Low Framerate : V

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:58 am

Overall, the games runs wonderfully - I have a Mobility Radeon 5850, 1.8 i7 CPU and 8 gigs of Ram, and I am able to run the game very well on High. However after playing the game for 5 minutes,every 15-20 seconds or so, the frame rate dramatically drops, then returns to normal. What can be causing this?

» Tue May 15, 2012 9:30 am

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» Tue May 15, 2012 6:13 am

Could be overheating.

Try monitoring your GPU temps.

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:21 am

How would i do that?

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:27 am

Ok, i found a program to do so - how would i know it is overheating (what temperature)

» Mon May 14, 2012 7:11 pm

Ok, i found a program to do so - how would i know it is overheating (what temperature)

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» Tue May 15, 2012 2:24 am

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You too?

» Mon May 14, 2012 8:18 pm

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Depends on what hardware you have.
Also, it happens quite frequently that your graphics card can initially handle it with it's current RAM, while after a while the modules are full and it tries to forcedump them, making room for new items to be loaded.

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:32 am

Ok, i found a program to do so - how would i know it is overheating (what temperature)

Grab yourself a cope of MSI Afterburner. Set up a custom fan profile so that as soon as your GPU gets near 70 degrees the fan ramps up. I have mine set so that if it gets to 75 degrees the fan will go to 100%

I'm using a 5770 btw. It runs happily under load at 70 degrees for hours at a time with no issues.

» Tue May 15, 2012 9:02 am

Below 80-95 C is preferrable & I dont like seeing temps even that high on my desktops cards. You will usually get artifacting ( weird geometric shapes &/or colors and lines across the screen if your video is overheating. If your seeing 90 C + on your video and/or 80 + on your processor while gaming its not good.

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:18 pm

Depends on what hardware you have.
Also, it happens quite frequently that your graphics card can initially handle it with it's current RAM, while after a while the modules are full and it tries to forcedump them, making room for new items to be loaded.

My average is around 90C, which is high, but it is a consistent problem with my model (HP Envy 17). But I never had this problem before.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:30 am

Mobility hardware is pretty crappy, my Dell laptop runs Call of Duty Black ops like crap so I don't even bother with it. Always good to have a desktop for the real gaming rig.

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:32 am

fps drops dramatically indoors!!! sometimes under the playable mark

outdoors it runs very smooth (40-50fps). usually for games its the other way around hmmm

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:36 pm

Mobility hardware is pretty crappy, my Dell laptop runs Call of Duty Black ops like crap so I don't even bother with it. Always good to have a desktop for the real gaming rig.

I run the game solidly at 40fps on high (AA switched off) most of the time, so my hardware definitely meets the requirements. Its another problem.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:00 am

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