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Kenimontoast

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MY PC SPECS
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GPU: GeForce GTX 650
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 370K Dual Core Processor
Memory: 8.00 GB RAM (7.97 GB usable)
Current resolution: 1680x1050, 59Hz
Driver Version: 347.88 (Up-to-date)
Operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

For reference, my PC runs "Team Fortress 2" at a framerate of ~25-30 on a 70-71 latency server.

My Question is why can't I play other games at this fps like "Dino D-Day" at 15-17 with skipping/freezing on a 67 latency server.
Thanks in advance! :)
 
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If you could run OpenHardwareMonitor with logging enabled whilst you game, it would be interesting to see what components are being used the most. The GTX 650 should be able to handle TF2 at 60-odd FPS, 8GB RAM is plenty and the Athlon shouldn't be slowing anything down, so I'm suspicious of things like temperatures and resource hogging programs in the background
 
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Open Hardware Monitor Report

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Version: 0.8.0.0

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Common Language Runtime: 4.0.30319.42000
Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
Process Type: 64-Bit

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Sensors

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+- ASUS F2A55-M LK (/mainboard)
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+- AMD Athlon X2 370K Dual Core Processor (/amdcpu/0)
| +- Bus Speed : 201.004 201.003 201.023 (/amdcpu/0/clock/0)
| +- CPU Core #1 : 4221.07 2010.03 4221.48 (/amdcpu/0/clock/1)
| +- CPU Core #2 : 4221.07 2010.03 4221.48 (/amdcpu/0/clock/2)
| +- Core #1 - #2 : 67.375 66.375 79.625 (/amdcpu/0/temperature/0)
| +- CPU Total : 95.7627 65.8824 100 (/amdcpu/0/load/0)
| +- CPU Core #1 : 96.6102 71.7647 100 (/amdcpu/0/load/1)
| +- CPU Core #2 : 94.9153 60 100 (/amdcpu/0/load/2)
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+- Generic Memory (/ram)
| +- Memory : 77.8751 59.5433 83.9625 (/ram/load/0)
| +- Used Memory : 6.2088 4.74725 6.69414 (/ram/data/0)
| +- Available Memory : 1.76397 1.27863 3.22552 (/ram/data/1)
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+- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (/nvidiagpu/0)
| +- GPU Core : 324 324 1058.23 (/nvidiagpu/0/clock/0)
| +- GPU Memory : 324 324 2497.49 (/nvidiagpu/0/clock/1)
| +- GPU Shader : 648 648 2116.45 (/nvidiagpu/0/clock/2)
| +- GPU Core : 40 38 44 (/nvidiagpu/0/temperature/0)
| +- GPU Core : 0 0 51 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/0)
| +- GPU Memory Controller : 5 0 38 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/1)
| +- GPU Video Engine : 0 0 0 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/2)
| +- GPU Memory : 11.2654 4.21104 11.2654 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/3)
| +- GPU Fan : 30 30 32 (/nvidiagpu/0/control/0)
| +- GPU Memory Free : 1817.29 1817.29 1961.76 (/nvidiagpu/0/smalldata/1)
| +- GPU Memory Used : 230.715 86.2422 230.715 (/nvidiagpu/0/smalldata/2)
| +- GPU Memory Total : 2048 2048 2048 (/nvidiagpu/0/smalldata/3)
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+- WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 (/hdd/0)
| +- Temperature : 38 38 38 (/hdd/0/temperature/0)
| +- Used Space : 43.2464 43.2461 43.2464 (/hdd/0/load/0)
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/1)
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/2)
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/3)
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/4)

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Parameters

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+- ASUS F2A55-M LK (/mainboard)
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+- AMD Athlon X2 370K Dual Core Processor (/amdcpu/0)
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| +- Core #1 - #2 (/amdcpu/0/temperature/0)
| | +- Offset [°C] : 0 : 0
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+- Generic Memory (/ram)
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+- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (/nvidiagpu/0)
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+- WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 (/hdd/0)
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| +- Temperature (/hdd/0/temperature/0)
| | +- Offset [°C] : 0 : 0
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/1)
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/2)
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/3)
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+- Generic Hard Disk (/hdd/4)

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Mainboard

SMBIOS Version: 2.7

BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version: 5204

System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Name: System Product Name
System Version: System Version

Mainboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Mainboard Name: F2A55-M LK
Mainboard Version: Rev X.0x

Processor Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
Processor Version: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 370K Dual Core Processor
Processor Core Count: 2
Processor Core Enabled: 2
Processor Thread Count: 2
Processor External Clock: 100 Mhz

Memory Device [0] Manufacturer: A1_Manufacturer0
Memory Device [0] Part Number: Array1_PartNumber0
Memory Device [0] Device Locator: DIMM_A1
Memory Device [0] Bank Locator: A1_BANK0
Memory Device [0] Speed: 800 MHz

Memory Device [1] Manufacturer: A1_Manufacturer1
Memory Device [1] Part Number: Array1_PartNumber1
Memory Device [1] Device Locator: DIMM_B1
Memory Device [1] Bank Locator: A1_BANK1
Memory Device [1] Speed: 800 MHz

SMBIOS Table

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LPCIO

Chip ID: Unknown Winbond / Nuvoton / Fintek with ID 0x1117 at 0x2E/0x2F

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CPUID

Processor 0

Processor Vendor: AMD
Processor Brand: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 370K Dual Core Processor
Family: 0x15
Model: 0x13
Stepping: 0x1

CPUID Return Values

CPU Thread: 0
APIC ID: 0
Processor ID: 0
Core ID: 0
Thread ID: 0

Function EAX EBX ECX EDX
00000000 0000000D 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
00000001 00610F31 00020800 3E98320B 178BFBFF
00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000004 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000005 00000040 00000040 00000003 00000000
00000006 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000
00000007 00000000 00000008 00000000 00000000
00000008 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000009 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000A 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000B 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000C 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000D 00000007 00000340 000003C0 40000000
80000000 8000001E 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
80000001 00610F31 20000000 01EBBFFF 2FD3FBFF
80000002 20444D41 6C687441 74286E6F 5820296D
80000003 37332032 44204B30 206C6175 65726F43
80000004 6F725020 73736563 2020726F 00202020
80000005 FF40FF18 FF40FF30 10040140 40020140
80000006 64006400 64004200 04008140 00000000
80000007 00000000 00000000 00000000 000007D9
80000008 00003030 00000000 00004001 00000000
80000009 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000A 00000001 00010000 00000000 00001CFF
8000000B 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000C 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000D 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000E 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000F 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000012 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000014 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000015 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000016 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000017 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000018 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000019 F040F018 64006400 00000000 00000000
8000001A 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000001B 000000FF 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000001C 00000000 80032013 00010200 8000000F
8000001D 00000121 00C0003F 0000003F 00000000
8000001E 00000010 00000100 00000000 00000000

CPU Thread: 1
APIC ID: 1
Processor ID: 0
Core ID: 1
Thread ID: 0

Function EAX EBX ECX EDX
00000000 0000000D 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
00000001 00610F31 01020800 3E98320B 178BFBFF
00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000004 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000005 00000040 00000040 00000003 00000000
00000006 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000
00000007 00000000 00000008 00000000 00000000
00000008 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000009 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000A 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000B 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000C 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000D 00000007 00000340 000003C0 40000000
80000000 8000001E 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
80000001 00610F31 20000000 01EBBFFF 2FD3FBFF
80000002 20444D41 6C687441 74286E6F 5820296D
80000003 37332032 44204B30 206C6175 65726F43
80000004 6F725020 73736563 2020726F 00202020
80000005 FF40FF18 FF40FF30 10040140 40020140
80000006 64006400 64004200 04008140 00000000
80000007 00000000 00000000 00000000 000007D9
80000008 00003030 00000000 00004001 00000000
80000009 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000A 00000001 00010000 00000000 00001CFF
8000000B 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000C 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000D 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000E 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000F 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000012 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000014 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000015 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000016 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000017 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000018 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000019 F040F018 64006400 00000000 00000000
8000001A 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000001B 000000FF 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000001C 00000000 80032013 00010200 8000000F
8000001D 00000121 00C0003F 0000003F 00000000
8000001E 00000011 00000100 00000000 00000000

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AMD CPU

Name: AMD Athlon X2 370K Dual Core Processor
Number of Cores: 2
Threads per Core: 1
Timer Frequency: 3.925849 MHz
Time Stamp Counter: Invariant
Estimated Time Stamp Counter Frequency: 4020.45 MHz
Estimated Time Stamp Counter Frequency Error: 0.53253 Mhz
Time Stamp Counter Frequency: 4020.07 MHz

MSR Core #1

MSR EDX EAX
C0010000 00000000 00000000
C0010004 00000000 00000000
C0010015 00000000 09000001
C0010064 800001F7 0000201A
C0010071 02000006 30023018

MSR Core #2

MSR EDX EAX
C0010000 00000000 00000000
C0010004 00000000 00000000
C0010015 00000000 09000001
C0010064 800001F7 0000201A
C0010071 02000006 30023018

Miscellaneous Control Address: 0xC3
Time Stamp Counter Multiplier: 20

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AMD Display Library

Status: -1

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NVAPI

Version: NVidia Complete Version 1.10
Number of GPUs: 1

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Nvidia GPU

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
Index: 0
Driver Version: 347.88
Driver Branch: r346_00-386

DeviceID: 0x11C810DE
SubSystemID: 0x974196E
RevisionID: 0xA1
ExtDeviceID: 0x11C8

Thermal Settings

Sensor[0].Controller: GPU_INTERNAL
Sensor[0].DefaultMinTemp: 0
Sensor[0].DefaultMaxTemp: 127
Sensor[0].CurrentTemp: 40
Sensor[0].Target: GPU

Clocks

Clock[8]: 324000
Clock[9]: 11
Clock[10]: 277778
Clock[11]: 1
Clock[12]: 540000
Clock[13]: 9
Clock[16]: 146250
Clock[17]: 1
Clock[18]: 27000
Clock[19]: 1
Clock[30]: 648000
Clock[31]: 17
Clock[32]: 648000
Clock[33]: 25
Clock[34]: 648000
Clock[35]: 25
Clock[36]: 648000
Clock[37]: 9
Clock[40]: 324000
Clock[41]: 9
Clock[42]: 405000
Clock[43]: 9
Clock[44]: 108000
Clock[45]: 1
Clock[50]: 648000
Clock[51]: 25
Clock[92]: 324000
Clock[93]: 32
Clock[99]: 277778
Clock[100]: 32
Clock[106]: 540000
Clock[107]: 32
Clock[120]: 146250
Clock[121]: 32
Clock[127]: 27000
Clock[128]: 32
Clock[169]: 648000
Clock[170]: 32
Clock[176]: 648000
Clock[177]: 15
Clock[178]: 105
Clock[183]: 648000
Clock[184]: 15
Clock[185]: 112
Clock[190]: 648000
Clock[191]: 32
Clock[204]: 324000
Clock[205]: 32
Clock[211]: 405000
Clock[212]: 32
Clock[218]: 108000
Clock[219]: 32
Clock[239]: 648000
Clock[240]: 15
Clock[241]: 100

Tachometer

Status: NOT_SUPPORTED

P-States

Percentage[0]: 0
Percentage[1]: 5
Percentage[2]: 0
Percentage[3]: 0

Usages

Usage[1]: 1
Usage[3]: 60
Usage[4]: 30
Usage[5]: 1
Usage[6]: 5
Usage[7]: 58
Usage[8]: 29
Usage[9]: 1
Usage[11]: 58
Usage[12]: 29
Usage[13]: 1
Usage[15]: 100
Usage[16]: 100

Cooler Settings

Cooler[0].Type: 1
Cooler[0].Controller: 1
Cooler[0].DefaultMin: 30
Cooler[0].DefaultMax: 100
Cooler[0].CurrentMin: 30
Cooler[0].CurrentMax: 100
Cooler[0].CurrentLevel: 30
Cooler[0].DefaultPolicy: 8
Cooler[0].CurrentPolicy: 8
Cooler[0].Target: 7
Cooler[0].ControlType: 2
Cooler[0].Active: 0

Memory Info

Value[0]: 2097152
Value[1]: 2038464
Value[2]: 0
Value[3]: 2097468
Value[4]: 1860900

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GenericHarddisk

Drive name: WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0
Firmware version: 82.00A82

ID Description Raw Value Worst Value Thres Physical
01 Read Error Rate 000000000000 200 200 51 -
03 Spin-Up Time 061100000000 130 132 21 -
04 Start/Stop Count CB0100000000 100 100 0 459
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 000000000000 200 200 140 -
07 Seek Error Rate 000000000000 200 200 0 -
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 652700000000 87 87 0 10085
0A Spin Retry Count 000000000000 100 100 0 -
0B Recalibration Retries 000000000000 253 100 0 -
0C Power Cycle Count 4E0000000000 100 100 0 78
C0 Emergency Retract Cycle Count 2C0000000000 200 200 0 -
C1 Load Cycle Count 740700000000 200 200 0 -
C2 Temperature 260000000000 97 105 0 38
C4 Reallocation Event Count 000000000000 200 200 0 -
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 000000000000 200 200 0 -
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 000000000000 253 100 0 -
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 000000000000 200 200 0 -
C8 Write Error Rate 000000000000 253 100 0 -

Logical drive name: C:\
Format: NTFS
Total size: 1000097181696
Total free space: 567590735872

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GenericHarddisk

Drive name: Generic Hard Disk
Firmware version: Unknown

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GenericHarddisk

Drive name: Generic Hard Disk
Firmware version: Unknown

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GenericHarddisk

Drive name: Generic Hard Disk
Firmware version: Unknown

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GenericHarddisk

Drive name: Generic Hard Disk
Firmware version: Unknown
 
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HeuristicToaster

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Just to update this for anyone coming here via Google, OpenHardwareMonitor confirmed there wasn't a problem with heat (computers often underclock the CPU to reduce the heat, a side effect of which is reduced performance).

Via PM, we established svchost.exe was using a large amount of system resources, Resource Monitor then indicating PlugPlay (the Windows Plug and Play process) was hogging CPU time. This is commonly a result of a faulty device or driver, and looking at Device Manager revealed that there was a device with an outdated driver (noted by a yellow hazard triangle next to the device). The dev_id and ven_id (http://pcidatabase.com) translated to the AMD chipset driver, which was updated via the AMD website to the latest version. PlugPlay is now back to nearly no CPU usage and games ran - and hopefully continue to run - smoothly :)
 
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