Was hoping some of you may be able to suggest a good card to upgrade to. I currently have two evga 8800 GTS 512MB cards in my rig. Pretty sure both are cooked due to some bad drivers that were released a while back. I'm getting REALLY bad stuttering during cut scenes in SCII that I'm sure I shouldn't be getting and Batman: AA can barely run at all, these cards used to have no problem running that game.
What I'm hoping to find is a single card that will outperform the two I have sli'd together at the moment with the intention of getting a 2nd one down the road.
Hoping for something in the $300-$350 range max. Cheaper would be great but can't justify going any higher than that on a single card unless it is really worth while.
The problems I'm having with my current card are as follows.
Bought SC2 the other day. Game runs fine but the cut scenes are TERRIBLE. Frame rate craters during cut scenes and a dialogue box pops up saying reducing settings should improve performance. I don't think the 2 8800 GTS 512MB cards should have any problem with this game.
Batman AA: Game ran beautifully before all hell broke lose. Re-installed the game last week. When I get to a playable part of the game, FPS seems to crater again.
Aion: Not sure how many of your are fimiliar with this game but if I run into or out of the crating area in Sanctum, my rig will hard lock 50% of the time. Got a BSOD last time
Monitor in Standby: If I set my rig to turn the monitors off after 30 mins, when I try to re-awaken them, my rig freezes.
I'm hoping all of this points to bad cards and if I replace them, I can have the rock solid rig I had before all this crap started to happen.