Please Help, Playing 8 year old Game at 1440p and drops frames.

[kennyreid95]

Please help me guys. I am playing a very old game. Burnout Paradise is a old 8 year old racing video game. I have a very powerful and capable computer to run a 8 year old game. I have a MSI R9 280X Twin Frozr 3GB. This card is a beast at running an 8 year old game. When I played Burn out Paradise at 1440p the game was dropping frames below 60fps but was getting above 30fps. This is a weird issue because the GTX 960 has similar performance to the R9 280X, In this video this person has a GTX 960 and is playing Burnout Paradise at 1440p 60fps no problem. Has the exact same settings as me, all max settings. So I assume this is a driver issue with the R9 280X. What drivers do I need to download so Burnout Paradise will play better? Also the audio is messed up too. Burnout Paradise is the only game that is giving me audio problems. I hear a buzzing noise from my monitor speakers whenever I play Burnout Paradise. I know there is nothing wrong with the monitor speakers. My monitor is the Acer H257HU. Here is the video of a person playing Burnout Paradise at 1440p with a GTX 960.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyHSx5oVkc0

[Nate152]

Hello kennyreid95

If you have the antialiasing cranked up lower it or turn it off, that should keep you at 60FPS.

Let all other settings maxed.

[kennyreid95]

Nate152 wrote:
Hello kennyreid95

If you have the antialiasing cranked up lower it or turn it off, that should keep you at 60FPS.

Let all other settings maxed.

The GTX 960 can play Burnout Paradise at max settings at 1440p 60fps, why can't my MSI R9 280X Twin Frozr 3GB? Could it be a driver issue?

Here are my computer specs.

Case: Corsair Graphite Series 380T

CPU: i7 4790k 4.00GHz Quad Core

Motherboard: Asus H97I-Plus

Ram: 8GB

Hard Drives: 500GB HDD and 120 GB SSD Kingston

Power Supply: Corsair RM650 Watt (Modular)

Video Card: MSI R9 280X Twin Frozr 3GB GDDR5

OS: Windows 7 64Bit

Water Cooler: Corsair H60 CPU water cooler

Monitor: Acer H257HU

[Nate152]

If you're on the latest catalyst driver I don't think it's a driver issue.

If you're maxing out the antialiasing that setting puts the biggest hit on performance, lower it or turn it off then come back and tell me how performance is.

What do you have antialiasing set at?

[kennyreid95]

Nate152 wrote:
If you're on the latest catalyst driver I don't think it's a driver issue.

If you're maxing out the antialiasing that setting puts the biggest hit on performance, lower it or turn it off then come back and tell me how performance is.

What do you have antialiasing set at?

The antialiasing takes a hit playing an 8 year old game on a R9 280X? That does not make sense. The GTX 960 was playing Burnout Paradise at max settings antialising did not take a hit on the GTX 960.

In this video this person has a GTX 960 playing burnout paradise at 1440P 60fps Max settings antialiasing did not take a hit.

[Nate152]

Thank you for the video.

Your 280x should be a little faster than the gtx 960, it could be how you have the settings in the catalyst control center.

[kennyreid95]

Nate152 wrote:
Thank you for the video.

Your 280x should be a little faster than the gtx 960, it could be how you have the settings in the catalyst control center.

Yeah I think this is defintely a driver issue. Amd Radeon Settings keeps crashing. Do I need to install an older driver so Burnout Paradise will play better at 1440p 60fps? What driver is the most stable? I installed the latest driver from amd website and the latest driver is not stable and crashes a lot.

[Nate152]

You could try an older driver or another psu. I was looking on Newegg at the specs of the 280x, the two I was looking at call for a minimum of a 750 watt power supply and the XFX calls for a recommended power supply of 850 watts.

It could be your 650 watt psu.

[kennyreid95]

You guys will not believe this bullcrap!! All this time I thought my computer had a R9 280X. It turns out I had a R9 270 all along. The R9 270 is extremely weak and slow graphics card. No wonder it could not handle Burnout Paradise at 1440p. The seller that sold me the computer lied to me and said he put a R9 280X in the computer. I am so fed up now

[NemesisChild]

Time to get that GTX 960.