My system seems to be having trouble keeping up with Starcraft 2 even when I turn settings down as low as possible. Whenever there are more than 3-4 people in a game and a decent amount of units exist or a battle is going on my machine slows down to a crawl. Frame rate drops < 5 FPS no matter if settings are on ultra or low. The game recommends Ultra settings for my machine which makes me wonder why I am having frame rate problems even on the lowest settings.
My system: (by no means a gaming machine but shouldn't be having so much trouble with SCII)
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9500 2.2 GHZ
GPU: Nvidia 9800GT 1024MB DDR3
RAM: 6GB DDR2
HDD: 640 GB 7200 RPM
MOBO: ASUS (HP) M2N68-LA Narra 3
I have been told CPU is usually not the culprit unless the game takes up around 70% CPU utilization and I have determined average CPU utilization when running SCII is around 50% (which runs on two cores).
The 9800GT GPU is also not top of the line but with a full gig of onboard DDR3 video memory it seems hard to believe that this would be my bottleneck. I have verified the drivers are all up to date (258.96 July 2010) and have tried tweaking some Nvidia control panel settings to boost performance but nothing seems to be working. After doing some benchmarking though and comparing my results to others who have the same exact video card it seems my benchmarking results (for the graphics card alone) are always around 3 times lower than everyone elses (with the same card). I ran SpeedFan to check temps and GPU sits at about 65C during these times in the game.
Anyone have any ideas?
My system: (by no means a gaming machine but shouldn't be having so much trouble with SCII)
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9500 2.2 GHZ
GPU: Nvidia 9800GT 1024MB DDR3
RAM: 6GB DDR2
HDD: 640 GB 7200 RPM
MOBO: ASUS (HP) M2N68-LA Narra 3
I have been told CPU is usually not the culprit unless the game takes up around 70% CPU utilization and I have determined average CPU utilization when running SCII is around 50% (which runs on two cores).
The 9800GT GPU is also not top of the line but with a full gig of onboard DDR3 video memory it seems hard to believe that this would be my bottleneck. I have verified the drivers are all up to date (258.96 July 2010) and have tried tweaking some Nvidia control panel settings to boost performance but nothing seems to be working. After doing some benchmarking though and comparing my results to others who have the same exact video card it seems my benchmarking results (for the graphics card alone) are always around 3 times lower than everyone elses (with the same card). I ran SpeedFan to check temps and GPU sits at about 65C during these times in the game.
Anyone have any ideas?