Performance issues game-to-game: possible bottleneck?

Humanoid · May 26, 2013

Hello,

I'm facing some performance issues with my computer. Some games it gives decent performance, in some games not. For example, I got 59-60 FPS in 1440x900 resolution and low-normal quality on League of Legends. I can play Team Fortress 2 low-normal quality too. But I can't play Command & Conquer 3: Red Alert, Age of Empires Online on low settings with same resolution smoothly, it is hanging while roaming on map. In Cabal Online, it is hanging too while moving around.

I posted the specs and temperatures on below:

AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 Ghz
AMD Radeon HD 5770 1 GB
ASUS M4A785D-M PRO
4 GB DDR2 @ 400 Mhz, 6-6-6-18 (3 GB usable due to 32-bit Windows 7)
OCZ ZS 750W

CPU temp. is 28-30 degrees at idle, 38-40 degrees in game. (It has stock CPU fan)
Motherboard temp. is 36-40 degrees both idle and in game.
GPU temp. is 40-41 degrees at idle, in game I don't know.
My case has one 120 mm front and one 120 mm rear fan.

That is all about story. I'm looking for some answers about my problem. I suspect that my CPU and graphic card have bottleneck. But I don't know how to figure out it is.

Thank you for your helps and sorry for grammer errors in my English.

elemein · May 27, 2013

Your CPU is the bottleneck-- but that's extreme.

You should be able to play atleast C&C and AoE... Sounds like there may be some software related issues as well.

Humanoid · May 27, 2013

hafijur :

Here are some pictures I took from while playing League of Legends.

My Graphic Card at Idle

1440x900, All Options as High, No Shadows without Vsync

Note: When I applied the changes, my FPS started to change around 75-96 FPS. first, after looking to GPU-Z, it started to change around 50-75 FPS

1440x900, All Options as High, No Shadows with Vsync

elemein :

I don't know why but I can play these games before. Whenever I updated Catalyst Control Center on March it burned all of my experiences with these games. I don't think it is a software situation but I can give which information you need to detect my problem is related to some software.

Thank you.

Humanoid · May 27, 2013

hafijur :

Yes... I've ATI Radeon HD 4200 as integrated graphic card. How can I set my HD 5770 as gaming card? Do you want to me take HD 4200's photos too while runinng LoL and GPU-Z in background?

Humanoid · May 27, 2013

hafijur :

No way, I don't have any second option in GPU-Z. It has only ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series and on Catalyst Control Centers' options it is showing HD 5770 too.

catshannon · May 27, 2013

Humanoid :

Hello,

I'm facing some performance issues with my computer. Some games it gives decent performance, in some games not. For example, I got 59-60 FPS in 1440x900 resolution and low-normal quality on League of Legends. I can play Team Fortress 2 low-normal quality too. But I can't play Command & Conquer 3: Red Alert, Age of Empires Online on low settings with same resolution smoothly, it is hanging while roaming on map. In Cabal Online, it is hanging too while moving around.

I posted the specs and temperatures on below:

AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 Ghz
AMD Radeon HD 5770 1 GB
ASUS M4A785D-M PRO
4 GB DDR2 @ 400 Mhz, 6-6-6-18 (3 GB usable due to 32-bit Windows 7)
OCZ ZS 750W

CPU temp. is 28-30 degrees at idle, 38-40 degrees in game. (It has stock CPU fan)
Motherboard temp. is 36-40 degrees both idle and in game.
GPU temp. is 40-41 degrees at idle, in game I don't know.
My case has one 120 mm front and one 120 mm rear fan.

That is all about story. I'm looking for some answers about my problem. I suspect that my CPU and graphic card have bottleneck. But I don't know how to figure out it is.

Thank you for your helps and sorry for grammer errors in my English.

Overclock your athlon you can get to 3.8ghz very stable with VCore changes it is causing the issues.

Humanoid · May 27, 2013

catshannon :

Humanoid :

Overclock your athlon you can get to 3.8ghz very stable with VCore changes it is causing the issues.

Thank you. In addition to if I replace my CPU with Phenom II X4 965 BE or Athlon II X4 640 will it solve my issue too?

elemein · May 27, 2013

Humanoid :

Yes, it will greatly raise the performance and potential with the Phenom II; though the Athlon II option may not increase much performance if the extra cores are not used. However, make sure your motherboard supports these CPUs.

catshannon · May 28, 2013

Humanoid :

catshannon :

Thank you. In addition to if I replace my CPU with Phenom II X4 965 BE or Athlon II X4 640 will it solve my issue too?

Take the 965be i love it able to play bf3 on ultra 64 players and with a good gpu you will get 28 fps+

Humanoid · May 29, 2013

Thank you all. I will change my CPU as nearly as possible. I will wait for Haswell CPUs. Maybe, I can change my motherboard, CPU and RAMs together.

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