost Clock: 1058MHz
CUDA Cores: 1536
Model #: GTX680-DC2-4GD5
Item #: N82E16814121705

Any suggestions?

Fallguy

Hi

I also found a program called 3Dmark. Downloaded a free version. Seems my video card and system are ok by the results. Not sure how to check for conflicts on the system.
Results are posted as a jpg.

whenever i upgrade my cpu, mobo, or vid card i like to do a fresh windows install.

Try a different GPU driver, such as a Beta, ir the version previous. Also, did you check that your clock speeds weren't dropping?  You can use a free program called "GPU-Z" to monitor  temperatures, speeds, VRAM usage, etc. (though i doubt it's a temperature issue).  You may as well also try to re-seat your card and make sure all the connections are solid. How do other games behave for you? Do you get similar behaviour when you run the 3d benchmark that 3dmark has?

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Is your power supply big enough??

TwoFour wrote (View Post):

Is your power supply big enough??

This.  Faulty and low powered power supplies can cause loads of issues.  I recently replaced an OCZ 750 and while it should have been more than enough for what I was doing once I started overclocking multiple video cards it started to die.  As far as suggestions for power supplies, I currently have three from three different companies.  Thermaltake, Corsair, and Seasonic.  While I am happy with Corsair and Thermaltake the Seasonic is the newest one.  While shopping for the replacement I heard many suggestions to get Seasonic power supplies.  Apparently these days they are the best bang for the buck and even supply other companies with parts for their power supplies.

I cant say anything for 3D mark,  Something like that can be related to PSU, but as for the game I had a similar issue when I switch out cards.  One thing I would try is when you are in gave, go into options and do the Auto Config option for the graphics.  That seemed to help me out.

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Maybe have a look at this too...
                                                   http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=1323124&mpage=1#1323124

I'm also running the GTX680

Hi

I have a 900 Watt power supply (Antec 900). It should be big enough to run everything. I also recently ran memtest68 to test my RAM. It passed ok (ASUS support told me about the program).
I had some recent Windows updates to my computer so I tried the game tonight and it worked fine (for one game). Will test it out more once I have time.

Oh, in game options I turned off Aliasing before I tried the game.

If problem comes back, will try some older drivers for card and if it fails, will send it back.

Fallguy