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Hardware Forum / PC Hardware / Homebuilt PC / September 2007frame rate drops greatly every 10 seconds
I have just installed windows 64 and all of the drivers (motherboard, sound card, directx, windows updates, graphics card, keyboard utility) however when i try to play any 3d game, the frame rate keeps dropping every 10 seconds, for example, when I was in the main menu of the TF2 beta, the frame rate was 300 (as I had yet to change the resolution) and every few second it would shoot down to 70. (yes they are high frame rates, but yopu get the idea) different example, Bioshock runs at 30 fps normally, and drops down to 2 every 10 seconds I have tried disabling all background processes that I do not need, but it makes no difference. Any ideas? >I have just installed windows 64 and all of the drivers (motherboard, sound > card, directx, windows updates, graphics card, keyboard utility) however [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Any ideas? How much RAM? Which Windows 64? Crck Task Manager for memory use. Sounds like pagefile in use. Mike 4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will try to test the pagefile as you said (have to put the games in windowed mode, yuk ;) One weird thing, is i have to unplug my usb mouse when windows starts (i have a usb mouse, usb keyboard and usb joystick) otherwise my mouse doesn't work Also I have a unknown hardware and some audio hardware thing (which is weird as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on logon. Could they have something to do with it? > How much RAM? Which Windows 64? Crck Task Manager for memory use. Sounds >like pagefile in use. > > Mike > 4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other > than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on > logon. Could they have something to do with it? If you installed a seperate sound card, do you have OB sound, and if so did you disable it in the bios? Before you go any further, make sure you have all your hardware conflicts resolved. Make sure you have no yellow question marks in Device Manager. Any conflict there can cause you problems. Try different 64bit video drivers after that if you still have the issue. Some very marginal performing 64bit video drivers have been issued by both AMD and Nvidia. Ed I didn't see an option to disable the onboard sound, but I will look harder later. My Card is an ATI using the latest 64 bit drivers (7.8 i think is the number) >> 4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other >> than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Ed >I didn't see an option to disable the onboard sound, but I will look harder > later. > My Card is an ATI using the latest 64 bit drivers (7.8 i think is the > number) You might try one of the earlier ones. The latest might not be the greatest...........:-). Ed Medlin > 4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other > than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will try > to test the pagefile as you said (have to put the games in windowed mode, yuk your saying that it runs in a 'window' fine but not in full screen? > ;) > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on > logon. Could they have something to do with it? yep..unless its just the game controller port not installed. What about file indexing and office 'fast find'? are they enabled and running, I have seen in the past sound problems that cause MANY anomalies during game play. >> How much RAM? Which Windows 64? Crck Task Manager for memory use. Sounds >>like pagefile in use. >> >> Mike i don't run in a windowed mode, but i was just saying I will have to for debuigging. I have disabled the onboard sound (had a weird name so was hard to find) but the unknown device keeps coming up. and the problme is still there :( I will check indexing, forgot about that :( >> 4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other >> than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will try [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >>> >>> Mike Many games are not stable with Windows (XP or Vista?) 64 bit drivers.  Signature--------------------- DaveW --------------------- >I have just installed windows 64 and all of the drivers (motherboard, sound > card, directx, windows updates, graphics card, keyboard utility) however [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Any ideas? >Many games are not stable with Windows (XP or Vista?) 64 bit drivers. These games are as I did run them on my old installation before I upgraded. if you don't actually know of a way to help or a valid suggestion, please don't post. This is not the first time you have posted a vague answer to one of my threads. |
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