Bad performance on nice new PC?

[grantly]

So I just got a new computer a few months ago and the performance in games is severely lacking. Here's the specs:

E6600 Core 2 Duo (2.4ghz, 4mb cache)
2 gigs of ram
7200rpm hd
8800gts 640mb
Vista 32bit

And here's what I get in games... this is running like

Bioshock 1280x1024 high detail - 50fps (dips to 30s)
Unreal Tournament 3 1280x1024 high detail - 45 fps (dips to 30s)

Why?! Something is bottlenecking my performance and I don't know what it is or how to fix it. Any suggestions on where to start?

 

[MarcVenice]

Severely lacking ? Try tweaking a little, like putting shadows on medium/normal, and don't run insane AA/AF levels, try 4x/4x or so ?

 

[grantly]

The AA/AF levels are 2x/0, so thats part of why I'm confused!

 

[tigersty1e]

Run 3dmark06 and compare your score to others

 

[AnnonUSA]

Upgrade the system to XP.

 

[madh83]

Do you leave your vsync on?

 

[cputeq]

First, Bioshock is a pretty demanding game in Vista, as you're probably running in DX10 mode by default. Meaning, your scores of 50FPS and dipping to 30FPS is good, especially when running 2xAA

I haven't done any UT3 FPS benchmarking, so I can't comment on those numbers, but they don't look too bad...I dunno, I can't remember what I was getting on the demo with my 640-GTS

You might want to do what others suggested and run 3dmark06 and get a score to post...makes judging performance easier.


Also, check your nvidia control panel and make sure your acceleration mode is in single-display mode, not multi-display. Sometimes that quirks out a game.