Hi Guys, About 2 and a half years ago I decided to build my own system.
My Current Rig is the following:
Field Value
Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name N/A
User Name My Name
Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3500+
Motherboard Name Asus A8N-SLI Premium (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x4, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4 SLI, AMD Hammer
System Memory 2048 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (08/10/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (512 MB)
Multimedia
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! Value (CT4831) Sound Card
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP04 - Audio Codec Interface
Storage
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-SMC USB Device
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-SDC USB Device
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-MSC USB Device
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-CFC USB Device
Disk Drive ST3100011A (93 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-160P6S
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions
I: (NTFS) 95385 MB (77350 MB free)
Input
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse HID-compliant mouse
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Network
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport
Peripherals
Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - OHCI USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB2 Controller VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Mass Storage Device
Here is my question. Before i installed the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (512 MB), I had a Geforce 6600 LE ( 256 MB Ram).. and up until about 3 months ago, Everything ran Smoothly and Beautifully. All the sudden One day I start loosing Framerate on every game i play. ( Ut 2004, Red Faction, SOF2), Now mind you, Red faction is a game that was made a VERY LONG time ago, and does not need all that much to play. But here is what is happening.
Whenever i go to play Red Faction it will start up fine and i will enter a game just fine.. ( Heres the kicker) about 3 minutes into the game i will all of the sudden drop like 25-30 frames for about 5 seconds.. then after that it will play fine for another 3 minutes and then the same thing will happen.. and it does not stop.. Its almost like its times perfectly to Loose framerate Everytime.
Well i thought that maybe i would buy a new video card (hence why the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS) is now showing in my report. But before i installed it, I zero filled my hardrive. ( Low level format) so i know that nothing would stand in the way of a fresh Instalation. Well I installed Windows and Then put the new video card in and its still doing the same EXACT thing as it was before i replaced the card. This is for every single game i play Not just Red Faction. I tried it wil the drivers on the disk, and i tried with the updated ones with the same results.
If anyone has any suggestions. i would really appreciate it!
Randy
My Current Rig is the following:
Field Value
Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name N/A
User Name My Name
Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3500+
Motherboard Name Asus A8N-SLI Premium (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x4, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4 SLI, AMD Hammer
System Memory 2048 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (08/10/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (512 MB)
Multimedia
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! Value (CT4831) Sound Card
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP04 - Audio Codec Interface
Storage
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-SMC USB Device
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-SDC USB Device
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-MSC USB Device
Disk Drive GENERIC USB Storage-CFC USB Device
Disk Drive ST3100011A (93 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-160P6S
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions
I: (NTFS) 95385 MB (77350 MB free)
Input
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse HID-compliant mouse
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Network
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport
Peripherals
Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - OHCI USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB2 Controller VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Mass Storage Device
Here is my question. Before i installed the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (512 MB), I had a Geforce 6600 LE ( 256 MB Ram).. and up until about 3 months ago, Everything ran Smoothly and Beautifully. All the sudden One day I start loosing Framerate on every game i play. ( Ut 2004, Red Faction, SOF2), Now mind you, Red faction is a game that was made a VERY LONG time ago, and does not need all that much to play. But here is what is happening.
Whenever i go to play Red Faction it will start up fine and i will enter a game just fine.. ( Heres the kicker) about 3 minutes into the game i will all of the sudden drop like 25-30 frames for about 5 seconds.. then after that it will play fine for another 3 minutes and then the same thing will happen.. and it does not stop.. Its almost like its times perfectly to Loose framerate Everytime.
Well i thought that maybe i would buy a new video card (hence why the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS) is now showing in my report. But before i installed it, I zero filled my hardrive. ( Low level format) so i know that nothing would stand in the way of a fresh Instalation. Well I installed Windows and Then put the new video card in and its still doing the same EXACT thing as it was before i replaced the card. This is for every single game i play Not just Red Faction. I tried it wil the drivers on the disk, and i tried with the updated ones with the same results.
If anyone has any suggestions. i would really appreciate it!
Randy