FPS drops

cimpercee

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specs 5000 x2 am2
HD 4850
2GB PC 6400
HEC 550 PSU
2x 80 GB SATA2 Drive
TEMP 57 degrees CPU
Graphics 78 Degrees
Board M2N SE PLU (nforce 6100/430)

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My games drops FPS... all my games are, scanned my PC with AVG 8.0 and KIS no threats. It only happened when I reformat my Drive. my catalyst driver is 8.10. windows xp sp3, Dual Core AMD optimizer installed.
it doesn't lag always, it will just drop FPS to around 1-5 FPS for around 5-10 seconds or if i pause and alt tab and then go back to the game, lag is gone... Screenie was taken after having drop with FPS, alow atleast 5 seconds gap before I captured it.... I put a circle on the second proc. Is that normal?or am i having problems with processor?
 

ghmage

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When you have the problem, click on the processes tab in the Windows Task Manager and sort by the CPU usage column. Find out what is eating your CPU.
 

cimpercee

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I think i got it right now, It's my processor trying to have some air...

I oc'd before, and that is where my problem started, only with games though. I put it back but then I forgot to put the coolnquiet back. As soon as I enabled it, everything smooth now.

Now too bad for me I can't push some more out of this 4850.