About a year ago on Dirt 2 I noticed that I would go from having 60FPS for a few minutes, to having 10-15 FPS for about 30 seconds, and then it would jump back up to 60. It did this randomly, it didn't matter if I was in the menu or if I was racing, and it only did this with Dirt 2.
The problem has recently become much worse, and in any game I play it's happening. In CSS it happens, in BF2 it happens, even in world of warcraft. It doesn't matter what my settings are in the game or what my resolution is, IT KEEPS HAPPENING. It makes any fast paced game (FPS, racing, etc.) unplayable, because randomly having my FPS drop to 10 is just impossible to deal with ingame. All of my relevant drivers are up to date, all software I can think of is up to date, and i've tried googling for answers since it popped up originally but I can't find anything.
Here's my specs:
[quote]Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
6144MB RAM
DirectX 11
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series[/quote]
I could post the full DxDiag if anyone needs me to, I just really want to be able to play PC games without having to reformat my computer or something
Have you tried doing your normal windows tune ups?
- Defragment your drives
- Run chkdsk on your system volume
- Update your drivers
- Clean up unnecessary files like the temp. Use CCleaner
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;30170297]Have you tried doing your normal windows tune ups?
- Defragment your drives
- Run chkdsk on your system volume
- Update your drivers
- Clean up unnecessary files like the temp. Use CCleaner[/QUOTE]
Believe it or not i've tried all of these and i'm still getting the problem :(
Sounds like throttling from overheating.
Try to run a game in a window with a temp monitor visible as well. To see what it does.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;30191617]Sounds like throttling from overheating.
Try to run a game in a window with a temp monitor visible as well. To see what it does.[/QUOTE]
What he just said. Download [url=http://www.hwinfo.com/]HWInfo[/url], install it and let it run in the background. Go and play your game for a little bit, then make a screenshot of the temps and post it here.
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