The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
My computer's performance is noticably slipping.
Farout Foolio
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
Not sure the best way to describe this, basically my computer has been having greater difficulty playing games as of late.
As an example, I bought l4d when it came out, and tuned the settings so that I was getting good performance.
Lately, with the same settings (and no change in hardware or anything) the framerate is pretty damn bad.
This is true for pretty much any game I play nowadays.
I haven't modified my computer in any major way, and I think I do a pretty good job of being virus-aware.
Anyone have any idea what's going on?
As an example, I bought l4d when it came out, and tuned the settings so that I was getting good performance.
Lately, with the same settings (and no change in hardware or anything) the framerate is pretty damn bad.
This is true for pretty much any game I play nowadays.
I haven't modified my computer in any major way, and I think I do a pretty good job of being virus-aware.
Anyone have any idea what's going on?
Farout Foolio on
0
Posts
Also, when is the last time you reformatted? I usually try to reformat every 6 months or so. After months and months of downloading random whatever, eventually it's hard to keep track of everything, so I end up doing a little bi-annual cleaning.
A way to test this out is to use a benchmark utility to check to see if what you're doing is actually affecting your system. I know CS:S comes with an in-game benchmark. There is also Aquamark, and 3DMark.
While you're at it, make sure the heatsink's are not clogged up with too much dust.
Could also try updating your display drivers.
What about if I own a laptop, what would you recommend to clean out the fans and sinks etc?
Cleaning more than that can get a little tougher, but as long as you make sure to remember how it all goes back together you shouldn't have too much trouble.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Completely unnecessary overkill nine times out of ten.
respectfully disagree. if your OS install is more than 18 months old or so and you're noticing slowdown, it's actually often the easiest, least frustrating, and least time consuming action than running 6-7 different programs and praying you clean up enough of the garbage to notice a difference.
Here is my 3dmark score:
SM2.0 Score: 1601
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 1959
CPU Score : 522
Total 3268
My friend tells me that this is a very poor score for the setup I have.
And here are my temperature values:
GPU 73
SYSTEM 44
CPU 55
AUX 6
HD0 38
HD1 40
CORE 73
AMBIENT 55
Are any of these high?
Also, Vista is a bleeder. It just starts to suck ass after a while. I had thought with careful program trimming and solid maintenance on my GF's laptop I could get it back up to speed, but either my comp-fu wasn't up to it, or it had picked up some visible symptoms from invisible problems. Either way, the wipe/reinstall took less than an hour and it came out working back up at peak performance again.
I dunno, its just software- i mean sure, you can go digging for hours/days looking for a dirty sparkplug or misaligned Heisenberg compensator, or just yank the whole fucking thing and put in a new one. Doesn't cost anything, takes less time. Why not?
I actually did notice a weird problem when looking at my system specs that I had not noticed before.
My RAM are all listed as 667's when in fact they are 800's. What's goin' on there? >.>
Everything has to be synchronized, so often actual performance isn't what's listed on the part, but whatever the weakest link is.
Also, your bios settings could be weird.