Time For A New Graphics Card?

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Soooo, not sure where else to research this issue, but since it’s affecting WoW in a way, I thought I would start here.

I recently upgraded my dual monitors from two 24" ASUS to two 27" MSi monitors. They are fine, nice colors, etc.

However, I have noticed that when the system turns them off and I move the mouse/touch the keyboard, they take far longer than the old monitors to turn back on. I have also noticed that the entire system lags really bad when they first turn on and my FPS addon in WoW drops from max FPS to single digits for a few seconds, something the old monitors never did.

The reason I bring up WoW is because when the monitors come back on, every once in a while WoW will migrate to the secondary monitor instead of the primary monitor like I have it set. In Windows, I have the monitor directly set in front of me as primary and in WoW, I have it set to choose the primary monitor to display on, but sometimes it gets a bug and will push onto the secondary monitor.

My new machine, built just about this time last year, is running a 12th gen i7, Asrock Z690 MB, 32GB Corsair RAM, multiple M.2 SSD’s, etc, so it’s not exactly “old”.

The only thing I have causing a slight bottleneck (in game, at least) is the 4GB nVidia GTX 1650 that I purchased about two years ago when my 970 took a dump on me and I needed a “same day” solution to get me back up and running.

Could the little GPU not be handling the new monitors properly? I can’t set the resolution any higher than 1920x1080 and I have them set at 165mhz (I can’t see much difference between that and the 180mhz). The whole system just seems to struggle to turn them back on.

I want to upgrade anyway, but next year when my motorcycle is paid off in April. Any other suggestions on what is going on?

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A 4GB GPU is gonna be tough on 2 large displays. You might also have an issue related to those monitors having their own drivers? These would be beyond the GPU drivers.

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Yep insufficient ram on graphics card 4 gb is not enough to run those two monitors

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I was starting to wonder. My old 24in monitors seemed to run with no problem, but they were going on eight years old too.

Welp, time for a new card in a couple months!

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Hopefully you’ll catch one on sale when the time comes to purchase. New graphics cards are about to be announced in January sometime. Some new features even Intel has their new card and its other variants that sound very promising.

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Defintely a bottleneck with a 1650. Even though most of your settings are supported by NVidia, one is not.

“I can’t set the resolution any higher than 1920x1080 and I have them set at 165mhz”

According to NVidia, the 1650 Super only supports 7680x4320 @ 120Hz. No way will that card run WoW in 4k @ 120Hz though with 1 monitor, much less 2. But if you somehow have your settings set to 165Hz, then that is not supported by NVidia. I actually would suggest turning it down to 60 and try that first, and then bump up to 120Hz if that works fine. Maybe it is attmepting to run at 160fps when it first starts up? And then has to readjust after realizing it can’t?

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Ahh, I was not aware of the card’s limitations. I only bought it because my 970 died and it was what I could get locally without waiting a week for delivery.

I did try reducing to 120 and 60hz, but the same issue still persists. I’m not going to worry about it, I decided to splurge and found a 12GB MSI 4070RTX on Newegg, so that should solve any issues I am having.

I’m not a hardcore pro gamer, so I don’t need full 4K resolution and pinpoint accuracy for monitors, I just want to play :smiley:

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