Msi gtx 970 4G low fps

Question

Hello,
Been struggling with this for about a week now. I took the offer on the Far Cry 4. I upgraded my card from a GTX 660ti single card. I have played FC 3 on the old card with no difficulties. I have loaded the newest drivers and upgraded my BIOS. I have Bench marked the card  on 3DMark and Unigene. I am getting very low readings and not even reaching 30 fps. When I play Far Cry 4 I barely get 12 fps. I am not sure if I have done something incorrectly here via the installation or I have a faulty card. My setup is as follows;
i7 - 3770k @3.50 GHz 4 core
16 GB of RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
BIOS American Megatrends Inc 2014
Any insight here would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Dave,
I have the same card as you this is what ive found to be my best setttings. There by no means a fix just helps.
1 uninstall the driver suite using DDU in safe mode .
2 download drivers 344.11.
3 install ONLY 344.11 not the package install what you need later down the line.
4 go in the bios and see if you can enable x.m.p in your ram  also when your there check pci is on next gen 3 .
5 back in windows go to nvidia control panel and set ( this is the best one for  me ) change down from the native resolution to one lower that works for you . eg i use a Sony bravia native is 1080p 1920x1080 iv'e changed to 1080p 1600x900
6 go to manager 3d settings
max  pre rendered frames  use 3d
multi display single display use performance mode
power management prefer maximum performance
vertical sync use 3d application
virtual reality pre rendered frames  1
msi after burner overclock  your gpu
core voltage  +20
power limit  max
clock core  +200
memory clock +250
fan speed auto
 In game  set  all  graphic settings to  max (for some strange reason you don't see any fps improvement if you set them to low )
turn v sync on  in all games or cap fps
use fraps software  to monitor your fps
my games 
Bf4 multi player  in use bf4 settings editor to cap my fps at 60  . have micro stuttering but is  is 95% 60 fps every where
cod blop2 frame in game caped at 45  very  little problem
crysis   totally unplayable
far cry 3  working ok
just cause 2 good
batman arkham just started playing seams OK
Hope it works for you
Michael