Odd framerate issue in games.

[Lexxon]

Hey folks,

I thought this might be the place to ask this question. I have a very odd issue with certain PC games when I run them on my newly-rebuilt AMD 939 rig. When playing some games (Guitar Hero III, Crysis Demo), after the computer has been on and running for a few hours, these games will seemingly double their framerates. Guitar Hero's notes will fly off the track faster than the music, in Crysis, I run far too fast and the audio + subtitles overlap. I can even run Crysis on High and it still over-framerates! I had a 7300GT prior to my upgrade to an 8800GT, and I have had the same issue with both cards. (In GHIII at least) I have not had this issue in Half-Life 2, but it might just be luck.

Any ideas? I am running a newly-installed Windows XP Home as of late November. No programs that I'm running that I Can think of would be screwing with the settings. If I reboot my computer everything runs fine--once I leave it idle for a while and boot up a game, it has the same issue. So right now I just reboot my machine anytime I go to play a game.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

 

[robisbell]

did you make sure your system fully met the "Recommended" specs for both games, and not the "Minimum"??

 

[Lexxon]

Absolutely. The processor is an Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+, 2.0Ghz (not the best processor, but it shouldn't be causing problems), 2GB of DDR400 RAM, the video card is a newly purchased 8800GT that is GREAT as long as I reboot the computer before starting one of these games (and I can assume most other games). Framerate speedups wouldn't generally indicate that I can't run a game, slowdowns, yes.

For now I just use the old reboot and run trick...I'm going to even try logging out and logging back in, if that works it's likely something in Windows or an external software program. All I have in the lower right, however, is my audio deck, the nVidia settings, OpenOffice, Pidgin, and the two network connections. No funky services that I can think of.

 

[robisbell]

http://www.crysis-online.com/I...System%20Requirements/
you're barely making minimums for crysis in some parts, and below minimum is others.

as for GH3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...o_III:_Legends_of_Rock
mentions a lot of tech issues for the pc version.
http://www.aspyr.com/product/game_specs/85
running a old board and cpu and trying to run games that push new cpus and board hard, I'd expect problems and even count on them.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Make sure your 8800GT drivers and sound card drivers are up to date.
Make sure your games are patched to the latest versions.

I disagree with robisbell...your specs are fine for all of those games. Crysis will run on a high-end single core CPU, so you're fine with an X2.