[Solved] Frame Drop

[Rezza]

Hello guys i own an Alienware. That has good hardware components. Recently whenever i play PR i notice that i have frame drops. My frames are around 80-100 in General. Suddenly they drop to 10-30 and stay like that for 10 seconds and go back up to 100.

I tested this in several ways. This happened to me while i was holding position and also while moving around. Its really hard to pinpoint the issue because none of my other games have this problem. I really don't know how to solve it.

Thanks for all the help!

[MaSSive]

You may try to limit your FPS by opening console ( ~ ) and typing "game.lockFPS 60"

To remove the cap just replace 60 with 0 ( zero ).

Anything above 60 is useless and may cause bottleneck since human eye cant register anything above that value. Try that and report back, and then we will see what next.

Also post your specs with OS version next time please.

[Rezza]

Manufacturer: Alienware
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2860QM CPU @ 2.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Hard Drive: 489 GB
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 6990M Series
Monitor: 19 LCD (1920x1080)
Sound Card:
Lautsprecher (3- Logitech G35 Headset)
Speakers/Headphones:
Creative 2.1
Keyboard: USB-Root-Hub
Mouse: USB-Root-Hub
Mouse Surface: Razer Goliathus
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)

I am going to try to lock the Fps thanks let me report back afterwards!

[Rezza]

I tried doing it the Frame Drop is still there and its extremely annoying. I also deleted the cache it didn't help.

[LITOralis.nMd]

For first time I am stumped, your Notebook should eat up PR and spit it out without a problem.

I only have one guess, your CPU is switching to Turbo when playing PR, and when it switches off Turbo your frames drop. However your CPU is a beast and should not even need Turbo to run PR.

DO you have many background processes running?

You might try starting PR, log in, join a server, then alt-tab out, open your task manager, right click on BF2.exe and select "affinity" and set it to the Core 2. Back in Task manager, right click PR.exe and select the Core 3.

This will leave your OS and mumble, TS3, Xfire etc on Core 0, BF2 on Core 2, and PR on Core 3, ...

THis might not help, if it does not help, go back to task manager and Undo the Affinity options.

EDIT: Could be a bottleneck in the HDD, but I doubt it. I suggest you defrag your hard drive.

[Rezza]

I have a Seagate Hybrid SSD. Its really fast. Thanks for the tips i ll try and report!

[Rezza]

It was still there i tried setting Affinity while i was playing and checked the results nothing.

[Rezza]

Any suggestions its putting me off from playing PR smoothly guys. I would appreciate your help!

[rushn]

have you tried defragging your hard drive?

[Rezza]

Defrag done 2 days ago. Still nothing. Its really bad. Its just 80 - 100 and suddenly drops to 10-25 its a killer. Requesting reinforcements over!

[Psyrus]

Try a few hours of BF2 - same results?

[Rezza]

For first time I am stumped, your Notebook should eat up PR and spit it out without a problem.

I only have one guess, your CPU is switching to Turbo when playing PR, and when it switches off Turbo your frames drop. However your CPU is a beast and should not even need Turbo to run PR.

DO you have many background processes running?

You might try starting PR, log in, join a server, then alt-tab out, open your task manager, right click on BF2.exe and select "affinity" and set it to the Core 2. Back in Task manager, right click PR.exe and select the Core 3.

This will leave your OS and mumble, TS3, Xfire etc on Core 0, BF2 on Core 2, and PR on Core 3, ...

THis might not help, if it does not help, go back to task manager and Undo the Affinity options.

EDIT: Could be a bottleneck in the HDD, but I doubt it. I suggest you defrag your hard drive.

After doing everything i tried disabling Turbo Boost. That was it. Thanks i owe you mate.