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My computer has been designed and upgraded with graphics very much in mind. I work with 3d animation, and while I don't exactly run Crysis on max settings, I do okay with my NVidia 7950 GT 512 megabyte card.
But just today and last night, my gaphics card which has served me so faithfully and endured so much without protest for the past year and a half, has popped up a message window to tell me while I play a game like GMod or Team Fortress 2 that the card isn't getting the power it needs to use it's full potential, and that it's settings have been lowered to cope with it.
I've never recieved a message like this in all the time I've had it. This message popped up a few times, and I looked up this issue, and was told it usually meant a power connector for the card was unplugged.
I turned off my computer and took a look inside the machine, and could find nothing out of order. The cord in question was most certainly connected to the power supply, which by the way, I ALSO replaced when I bought the card in order to give the card the power it needed. I made sure the card was firm in it's slot, tightened the cord connection, just about everything I could think of before closing it up, powering the computer back on, and hoping it was a one time thing.
This however, was not to be. I started up TF2 and entered a server, almost immediately to be faced with the message again. However, this time it was unignorable. The performance drop was massive. I experienced clientside lag (lag having to do with my computer's graphical potential as opposed to the Internet acting up) like I'd never had during TF2. In fact, TF2 had NEVER before pushed my computer's limits and invoked lag. Any lag was always Internet based.
I find myself scared and extremely uncertain. Most things I do on my machine depend on that graphics card, and it's so expensive that replacing it if it's somehow wearing out is entirely out of the question since my place of work has been giving me so few shifts and so few hours lately. I simply can't afford it.
I beg anyone here with experience to help me. I'm nearly out of ideas, and I'm terrified of what could happen if this problem goes unsolved and does not eventually fix itself. Please help me.
But just today and last night, my gaphics card which has served me so faithfully and endured so much without protest for the past year and a half, has popped up a message window to tell me while I play a game like GMod or Team Fortress 2 that the card isn't getting the power it needs to use it's full potential, and that it's settings have been lowered to cope with it.
I've never recieved a message like this in all the time I've had it. This message popped up a few times, and I looked up this issue, and was told it usually meant a power connector for the card was unplugged.
I turned off my computer and took a look inside the machine, and could find nothing out of order. The cord in question was most certainly connected to the power supply, which by the way, I ALSO replaced when I bought the card in order to give the card the power it needed. I made sure the card was firm in it's slot, tightened the cord connection, just about everything I could think of before closing it up, powering the computer back on, and hoping it was a one time thing.
This however, was not to be. I started up TF2 and entered a server, almost immediately to be faced with the message again. However, this time it was unignorable. The performance drop was massive. I experienced clientside lag (lag having to do with my computer's graphical potential as opposed to the Internet acting up) like I'd never had during TF2. In fact, TF2 had NEVER before pushed my computer's limits and invoked lag. Any lag was always Internet based.
I find myself scared and extremely uncertain. Most things I do on my machine depend on that graphics card, and it's so expensive that replacing it if it's somehow wearing out is entirely out of the question since my place of work has been giving me so few shifts and so few hours lately. I simply can't afford it.
I beg anyone here with experience to help me. I'm nearly out of ideas, and I'm terrified of what could happen if this problem goes unsolved and does not eventually fix itself. Please help me.