- Mar 29, 2013
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I recently managed to acquire a new PC, well new for me most of the parts are fairly outdated. Anyway, its only to do as a replacement until i can afford another, better one, but ive noticed that it has quite a problem with games.
Now by no means is the system a great system, but the error im getting is unplayable FPS in nearly every game.
System Specs-
Asus P5ND2 Sli Deluxe Motherboard
Intel Pentium D 945 Dual Core CPU @ 3.4 GHz
6GB RAM
Zotac 9800gt Eco
450W PSU
Win XP 64-bit
Now, the MB, CPU and RAM all came as a bundle together, and the previous owner said that, albeit with a different GPU, he could play Skyrim on the system. The GPU came from a friend of mine, who could play numerous games without an issue, even though his system is roughly the same as mine.
Upon putting the PC together, installing all drivers and software and everything else necessary, i tried a couple games.
Results were, with Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings around medium (4X AA, 4X AF, etc) and in-game settings maxed out, i could play Amnesia (Not exactly an intensive game) at 40-45 FPS. I also tested Arma II/DayZ and a couple other games, at the same Nvidia control panel settings, and ingame settings for Arma II/DayZ at around medium, and in fullscreen, and i could get a rough 30 fps.
Things seemed fine, up until i tried to play the same games a day or two later when everything seems to run ALOT worse.
Now i can only play Amnesia at a mere 20-25 FPS, with ingame settings at low/medium and everything in nvidia control panel at off or lowest. DayZ with everything ingame at lowest and same with nvidia control panel im getting at the very very most, 15 fps,even in fullscreen at some randomly low resolution. Now even though days prior i was getting higher FPS even at higher settings, my average fps has plummeted, even with dropping graphics settings, making sure no background programs are open, and even running the games through gamebooster which gives me an average of about 37/40% performance boost.
Yeah, i realise that the system is by no means great, but even my old laptop (Intel i3 2310m, 4 GB RAM, Intel HD 3000 Integrated GPU) could run these games fine and at higher settings than what i can run the games now (Although before the drop in fps this PC beat it).
I am stumped on what could be the problem. I have re-checked all drivers, i have scanned the PC for viruses (Twice, even though i installed the OS brand new only a few days ago when i built this system) and found none, and i have tried re-installing the games (Even though this is happening with ALL games).
Now by no means is the system a great system, but the error im getting is unplayable FPS in nearly every game.
System Specs-
Asus P5ND2 Sli Deluxe Motherboard
Intel Pentium D 945 Dual Core CPU @ 3.4 GHz
6GB RAM
Zotac 9800gt Eco
450W PSU
Win XP 64-bit
Now, the MB, CPU and RAM all came as a bundle together, and the previous owner said that, albeit with a different GPU, he could play Skyrim on the system. The GPU came from a friend of mine, who could play numerous games without an issue, even though his system is roughly the same as mine.
Upon putting the PC together, installing all drivers and software and everything else necessary, i tried a couple games.
Results were, with Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings around medium (4X AA, 4X AF, etc) and in-game settings maxed out, i could play Amnesia (Not exactly an intensive game) at 40-45 FPS. I also tested Arma II/DayZ and a couple other games, at the same Nvidia control panel settings, and ingame settings for Arma II/DayZ at around medium, and in fullscreen, and i could get a rough 30 fps.
Things seemed fine, up until i tried to play the same games a day or two later when everything seems to run ALOT worse.
Now i can only play Amnesia at a mere 20-25 FPS, with ingame settings at low/medium and everything in nvidia control panel at off or lowest. DayZ with everything ingame at lowest and same with nvidia control panel im getting at the very very most, 15 fps,even in fullscreen at some randomly low resolution. Now even though days prior i was getting higher FPS even at higher settings, my average fps has plummeted, even with dropping graphics settings, making sure no background programs are open, and even running the games through gamebooster which gives me an average of about 37/40% performance boost.
Yeah, i realise that the system is by no means great, but even my old laptop (Intel i3 2310m, 4 GB RAM, Intel HD 3000 Integrated GPU) could run these games fine and at higher settings than what i can run the games now (Although before the drop in fps this PC beat it).
I am stumped on what could be the problem. I have re-checked all drivers, i have scanned the PC for viruses (Twice, even though i installed the OS brand new only a few days ago when i built this system) and found none, and i have tried re-installing the games (Even though this is happening with ALL games).
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