8800 gts 640 low fps performance

Hi

I'm trying to run Company of Heroes with everything maxed but it lags

I just upgraded to vista and was looking forward to run Company of Heroes with directx 10 :-(

here is my specs:

Motherboard: Gigabyte ga-p35-ds3r
CPU: Intel core 2 quad
Graphic: Inno3d 8800 gts 640 mb
Ram: 4 gb corsair dominater
Audio: x-fi extreme music

what is wrong? even tested my computers setup at nvidias "can you run it" and it was way better then optimal marker it hited the roof....so it beats my I don't run it?

Plz help :-)

Well, the early GTS (320mb, 640mb) really arent that great. I mean its a fine card but the G92 cards slay it. However Company of Heroes isnt all that new, but then again you are trying to run it in DX10 at max, and I dont see the G80 GTS capable of that, not even a G92. Early DX10 games have horrible optimization, ill blame it on the software before I blame it on the card.

and that was with dx10 and everything

different driver? which?

dx9 maxed is no problem :-) but this other guy could...is it something to do with vista?

Just go to the nvidia website and try the newest drivers.

my average is 23fps with everything maxed

does it help if I overclock it?

what should i turn down....without loosing too much sweetness :-) what is AA? what does it do?

AA = Anti-Aliasing

It makes the edges of objects appear more smooth, thus creating a "sharper" image. It taxes the video card more than most things I think. Though that is affected by driver versions and stuff too.

I usually find that in most games I can reduce "Shadows" and get decent FPS gains, without really losing much in the way of overall graphical splendor.

I'm at work, so I can't look at the CoH settings options. But, if there's options for how long dead bodies show, or how many, you can usually reduce those and save a little bit.

Try reducing Shadows if possible, and perhaps reduce AA to a lower number. You'll notice decent FPS gains I'd guess.

and would overclocking help?

Settings in Vista itself probably won't affect things much. Far as I know, but I'm kinda new to Vista myself. What can help though is turning off as much background stuff as you can. So, if you've got Quickbooks or some other useless program that's loaded into memory in the backyard (or in your taskbar) shut it down.

Overclocking can help, but probably not by any "substantial" margins.

Let's say overclocking your video card yields a 15% increase in FPS (this is an example only). You'd go from an average of 23FPS to 26.45FPS (23*1.15=26.45) So unless you can pull off a huge OC, you probably won't see a large increase. That won't even necessarily give you a 3FPS increase in every game either.

Overclocking shouldn't hurt your performance, but you'll probably not see anything huge for results. Your best bet to increase performance is either A) Upgrade video card, or B) reduce graphic settings in the game.

When I overclock my 8000GTS G92 512mb card I can get anywhere from 5fps to 10fps increase...

My setup:

E4600
8800GT 512
2x1GB Crucial Ballistix
1680x1050

All maxed out settings DX10 with 4xAA I get 35FPS AVG.

With DX9 it's like 60FPS AVG with 40FPS MIN with 4xAA and the MIN goes lower when I add more AA but not the AVG.

This is not a problem with your card, it is a problem with CoH. CoH for DX10 is horribly optimized. What you're getting for frame rates is perfectly normal. If you switch back to DX9 you'll see those rates double at least. To be honest the graphical difference is not worth it. I owned that same card you have, then bought one of the new GTSs, and now I have a 4850 and all of them have trouble in CoH in DX10. It's not worth it, trust me.

Don't hold your breath. Free support to us is dead money to them.