7900gt occasionally gettin low frame rates?

[ShadoWing]

I don't know why, but occasionally I get really low framerates spikes. Anyone know why this is? I'm using a Zalman cooler and have it on default settings for clocks

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Did you run drivercleaner?

 

[ShadoWing]

well, i reinstalled drivers too, still the same problem

 

[40sTheme]

Yes but did you run driver cleaner for the drivers from your previous card?

 

[ShadoWing]

just did, still gettin jumpy frame rates on benchmarks >.<

 

[techboi]

On what settings are you playing?
Did you use to get these spikes from the beginning of the upgrade?

If Yes then it is most probably your CPU and to some extent your GPU as well. In games like GRAW a 7900GT won't get a great FPS throughout. CSS is very very CPU intensive and even a Radeon 1900 series card with A64 system will occassionally get slow downs. So your CPU is very likely to get FPS hits there.

Reduce the no of players and sound effects, that may help especially in CSS.

If you weren't getting these FPS from the beginning, just reformat or even repartition the HDD and install everything again (just install what is required at the moment) and couple it with the exact drivers as you initially had on upgrading, this should do the trick.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: techboi
On what settings are you playing?
Did you use to get these spikes from the beginning of the upgrade?

If Yes then it is most probably your CPU and to some extent your GPU as well. In games like GRAW a 7900GT won't get a great FPS throughout. CSS is very very CPU intensive and even a Radeon 1900 series card with A64 system will occassionally get slow downs. So your CPU is very likely to get FPS hits there.

Reduce the no of players and sound effects, that may help especially in CSS.

If you weren't getting these FPS from the beginning, just reformat or even repartition the HDD and install everything again (just install what is required at the moment) and couple it with the exact drivers as you initially had on upgrading, this should do the trick.

I'm on to you Akshayt :|

you give yourself away with clues like this.....

 

[techboi]

you seem like a mad man, A64 + Radeon 1900 series is very common and the best example to solve the purpose.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: techboi
you seem like a mad man, A64 + Radeon 1900 series is very common and the best example to solve the purpose.

and you just choose that combo because it was off the top of your head?

Not to mention the games that you listed....they just happen to be laying around maybe?

 

[ShadoWing]

but it's not like its constantly bad fps, it goes 100, 100, 100, 100, 10, 10, 100, 100, and so on

maybe there's heating issues with the graphics card? Or maybe it's disfunctional?

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: ShadoWing
but it's not like its constantly bad fps, it goes 100, 100, 100, 100, 10, 10, 100, 100, and so on

maybe there's heating issues with the graphics card? Or maybe it's disfunctional?

There was a thread about this recently. The forum software's search is still half-broken, so I can't locate the thread. However, the problem was a piece of software (process: GUI.exe) running in the background and killing FPS every few seconds or so. This was found while runing perfmon.msc via Start/Run and adding timers to see what part of the system was acting up. Uninstalling the program related to the GUI.exe process fixed the FPS problem.

What software do you have installed?

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Maybe it's the CPU. I remember an old maxPC where someone reported good frames in UT04, RTCW, COD, etc. but was struggling with D3 and HL2. It turned out to be his CPu which was a Barton. Have you considered getting a new proc?

 

[ShadoWing]

well, im using an opteron 146, so it shouldn't be giving me crap framerates on cs 1.6...and as for what nullpointerus said, im hoping I can find that thread lol