Fluctuating/Low FPS while gaming. - Hardware & Software

So, I've had fluctuating and/or low FPS while gaming for some time. I used to think it would be my GPU and lack of RAM. Last week I changed my GPU into 5750 and upgraded my RAM into 4 GBs, and yet I still get low FPS (10-35 on TF2, high settings, no AA, trilinear, multicore rendering on and resolution 1366x768). I don't know what's the problem with this computer, but here's the current specs: [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/251301/specshot.png[/IMG] Thanks in advance.

Reinstall drivers.

Didn't work. And I tried setting TF2 affinity to Core 1, but it didn't work. Still fluctuated. And with ½ of the FPS too. [editline]10:56PM[/editline] Could it be the processor or the mobo?

That's odd...

Mhm. Especially that I can't get over 40 FPS on TF2 with HD 5750 is odd. And my other hardware should be enough to give over that FPS.

How much of your hard drive is filled (i.e 150GB out of 250 GB)? When a drive becomes very filled, performance is often drastically lowered. And by the way, have you considered setting up RAID for your hard drives? RAID 0 will signifigantally increase drive performance with your two drives.

He can't set up RAID0 with two different drives with two different capacities. <----- don't listen to dat [editline]02:19AM[/editline] Also, that's some slowass RAM.

[QUOTE=waxrock;19852747]He can't set up RAID0 with two different drives with two different capacities. [editline]02:19AM[/editline] Also, that's some slowass RAM.[/QUOTE] Umm, I have RAID with two drives, two different capacities. Ones a WD, ones a Seagate. Ones 250GB ones 128GB (somewhere around there).

Oh yeah, my bad. What the hell was I thinking about... [editline]03:06AM[/editline] Anyway, the most space he'll get out of RAID0 is 162GB.

I had a similar problem when I played in windows 7. I never found out what was causing it but a reinstall fixed it, however since then I have just been doing my source games in XP and don't have the problem. Disable automatic driver updates, that caused the whole low fps issue due to sound card and network drivers getting messed up.

[QUOTE=waxrock;19853742]Oh yeah, my bad. What the hell was I thinking about... [editline]03:06AM[/editline] Anyway, the most space he'll get out of RAID0 is 162GB.[/QUOTE] It depends if you're big on space, or big on performance, the performance benefits can be really nice.

[QUOTE=waxrock;19852747]Also, that's some slowass RAM.[/QUOTE] It's 667 megahertz actually. Dunno why it shows at 0.5 speed there. And would RAID 0 really fix the stuttering, since I don't see why it should affect me during games when it's not loading. And I ran a test, the FPS stutters from 10 to 40 when [I]I'm looking straight into wall.[/I] :colbert:

No, it wouldn't fix the stuttering. Hmm, try installing older drivers. Nvidia has a problem right now where some source games stutter on their new drivers. Maybe ATI has the same problem.

[QUOTE=waxrock;19856545]No, it wouldn't fix the stuttering. Hmm, try installing older drivers. Nvidia has a problem right now where some source games stutter on their new drivers. Maybe ATI has the same problem.[/QUOTE] I doubt it as the source engine uses havok, ATI cards usually get better performance. [editline]09:06AM[/editline] Well, yeah there could still be driver issues.

Older drivers did not help. I ran CCC OC tool though, now I get 5 FPS more, and temps are 64 celcius under load.

[QUOTE=Fippe;19855965]It's 667 megahertz actually. Dunno why it shows at 0.5 speed there.[/QUOTE] DDR = Double Data Rate = doubles the actual speed

[QUOTE=reapaninja;19863413]DDR = Double Data Rate = doubles the actual speed[/QUOTE] k. Well, that's clear then.