Please Help, Playing 8 year old Game at 1440p and drops frames.

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kennyreid95

kennyreid95

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Please help me guys. I am playing a very old game. Burnout Paradise is a old 8 year old racing video game. I have a very powerful and capable computer to run a 8 year old game. I have a MSI R9 280X Twin Frozr 3GB. This card is a beast at running an 8 year old game. When I played Burn out Paradise at 1440p the game was dropping frames below 60fps but was getting above 30fps. This is a weird issue because the GTX 960 has similar performance to the R9 280X, In this video this person has a GTX 960 and is playing Burnout Paradise at 1440p 60fps no problem. Has the exact same settings as me, all max settings. So I assume this is a driver issue with the R9 280X. What drivers do I need to download so Burnout Paradise will play better? Also the audio is messed up too. Burnout Paradise is the only game that is giving me audio problems. I hear a buzzing noise from my monitor speakers whenever I play Burnout Paradise. I know there is nothing wrong with the monitor speakers. My monitor is the Acer H257HU. Here is the video of a person playing Burnout Paradise at 1440p with a GTX 960.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyHSx5oVkc0
 
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Flapdrol1337

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Already tried restarting the pc? had terrible stutter in a freshly installed jade empire, after a restart it was smooth.
 
Snarf Snarf

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What's the full system you're running, as you've said the R9 280x should have no problem handling that game at 1440p normally. Also do you have Afterburner installed? Try enabling the OSD and watching your temps and GPU usage when your frames start to dip. Could potentially be bottle necked by CPU at that reso or maybe even thermally throttling.
 
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Snarf Snarf said:
What's the full system you're running, as you've said the R9 280x should have no problem handling that game at 1440p normally. Also do you have Afterburner installed? Try enabling the OSD and watching your temps and GPU usage when your frames start to dip. Could potentially be bottle necked by CPU at that reso or maybe even thermally throttling.
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Here are my computer specs.

Case: Corsair Graphite Series 380T

CPU: i7 4790k 4.00GHz Quad Core

Motherboard: Asus H97I-Plus

Ram: 8GB

Hard Drives: 500GB HDD and 120 GB SSD Kingston

Power Supply: Corsair RM650 Watt (Modular)

Video Card: MSI R9 280X Twin Frozr 3GB GDDR5

OS: Windows 7 64Bit

Water Cooler: Corsair H60 CPU water cooler

Monitor: Acer H257HU
 
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Hitman928

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Edit: New post while I was typing.

Is the game installed on the SSD or the HDD? Is the audio carried through an hdmi cable to your monitor?
 
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kennyreid95

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Hitman928 said:
Is it constant frame rate drops or is it as you are transitioning to new areas? Do you have an SSD in the system? Amount of RAM? CPU?

Audio issue is strange, is the audio being fed to your monitor speakers through an hdmi cable? Could be something wrong with the game install as well, or drivers as you suggested.
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Here are my computer specs.

Case: Corsair Graphite Series 380T

CPU: i7 4790k 4.00GHz Quad Core

Motherboard: Asus H97I-Plus

Ram: 8GB

Hard Drives: 500GB HDD and 120 GB SSD Kingston

Power Supply: Corsair RM650 Watt (Modular)

Video Card: MSI R9 280X Twin Frozr 3GB GDDR5

OS: Windows 7 64Bit

Water Cooler: Corsair H60 CPU water cooler

Monitor: Acer H257HU
 
Snarf Snarf

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Ok that rules out CPU bottleneck, try checking the GPU usage, temps, and core clock during the drops.
 
kennyreid95

kennyreid95

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Yeah I think this is defintely a driver issue. Amd Radeon Settings keeps crashing. Do I need to install an older driver so Burnout Paradise will play better at 1440p 60fps? What driver is the most stable? I installed the latest driver from amd website and the latest driver is not stable and crashes a lot.

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The youtuber with the 960 didnt bother to state whether he was running windows 10 32bit or 64bit. We can assume it is 64 but you might want to verify that. 64 bit wasnt all that common 8 years ago and this game might just not run as well on 64 bit.
 
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Flapdrol1337

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sm625 said:
The youtuber with the 960 didnt bother to state whether he was running windows 10 32bit or 64bit. We can assume it is 64 but you might want to verify that. 64 bit wasnt all that common 8 years ago and this game might just not run as well on 64 bit.
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Played burnout paradise a few years back, didn't have problems on 64 bit.

Driver is probably the culprit.
 
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RaulF

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You will just have to try them on your own, it would be hard for someone to recommend which specific driver will work.
 
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the driver itself isn't the problem, but rather the installation of it or the installation of the game is the problem. Anecdotally, in my own experience, reinstalling either the driver or the game that is having problems will fix the issue. Also make sure the game is up to date with the latest patch(es). Sometimes just running a game in compatibility mode will help.

If you rule out the software, then it could come down to an actual hardware problem. If your frame rate is crap and the game crashes, it could also be heat-related. What sort of temperatures are your GPU and CPU reaching? Speakers buzzing could be related to an electrical problem, perhaps something is wrong with your power supply? There are a lot of possibilities here.

For now, just get your software in order and then check your hardware temperatures. Since your other games don't crash, your hardware is probably OK, but it's still worth checking.
 
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Flapdrol1337

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Just tried burnout paradise with my gtx670, totally maxed it's using the gpu 60% on 1920x1200 (vsynced 60 fps), I didn't do any events, but I suspect those are a bit heavier.

Maybe it's normal if it drops some frames at 2560x1440 if the game is maxed, the game may be 8 years old, but the gpu type is 4 years.
 
kennyreid95

kennyreid95

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Flapdrol1337 said:
Just tried burnout paradise with my gtx670, totally maxed it's using the gpu 60% on 1920x1200 (vsynced 60 fps), I didn't do any events, but I suspect those are a bit heavier.

Maybe it's normal if it drops some frames at 2560x1440 if the game is maxed, the game may be 8 years old, but the gpu type is 4 years.
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You don't know what driver I need to install?
 
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Burnout Paradise was very odd game. I played it with GTS 450+Core2 Quad and with Ambient Occlusion off i could get 20-25 fps. If i turned off this feature game became a slide show(4-5 fps)
 
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Headfoot

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I would uninstall your drivers, use DDU to make sure it is fully 100% uninstalled, then reinstall the latest drivers. Try this first before you start trying weirder stuff
 
kennyreid95

kennyreid95

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You guys will not believe this bullcrap!! All this time I thought my computer had a R9 280X. It turns out I had a R9 270 all along. The R9 270 is extremely weak and slow graphics card. No wonder it could not handle Burnout Paradise at 1440p. The seller that sold me the computer lied to me and said he put a R9 280X in the computer. I am so fed up now
 
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