Hello. Recently I have been experiencing weird frame rate drops while playing games. However it seems to be affecting only some of my games, for example, every source game i own will go fine for five minutes at 30 fps and then drop drastically at 4-5 fps and go back up after a minute and then it's all over again, while Just Cause 2 just keeps going at 16 fps (which is pretty low anyway) without any sudden drop. This has happened to me before, it stopped on its own I guess, but then it started again and it's getting really annoying. The strange thing is that my PC isn't even shitty at all. Here are my specs:
Acer Aspire AX3810
OS Windows 7 64 bit SP1
CPU Q8300 Intel Quad Core 2.5 ghz
RAM 8GB DDR3
1 TB Hard Drive
nVidia GeForce GT120 1024MB
Now as you can see, I have plenty of memory, so I don't think it's that. I had Vista 64 bit a while ago, then got 7 32 bit, so I thought it may be the OS, and installed 7 64 bit, but that didn't do shit. So i thought maybe there's a fuckton of dust inside the computer, so I opened it and found not even one bit, but cleaned it anyway just to be sure. I would exclude overheating too, it's even surprising how cool it is by touching it as it is cooled by two fans so nope.avi to that as well and I installed every updated driver I could install. Tried to set the graphics to the lowest, nothing changed. And to end it all, I toggled the power saving option in the control panel.
So it could be two things in the end: The OS (I read online that Vista and 7 are faulty for games so I may install XP) or the graphics card that needs to be changed, but I don't really see why.
Does anyone have any idea of what it could be exactly and/or have some advices?
[QUOTE=Aleal;31403578]Hello. Recently I have been experiencing weird frame rate drops while playing games. However it seems to be affecting only some of my games, for example, every source game i own will go fine for five minutes at 30 fps and then drop drastically at 4-5 fps and go back up after a minute and then it's all over again, while Just Cause 2 just keeps going at 16 fps (which is pretty low anyway) without any sudden drop. This has happened to me before, it stopped on its own I guess, but then it started again and it's getting really annoying. The strange thing is that my PC isn't even shitty at all. Here are my specs:
Acer Aspire AX3810
OS Windows 7 64 bit SP1
CPU Q8300 Intel Quad Core 2.5 ghz
RAM 8GB DDR3
1 TB Hard Drive
[b]nVidia GeForce GT120 1024MB[/b]
Now as you can see, I have plenty of memory, so I don't think it's that. I had Vista 64 bit a while ago, then got 7 32 bit, so I thought it may be the OS, and installed 7 64 bit, but that didn't do shit. So i thought maybe there's a fuckton of dust inside the computer, so I opened it and found not even one bit, but cleaned it anyway just to be sure. I would exclude overheating too, it's even surprising how cool it is by touching it as it is cooled by two fans so nope.avi to that as well and I installed every updated driver I could install. Tried to set the graphics to the lowest, nothing changed. And to end it all, I toggled the power saving option in the control panel.
So it could be two things in the end: The OS (I read online that Vista and 7 are faulty for games so I may install XP) or the graphics card that needs to be changed, but I don't really see why.
Does anyone have any idea of what it could be exactly and/or have some advices?[/QUOTE]
[editline]29th July 2011[/editline]
Bad card.
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[QUOTE=moesislack;31407437]-Quote of the OP with GPU bolded-[/QUOTE]
Too bad it wasn't happening to him before and he didn't change his graphics card.
Maybe there's something running in the background. Try turning off any programs in the background (Antiviruses, some services, IM programs, invisible crap, etc.) and it might speed up.
[QUOTE=TomoAlien;31407486]Too bad it wasn't happening to him before and he didn't change his graphics card.
Maybe there's something running in the background. Try turning off any programs in the background (Antiviruses, some services, IM programs, invisible crap, etc.) and it might speed up.[/QUOTE]
Don't be dumb all the source games have had updates recently increasing demand on computers. When you're only getting 30 fps in a source game a few tweaks that make the game look better can be devastating.
The op is already thinking of upgrading his graphics I may have been a bit of an ass just bolding his post but really it's a suggestion that he upgrade.
Alright, I'll change my video card. Suggestions for it?
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