FPS Problems

**FireAtWill** · 07-20-09, 08:32 AM

OK,

I installed 64 bit VISTA this weekend on the new machine and when I am playing TF2 my frame rates go from 250 down to 12 sometimes! I downloaded the new 64 bit versions of my NVDIA drivers and I don't believe it helped. Anyone know of this happening? I can't see why it could go from that good to that bad. I could see if I was running at 100 and it dropped to 30 but from 200+ to 15? I am not running anything in the background like a virus scan. Even if I was I am running an i7 so that shouldn't kill it that much.

W

**Whiskey_dod** · 07-20-09, 08:35 AM

I use 64 bit. Sometimes, it DOES create MASSIVE lag spikes.

**Consultant** · 07-20-09, 08:48 AM

I run 64bit Vista and never had this problem.

**Phyrelight** · 07-20-09, 10:28 AM

I run 64bit vista and do not have this problem. You have the latest directx, and physics drivers? assuming you have a 8000+ GPU with physics on it. Did you make sure the 64 bit drivers actually installed, did you remove the 32 bit drivers from your system? Did you get all updated 64 bit drivers for your chipset and board, ie onboard nic? Don't trust the windows installers drivers. Actually go to your MB website and update all the drivers.

**LA_MERC_T4rg3T** · 07-20-09, 10:35 AM

I would have never went from Windows XP to Vista if you are a gamer unless you just built a new high end machine. 64 bit would have only been useful if you had 4 gigs of memory or more. I would have just waited for Windows 7

What are your machine specs?

**Phyrelight** · 07-20-09, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by LA_MERC_T4rg3T

I would have never went from Windows XP to Vista if you are a gamer unless you just built a new high end machine. 64 bit would have only been useful if you had 4 gigs of memory or more. I would have just waited for Windows 7

What are your machine specs?

only reason I went to vista 64 was 6 gigs of Ram. When windows 7 is released later this year I will be switching.

LA-MERC has a point tho, do you even need 64 bit? Unless you have more than 4 gigs of ram you are only slowing your machine down. If you have 2 Gigs you are making things much worse going to 64 bit.

**WileECyte** · 07-20-09, 10:55 AM

Make sure you go into the nVidia control panel and disable PhysX. Even in games that don't use PhysX, it wrecks havoc on your frame rates. Another thing you should probably do is turn of Vista's indexing service. It runs at the most inopportune times (like during gaming) and really thrashes the hell out of your HDs.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...exing-service/

**FireAtWill** · 07-20-09, 11:56 AM

Sorry,

i7 920 running at 3.0 GHZ
8800 GT SSC
6 GB Patriot DDR3 triple channel 1600 mhz
Gigabyte X58 Board

I am going to play around with it tonight. I stress tested it and all 8 cores never showed more than 25% load.

W