Low FPS on video card after in game crash (help please)

[merovingian4001]

I play Star Wars Galaxies online and I have always had the max fps you can get in the game of 30. I had a bad crash to desktop in an area of the game and after logging back on my FPS is very bad. It's like 15-20 and won't go to my fluid 30 fps which I used to have. My system specs are in my signature and I have run memtest to see if it's a memeory problem and I have no errors with memory. I'm trying to figure out if my Geforce FX 5700 LE stock overclocked video has gone on the frtiz but I don't know really how to test it. I have lawyas been able to play the game pretty much maxing out all graphics options and it has run very fluid. With the degrade in fps it's really bad and I don't even have many extra graphic options turned up. I now some benchmark tools like pcmark04 and soem others but I don't know if the score I'm getting on them is good or bad, unless I know what I should be getting for a score with my system specs. Can anyone help me out on this problem please. I have also reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled window xp pro and updated all my drivers and the same thing is happening in the game. It's like the crash somehow broke myvideo card, but I'm not sure.

 

[Korporativ]

Do a complete file check from the loader would be my advice. I had a similar problem in EQ2, power outage while playing and after that I got weird FPS problems and lots of HD access. It turned out it was trying to load files that had become damaged during the outage. Hopefully it is that simple.

 

[merovingian4001]

Thanks Korporativ,

I have class tonight but I will do that when I get back and let you know if it helps. I just don't see how the game crash could of degraded my video card. Since it still works just low performance for some reason.


Merovingian

 

[merovingian4001]

Hmm, Once I think about it that can't be the problems since I reformatted my whole system and reloaded the entire game from CD and from the download site since teh game is online. I'm not sure what's going on. Still need help on this one.