eltucu Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Mmm... My guess, it could be the PSU (a good 500w PSU should be enough). It could be driver incompatibility. You need to clean off every single nvidia thing before installing the AMD card. Even in some cases a complete OS reinstall is recommended (when the kind of issues that you have dont go away even after using Driver Sweeper for example). I suggest, uninstall every nVidia thing you may have (drivers, physX, etc), uninstall every AMD driver you may have and then run Driver Sweeper with Windows on Safe Mode, then CCleaner just in case (both registry and file cleaners), and then boot in normal mode then install the newest AMD drivers. If that doesnt helps, it may be your system install (so format recommended) or maybe some hardware thing (old motherboard, bad PSU, etc). With that Athlon II while it isnt the fastest thing on earth, it should be very playable, albeit with some stuttering (i had a Core 2 Duo 3,2Ghz with this GTX560 Ti before and it was a very hard bottleneck on the card). The AMD HD6850 and HD6870 are good cards and very fairly priced for their performance, so dont worry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3talc0re Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 They aren't there? Would you be willing to let me have a look? Just install this: http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx?cdsplit=C Then PM me on here your messenger of choice and an ID for it (msn, aim, yahoo, etc...) and we'll connect and I can take a look at see why your settings aren't showing. You can try some of what eltucu said, could be a driver conflict if you didn't get all of the nVidia stuff removed. I would hold off on that OS reinstall though.. Just to cover our bases here, what psu do you have exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiemarie090 Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 They aren't there? Would you be willing to let me have a look? Just install this: http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx?cdsplit=C Then PM me on here your messenger of choice and an ID for it (msn, aim, yahoo, etc...) and we'll connect and I can take a look at see why your settings aren't showing. You can try some of what eltucu said, could be a driver conflict if you didn't get all of the nVidia stuff removed. I would hold off on that OS reinstall though.. Just to cover our bases here, what psu do you have exactly?Yeah I'm hesitant to do an OS install, since I'm a college student and my copy of Windows is at home. But I have uninstalled/deleted/ect. every nVidia thing I can find on my computer. As for the PSU, it's 535W. I took a picture of the label, and also the options I have under 'Gaming' on my CCC. I've attached them to this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan3345 Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Are you sure you uninstalled all the nvidia drivers before removing the card? And I mean actually uninstalled them, not just deleting them, and then after uninstalling you cleaned your registry? All this before removing the nvidia card? I had a problem once where I did not properly remove all nvidia drivers and clean the registry then I upgraded my video card to a 6850 as well. I got terrible performance and ended up reinstalling the gtx 460 so I could properly remove its drivers the second time around. Not sure about ATI but nVidia drivers do not let you modify them unless you have a nvidia card installed. So you cannot remove them unless a nvidia card is installed. Stupid and a pain but that may be what you should try next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3talc0re Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 katie, those are your options right there XD In your control panel. Make a new application profile, I'm guessing it's like nVidia and you need to add the application's exe to the profile. So you'll add the TESV.exe I believe. Then where it's got the checkbox and the Use application settings, untick it so you can set your own settings. Then go through and fix them so they're like the page I linked. And in the skyrim launcher, go to Options and disable the antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) Is the cooling gell (??heating element??) or whatever applied sloppily on the new card? I've heard of that slowing stuff down a lot. I don't know specifics, hopefully you can ask someone else. I just felt the need to comment in case it points you in the right direction. Edited April 19, 2012 by Rennn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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