Hello,

I finally managed to put some effort into my hardware and was throwing the old 970 out, replacing it with a 3 months old 4060ti a friend sold to me after not needing it anymore. I was seeing the card running fine on his system with a few games and benchmarks, however in my PC it just wont.

System Specs are as following:

Ryzen 5 5600x, 32 GB of DDR4-3200 on ASUS ROG Strix B550f, 600w BeQuiet PurePower PSU, Windows 11 Pro with all recent updates.

Before installing the new card i was updating the BIOS of the Mainboard, just in case. Then removed all nvidia drivers using DDU and reinstalled. The windows GUI runs OK on "Microsoft Default Display device" but as soon as I install the nvidia drivers its where the problems start. The System runs bad overall, GUI hangs and stutters, windows take a few seconds to open and close and sometimes the display switches on and off again, or the machine just reboots. Any gaming/msfs runs with far worse performance than the 970 had (MSFS has the same settings I had before and I am down to 5 FPS with them).

I understand all this points towards a hardware malfunction but the card was running fine in my friends PC and my PC ran fine with the 970. Also the 600w PSU should be enough according to BeQuiet, the TDP of the 970 was 145W and the new 4060ti uses 160 so no big difference. So I am lost.

Could it be a problem that I am using a HDMI - DVI adapter to connect my monitor to the PC, instead of display port?

Any other ideas?

And the onboard GPU is disabled in BIOS right?

The DVI adapter could be a factor - I would try a new dp cable for sure.

Reseat the card in the pcie slot just to be sure?

 

Mixing adapter plugs with your display device these day is asking for trouble. I'd say use a good quality cable for what ever the best output your new card has that matches what your monitor accepts. It can make a big difference!

Thanks everyone. I guess i solved it for now.

Switching the PCIe generation from "Auto" to "GEN3" in the BIOS made the GPU run stable. "GEN4" causes extreme issues. But it makes me wonder if there is any difference. I know the PCIe bus of the 4060ti is the primary drawback of this card (But 16GB of VRAM are a strong argument at least if you are a simmer 😁) but is it mandatory to run it on GEN3?

I am also facing chipset driver install issues on which I am waiting for ASUS support to reply to me. Maybe this is related to the GPU behaving strange but I dont know.

But right now i am experiencing MSFS smoothness I never had with any sim in my lifetime, with nearly maxed out settings apart from terrain LOD put to 220. 40FPS at EDDF or EHAM with FSLTL traffic and scenery addons. 😆

Edited February 11, 20242 yr by Soulflight