Suggestions on improving videocard performance

[friscolives]

I had an nvideo GT620 card, just updated to a GTX650. I was hoping for a pretty significant improvement, while the 620 also had the 2 GB buffer, it had ddr 3 memory as the 650 had the 2 gb buffer as well as the faster ddr 5 memory. Sadly it looks like both give pretty close to the same image quality, showing mid point between high and medium quality but a good frame rate.

My videocard knowledge isnt the best, just wondering if there were settings I should be using for SL to improve the quality level. I know in preferences I can boost it, but maybe Im missing something more obvious.

Curious what hardward (cards, memory) people getting good frame rate on ultra settings are using.

Lastly, my desktop is a quadcore AMD (a new model, only two months old.) It has 6 mb memory and is now using windows 7 os. I downgraded from windows 8.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

No idea why you get such low performance from your new card. The SL viewer defaults my previous computer, a 6 year old dual core AMD3800+, 3.5GB and underclocked 9600GT to med-high. It could be system RAM, it could be the CPU if you are running lots of things in the background. Could be drivers. Sorry I can't help with it other than saying it should perform a lot better.

On my current computer, intel 3770K, 16GB, GTX670 I have to throttle the fps to 60, even on ultra (to which SL defaults). In very crowded places I do not get more than 25fps though, but that doesn't happen very often. Usually I get my capped 60fps.

[Nalates Urriah]

Try reading through this: Graphics Tweaking for Second Life. It links to lots of infomration. Once you understand what the various things do you can tweak your settings. Some of the viewer's settings can be overridden for better performance.