- Jan 29, 2005
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I've formatted just yesterday and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit, installed a couple of games, the last one being DAO about two hours ago, and ever since I've been trying to figure out what's wrong, because my performance is abnormally slow. I was using Vista SP2 64-Bit previously (my signature isn't fully updated), and I've been playing DAO on it ever since it came out with the exact same settings, and mods as well without a single issue, never slowed down, never crashed (even with mods).
The settings I'm currently using are the exact same, from the files I kept as back-ups so that I wouldn't have to re-install the mods as well, so I kept the files found under the "My Documents" part (BioWare sub-folder in which addins, packages and saves are kept, for official DLCs and mods it's also where things need to be installed). So anyway, I installed the game (along with Awakening right after which automatically updated the game to version 1.03) and right after launching it everything was ready and good to go as if I never re-installed it, by that I mean that my settings were all kept intact (resolution, details, on-line options, everything), even the official DLCs and mods I had all applied well and my saved games were perfectly clean and working.
The first thing I did was to load my last saved game, and it loaded, all mods applied properly in-game, all items there, everything... nothing changed, except for the performance I am getting. It's abnormally slow to repeat myself, and it wasn't under Vista SP2 with those exact settings. Now it runs at around 25FPS while on Vista I had a good 70FPS or so (I'm in the party camp right now), maybe more, but it was fast. I checked my NVIDIA's CP settings, and all is the same as it was on Vista, shown below (only settings changed from default):
º Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
º Antialiasing - Transparency: Supersampling
º Single Display Performance Mode
º Prefer Maximum Peformance
º Texture Filtering Quality: High Quality
º Vertical Sync: Force Off
The rest of the settings are set at default.
The driver is the latest official WHQL 197.45.
No anti-virus installed
No scanning program running in background (such as Spybot)
Integrated Windows Firewall Off (using hardware firewall from router)
UAC Off
Power Options set at Performance
Optimized the starting services and disabled unnecessary ones (26 services running after reboot)
And, very importantly, this exact issue (slow performance under Windows 7 while nothing was wrong under Vista) is also showing its ugly face in Bad Company 2 which I've also installed (and tested) prior to DAO... BUT... all my other games run fine so far (TF2, DOOM 3, Empire TW, Dawn of War 2, and many others). Additionally since my W7 installation is fresh there's really nothing conflicting that I can think of, I've installed a minimal amount of software so far excluding games, and there's no third-party codecs installed either, it has been updated via Windows Update properly, no crashes, no BSODs so far, although I DID get one "NVIDIA drivers stopped responding" coming out of nowhere while browsing the web, but I got that as well under Vista on a regular basis, and it never affected the actual performance in games (even if the driver would stop responding while playing, it always re-initialized correctly after the "crash").
And last but not least, after looking on the BioWare's Social forums (tech support sub-forums for DAO) and Google the only "fixes" I've found came in the form of "make sure you have the latest GPU drivers installed" and the possible causes in the form of "stupid NVIDIA drivers", and BioWare doesn't seem to know about this issue, to acknowledge it, or perhaps they never experienced it themselves and consider it as being "user-specific" issues (which is possible, I'm just saying right now that I can't figure out what's going on, maybe the issue is on my side, but I need to know what it could be).
So... with all that said *takes back some breath*, any suggestions?
The settings I'm currently using are the exact same, from the files I kept as back-ups so that I wouldn't have to re-install the mods as well, so I kept the files found under the "My Documents" part (BioWare sub-folder in which addins, packages and saves are kept, for official DLCs and mods it's also where things need to be installed). So anyway, I installed the game (along with Awakening right after which automatically updated the game to version 1.03) and right after launching it everything was ready and good to go as if I never re-installed it, by that I mean that my settings were all kept intact (resolution, details, on-line options, everything), even the official DLCs and mods I had all applied well and my saved games were perfectly clean and working.
The first thing I did was to load my last saved game, and it loaded, all mods applied properly in-game, all items there, everything... nothing changed, except for the performance I am getting. It's abnormally slow to repeat myself, and it wasn't under Vista SP2 with those exact settings. Now it runs at around 25FPS while on Vista I had a good 70FPS or so (I'm in the party camp right now), maybe more, but it was fast. I checked my NVIDIA's CP settings, and all is the same as it was on Vista, shown below (only settings changed from default):
º Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
º Antialiasing - Transparency: Supersampling
º Single Display Performance Mode
º Prefer Maximum Peformance
º Texture Filtering Quality: High Quality
º Vertical Sync: Force Off
The rest of the settings are set at default.
The driver is the latest official WHQL 197.45.
No anti-virus installed
No scanning program running in background (such as Spybot)
Integrated Windows Firewall Off (using hardware firewall from router)
UAC Off
Power Options set at Performance
Optimized the starting services and disabled unnecessary ones (26 services running after reboot)
And, very importantly, this exact issue (slow performance under Windows 7 while nothing was wrong under Vista) is also showing its ugly face in Bad Company 2 which I've also installed (and tested) prior to DAO... BUT... all my other games run fine so far (TF2, DOOM 3, Empire TW, Dawn of War 2, and many others). Additionally since my W7 installation is fresh there's really nothing conflicting that I can think of, I've installed a minimal amount of software so far excluding games, and there's no third-party codecs installed either, it has been updated via Windows Update properly, no crashes, no BSODs so far, although I DID get one "NVIDIA drivers stopped responding" coming out of nowhere while browsing the web, but I got that as well under Vista on a regular basis, and it never affected the actual performance in games (even if the driver would stop responding while playing, it always re-initialized correctly after the "crash").
And last but not least, after looking on the BioWare's Social forums (tech support sub-forums for DAO) and Google the only "fixes" I've found came in the form of "make sure you have the latest GPU drivers installed" and the possible causes in the form of "stupid NVIDIA drivers", and BioWare doesn't seem to know about this issue, to acknowledge it, or perhaps they never experienced it themselves and consider it as being "user-specific" issues (which is possible, I'm just saying right now that I can't figure out what's going on, maybe the issue is on my side, but I need to know what it could be).
So... with all that said *takes back some breath*, any suggestions?
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