Hey guys.
I fired up the PC not too long ago, as I fancied a game of COD. I hadn't played any games on it for ages... I noticed as soon as I started the single player campaign I wasn't getting a constant 60fps. Just looking anywhere near that large burning hut dropped the frame rate down to around 45fps.
I remember a while back, when I was using the PC a lot, I was always tweaking around with stuff, and messing with certain services. So I thought I might have buggered something. I un-installed the nVidia driver and downloading the latest one. I used the DriverSweeper application, and restarted in Safe Mode etc. No dice. I also noticed that when changing certain nVidia settings like Ambient Occlusion, Texture Sampling and the like, it didn't make any difference to the performance in COD. Even turning SLi off made no difference. The picture quality remained the same too, even when moving the AF slider in-game
ANYWAY. Since then, I've actually formatted my HDD and installed Windows 64bit Ultimate. I was on Vista 32bit before. And guess what? Yep, still doesn't run all that great. No difference whatsoever.
I have 2 GTX 280's in SLi and a Q9400 @ 3.2ghz. Surely I shouldn't be getting this level of performance in this game, should I? I've also noticed that playing the first level in the game, the ocean is no longer there, it's the same texture as the ground, and it does strange things as you move the viewing angle about.
Is there a good way for me to test my video cards to make sure they're working sufficiently?
Many thanks.
I fired up the PC not too long ago, as I fancied a game of COD. I hadn't played any games on it for ages... I noticed as soon as I started the single player campaign I wasn't getting a constant 60fps. Just looking anywhere near that large burning hut dropped the frame rate down to around 45fps.
I remember a while back, when I was using the PC a lot, I was always tweaking around with stuff, and messing with certain services. So I thought I might have buggered something. I un-installed the nVidia driver and downloading the latest one. I used the DriverSweeper application, and restarted in Safe Mode etc. No dice. I also noticed that when changing certain nVidia settings like Ambient Occlusion, Texture Sampling and the like, it didn't make any difference to the performance in COD. Even turning SLi off made no difference. The picture quality remained the same too, even when moving the AF slider in-game
ANYWAY. Since then, I've actually formatted my HDD and installed Windows 64bit Ultimate. I was on Vista 32bit before. And guess what? Yep, still doesn't run all that great. No difference whatsoever.
I have 2 GTX 280's in SLi and a Q9400 @ 3.2ghz. Surely I shouldn't be getting this level of performance in this game, should I? I've also noticed that playing the first level in the game, the ocean is no longer there, it's the same texture as the ground, and it does strange things as you move the viewing angle about.
Is there a good way for me to test my video cards to make sure they're working sufficiently?
Many thanks.
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