frame rate drops greatly every 10 seconds

[OTWarrior via HWKB.com]

I have just installed windows 64 and all of the drivers (motherboard, sound
card, directx, windows updates, graphics card, keyboard utility) however when
i try to play any 3d game, the frame rate keeps dropping every 10 seconds,
for example, when I was in the main menu of the TF2 beta, the frame rate was
300 (as I had yet to change the resolution) and every few second it would
shoot down to 70.

(yes they are high frame rates, but yopu get the idea)

different example, Bioshock runs at 30 fps normally, and drops down to 2
every 10 seconds

I have tried disabling all background processes that I do not need, but it
makes no difference.

Any ideas?

 

[Michael Hawes]

I have just installed windows 64 and all of the drivers (motherboard, sound
card, directx, windows updates, graphics card, keyboard utility) however
when
i try to play any 3d game, the frame rate keeps dropping every 10 seconds,
for example, when I was in the main menu of the TF2 beta, the frame rate
was
300 (as I had yet to change the resolution) and every few second it would
shoot down to 70.

(yes they are high frame rates, but yopu get the idea)

different example, Bioshock runs at 30 fps normally, and drops down to 2
every 10 seconds

I have tried disabling all background processes that I do not need, but it
makes no difference.

Any ideas?

How much RAM? Which Windows 64? Crck Task Manager for memory use. Sounds
like pagefile in use.

Mike

 

[OTWarrior via HWKB.com]

4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other
than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will try
to test the pagefile as you said (have to put the games in windowed mode, yuk


One weird thing, is i have to unplug my usb mouse when windows starts (i have
a usb mouse, usb keyboard and usb joystick) otherwise my mouse doesn't work

Also I have a unknown hardware and some audio hardware thing (which is weird
as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on
logon. Could they have something to do with it?

 

[Ed M.]

4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other
than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will
try
to test the pagefile as you said (have to put the games in windowed mode,
yuk


One weird thing, is i have to unplug my usb mouse when windows starts (i
have
a usb mouse, usb keyboard and usb joystick) otherwise my mouse doesn't
work

Also I have a unknown hardware and some audio hardware thing (which is
weird
as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on
logon. Could they have something to do with it?

If you installed a seperate sound card, do you have OB sound, and if so did
you disable it in the bios? Before you go any further, make sure you have
all your hardware conflicts resolved. Make sure you have no yellow question
marks in Device Manager. Any conflict there can cause you problems. Try
different 64bit video drivers after that if you still have the issue. Some
very marginal performing 64bit video drivers have been issued by both AMD
and Nvidia.

Ed

 

[OTWarrior via HWKB.com]

I didn't see an option to disable the onboard sound, but I will look harder
later.
My Card is an ATI using the latest 64 bit drivers (7.8 i think is the number)

4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other
than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will

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as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on
logon. Could they have something to do with it?

If you installed a seperate sound card, do you have OB sound, and if so did
you disable it in the bios? Before you go any further, make sure you have
all your hardware conflicts resolved. Make sure you have no yellow question
marks in Device Manager. Any conflict there can cause you problems. Try
different 64bit video drivers after that if you still have the issue. Some
very marginal performing 64bit video drivers have been issued by both AMD
and Nvidia.

Ed

 

[JAD]

4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other
than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will try
to test the pagefile as you said (have to put the games in windowed mode, yuk

your saying that it runs in a 'window' fine but not in full screen?

One weird thing, is i have to unplug my usb mouse when windows starts (i have
a usb mouse, usb keyboard and usb joystick) otherwise my mouse doesn't work

Also I have a unknown hardware and some audio hardware thing (which is weird
as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on
logon. Could they have something to do with it?

yep..unless its just the game controller port not installed. What about file indexing and
office 'fast find'? are they enabled and running,
I have seen in the past sound problems that cause MANY anomalies during game play.

 

[OTWarrior via HWKB.com]

i don't run in a windowed mode, but i was just saying I will have to for
debuigging.

I have disabled the onboard sound (had a weird name so was hard to find) but
the unknown device keeps coming up.

and the problme is still there

I will check indexing, forgot about that

4gbs of RAM, Windows XP 64 bit, and there is nothing in task manager other
than the game and the various utilities that need to run. Although I will try
to test the pagefile as you said (have to put the games in windowed mode, yuk

your saying that it runs in a 'window' fine but not in full screen?

[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]

as I have installed the sound card) which want me to find the dirvers on
logon. Could they have something to do with it?

yep..unless its just the game controller port not installed. What about file indexing and
office 'fast find'? are they enabled and running,
I have seen in the past sound problems that cause MANY anomalies during game play.

 

[Ed M.]

I didn't see an option to disable the onboard sound, but I will look harder
later.
My Card is an ATI using the latest 64 bit drivers (7.8 i think is the
number)

You might try one of the earlier ones. The latest might not be the
greatest............


Ed Medlin

 

[DaveW]

Many games are not stable with Windows (XP or Vista?) 64 bit drivers.

 

[OTWarrior via HWKB.com]

Many games are not stable with Windows (XP or Vista?) 64 bit drivers.

These games are as I did run them on my old installation before I upgraded.
if you don't actually know of a way to help or a valid suggestion, please
don't post. This is not the first time you have posted a vague answer to one
of my threads.