- Mar 2, 2013
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I hope I'm in the right forum for this. Here goes:
I'm a husband and father of four children, so I haven't had time to play video games over the last decade except for during brief periods. This is one of those brief periods. Borderlands 2 is my current (exclusive) passion, and I picked up a relatively budget minded system:
MSI FM2-A55-E35 w/ A10-5800K
8GB 1866MHZ RAM
GTX 660
64GB SSD (on which is loaded Win 7 64 and BL2)
LG E2050T 20 inch LCD
I have done minimal messing with the BIOS, but I have shut off cool&quiet and other annoying attempts at saving our environment by minimizing the power consumption of my computer. I made sure the memory was set at 1866. I have not overclocked the processor, messed with RAM timing, or otherwise done anything that I used to do when I didn't have 4 kids and a wife.
Windows is up to date, as are all of my drivers.
Unfortunately, I pull down around 30-35 fps on max settings pretty regularly, and notice tearing and other artifacting junk while playing BL2. I have seen my frame rate drop to 14 fps or lower at certain parts of the game as well. Most frustrating, while Win7 loads in seconds, my level loading times for BL2 are three times that of a buddy with no SSD.
Just wondering if you all can point me in the general direction of some possible solutions. I also fully recognize that this is likely because I have done something dumb or not done something obvious. Feel free to berate, I haven't felt feelings in 14 years.
Thanks!
I'm a husband and father of four children, so I haven't had time to play video games over the last decade except for during brief periods. This is one of those brief periods. Borderlands 2 is my current (exclusive) passion, and I picked up a relatively budget minded system:
MSI FM2-A55-E35 w/ A10-5800K
8GB 1866MHZ RAM
GTX 660
64GB SSD (on which is loaded Win 7 64 and BL2)
LG E2050T 20 inch LCD
I have done minimal messing with the BIOS, but I have shut off cool&quiet and other annoying attempts at saving our environment by minimizing the power consumption of my computer. I made sure the memory was set at 1866. I have not overclocked the processor, messed with RAM timing, or otherwise done anything that I used to do when I didn't have 4 kids and a wife.
Windows is up to date, as are all of my drivers.
Unfortunately, I pull down around 30-35 fps on max settings pretty regularly, and notice tearing and other artifacting junk while playing BL2. I have seen my frame rate drop to 14 fps or lower at certain parts of the game as well. Most frustrating, while Win7 loads in seconds, my level loading times for BL2 are three times that of a buddy with no SSD.
Just wondering if you all can point me in the general direction of some possible solutions. I also fully recognize that this is likely because I have done something dumb or not done something obvious. Feel free to berate, I haven't felt feelings in 14 years.
Thanks!
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