Bad FPS in BC2 with Intel's Q9xxx quads? Try THIS!

[bob saget]

Originally Posted by Q

Camporz?

yes mom.

[JasonPC]

Weird I never had this issue with my Core 2 Quad (before my motherboard died).

[Soetdjuret]

Man, i bumped up everything to High now and added 8xMSAA and I got about 50 - 60 fps in Harvest day.. amazing I so wish i could run supersampling in this game, it would look like the loading screens ^^

Originally Posted by mailman2

So... are you using old drivers?

266.58

Originally Posted by Q

Camporz?

I never usually camp, even when i have the GOL i run for flags and stick with my teammates to give them necessary covering sniperfire. I don't stay at 1 spot camping like most recon teams, that's why am so lethal to enemy players, and the whining continues

[Drolfrawd]

Originally Posted by Soetdjuret

Hey there fellow nvnewsers... I've been playing BC2 for a long time, and i always have struggled with the performance in this game. I upgraded from a E8400 to a Q9550 in order to get better framerates. I did not, and i've always been playing the game with 20 - 30 fps on maps like Arica, Panama, Atacama and Oasis... Today i took some time to check the CPU usage in the performance tab in Task manager, and i saw that my forth core was working at 90% while my other 3 cores were around 50 - 60% while playing. So i figured to try and disable the fourth core, said and done.. And back ingame and Baaah, what a difference, did 3 fast benchmarks on 3 minutes each in Arica with Fraps and the average fps was over 50 on all 3 benchmarks. . . So, if you like me got performance issues using the intel quad Q9 series, try it out. It might be a difference between night and day.

That's all i wanted to share. Thanks for reading

I have a Q9550 and a GTX260, when i had a E8400 i could get 19000 marks with 3Dmark06
When I changed to the Q9550 , my frame rate dropped by 3000 marks. I spoke abou tit at the time to other members who said that would be expected as the dual core chips are better for games. I don't know enough about it to be technical as to the whys of it.

[Soetdjuret]

Originally Posted by Drolfrawd

I have a Q9550 and a GTX260, when i had a E8400 i could get 19000 marks with 3Dmark06
When I changed to the Q9550 , my frame rate dropped by 3000 marks. I spoke abou tit at the time to other members who said that would be expected as the dual core chips are better for games. I don't know enough about it to be technical as to the whys of it.

Maybe because the 3dmark06 isn't optimized for quad-core cpu's and doesn't support it so well? And afaik the e8400 has a 3ghz speed and the q9550 has 2.83, therefor a game or application who doesn't take advantage of 4 cores would run slightly slower. Crysis is a good example, a e8400 should run slightly better than a q9550.

[Burnt_Ram]

i got tired of my Q6600 @ 3.4 struggling with BC2!!! so i upgraded both my comps to i5's and the issue is solved. however a C2Q above 3ghz SHOULD run it better, but for whatever reason they don't, i also found this to be true for black ops ...

[mojoman0]

yea I pushed my Q8300 to around 3.0 ghz and only got a few frames. was hoping for a tad more and never got completely stable so just said screw it. Vietnam also runs about 15 fps better anyways and thats what Ive been playing lately. Super smooth