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April 14, 2014 8:05:41 AM

Im having low fps in every game I play, like Mount & Blade, Battlefield 2 the 2005 one, World of Tanks, Rome Total War, Skyrim basically almost every GPU intensive game, the only ones im able to play relatively smoothly are CPU intensive ones ironically, like Hearts of Iron 3/2, Europa Universalis IV and all that.

Here is my 3D Mark 11 score





Thank you.

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April 14, 2014 8:09:14 AM

CPU is really crap... That majority your problem.
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April 14, 2014 8:19:26 AM

DDR2 memory might also be a problem
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April 14, 2014 8:22:37 AM

Well, with my older HD 6770 I was able to get better fps, and how the hell did people play Battlefield 2 back then? did they have alien hardware?
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April 14, 2014 8:23:30 AM

Your computer is quite low spec by todays standards.
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April 14, 2014 8:36:47 AM

Still, I should be getting at least 30 fps in games like Battlefield 2, Skyrim and rome total war (The first one)
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April 14, 2014 8:43:20 AM

First thing to do would be to check you have all the drivers installed.

Then check the in game temperatures of your GPU and CPU.
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April 14, 2014 8:44:20 AM

All drivers updated, 45-50 max both cpu and gpu
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April 14, 2014 8:48:50 AM

Mikoloco said:
All drivers updated, 45-50 max both cpu and gpu


Does the FPS alter when you lower the graphics quality settings?

Check that both the CPU and GPU are running at the correct speed when in game. Also check the utilization of both CPU and GPU in game.
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April 14, 2014 9:00:33 AM

Not at all, it remains the same.
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April 14, 2014 9:03:03 AM

Mikoloco said:
Not at all, it remains the same.


Sounds like CPU bottleneck. Check the other things I said, check the CPU is running at the correct speed when in game, and how much utilization.
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April 14, 2014 9:05:57 AM

Typically when I open the task manager, it's usually at 989-95% usage.
Btw this started happening when I changed my 500 GB HDD to the 160 GB one.
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April 14, 2014 9:09:00 AM

95% constantly? even when idling in windows? Theres your problem. Look under processes, show processes from all users and see what it is using the CPU time (ignore System idle process).
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April 14, 2014 9:28:45 AM

No, like just when I open task manager, after it's open it goes back to 5%-10%
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April 14, 2014 10:55:38 AM

Ok so this second time around how about telling us what res are you trying run at?

Did you consider that by overclocking using MSI afterburner, you might be causing the card to throttle, and limit the frame rate


Just how full is that 160GB drive? That drive SATA II drive but is 7200 rpm is the BIOS setting correct?
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April 14, 2014 11:00:16 AM

Res? I've tried from the lowest to the highest res my monitor can hold (1920x1080) and stays exactly the same.
Not overclocked at all.
70 GB's free.
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April 14, 2014 12:18:10 PM

CPU speed and utilisation when in game? Is it clocking down? Use a program like cpu-z and coretemp to monitor.
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April 14, 2014 1:17:09 PM

CPU usage on games like skyrim is circa 60-80% and GPU is 70-90%.
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April 14, 2014 1:38:04 PM

And the speed??
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April 14, 2014 1:57:45 PM

I'm sure you tried resetting your BIOS to default, along the way.
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April 14, 2014 2:20:19 PM

Session start:,21:57:51 - April 14 - 2014

Time,Core 0 Temp. (°),Core 1 Temp. (°),,Core 0,Low temp. (°),High temp. (°),Core load (%),Core speed (MHz),Core 1,Low temp. (°),High temp. (°),Core load (%),Core speed (MHz),
22:12:22 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,45,1599.38,,48,48,34,1599.38,
22:12:32 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,69,1599.38,,48,48,28,1599.38,
22:12:42 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,54,1599.38,,48,48,32,1599.38,
22:12:52 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,50,1599.38,,48,48,42,1599.38,
22:13:02 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,52,1599.38,,48,48,41,1599.38,
22:13:12 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,51,1599.38,,48,48,42,1599.38,
22:13:22 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,51,1599.38,,48,48,42,1599.38,
22:13:32 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,56,1599.38,,48,48,36,1599.38,
22:13:42 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,63,1599.38,,48,48,39,1599.38,
22:13:52 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,58,1599.38,,48,48,40,1599.38,
22:14:02 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,35,1599.38,,48,48,68,1599.38,
22:14:12 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,34,1599.38,,48,48,46,1599.38,
22:14:22 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,65,1599.38,,48,48,29,1599.38,
22:14:32 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,52,1599.38,,48,48,52,1599.38,
22:14:42 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,32,1599.38,,48,48,58,1599.38,
22:14:52 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,49,1599.38,,48,48,53,1599.38,
22:15:02 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,57,1599.38,,48,48,45,1599.38,
22:15:12 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,48,1599.38,,48,48,43,1599.38,
22:15:22 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,52,1599.38,,48,48,45,1599.38,
22:15:32 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,48,1599.38,,48,48,54,1599.38,
22:15:42 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,51,1599.38,,48,48,45,1599.38,
22:15:52 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,45,1599.38,,48,48,47,1599.38,
22:16:02 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,55,1599.38,,48,48,47,1599.38,
22:16:12 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,64,1599.38,,48,48,39,1599.38,
22:16:22 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,49,1599.38,,48,48,42,1599.38,
22:16:32 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,51,1599.38,,48,48,50,1599.38,
22:16:42 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,28,1599.38,,48,48,65,1599.38,
22:16:52 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,40,1599.38,,48,48,54,1599.38,
22:17:02 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,46,1599.38,,48,48,54,1599.38,
22:17:12 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,37,1599.38,,48,48,54,1599.38,
22:17:22 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,22,1599.38,,48,48,74,1599.38,
22:17:32 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,40,1599.38,,48,48,54,1599.38,
22:17:42 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,34,1599.38,,48,48,60,1599.38,
22:17:52 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,46,1599.38,,48,48,54,1599.38,
22:18:02 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,30,1599.38,,48,48,43,1599.38,
22:18:12 04/14/14,45,48,,,45,45,2,1599.38,,48,48,3,1599.38,

In fact I did set bios to default
Is that what's wrong?
Thanks guys.
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April 14, 2014 2:37:49 PM

your cpu seems to be stuck at really low clocks... like idle.. it should clock up to 2.9GHz under load and not 1.6GHz...

edit check the bios that the cpu is set up correctly, like fsb and multiplier
http://ark.intel.com/products/36503/
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April 14, 2014 3:00:42 PM

Hm? you mean it's not achieving the total 2.93 Ghz?
Sorry, I don't know how to read that graph very well, does it mean it isn't under 100% load on the game?
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April 14, 2014 3:12:15 PM

yeah, it is stuck at idle speeds... not sure what is causing it however.. :(  check the bios..
and it seems the game isnt multithreaded, so a single work thread is being moved between the 2 cores by windows (as the sum for the load percentages rarely goes over 100%). You could open task manager when the game is running and set the affinity of the game proces to single core (right click on the process), the graph would look different then as the other core would remain mostly loadless. Most likely this wont solve your problem however...
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April 14, 2014 3:15:01 PM

Hm, if im not bothering could you please point me where in the bios should I go to fix this??? I tried the clock speed multiplier but im afraid it might damage the computer
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April 14, 2014 3:28:43 PM

well the Front Side Bus should be 266MHz and the multi 11 (266*11=2926). In some biosses they like to do weird maths and show the FSB already multiplied by 4 to get 1066Mhz which makes the cpu multi an odd looking 11:4 or somethin like that... The settings are probably under something called advanced cpu or clock options.
Other than that you could try disable some of the power saving states for the CPU, Im not so sure anymore what all of them are called on a c2d but C1/EIST come to mind from the past. :) 

(removed the added edit)
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April 14, 2014 4:20:30 PM

Alright, I think I fixed the CPU, could you please tell me? (Im getting 60 fps steady on Rome Total War 1 in 8000 men+ battles.)
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April 14, 2014 4:26:45 PM

ah yes, that looks a lot better, the temperatures are a bit too steady though, the program might not be reading them right... minor inconvenience :) 

or it could just be windows balancing the load so perfectly to keep the temps so steady....
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April 14, 2014 4:29:56 PM

Just one more little thing please, im getting like 10-15 fps in mount & blade warband if put on 200 vs 200 in singleplayer.
Is it due to the cpu?
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April 14, 2014 4:35:01 PM

I havent played that game, but it might be... or the gpu... hard to say without experience of that game.
You could monitor the graphics card with GPU-Z, if the load on it isn't very high (98-100%) then the cpu is holding it back in that game
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
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April 15, 2014 1:22:09 AM

There you go, getting the correct speed now, relieving the cpu bottleneck some.
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