hi my first post

[Herbert0100]

I have recently upgraded my system to a 1800xt my specs are 3.2 ghz p4 955x 1gb corsair value select (2x512) 580 watt hyper modular psu . In every game i get terrible fps about 50 on fear maxed out ss and 4xaa but on 3dmark 06 i get 4341 and 05 about 7334 and in hl2/css on that new militia map an on other maps i average in about 20-30 fps could any1 help me out here?

 

[stevty2889]

What resolution are you running at?

 

[Herbert0100]

1024x768 and above ive tried up to 1024x1024

 

[stevty2889]

hmm, what version of the drivers are you using? that system should handle those settings fine at 1024x768 and 1280x1024.

 

[Crescent13]

That seems about right. I get about 4200 in 3dmark06, and about 8200 in 3dmark05. Your 05 score is mainly affected by your P4 CPU. My system:

AMD Opteron 144 @ 2.8GHz
2GB of DDR500 ram 3-4-3-7
Geforce 7800GT @ 7900GT Speeds

Your scores are a bit low, but your CPU could very well be the cause of it.

 

[Geomagick]

Make sure that you are using up to date drivers, the ones that come with a product are often quite out of date.

Ensure that you don't have applications running in the background as this can have a devastating affect on performance in games.

 

[Ausm]

My suggestion is to do a clean install with up to date drivers.


Ausm

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Ausm
My suggestion is to do a clean install with up to date drivers.


Ausm

A clean install is a last resort...don1t even go there.

I would update my Vid card drivers first.
But before doing that I would use a program that ATI has that will erase all traces of previous ATI vid card drivers.

Also try running your games at lower resolutions see if that helps.

Good Luck!!

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: Ausm
My suggestion is to do a clean install with up to date drivers.


Ausm

A clean install is a last resort...don1t even go there.

I would update my Vid card drivers first.
But before doing that I would use a program that ATI has that will erase all traces of previous ATI vid card drivers.

Also try running your games at lower resolutions see if that helps.

Good Luck!!

90% of computer conflicts are due to people who either don't have the know how and/or are to lazy to reinstall their O.S.


Ausm

 

[fire400]

Originally posted by: Ausm

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: Ausm
My suggestion is to do a clean install with up to date drivers.


Ausm

A clean install is a last resort...don1t even go there.

I would update my Vid card drivers first.
But before doing that I would use a program that ATI has that will erase all traces of previous ATI vid card drivers.

Also try running your games at lower resolutions see if that helps.

Good Luck!!

90% of computer conflicts are due to people who either don't have the know how and/or are to lazy to reinstall their O.S.


Ausm

It's not the CPU, it's his crappy OS environment, bleeding out all the extra HP photo printer addon programs and the unemptied spyware.

A P4 over 3 GHz can play any game.

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: fire400

It's not the CPU, it's his crappy OS environment, bleeding out all the extra HP photo printer addon programs and the unemptied spyware.

A P4 over 3 GHz can play any game.

i agree...maybe it's the ram? the OP only has 1 gig. it's definitely not the cpu or having an underpowered rig. i doubt it's the graphics card too

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Ausm
90% of computer conflicts are due to people who either don't have the know how and/or are to lazy to reinstall their O.S.

Or people who never learn how to actually keep their computer running properly because every time something goes wrong they are told "just reinstall Windows" rather than how to really fix the problem.

Win2K/WinXP do not generally need to be reinstalled very often if you do even trivial amounts of maintainence and don't fill them up with spyware crap or viruses.

:beer:

In every game i get terrible fps about 50 on fear maxed out ss and 4xaa

Something's definitely wrong, since you can't run AA and soft shadows at the same time.

50FPS in FEAR with soft shadows or maxed AA/AF is pretty damn good. You're just not going to push really high framerates in this game unless you run it at a VERY low resolution or you have a high-end SLI/Crossfire setup.

but on 3dmark 06 i get 4341 and 05 about 7334

Those seem about right for your card. You can see results from other people's systems in their ORB database if you want to compare.

and in hl2/css on that new militia map an on other maps i average in about 20-30 fps could any1 help me out here?

If by the "new militia map" you mean the one with HDR enabled, I'm not sure you can realistically run HDR + AA + AF and get really high framerates in CS:S. Does it run better without HDR? Try the 'stress test' and see what you get.

I would suggest using Driver Cleaner (or the ATI driver uninstall tool) and reinstalling the latest drivers for your card (Catalyst 6.3, off www.ati.com). If that doesn't help, try uninstalling and updating the chipset drivers for your motherboard, then reinstalling DirectX, then using DC again and reinstalling the graphics drivers. I've never seen that process fail to fix graphics card driver problems.

Someone else mentioned RAM; if you have a lot of crap running in the background, you could be running low on RAM (hard drive light flashing constantly while playing games = virtual memory usage = bad). Play some games, then open up Task Manager (alt-ctrl-del, choose 'task manager') and look at the 'commit charge' numbers on the Performance tab. If the 'peak commit charge' is bigger than the amount of memory you have, you are running out of RAM. Running a spyware scan is probably a good idea regardless (I use Spybot and Ad-Aware).

 

[LiquidImpulse]

Originally posted by: George Powell
Make sure that you are using up to date drivers, the ones that come with a product are often quite out of date.

Ensure that you don't have applications running in the background as this can have a devastating affect on performance in games.

thats a big reason why a lot of people have such bad 3dmark scores/bad FPS while playing games. they dont realize the # of background applications they have while running a intense game such as F.E.A.R

 

[Herbert0100]

im using the new 6.3 's and i also have a dual core p4 820 @ 3.2 ghz and still get the same fps and such . css has run like a dog from day 1 . In fear u can have aa and ss by doing some strange thing (cant remember ) and all things in my ccc are set to full quality and on high preformance its still sluggish . I have onl just recently -2 days ago reformatted and i have the same porformance as before .

 

[JEDIYoda]

like I said previously-- A clean install is a last resort...don1t even go there.

Thewre are alot more things to do before you resort to a clean install--as always--Good Luck!!

 

[Herbert0100]

now my 3d mark is 3500 cpu is like 0.664 fps ahhhhhhhh its dieing