Is this normal?

[bacon12]

For the clocks to fluntciuate this much in game? I am getting horrible performance in TF2 lately.

[mythy]

no not normal at all

[jAkUp]

What resolution and level of AA/AF? Depending on the load on the card it can fluctuate sometimes.

[mythy]

yea by a few mhz not all the way to 0 :headexplode:

[bacon12]

1920x1600, and I was running with 16 X QSAA, but that was at 4.


This card should be loafing in TF2, and that graph was pretty much what I was seeing in game.

You think this may be driver related, or am I pushing it to hard. The default core clock is 576. The temps are always around 70 on load.

[mythy]

uhh why not try default clocks and see if it still occurs? :p

[bacon12]

No still happening when the default clocks. Gonna try those leaked drivers. Maybe that vista memory hotfix I installed is the problem.

[bacon12]

ttt

[Heinz68]

Why not e-mai the question at the card manufacturer support site and let us know what the answer is.

[bacon12]

I will do that, but don't expect anything that resembles an intelligent response. I imagine they will probably blame it on rivatuner.

[bacon12]

So I have been testing and it seems only Source games are effected. :(

Here is from TF2

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8336/tf2dm9.jpg


And Hl2

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/7454/hl2ct9.jpg


Finally COD4

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1828/cod4nt3.jpg

This sucks but anyway, gonna put in a ticket with valve..

[CaptNKILL]

I had some strange performance issues with Source games a couple years ago.

I fixed it by reinstalling steam.

You might want to try that. Just move your steamapps folder out of the steam folder, uninstall, then download and install the latest version of steam and move your steamapps folder back so you don't have to redownload all of your games.

Its worth a shot.

Deleting the game config files might help too (I think they're in the steamapps folder with each game).

[K007]

So I have been testing and it seems only Source games are effected. :(

Here is from TF2

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8336/tf2dm9.jpg


And Hl2

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/7454/hl2ct9.jpg


Finally COD4

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1828/cod4nt3.jpg

This sucks but anyway, gonna put in a ticket with valve..

Hmm...your wallpaper...has some skin..and it intrigues me...

[bacon12]

@ Captn
I will try that, and this steam install is really old. I keep it on its on partition, and just link the shortcut to my new os install.

@K007...

Last one
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1716963&postcount=6315

[DeusGear]

The only way I've been able to fix it is to use riva tuner, set a certain clock speed for games and desktop, and enable the game profile/fan speed when I go ingame. Works well i must say.

[Roliath]

I had this same issue, fixed it by using rivatuner (pics below)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4076/rivatuner1ij1.th.jpg (http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rivatuner1ij1.jpg)http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7536/rivatunercw2.th.jpg (http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rivatunercw2.jpg)

[bacon12]

I had this same issue, fixed it by using rivatuner (pics below)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4076/rivatuner1ij1.th.jpg (http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rivatuner1ij1.jpg)http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7536/rivatunercw2.th.jpg (http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rivatunercw2.jpg)

Thanks I will try that.

[bacon12]

Didn't help at all. :( Same up and down bs

[Bman212121]

What kind of PSU are you pairing with it?

I'm just wondering if when it's under a heavy workload it isn't getting enough juice. If you have Crysis, WiC, or another game that really nails the GPU, see if those are effected as well.

[bacon12]

There will be an new 750 corsair in tomorrow, but I now have an 530 enermax in.

I haven't played crysis yet to test, but COD4 is fine, as is Bioshock. I think it is a sw conflict with Source.

[jAkUp]

Install the 177.79 drivers, that should fix the issues.

[bacon12]

Install the 177.79 drivers, that should fix the issues.

Roger, will do it today.

[bacon12]

Happy to report the betas work great, no more issues.