EvaUnit02 on 24/10/2011 at 11:07
Goddammit, I tried playing DX:HR The Missing Link (thanks to Matthew and RPS for letting me know about the Getgamesgo 25% off sale), but the game stutters like a motherfucker. The vanilla game is the same.
When I played through the vanilla campaign a few weeks ago with my old GTX275 896MB + Vista x64 it ran sweet, it's only now since I've upgraded to a GTX560Ti 1GB + Win7 x64 that this is happening.
I tried DX9 mode, turning off AA, turning off SSAO, etc but nothing helped. I tried turning off all of the DX11 bells and whistles, that was also a no go.
Specs:-
Win 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
Asus Geforce GTX560Ti 1GB DCII TOP (factory OC'ed)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz (stock clocked)
4GB DDR2-1066
Asus P5Q Pro
june gloom on 24/10/2011 at 11:50
560s seem to be kinda broken, bro, complaints all up and down the nvidia forums
i'm basically out $400 'cuz i had to replace mine
EvaUnit02 on 24/10/2011 at 18:45
The stutter seems to affect the entire GTX 500 series, judging by what I've been reading on various forums. The game's (
http://bit.ly/nEUuka) patch notes keep referring to "did X to try to reduce stutter" so it can't be hardware fault with my card. My 560Ti seems to be working just fine with every other title which I've tried.
EDIT:- From reading the Eidos forum, it seems that the Oct 18th patch reintroduced the stutter for quite a few people with GPUs across both manufacturers (AMD and Nvidia).
june gloom on 24/10/2011 at 22:29
560s tend to be more problematic than the rest; not all of them are, but enough to be noticeable. Mine (from EVGA) would start crashing every two days; I eventually just got a 570 from MSI and put the 560 in storage. The new one has behaved so far.
EvaUnit02 on 27/10/2011 at 14:17
I'm surprised that you didn't just RMA the card. Does the retailer you bought it from have really shit RMA policy terms or something?
june gloom on 28/10/2011 at 23:00
I couldn't return it, only replace it, and that's just a waste of time and shipping money.
Very happy with the 570.
Ostriig on 29/10/2011 at 10:46
Or you could send it back for replacement, receive a new one in a sealed box, and then sell it second-hand as an unopened, "unwanted gift" or something. You'd still be out of pocket to some degree, but nowhere near the cost of a whole video card. And it's not like you'd be scamming someone for a broken item, if the problem is with the 560 design as you think then selling it yourself would be no less ethical than nVidia and their manufacturers selling the model in the first place.
