Low Frames Per Second

[Pruskis]

So once again I am trying to figure out why my rig can't handle PR?

First of all, lets start with hardware:

My ex-rig, Q6600, Asus P5K, 5GB of RAM, XFX 9800GTX+. Low fps even playing on low setting at 1920x1080. I tried playing with software a little, even tried these 'pc boosters' which did nothing. After some time motherboard died so I was forced to switch a bit, actually kinda downgrade to 5050e, M3A76-CM, 3GB of RAM, Albatron 9800GTX+, got nearly same results. Using my old rig I had a idea that it's because my Asus P5K, but even using AMD rig and trying 2x 250GB hard drives on RAID0 - that haven't improved my PR gaming performance. Using AMD I even tried to OC both XFX and Albatron graphic cards - nothing, It's odd to see that MSI Afterburner keep showing that GPU load doesn't go any further than 10% with any of these cards. Sometimes, it seems that playing with medium settings you get more fps that using all low/off. Could that be a driver issue? CPU being too weak? Or it would be the time to get a new graphics card what doesn't seem to be wise at all. Or that'd be glitching windows and I should get myself a Windows XP on ~40GB partition?

[Garack]

low frames is what on numbers?

[rushn]

your cpu and gpu are a little old

but should still be able to handle PR

what settings do you play at?try messing around with the settings and see what works best
I would recomend medium high or high settings
playing games on low settings with a good gpu will decrease performance in some cases

[Pruskis]

low frames is what on numbers?

Falling down from 30 to 18 FPS is what I'd call low since these 30 aren't that stable.

your cpu and gpu are a little old

but should still be able to handle PR

what settings do you play at?try messing around with the settings and see what works best
I would recomend medium high or high settings
playing games on low settings with a good gpu will decrease performance in some cases

Of course it's quite old, but I am still able to play most of my more hungry games with no problem at all. Meanwhile PR give me a headache. I tried to play with video even audio settings to increase performance, obviously playing on low and resolution like 1280x720 somehow gives no performance boost on maps like Fallujah or Korengal.

[Garack]

Falujah and Kongral are good examples of same Heavy-CPU-Intense Maps.

Your GFX is fine, PR needs a lot of CPU. In some viewangles i got 30 Frames on Felujah with [email protected] (and GTX470+8GigRam+SSD). I upgraded to [email protected] and now i got 50-60 Frames on this spot. My GPU is always in idle mode. You need more CPU Power. Your Q6600 running on stock ? Overclock to 3-3.2Ghz and you will see FPS wont drop under 30 anymore.

[Pruskis]

Q6600 was running on stock because of my dying motherboard, finally it died! Sometimes ***** took 30 minutes of restarting to pass POST. Also, probably BIOS was so f-up so it didn't even save my OC settings. Shame, because I was cooling it with water. Now it seems that only way is to OC that 5050e, I was on some forums that I could OC my 5050e up to 3GHz with a stock cooler until I'll get cash to replace my dead Asus P5K.

[Pruskis]

looks like 5050e was bottlenecking. Now while it's running at 2990 MHz I am getting stable FPS, even if they sometimes fall in to that around 20 area, however, earlier couldn't play kokan skirmish on low because of low FPS, at this moment, I can push graphic settings higher and run it around 30 FPS, of course with FPS drops time to time. I guess story is not over yet..