Very low F.E.A.R fps on Intel E6400+ Nvidia 7900GT?!?!

[M0ldyMiLK]

Did you say FEAR v.1.00?

The first version ran like complete crap, update the game. It's at v1.07 now I believe?

 

[40sTheme]

Dude, I run FEAR on medium with an X600 oc'ed from 400/250 to 500/350. I only have 1gig of RAM. It doesn't seem to matter that much...

 

[Saldrin]

I just got my RMA'ed card back Now to ship off its partner....

Anyhoo, running at 1024x768 (w/MSI 7900gt) with everything maxed (except soft shadows), I got outstanding performance. Min was low 40s, max was 200 (0% under 40 fps). To be honest, my first ( and second) card didn't perform this well, so I hope it's a good sign.

I'm praying that this card will last. Took about a week for my last two cards to start "acting up".

Other than that, I'm not much different from the OP's harware, I'm running a 6600 at stock speeds, 2 gigs of DDR2 800 though.

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: M0ldyMiLK
Did you say FEAR v.1.00?

The first version ran like complete crap, update the game. It's at v1.07 now I believe?

Agreed. 1680x1050 4x/16x AA/HQAF all settings maxed INCLUDING soft shadows is playable for me with newest patches. Those settings were unplayable in v1.0

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: akshayt
He gets mad stuttering with textures at medium, this can't be normal. 1GB should be more than enough to play at medium settings.

Someone with an uber setup max out the setting and alt-tab out to look at memory usage. I really doubt FEAR can gobble up over 1GB of system RAM.

 

[superbooga]

I can run FEAR on max settings (except soft shadows) with 1GB with no stuttering.

On my computer I have themes disabled, no wallpaper, and most services disabled. If you don't want to upgrade to 2GB, then running a minimalist system makes a huge difference.

 

[evolucion8]

Yeah, it is strange, I play the game at 1024x768 with everything on Maximum, 4x FSAA and 16X Aniso with No Soft Shadows and the average is between 39 and 64fps, the lowest is around the 17fps (Horrible) and the maximum is about 138fps, but the stuttering is terrible, when you move to other rooms, you can see the game acting like it was in pause (Half a second long) and the hard drive reading like crazy. And when I activate FSAA the drop in performance is barely like 25% max in the worst case scenario, may be I'm GPU or VRAM Bandwidth limited. May be 1GB is not enough considering my RAM is Dual Channel and have very low latency (2-2-2-5) Changing the AGP Aperture Size doesn't help, it decreases the performance, so I have it to 64MB which shows the best performance.

 

[40sTheme]

Does it really need to have dual channel? Because I was thinking about upgrading to 2 gigs of RAM, but I don't want to take my other 2 out because it's way cheaper to just upgrade with a gig than buy two 1gig sticks... And when I upgrade my video card I want to be able to run FEAR on max. So is it really important to use dual channel in games?