Here's my situation.
I have had this rig for about 4 years, so it's not unlikely the card is fried but here's my dilemma.
I just reinstalled windows 7 so I could play Star Wars: The old republic.
Everything was working fine until today I logged in and suddenly when playing the game became unplayable due to low fps. I was playing very smoothly on max settings before this for a week.
System specs are:
WIndows 7 ultimate
Radeon HD 4870
4 GB Corsair DDR2
Abit I35 Pro MB
500 GB HDD
Even on the game when I put it to lowest settings it doesn't increase the FPS.
How can I test it to find out what the problem is or even to find out if it's broken?
I plan to reinstall windows as a last resort.
I also did a stress test on Counter Strike: Source not long ago, and got 280 FPS on everything maxed, so I'm going to try that again and see what my results are. I got an average of 12 FPS on furmark with 1280/1024 full screen which gave me an overall score of 770. The website scores my card way above that so I'm not sure what to do.
I have updated drivers.
Thanks
I have had this rig for about 4 years, so it's not unlikely the card is fried but here's my dilemma.
I just reinstalled windows 7 so I could play Star Wars: The old republic.
Everything was working fine until today I logged in and suddenly when playing the game became unplayable due to low fps. I was playing very smoothly on max settings before this for a week.
System specs are:
WIndows 7 ultimate
Radeon HD 4870
4 GB Corsair DDR2
Abit I35 Pro MB
500 GB HDD
Even on the game when I put it to lowest settings it doesn't increase the FPS.
How can I test it to find out what the problem is or even to find out if it's broken?
I plan to reinstall windows as a last resort.
I also did a stress test on Counter Strike: Source not long ago, and got 280 FPS on everything maxed, so I'm going to try that again and see what my results are. I got an average of 12 FPS on furmark with 1280/1024 full screen which gave me an overall score of 770. The website scores my card way above that so I'm not sure what to do.
I have updated drivers.
Thanks