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Posted March 06, 2012
I just built my first computer today, and everything seems to be running fine. I've installed the OS, all the latest drivers for my motherboard and video card, and the fans on the video card run fine. But when I installed Crysis and tried to run it, it wouldn't run on higher than medium settings. So I have no idea what's wrong. Here's my computer:

Asrock Z68 Pro3 M
I5-2500k
MSI Twin Frozr GTX 560 ti 2gb
8GB of RAM.

Like I said, all the fans and components work fine, including the two on the card itself. Does anyone know what might be the trouble? I hope it's not defective. I was looking forward to installing and playing the Witcher 2 tonight, and I'd rather not have to send the card back and wait another week.

Okay, I just checked in the control panel and systemrequirementslab.com, and everything recognizes the 560 ti. I took the card out and put it back in, so I'll see if that made any difference.
Post edited March 06, 2012 by TCMU2009
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Posted March 06, 2012
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TCMU2009: I just built my first computer today, and everything seems to be running fine. I've installed the OS, all the latest drivers for my motherboard and video card, and the fans on the video card run fine. But when I installed Crysis and tried to run it, it wouldn't run on higher than medium settings. So I have no idea what's wrong. Here's my computer:

Asrock Z68 Pro3 M
I5-2500k
MSI Twin Frozr GTX 560 ti 2gb
8GB of RAM.

Like I said, all the fans and components work fine, including the two on the card itself. Does anyone know what might be the trouble? I hope it's not defective. I was looking forward to installing and playing the Witcher 2 tonight, and I'd rather not have to send the card back and wait another week.
I don't know if a single GTX 560 TI is enough to run crysis on high to max settings, i might just go check benchmarks.
Also, it helps to know the frequency of your ram.
Post edited March 06, 2012 by Nroug7
Posted March 06, 2012
How do I find the frequency? And how exactly do you use a benchmark test? Is it just a site I go to?
Posted March 06, 2012
http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/OPS/Crysis-GeForce-GTX-560-Ti-OPS

I should be able to play it a lot higher than medium.
Posted March 06, 2012
Z68 motherboards generally come with Lucid Virtu, which will switch GPUs between the onboard Intel HD tortoise and your expensive 560 Ti hare. A common result is that Virtu gets confused and runs your demanding games on the Intel GPU, or the game detects the Intel GPU and refuses to go to high settings.

If you want to continue to use Lucid Virtu, be sure you get the latest version from Lucid:
http://www.lucidlogix.com/driverdownloads-virtu.html

If it is as useless to you as it is to most desktop gamers, uninstall it.
Posted March 06, 2012
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cjrgreen: Z68 motherboards generally come with Lucid Virtu, which will switch GPUs between the onboard Intel HD tortoise and your expensive 560 Ti hare. A common result is that Virtu gets confused and runs your demanding games on the Intel GPU, or the game detects the Intel GPU and refuses to go to high settings.

If you want to continue to use Lucid Virtu, be sure you get the latest version from Lucid:
http://www.lucidlogix.com/driverdownloads-virtu.html

If it is as useless to you as it is to most desktop gamers, uninstall it.
Thank you! I'll go try that. Would I uninstall it from the control panel?
Posted March 06, 2012
I uninstalled Lucid Virtu and my games still detect the lowest settings. They're a slideshow if I turn the graphics above medium. What am I doing wrong? Is there some way to activate the card from the control panel? Can I force it to recognize discreet graphics instead of onboard graphics?
Posted March 06, 2012
Hello? Anyone? I have a dvi cable going from the monitor to the video card, and an hdmi cable from the monitor to the motherboard. Do those conflict? I can't find help for this anywhere on the internet.
Posted March 07, 2012
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TCMU2009: Hello? Anyone? I have a dvi cable going from the monitor to the video card, and an hdmi cable from the monitor to the motherboard. Do those conflict? I can't find help for this anywhere on the internet.
Basically what is happening there is you have 2 vga outputs to the same monitor from 2 different graphics cards. The HDMI from the motherboard is for the onboard graphics only, disconnect it completely from board and screen before anything else and try Crysis again. I think what is happening is Crysis is recognising your onboard graphics as the primary adapter as you have it connected up. You can if you want have sound to come from your monitor so you can ditch the DVI cable and separate sound cable and use the HDMI connected to the 560Ti into your screen.

If it is still acting up try this next step :

Disable the onboard graphics in the bios, if you cant disable it you need to set PCIE as primary. Not sure where it would be in your bios but if there isnt a disable there should be a setting that forces the order of the VGA cards so you will need PCIE - Onboard.

Also drop the onboard shared video ram for VGA to 0

Your setup should be able to run Crysis in Maximum detail and at least 1280x720 (Most likely even 1920x1080), when I had my 560Ti on a Phenom 2 965 BE (3.4 Ghz Stock) and 8Gb 1600 Corsair XMS3 ram I ran it in 1920x1080 and it was smooth as silk.
Post edited March 07, 2012 by iainmet
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