Originally posted by Loke666
Originally posted by bezado Sorry took awhile reply back, been busy. I looked over your Dxdiag. I need to ask you if you use or installed anything new since this occurred. This will be helpful to know, and if you Overclock your gpu or cpu with any software. You have tried a fresh install on Win7? The only small thing I can see that may impede performance is that your primary HD has 12GB of free space, your systems default pagefile uses roughly 3GB of space, now if you got damaged sector on your HD and pagefile uses that when you play games or do things it can make you go bluescreen. A bad sector can't be recovered and so you would need a new HD. So many things can be wrong, it is a process of elimination.
It still wouldn't explain why newer games run fine but older lags.It really sounds like the GFX card, and probably the drivers to me. It could also be direct X that messes, an error in DX9 but nothing in Dx 10 would explain it.
Older games use more pagefile than newer games which are optimized to use more of your system memory rather than pagefile. Pagefile is called upon much more on older games.
Originally posted by itgrowls
I'd like to know more about this too, my neighbor who's been a network admin was stumped by this as well, he downloaded Aion to play with me for a while and his high end machine that does wonders even with titles like SWTOR with it's core engine issues had trouble with a fully patched Aion. It was weird. Mine was fine, and his card is better then mine is, i have a midline he has a high end card.
I shall be reading more.'
I turn off unneeded functions including manual downloads that normally run in the background. Windows Vista and Windows 7 are not the best gaming OSs unless you do some work.
For example, I turn off UAC, turn off automatic downloads as mentioned earlier, turn on game mode for my anti-virus, along with several other background functions that Windows performs.
It may be that your friend has more things going on in the background, including bandwidth consuming downloads, than you do.
Sounds thermal. Perhaps heat sink grease has failed. Look for software that can read the sensors and display temps.
Can anyone suggest a utility for temp sensors?
Originally posted by XAPGames
Sounds thermal. Perhaps heat sink grease has failed. Look for software that can read the sensors and display temps.
Can anyone suggest a utility for temp sensors?
Yeah sounds thremal to me, the fact that it gets worse and worse is a clue as the cpu gets hotter and hotter. Also some games (based on Source for example) may use the cpu more than others.
I had a similar issue recently and kept thinking it was my card. The cpu need to re-sinking. But since it was an old cpu I upgraded instead.
Here is CPU monitor that I use, hope you get it sorted.
http://www.cpuid.com/
And another one
http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
I think I have not expressed myself clearly enough regarding the perfomance loss of games. It is not that I start the computer and can play for a while until the fps drop. Instead I do a full format, reinstall everything which improves the perfomance slightly, but then it goes down even more after a week or two.
So what I have tried yet:
1. Full Format
2. Tried several older versions of the graphics driver
3. Ran every of the simple tests in Seagate Seatools and my harddisk passed
4. Checked temperature with the gamebooster program while playing Nuclear Dawn which only runs at 10fps atm.
CPU: 40°C / 104°F
Mainboard: 54°C / 129°F
Video: 45°C / 113°F
Harddisk: 26°C / 79°F
As far as I see the conclusion is that neither harddisk nor temperature are causing my problems.
Another question: I am using the mainboard drivers from the asrock page which are from 2009. Might this be a problem and is it possible to use newer versions which are not directly from the manufacturer?
What I might try these days: really delete my harddisk with gaussman method. My father just said that he once had serious issues with windows which didn't go away from doing a full format and that this method helped.
Does anyone know a program which checks if my graphic card runs as intended?
Originally posted by Torgen
Does anyone know a program which checks if my graphic card runs as intended?
You can try Furmark - it just shows a rotating fuzzy thing. Let it run for a couple of hours.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
If your computer is on the fritz (it tests not just the video card, but also heavily on the motherboard and power supply), it will either crash/reboot/lock up your computer, or you will start to see random glitches in the display (floating dots, weird lines, random colors, etc).
I don't know about the "Gaussman Method" - if a full (not quick) format and full reinstall doesn't fix your problem, then you are right, it probably isn't hard drive related.
Those temperatures all look pretty good as well.
Drivers for your hardware will all come from their respective manufacturer. Your Asrock motherboard should come from Asrock, video card should come straight from AMD/Nvidia (whichever), etc.
What is this game booster program? ...
