Am I expecting too much?

Swi1ch · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:11

Not sure where else this could go.

For ages i've been using my 20" non-widescreen monitor to play games at 1280x1024. I'm using a GTX280, 8GB RAM and a Q9550 so as you might imagine pretty much every game except Crysis ran like a dream on pretty much top settings.

Today I got my T240 and tried running CoD5 on it at 1920x1200 and...it runs like mud. Admittedly I haven't installed the monitor drivers (Because they won't for some reason) but is this normal for a system like mine to run badly at this resolution?

95thrifles · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:27

no, it should breeze through that game maxed out, is the 9550 OCd?

Swi1ch · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:27

No, stock at 2.83.

Just tried Team Fortress 2 as well, and that judders around a lot, although my FPS stays in the 80s so i'm thinking it might be the monitor?

95thrifles · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:30

its possible the cpu is bottlenecking, but I wouldnt of thought so in a FPS, are you comfortable OCing? you could just raise the FSB to 400, prob leave everything else on auto, this will give you 3.4 which would rule out whether it is CPU or not
Other than that uninstall your drivers and reinstall new ones

JamesM · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:33

Would Vsync cause this?

coupe69 · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:42

JamesM said:
Would Vsync cause this?

If he had vsync enabled, he wouldn't be getting 80fps

95thrifles · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:45

Is this online gaming? could be lag/packet loss
does it do it in single player?

Swi1ch · 5 Aug 2009 at 14:01

95thrifles said:
Is this online gaming? could be lag/packet loss
does it do it in single player?

I'm playing single player (Very proud of my gaming ability and due to new mouse, keyboard and monitor getting used to single player first)

I never really have vsync enabled, screen tearing I don't really notice and I think this monitor only has a refresh rate of 60 so I don't see the point.

I'll try overclocking at some point, I planned on doing it when I got the machine but it was so fast at the time I didn't see the point. I'll try putting on the better thermal paste as well maybe I have stock stuff on currently but have a tube of something decent somewhere.

fross · 5 Aug 2009 at 14:16

If you've just changed the monitor and it starts acting up, don't resort to OCing/reseating the CPU as that really probably isn't related to it. Your system should have no problem at all with TF2, I play it at 1680 on a lower system (in sig) with absolutely no juddering at all.

Install the monitor drivers, your system might be using something different that is causing problems.

Swi1ch · 5 Aug 2009 at 14:33

I can't install the drivers. The one's on the CD apparently don't work with 64 bit, and the ones on the website when executed give me an error saying can't install.

95thrifles · 5 Aug 2009 at 15:03

uninstall any remnants of display drivers in case it did a partial install
uninstall nvidia drivers
reboot into safe mode
run driversweeper to delete last traces
run ccleaner and clean up registry
reboot into normal mode
reinstall latest NVidia drivers

MoRT489 · 5 Aug 2009 at 16:24

95thrifles said:
uninstall any remnants of display drivers in case it did a partial install
uninstall nvidia drivers
reboot into safe mode
run driversweeper to delete last traces
run ccleaner and clean up registry
reboot into normal mode
reinstall latest NVidia drivers

This ^^, it cant be the Q9550 at stock or the 280 they should run it perfectly at over 100fps easy.

Swi1ch · 5 Aug 2009 at 16:29

creed said:
This ^^, it cant be the Q9550 at stock or the 280 they should run it perfectly at over 100fps easy.

Mmm ok i'll give a try. Thanks for the advice.

Shawreyboy · 5 Aug 2009 at 16:56

a stock e5200 and a 9800gt easily achieve 60+ frames and never drops below 45 so no it cannot be your chip or graphics card

Swi1ch · 5 Aug 2009 at 18:01

Shawreyboy said:
a stock e5200 and a 9800gt easily achieve 60+ frames and never drops below 45 so no it cannot be your chip or graphics card

I'm getting decent frames maybe 75% of the time, but in heavy close range combat or large open spaces it drops to about 40 or sometimes lower and it's jarring.

Swi1ch · 6 Aug 2009 at 12:09

I totally cleaned all my drivers and that didn't help at all. I then overclocked my cpu to 3.4 and ran Prime95 torture test for half an hour with no faults and never exceeding 58 degrees.

TF2 has seen a huge boost and is now totally smooth. CoD5 on the other hand is still dipping up and down.

Do you think my graphics card could need seeing to?

Meeeellar · 6 Aug 2009 at 12:32

Even tough the orange box engine is better then the original source engine its still very cpu biased compared to others games... so yea.. the CPU OC would solve the TF2 lag.

What settings are you running CoD5? If your running high settings like highest detail some AA and AF then i'd say 80fps is average/good.

Amleto · 6 Aug 2009 at 12:38

do you have multiple monitors?

unknownsock · 6 Aug 2009 at 12:40

Regardlesss of OC or not, his system should run it smooth.

Due to an unstable OC, ive dropped back to stock (2.5ghz), and TF2 and COD still run fine, infact every game ive tried still runs great, maybe not 120fps+ but 60+.

ill be interested to see how this turns out, ive had stutter problems in these games (+ more)for a while.

Swi1ch · 6 Aug 2009 at 16:09

Meeeellar said:
Even tough the orange box engine is better then the original source engine its still very cpu biased compared to others games... so yea.. the CPU OC would solve the TF2 lag.

What settings are you running CoD5? If your running high settings like highest detail some AA and AF then i'd say 80fps is average/good.

Full settings, except i've had to drop AA to 2x instead of 4x. I can't really give an average because it's flying all over the place, between 40 and 90 with some dips into the 30s. If I run CoD or TF2 in the next resolution down I get far fewer dips and this was before the OC.

I'm not using multiple monitors either, and I did a clean install of Win 7 64 only a couple weeks ago.