Game is sensitive to OC-ing

[ugh]

Hi folks,

I've a MSI GF4Ti4200 64MB and tried clocking it at 300/600. It works fine in Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy. Using the same settings in Painkiller, it hangs after a while. If I drop the rate to 270/550, Painkiller works flawlessly.

Why is it that the game is so sensitive to the vid card's clock speed? Any ideas? Not that Painkiller doesn't run well, but I'm just a bit baffled by this.

Thanks.

 

[VIAN]

Maybe it's because Painkiller is overheating your sh|t.

 

[skace]

Lol Vian, what a way to put it. Unfortunatly, Vian is most likely right. The harder a piece of software pushes your hardware, the more likely it is to overheat. Comparing 1 game to another is not always the best test.

 

[ugh]

Dang... thanks for reminding me that Need to slap some more cooling on that card

What is a "good" way to compare anyway?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: ugh
Dang... thanks for reminding me that Need to slap some more cooling on that card

What is a "good" way to compare anyway?

Painkiller's hurting your system more, it makes more heat, and your card bakes quicker. What's to compare?

- M4H

 

[BugsBunny1078]

Its all true. painkiller overheats your card. Well I put a vga silencer on my 9800 pro and ram sinks on the ram so that stays nice and cool now

 

[Lonyo]

A good way would be to get rid of Painkiller

See if you can look at CPU/system temps. Minimize the game and have a tem pmonitoring proggie in the background, you might be able to get an idea of whether they system gets hotter/how much hotter it gets.

 

[ugh]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
A good way would be to get rid of Painkiller

See if you can look at CPU/system temps. Minimize the game and have a tem pmonitoring proggie in the background, you might be able to get an idea of whether they system gets hotter/how much hotter it gets.

I do have MBM loaded all the time. Only see the temp increase by 1-2 Celcius when I'm playing Painkiller. No big deal.

 

[vshah]

that 1-2c increase is for mobo or cpu? bc the increase of your ti4200 is way more than that. i have the same problem actually, my ti at 300/600 runs everything but painkiller fine. Farcry even. but in painkiller it starts out fine, then hangs/resumes/hangs/resumes/finally crashes. The performance delta is pretty stellar in painkiller though...a 10mhz core oc from stock brings me 5-6 fps at 1280

-Vivan

 

[ugh]

The increase if for the CPU. Too bad I don't have a way to determine the vid card temp.

Wow, I can see that you clock your Ti4200 at an even higher speed. Do you use any custom cooling?