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ThisMicrophone
2 years ago
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 not recognised by TS4

Hi folks, My PC's previous GPU (RTX 2080) developed a fault, so I swapped it out for a 3050. Just booted the game up for the first time since the swap and the game immediately produced a popup telli...
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    puzzlezaddict
    2 years ago

    @ThisMicrophone  All this means is your card's device ID hasn't been added to the database yet.  Nvidia uses multiple IDs, sometimes quite a few of them, for the same card, and sometimes one gets missed.  But it doesn't mean anything other than the game has to guess what graphics profile to use by default.  So don't worry about it, use whatever graphics settings you want (ultra is fine), and you shouldn't see any problems.

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puzzlezaddict
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2 years ago

@ThisMicrophone  All this means is your card's device ID hasn't been added to the database yet.  Nvidia uses multiple IDs, sometimes quite a few of them, for the same card, and sometimes one gets missed.  But it doesn't mean anything other than the game has to guess what graphics profile to use by default.  So don't worry about it, use whatever graphics settings you want (ultra is fine), and you shouldn't see any problems.

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    ThisMicrophone
    2 years ago
    @puzzlezaddict Thanks so much! It did have a couple of weird issues at first (the resolution was a bit off, etc), but I restarted the game and it's fine now. I figure it was just wonky to start off with. Thanks for the reassurance, you're a gem!

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