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crogers2287   09-21-2009 at 10:24:09 AM

Hello all,

I'm currently running Windows 7, 64 bit, 6gb ram, AMD Phenom 9500, Asus m3n78-pro motherboard, with a Radeon 3850 HD, all drivers are current and up to date, when i try to play a game, such as WoW, im getting horrible framerates, like 10-15 fps on the lowest settings. I'm also running a triple monitor setup. I tried a new video card, went with an Nvidia GTX 260 superclocked, there was little to no improvement, decided i would switch back to XP the game ran flawlessly 80+ fps in highly populated areas on relatively high settings, and this was back on the ATI card. I then figured there had to be some sort of reasonable solution and went back to Win7 and have tried everything i can possibly think of to no avail, anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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sirkillalot   09-21-2009 at 12:02:05 PM

does it do the same in win7 32 bit ?

and was the xp running in 64 bit?


Message edited by sirkillalot on 09-21-2009 at 12:03:42 PM
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captaincharisma   09-21-2009 at 02:09:36 PM

its probably the drivers. what do you expect? everything to be 100% compatible when the OS even isn't released to the market yet. the first driver releases are just to get the card working with the OS and nothing more

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crogers2287   09-21-2009 at 05:51:48 PM

I cant say that I've tried 32 bit Win7 but the XP was 64 bit, as for drivers, i dont think thats the issue, i even tried installing the vista 64 bit drivers and they installed with no problems or conflict, this problem has me stumped. anyother ideas?

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siddsm   09-21-2009 at 06:07:06 PM

any background apps clogging your CPU while running win7 maybe which are not present when you are running the winxp?

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tortnotes   09-21-2009 at 06:34:01 PM

Do you have an older beta version of Win 7? I had all sorts of problems with nVidia drivers on an older version.

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crogers2287   09-21-2009 at 08:17:53 PM

Nothing running in the back ground, this is a clean install on a new hard drive, its the 7600 RTM build, which is the most recent i believe.

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