Horrible Framerates on a good system... I need some help guys...

[Coldkilla]

Let me first show you what I am talking about. This graphic issue is not just with games but applications as well.

Video (Crysis):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGUSg_iYEmk
Picture of dxdiag: http://img186.imageshack.us/im...3161/frapsimageez6.bmp

System: Nothing ever-overclocked
Video: eVGA 8800GTX 768MB (Drivers: 169.39)
Processor: Q6600 @ 2.4GHz w/ Stock fan.
Memory: 4GB Corsair
Motherboard: Gigabyte 965P-DS3
OS: Windows XP Pro 2600 SP3

Drivers attempted picture: http://img141.imageshack.us/im.../8493/specificsxu6.bmp

Video settings in-game: Mix between high and medium. However, even with all the settings at low, the performance does increase, but only a slight 5-10FPS.

In the past, I had Windows Vista. I thought that I'd like to get more preformance out of my system so I reverted back to XP. I beat Crysis with HIGH settings all across the board with Vista, with the exception of the terrain setting on Medium. Now I've got nearly half my video settings on Medium, and even with my video settings on low with many maps. Granted this map was a user map, I am experiencing this on all maps, many games, and I'm just freaking out.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Coldkilla]

No ideas I take it..

 

[DSF]

You might try using a program like GPU-z to see how much of your PCI-e bandwidth you're using. Occasionally people on here have had problems with their graphics cards being restricted to PCI-e 8x or lower. I don't really think that's the issue here, but it's something to try.

What's your CPU usage like during the slowdowns, and what are your CPU and GPU temperatures at those times?

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

What power supply are you using? I reckon the Quads & especially the 8800GTX are power hungry beasts. Check your temps...maybe your card has a heat problem and is throttling down, since you mentioned it's affecting all apps, not just Crysis.

If not hardware related, it's a known fact that the 169.xx drivers for XP are crap, & broke a lot of games (see the Nvidia forums for details; props to BFG10K). Maybe try some newer ones? I've been using 171.23 (beta, but WHQL candidate) that I got from guru3d.com. Seem to work pretty well, but I haven't installed Crysis (yet), so take that w/ a grain of salt. I recommend uninstalling the current ones, then boot into safe mode and run driversweeper to remove all traces. Then, reboot & install new drivers.

Edit: You may want to try re-installing the latest Direct X 9.0c from Microsoft as well.

Edit 2: I see you have SP3. Can you revert back to SP2? Perhaps there's a chance of an incompatibility there, since SP3 hasn't gone gold yet...

Edit 3: 171.23 beta drivers thread: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=253263

Sorry for all the edits! Hope this helps.

 

[Coldkilla]

Thanks Oldhoss and DSF, I'll try to get that information for yall soon.

My PSU: 600W Seagate. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817151030

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

No problemo man. Nice power supply, btw. My next one's definitely gonna be modular.

 

[Coldkilla]

I think prior to my trying to fix this problem, I will be doing a re-reformat with my friends XP CD. Apparently he says its all updated and what not all ready so I wont need to go to microsoft and download a bunch of stuff. Not to mention its not SP3, so I could take that out of the equation as well. I'll be doing the format, and I printed this thread for your suggestions. I downloaded the programs I'll need to do the tests and report back.

How can I manage my CPU and/or GPU Load and/or heat during slowdowns?

 

[DarkRogue]

If it's XP SP3, I believe you can simply uninstall that via Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs..

Edit:
Also, if you installed SP3 back in December, and then installed the newer February build, you need to make sure you uninstalled the December one first, else there could be problems.

 

[Coldkilla]

I went to Guru3d and they have these 174.20 drivers. Is this newer than the 171.23 drivers? The filesizes between them are quite large.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

I think whoever put that set together included the x64 versions as well. Any luck fixing the slowdowns?