Instant FPS Drop

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-29 12:30

hello Guys,
I get 100 FPS in PR with all settings on high except the textures, but after like an hour it drops to 50 and starts to drop with time, the only thing to do is to quit the game and not play for like an hour and come back
My GPU is nVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT Super+ 1GB of VRAM
Anyone know how to fiix it???

Sped · Post by **Sped** » 2009-08-29 12:35

rudy_eila wrote:hello Guys,
I get 100 FPS in PR with all settings on high except the textures, but after like an hour it drops to 50 and starts to drop with time, the only thing to do is to quit the game and not play for like an hour and come back
My GPU is nVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT Super+ 1GB of VRAM
Anyone know how to fiix it???

sounds like your video card is overheating, what are your temps when idle / playing?

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-29 12:39

Sped wrote:sounds like your video card is overheating, what are your temps when idle / playing?

woow!
My friend on Xfire said the same, IDK how to know the GPU temp....
Can I see it in the BIOS like I see the CPU temp??

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-29 12:51

I figured it out, Its 48C on IDLE and 55 when playing.
I have this software called VTune, the fan speed was 35% I put it 45%, if its dangerous please reply soon and tell me!
So After I put it like this the Idle GPU temp has became 44C instead of 48

/Randoph/ · Post by **/Randoph/** » 2009-08-29 15:50

Those are good temperatures.mine is 53 idle and around 70 when playing an everything is ok.

AgentJadeD · Post by **AgentJadeD** » 2009-08-29 17:37

you can always bring those temps down more by having the fan run at 65% or whats tolerable to your ears.

Back when I had my 8800GT (now rebranded as 9800GT with smaller die) i had my fan at 70% brought my load temps from 85 to 60.

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-29 17:40

/Randoph/ wrote:Those are good temperatures.mine is 53 idle and around 70 when playing an everything is ok.

then why is this happening???
BTW after I put the fan speed on 45% it started to take more time to overheat (Obviously lol)

AgentJadeD · Post by **AgentJadeD** » 2009-08-29 17:41

how much ram do you have?

AgentJadeD · Post by **AgentJadeD** » 2009-08-29 17:41

Is it on all maps?

SnipingCoward · Post by **SnipingCoward** » 2009-08-29 18:40

you could open the pc case, leave the side open to assist the cooling - if your not getting the performance drop anymore its probably overheating and you should then

1. check if ALL fans are running
2. dedust the interior
3a. (only if you know what your doing or have someone experienced to do it for you) reapply the thermal paste, which involves taking off the fans, heatsinks off gfx chip and/or cpu
3b. get a additional case fan(s)
3c. get a better fan for gfx/cpu (whatever is overheating)

its also possible that you are running out of memory because another application is running and causing a high memory consumption (ie due to memory leaks) end all unneeded processes

you should also try the modded bf2.exe (http://realitymodfiles.com/ancient/BF2MemoryPatch.zip)

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-29 18:54

[R-COM]AgentJadeD wrote:you can always bring those temps down more by having the fan run at 65% or whats tolerable to your ears.

Back when I had my 8800GT (now rebranded as 9800GT with smaller die) i had my fan at 70% brought my load temps from 85 to 60.

Won't it damage the fan??? if I put more than 60%??

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-29 18:55

[R-COM]AgentJadeD wrote:how much ram do you have?

System RAM 2Gigs VRAM 1Gig

[R-COM]AgentJadeD wrote:Is it on all maps?

Yep especially on maps that need a lot of GPU proccesing.

SnipingCoward · Post by **SnipingCoward** » 2009-08-29 21:05

rudy_eila wrote:Won't it damage the fan??? if I put more than 60%??

it reduces the overall life time of the fan the faster it goes but generally afaik a fan that breaks at 60% of its maximum speed is a fan you dont want in the first place
the reason to run the fan at lowest possible speed while avoiding overheating is because it gets louder, uses more energy and reduces overall life time of the fan

as for VRAM are we talking about onboard graphics? where you have 2 GB RAM and 1 GB is dedicated to the gfx card because it does not have its own ram? - are you on a laptop?
in that case you might want to expand your page file 1GB (available) does not suffice 2GB is minimum requirement

and the lcd on the laptop usually doesnt deliver more than 60-75 fps (correlates to how many Hz it uses) therefore you could lock your fps and thus delay the overheating

if you are on a laptop you can probably find better performing drivers (less heat while being more efficient) here: NVIDIA & Laptop News | Latest NVIDIA drivers and related news | laptopvideo2go.com

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-29 22:08

SnipingCoward wrote:it reduces the overall life time of the fan the faster it goes but generally afaik a fan that breaks at 60% of its maximum speed is a fan you dont want in the first place
the reason to run the fan at lowest possible speed while avoiding overheating is because it gets louder, uses more energy and reduces overall life time of the fan

as for VRAM are we talking about onboard graphics? where you have 2 GB RAM and 1 GB is dedicated to the gfx card because it does not have its own ram? - are you on a laptop?
in that case you might want to expand your page file 1GB (available) does not suffice 2GB is minimum requirement

and the lcd on the laptop usually doesnt deliver more than 60-75 fps (correlates to how many Hz it uses) therefore you could lock your fps and thus delay the overheating

if you are on a laptop you can probably find better performing drivers (less heat while being more efficient) here: NVIDIA & Laptop News | Latest NVIDIA drivers and related news | laptopvideo2go.com

Nono, I meant I have 2 GBs of system RAM and another Individual 1 GB Of Vram
And im not on a laptop .
I have a 22 inch mag monitor On Windows XP it was running perfectly I was getting them out 110 of FPS and it wasn't dropping

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-08-30 11:02

Guys, Yesterday I was playing and got frame drop I went to check the temp and it was 45C WTF???

gabrielwong1991 · Post by **gabrielwong1991** » 2009-08-31 22:47

Hey i got the same problem as yours. Futhermore, my graphics were totally messed up, i got black guns, red wall. wrong colours, jumped to the window after playing a few map, memory relocation fail etc... I dont know why. I dont have these problems in XP but i got these problems after i switched to window 7 rtm version...

I dont think it will be a overheat problem because i can play ARMA 2 continuously for 3~4 hrs without any problem.

Can anyone please help me too?

my comp spec.

E8600 @ 4.5Ghz
P5E
4Gb RAM
4890 900/975 no oc...

Mj Pain · Post by **Mj Pain** » 2009-08-31 23:15

Rudy, what´s your RAM usage like? Does Windows7 use up alot? Any other programs eating up RAM
Have you tried lowering settings for dyn light and dyn shadows?
It won`t make much diffrence on picture-quality but it will make the game use less RAM.
That might make the game run smoother.

(Or get more RAM

)

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-09-01 15:34

Mj Pain wrote:Rudy, what´s your RAM usage like? Does Windows7 use up alot? Any other programs eating up RAM
Have you tried lowering settings for dyn light and dyn shadows?
It won`t make much diffrence on picture-quality but it will make the game use less RAM.
That might make the game run smoother.

(Or get more RAM )

I really think its RAM problem, as when I minimize the game its about 1.8GB from 2GB which is really a lot... there is no space for the RAM to operate... win7 used about 800MB

SnipingCoward · Post by **SnipingCoward** » 2009-09-02 12:27

ram really is a problem this might provide some help
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... emory.html

you should also try clearing the bf2 cache (esp. when you installed new drivers)

Punkbuster · Post by **Punkbuster** » 2009-09-02 16:25

I read the guide, most of the things mentioned were already done by me but some now...

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