New Video Card - Long loading times.

[Valok]

So, here's the story so far;

I just got a Geforce 590 GTX and although my FPS is running high, games are now taking -way- too much time to load, let me try to elaborate.

Before I got that card, Total War: Shogun 2 would take maybe 7-15 seconds to initialize (Press Start on Steam - 7-15sec later - I'm on the Menu page) now it's taking 3 fucking minutes.

Fallout 3/New Vegas, on the loading screens, it usually took 2/4 seconds to finish the loading, now it's somewhere between 15-30 seconds.

Technically every single game that I own it's now taking a lot of time to load, however once I'm inside the game the FPS is perfect.

Here's my Rig.

- Intel i7 920 2.8Ghz (Yeah, I will upgrade that once the card is fully payed)

- 12GB Ram DDR3 1.333Mhz

- HD 1Tb, 7200RPM if I'm not mistaken. (It's crap I know)

- EVGA Geforce 590 GTX (I was using a 285 GTX before that one), I'm also using the BF3 Beta drivers.

- Power Supply; right now I'm using a Seventeam 750W however I got a Thermaltake 850W on the way.

Windows 7 64Bit.

I've also tried to use several tools to see if there was some problem on the Windows (Advanced SystemCare 4), no luck.

Does anyone have any idea of what could be?

 

[Valok]

- Intel i7 920 2.8Ghz (Yeah, I will upgrade that once the card is fully payed)

What could you possibly be running to need to replace the i7?

Well, everything is so slow now T_T, I'm getting desperated here.

Cool.

 

[MrTub]

Hmm... Seems a bit odd tbh, did you unplug your hdd when you installed ur gpu?

Since with mine mobo the difference between using intels & marvells sata chipset is around 100mbyte/s read/write speed on my ssd.

 

[MrTub]

Hmm... Seems a bit odd tbh, did you unplug your hdd when you installed ur gpu?

Since with mine mobo the difference between using intels & marvells sata chipset is around 100mbyte/s read/write speed on my ssd.

Unplug the HDD... Still runs games...

Your avatar is appropriate.

It's pretty clear his HDD is plugged in or else NOTHING would load.

Well since you apparently didnt understand what I wrote.

My motherboard has 4x 6gbit sata ports, two of them are Intel chipset and two of them are marvell chipset and if he unplugged the Internal Harddrive and replugged it into another Sata 3/6gbit port there is a chance that he have lost performance since he might not be using the optimal chipset. Anything else you are wondering?

I never said that he didnt reconnect the hdd. I simply asked if during the process of installing the gpu, if he unplugged the hdd.

 

[Zanaxal]

Take a look at the cpu temprature, If its overheating stuff slows down and weird stuff can happen, use something like speedfan to check.

Your harddisk may also be dying and or just full. You should have around 10gb atleast free space on your windows drive to run properly this is to allow memory caching where the games use space on the disk to load faster temporarly.

Run the windows Checkdisc from the startmenu to see if its alright. Nothing should really slow down your pc other then Hard disk or overheating, cpu-fans Are good at gathering Dust. Also check the tastmenu (ctrl+alt+del) to see if any process is Hogging Processesor speed. Some programs memory leak with windows 7, like Realtek registry which was running on startup for me. If you want near 0 loadtime SSD disk is the way to go, thinking of getting that myself as i like Big stratergy games that kind of need it.

If its none of these things, make sure to uninstall all grfx driver (your older ones to) and install 32bi or 64 win 7 drivers, depending on what your OS is.

 

[Valok]

My motherboard has 4x 6gbit sata ports, two of them are Intel chipset and two of them are marvell chipset and if he unplugged the Internal Harddrive and replugged it into another Sata 3/6gbit port there is a chance that he have lost performance since he might not be using the optimal chipset.

Thats actually a pretty interesting theory, yeah I had to unplug the HDD. I will check it.

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If I'm not mistaken I've done everything you said, found no problems x.x

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

Maybe check the RAM speed in bios (or Cpu-Z) to check if the bios didn't throttle the speed to the lowest setting due to a hardware change. And maybe try to disable power saving options for the CPU.

I'm assuming that you reinstalled the video driver, you could try that if you didn't.

Other than that i don't have any ideas.