Weird performance drop: no changes at all and half performance

Lateralus · 01-04-08, 06:07 PM

My rig is an X2 6000+, 8800 GTS 640 Mbytes, 4 gb ram and Vista x64.

I've been playing with this setup since July. Back then, my 3d Mark 2006 score was around 8500-9500 (depending on minor CPU/GPU overclocks i did a few times). I used to play games like Quake IV, Half life episode 1, and NSFMW and NFS Carbon. A lot of other games too, some of them were pretty demanding for the time. I played them on my LCD on its native resolution (1366x768) with no problem, vsync on and even some antialias.

Now I have installed some of the newer games: Gears of War and Kane and Lynch. I noticed the performance wasn't very good. There was some stuttering here and then. I guessed my rig was falling on the low end now, but according to yougamers.com references (futuremark gaming portal), my system should do ok with the settings i'm playing (1280x720, high settings, no antialias).

I runned 3dMark 2006 just to check everything was ok, AND THE SCORE was 4500. Cold boot, second run and AGAIN 4500. Cleaned the startup programs and AGAIN 4500. Latest WHQL driver (169.25): same thing.

What happenned here????

Please help me, finally i get vacation time to play, and this **** happens.

Thanks in advance.

PD: My pc is used only for gaming and i only install games sometimes, i do not have installed any strange software at all...

LORD-eX-Bu · 01-04-08, 06:16 PM

have you tried reinstalling the drivers? check your temps... do AMD cpus throttle?

01-04-08, 06:19 PM

AMD's throttle back I believe... you might have to disable "cool'n quiet" or whatever they call it in BIOS.

Lateralus · 01-04-08, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by methimpikehoses

AMD's throttle back I believe... you might have to disable "cool'n quiet" or whatever they call it in BIOS.

Cool'n quiet is disabled. I haven't made any change to the bios settings.

Lord-ex, when you say "reinstalling" you mean erasing the drivers completly and installing them again, or is it ok to just update the driver as i did?

I was wondering if maybe it is a virus or something. Could one virus cause this huge performance drop?

LORD-eX-Bu · 01-04-08, 11:56 PM

a virus could have very negative effects on performance... before you go nuts though you need to uninstall your previous drivers before you install the new ones.

Lateralus · 01-05-08, 01:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LORD-eX-Bu

a virus could have very negative effects on performance... before you go nuts though you need to uninstall your previous drivers before you install the new ones.

FIXED! Thanks to everyone...

I checked the video card frequencies in nTune and 3dMark and it showed that the GPU was clocked at 0.0 Mhz, and memories at 0.0 Mhz. WTF. I rebooted into safe mode, unistalled the drivers and installed the newer available driver.

And now i'm back to my usual performance.

Thanks everyone for the help.

LORD-eX-Bu · 01-05-08, 01:40 AM

now you have 30 seconds to tell me how to kill the golem

breathemetal · 01-05-08, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LORD-eX-Bu

now you have 30 seconds to tell me how to kill the golem

LIGHTNING

01-04-08, 06:07 PM	#1
Lateralus Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 14	Weird performance drop: no changes at all and half performance My rig is an X2 6000+, 8800 GTS 640 Mbytes, 4 gb ram and Vista x64. I've been playing with this setup since July. Back then, my 3d Mark 2006 score was around 8500-9500 (depending on minor CPU/GPU overclocks i did a few times). I used to play games like Quake IV, Half life episode 1, and NSFMW and NFS Carbon. A lot of other games too, some of them were pretty demanding for the time. I played them on my LCD on its native resolution (1366x768) with no problem, vsync on and even some antialias. Now I have installed some of the newer games: Gears of War and Kane and Lynch. I noticed the performance wasn't very good. There was some stuttering here and then. I guessed my rig was falling on the low end now, but according to yougamers.com references (futuremark gaming portal), my system should do ok with the settings i'm playing (1280x720, high settings, no antialias). I runned 3dMark 2006 just to check everything was ok, AND THE SCORE was 4500. Cold boot, second run and AGAIN 4500. Cleaned the startup programs and AGAIN 4500. Latest WHQL driver (169.25): same thing. What happenned here???? Please help me, finally i get vacation time to play, and this **** happens. Thanks in advance. PD: My pc is used only for gaming and i only install games sometimes, i do not have installed any strange software at all...

01-04-08, 06:16 PM	#2
LORD-eX-Bu Horus the pointy master Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 4,609	Re: Weird performance drop: no changes at all and half performance have you tried reinstalling the drivers? check your temps... do AMD cpus throttle? __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!

01-04-08, 06:19 PM	#3
methimpikehoses Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Weird performance drop: no changes at all and half performance AMD's throttle back I believe... you might have to disable "cool'n quiet" or whatever they call it in BIOS.

01-04-08, 11:56 PM	#5
LORD-eX-Bu Horus the pointy master Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 4,609	Re: Weird performance drop: no changes at all and half performance a virus could have very negative effects on performance... before you go nuts though you need to uninstall your previous drivers before you install the new ones. __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!

01-05-08, 01:40 AM	#7
LORD-eX-Bu Horus the pointy master Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 4,609	Re: Weird performance drop: no changes at all and half performance now you have 30 seconds to tell me how to kill the golem __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!