Games Unable to Optimize Graphics Settings For Me?

[Twisted4000]

I pulled out my old NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT and swapped it with an EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450. Got all the drivers set up and such, but when I go into StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty it says it cannot get recommended settings for me. Does this have to do with a driver issue? I have DirectX 11 and the latest drivers and everything.

However... one thing I forgot to do when I took out my old card... I never uninstalled its drivers. I went into Device Manager and looked for it, but it's not there, even when I look for hidden items.

Though I did go into custom settings when installing the new card and selected "reset all NVIDIA settings" or whatever. Do you think the driver is still there? Help.

 

[Wildcard]

Hi,

A lot of Nvidia cards use the same drivers. I went to nvidia and looked up a driver for your new card and it says that the driver is for "GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs "

So the chances are that your new video card is using your old driver. If you installed a new driver when you installed the new card, it most likely overwrote the old one. If you havent installed a new driver yet, I would definitely try that first. I am not sure what allows a game to autodetect settings... have you tried running a dxdiag test to see if it comes back with any errors?

Go to start, run, then type dxdiag and hit enter and it should open up for you. Then just go through the different tabs and let them run their tests and see if there are any problems.

 

[Twisted4000]

Hi,

A lot of Nvidia cards use the same drivers. I went to nvidia and looked up a driver for your new card and it says that the driver is for "GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs "

So the chances are that your new video card is using your old driver. If you installed a new driver when you installed the new card, it most likely overwrote the old one. If you havent installed a new driver yet, I would definitely try that first. I am not sure what allows a game to autodetect settings... have you tried running a dxdiag test to see if it comes back with any errors?

Go to start, run, then type dxdiag and hit enter and it should open up for you. Then just go through the different tabs and let them run their tests and see if there are any problems.

Thanks, but I fixed it, the old driver was still installed, I had to type a bunch of silly things in Run to find it. Thanks anyway, though.