low fps with 8800 gts 640mb

what resolution do you play?

I'd be willing to be that your processor is bottlenecking it... if that is true then you'd need to upgrade your processor...

sorry don't know much more than taht

Do you have Vsync on?

Some games running with Vsync may drop to 30fps when the rated fixed 60(this number depends on your screen most default to 60) and the card can not longer maintain it. Try with Vsync off and see if its any better.

Running with Vsync off will also cause what is referred to as page tearing. some people are sensitive to this and will dislike it(others do not even see it). Also the frame rates will play more. so 300 in some places and 40 in others, this kind of fluctuation will also cause the feeling of slow down for some users.

If you and no Vsync do not get along or you want to use Vsync, turn on triple buffering in the Nvidia control panel. It will use more video ram but may help to keep more constant frame rates.

Yeah i have Vsyc off, and have tried antialiasing 2x and off etc. What i mean by low fps is in dx9 minimal settings i get around 80 fps, in dx 7 about 125 but not static. Im comparing this to people i have spoken to with same graphics card but are getting 4 times the fps i am, and their components are lower spec than mine.

Yea fps with high settings is like 30 fps in cod2 dx9. Cod 4 high settings is like 30 fps which isnt good. Thing is this graphics card for others is performing better in high resolution ans settings, than mine on low settings. Maybe Im expecting too much from this graphics card but I though it should play cod4 high settings with more than 30 fps :S.

Im using 1024 x 769.

at that res... you should be maxing everything out... and still have over a 100 fps...

I agree with choongi... at that res it is either definitely your drivers... or definitely your processor... if you were to get a core 2 duo... you might see a very high % increase...

as stupid as this sounds... GFX cards don't really use everything they have at the lower resolutions... I had maybe 40 fps in crysis at 1280 by 1024... then I moved up to 1920 by 1200... and had maybe 25 fps... thats a 37.5 % decrease in frames... but the actual percentage of new pixels is 56 8/9 %... so the curve gets shallower the higher the resolution... thats why it is so much more gpu based at higher resolution... because at lower resolution the gpu can only do so much while the processor is still doing stuff


if I got any of that wrong please let me know... sorry if it's a little hard to understand

People are insane if they think a processor can bottleneck this game this much. This game is nothing, period COD2. The graphics card would be the last thing to slow it down, and the cpu requirements? The cpu the OP has is one of the best you could buy when this game came out. And so is his card, better even. Theres another problem here

Jaydee, if you're going to make this much sense someone is going to get hurt. Last thing we need is people dying of brain hemorrhages because they decided to use a little reasoning mixed in with some COMMON SENSE! lol, Just my 2 cents. COD2 is old, his hardware is new, i played the game when it came out on an old Celeron 2.4, 512mb ram, and Intel onboard...IGP. Which might have scored 2-3k on 3DMark 2001SE. Something is messed up, check your drivers, make sure the newest one is installed and old one uninstalled if you had a previous card. the CPU and GPU should be -more- than plenty for that old game.

Hi thanks for your replys I am using latest video drivers, my temps are fairly low my graphics card temp is 56, and cpu 60 and internal temp of 35 according to speed fan. I had my cpu tested becuase i thought it was faulty when i braught it, for some reason i get 80 - 100 cpu usage when on cod2, and cod4 around 50. They sent it back saying it passed all crysis bechmarks or summin like that. liars:S

Yes I have the amd dual core optimizer downloaded.

whoa thats hot
I think its downclocking because of heat

When you game, it puts one of the highest loads on a system around. Both the cpu and the gpu get maxxed at times, as well as the HDD. The heat coming from al this eventually adds up inside your case, so even if your cpu does ok during routine stuff like surfing, when you game itll spike. When the cpu gets too hot itll throttle down, preventing it from damaging itself

Checked temps in my bios and the read cpu 40 - 45 and mb 32.

Ive had a Opteron 185, running at normal clocks, and it read 32 in bios. Consistantly. Check to see how clean everything is, your hsf especially. How much paste did you use when installing it? Is the hsf seated properly?

With this software im getting about 32 on each core

exactly... AS I SAID ITS PROCESSOR BASED!!!

in your face....

anyway... yeah processor is probably underclocking itself so that it can minimize heat do to the already high idle temperature

So you guys are thinking is processor based problem. Maybe ill buy a new cpu but what is better for gaming quad or dual core ?

thinking about getting this cpu, AMD Phenom™ 9850 Black Edition, Agena Core, Socket AM2+, 2.5GHz, HT 2000MHz, 4MB Cache. Is it good or not?

your motherboard doesn't support the phenoms... sorry forgot about motherboard compatibility...

well if you are willing to do a motherboard exchange then i'd recommend

as expensive as this might get... you could really increase performance if you got a good mobo such as http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813188026 this will allow you to overclock the processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115043

past 3 ghz easy and then a good cooling solution would be http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233003

which would put you at about 500 $... I know tahts a lot and probably isn't necessary... but I think you'd see drastic improvements in performance... you could also get a better monitor...

now that I basically built a new pc...

I'd suggest that you just try tweaking bios settings for your processor... cause for a massive improvement at your resolution, i'm not sure it's worth the 500 $ it would take

u can get a decent dual core and mobo- my alt rig is an e6700 was eating those things up be fore i scored the q6700, and i concur that quad does nothing not but I see about a year out they will start to see utuilization. ....so yes the 8800 640 with an e6700 played those games Maxxed out....and a 100ish$ asus MB.
good luck though....either tweak it or start parts shoppin...YAY...(sorta)((feeding the tech habit))

cheers