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Unusual graphics card performance (8800 GTX)
CheesecakeRecipe
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Howdy Technology Cavern, I have some stupid technology that requires some collective knowledge. Up until about a month and a half ago, my system has been able to eat almost every game I threw at it with most settings turned up high, and AA/Filtering at moderate enough settings. Then, around the time the TF2 golden wrench update came out, TF2 began running noticeably slower. Now, I tried working with Valve's tech team to fix the issue but after a month and a half of putting up with their shit, I think I'm done bothering with that.
After doing a bunch of fixes, tests and even reformatting the computer, the issues still persist. TF2 runs at 90-130FPS when in a safe room unless there's the entire team in there, then it starts to choke. If I get into a gunfight with more than just one other person, I will automatically lose because I drop frames like crazy and end up down in the 20's. Left 4 Dead 2 maintains at least 60 until I fire a weapon, then it dips to 40, then if the flashlight is on, it dips to 20. The Kane and Lynch 2 demo runs at a shittacular 30FPS at best. Alien Swarm requires me to run everything at medium to get 60FPS half of the time, but for bigger firefights my system still chokes. Even older games like Killing Floor are losing frames, and a lowly little game like Torchlight still can barely hold itself together with a few effects going on on-screen. Today when I ran the Mafia II demo at a 20FPS average, and a pal mentioned that he maintained far above that with a similar card, I decided I should look for some outside help.
My specs are as follows:
Intel Core 2 Quad @2.33GHz
BGF Tech 8800 GTX 768MB
8GB RAM
Vista Home Premium 64bit.
I took some GPU-Z shots of the system in different states:
This is while not running any games.
This is when running TF2 at my normal settings in a server with 5 other people. I was still dipping down low then.
I see no visual artifacts, or system instability. Games just run like butt, and I can't figure it out. Help a brother out! I'd love to be able to get my game back on again.
After doing a bunch of fixes, tests and even reformatting the computer, the issues still persist. TF2 runs at 90-130FPS when in a safe room unless there's the entire team in there, then it starts to choke. If I get into a gunfight with more than just one other person, I will automatically lose because I drop frames like crazy and end up down in the 20's. Left 4 Dead 2 maintains at least 60 until I fire a weapon, then it dips to 40, then if the flashlight is on, it dips to 20. The Kane and Lynch 2 demo runs at a shittacular 30FPS at best. Alien Swarm requires me to run everything at medium to get 60FPS half of the time, but for bigger firefights my system still chokes. Even older games like Killing Floor are losing frames, and a lowly little game like Torchlight still can barely hold itself together with a few effects going on on-screen. Today when I ran the Mafia II demo at a 20FPS average, and a pal mentioned that he maintained far above that with a similar card, I decided I should look for some outside help.
My specs are as follows:
Intel Core 2 Quad @2.33GHz
BGF Tech 8800 GTX 768MB
8GB RAM
Vista Home Premium 64bit.
I took some GPU-Z shots of the system in different states:
This is while not running any games.
This is when running TF2 at my normal settings in a server with 5 other people. I was still dipping down low then.
I see no visual artifacts, or system instability. Games just run like butt, and I can't figure it out. Help a brother out! I'd love to be able to get my game back on again.
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Also, try updating your drivers (or rolling them back if you did that recently). Run some antispyware scans and disable any startup items that you don't need.
Those are basically the usual suspects for computers that have slown down over time.
No startup items boot that don't need to, and I've ran a few scans even though I reformatted this computer not but two weeks ago as part of the troubleshooting steps I took with Valve. General computer performance hasn't decreased, only when i'm playing games. I could try to roll back the drivers, though the previous set of drivers I was running (just before January 2010 was the last time I updated) also had some issues. Is there some driver revision I should find in particular?
EDIT: I should mention that the few forum posts I found at other places that mention the 80 degrees temp being acceptable mentioned that the higher temp was due to a higher die size, and that temps are cooler on cards running a 45nm chipset or something along those lines.
Rock Band DLC / A Cheesecake Recipe / Xbox Live
Fan seems to be running, as indicated by the GPU-Z readings above. Airflow is not something I'm really knowledgeable with as this computer is kind of pasted together using an HP case. But it hasn't started acting up until just the last month or so.
Rock Band DLC / A Cheesecake Recipe / Xbox Live