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poeticjedi   08-15-2009 at 11:49:06 PM

Okay

 

im getting funky pause lag in games, i have been smoothing out my performance issues by checking process priority, affinity and all that jazz

 

with old games like unreal tournament 1 reducing the number of cores to 1 will fix the game

 

however with new games such as unreal 3 and lord of the rings online and ESPECIALLY CS source i will get this odd lag every second when running 2 cores. removing one core will fix the consistent skipping, but kills my performance down

 

im pretty sure its a dual core issue, but im unclear as to what it might be
it just feels like a car with a square tire, every rotation theres a bump, its driving me crazy!

 


thanks for any ideas

 

Amd 64 x2 3600+ @ 2ghz (yes i know my cpu is below standards here)
3gig ram 1g/1g(int) 512/512(int)
A8n sli board
250gts 512mb bfg (just installed) @ dx10

 

Server 2008 (32bit)


Message edited by poeticjedi on 08-16-2009 at 12:35:27 AM
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unclefester   08-16-2009 at 06:30:26 AM
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You may want to try a couple of different drivers with your new 250GTS. I have had 2 or 3 drivers where I was dropping frames in game play.

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jaydeejohn   08-16-2009 at 06:45:54 AM
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Do you have the dual core optimizer?

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poeticjedi   08-16-2009 at 07:58:33 AM
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jaydeejohn wrote :

Do you have the dual core optimizer?



im on server 08 the optimizer is a moot point, its built into vista and up as i understand it, and i ever tried it before i realized this fact

is there a reccomended version or alternate make of drivers? (for the gts)

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jaydeejohn   08-16-2009 at 09:21:08 AM
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For your cpu?

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unclefester   08-16-2009 at 09:25:38 AM
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Here's a link to some alternative drivers at Nvidia http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Just hit the drop-downs, put in the 250 and Vista 32 bit and it will give a short list of resent drivers.


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jaydeejohn   08-16-2009 at 09:45:08 AM
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I did hear the latest? drivers werent so hot, could be

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unclefester   08-16-2009 at 10:31:46 AM
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Ya, seems like drivers for Nvidia cards are similar to the BIOS on MoBos, 1 works great on 1 system but needs to be fine tuned by trail and error, updating or rolling back to the 1 that gives the best performance to each individual's set-up. I know I've experimented with better than 20 different drivers on 2 platforms with 4 different video cards clear back to driver 81.89


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poeticjedi   08-16-2009 at 11:23:31 PM
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birdtweezy wrote :

dumb as sh!t aint it what nooobs get better representatives.Grow up. learn to make sh!t for 1 product not 22 wats the best we dont know we just hear.




sense...please make some


to the others thanks for the assistance ill start rolling drivers back, but let me clarify that this problem was present BEFORE the gts was installed....

ill take another look at the dual core options, maybe a manual tweak will prove better

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