Horrible Framerates in F.E.A.R

When I run through the "Test Settings" in the game i get .

Min 9
Avg 10
Max 10

This is very dissapointing to me since I just bought a new PC yesterday

Specs are
Intel C2D E6750
Asus p5n32-e Sli (680 Sli)
EVGA 8800 gtx
2Gb OCZ PC9200 Reaper Heatpipe
PC Power and Cooling 750w Power Supply (Sli ready)

I think that I have a problem other than the "game settings" In fact I get numbers in the average of 25 FPS with everything turned off or on minimum.

Is there some kind of configuration that i should/should-not be doing to my video card that may cause something like this?

I feel like such a tool since I actually got better framerates on my old Athlon XP 1800 w radeon 9550 and 768 Mb ram ..

Hoping someone can help me out

P.S. Thanks in advance

frednitney

even with bad drivers it should be better
have you tryed running 3dmark06 just something else to test it
then we can tell if its the game or a hard ware problem.

Update ...
I ran the 3dmark06 again and got a score of 10832

Last night I may have been hallucinating but I thought 3dmark ran with sound..

Today there was no sound

And as far as the testing
all 4 graphics tests seemd to run fine (w/o sound of course)
and the two cpu tests ran at no more than 1fps; thats right ONE !
Does 3dmark have a problem with my cpu or what?

Thanx in advance for any help you might give.

frednitney

try a different game

Bizzare: I get around 80fps peak and 25fps average on my system at 1280x960, which is way less powerful than yours.

There must be something fundamental wrong but if you've tried new drivers and don't see much improvement by setting everything in the game to minimum I've no idea what it would be. What resolution are you running at?

No but I do have XP Pro 64bit edition ...
Is your vista the 64 bit version?

I wonder if it is a problem with the 64 bit OS ?

I think Ill try installing it into the 64bit Program Files folder instead of the x86/32bit Program Files folder which is the default on installation.
LOL
maybe I'll really screw up this game !

I seem to have found a workaround for this problem

there is alot of information here
http://forums.vgames.com/forum.jspa?forumID=168


It seems there is some conflict in general with USB devices

The workaround goes like this
In device manager you will find a category called Human Interface Devices
expand that and you will see HID devices
The one that says HID-compliant consumer control device has an actual "driver" associated with it (this one I left alone)!
Under that there were 4; (on my PC there were 4) more "HID control devices" with no "drivers" associated with them
Right click each of these and uninstall them
After uninstalling these my framerates in fraps with the "test settings" option in the menu were
Min 64
Avg 168
Max 444

I did this on 2 consecutive runs "I hope it holds up" !

Unfortunately; when you restart your PC these devices will be installed again, which means you will have to uninstall them again to play F.E.A.R

Hope this helps anyone else having this type of problem

Another good article on what may be really going on is here
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9740960-7.html


frednitney

Do you use xfire? If so turn it off!!
with xfire running in the back ground i got 10 fps, with it off 85fps

I guess It's time for me to stop reading and start posting....haha

anyhow, I had a similar problem with fear after putting my new system together in april (and was very disappointed) where the game would run great for a little while and then slow to a crawl. And after much searching I found that the problem was my Logitech G5 mouse. There is a conflict with the G5 and FEAR. After reading about this I plugged in my old logitech dual optical mouse and all was fine, so I just swapped mice when playing the game and it ran smooth as butter.

So if you have a G5 mouse that could be a problem. I finished the game a while back so I don't know if any of the new Logitech drivers have fixed the problem or not.

I had this problem. It occurred ever time my hard drive tried to access data during the game (which seemed pretty random), causing a drop in framerate. To fix it I adjusted the following setting in the Menu screen: Options – Performance – Advanced Video Card Options – Graphics – Texture Resolution (set to Minimum). Worked like a charm.