CPU issue in games, fail in 3DMark06

[Andybtsn]

Hi guys,

At first I thought this was a graphics issue but not so sure, I bought Far Cry 3 earlier and installed it, I noticed at first the game was performing quite badly, very juddery and after the opening scene the opening credits come up and then the Far Cry 3 title, in this scene my PC took about 5 minutes to load that title, it was just completely lagging out, I imagine the FPS was around 2/3. It eventually finished and I could play the game again.

I had 3DMark06 on my PC so tested that out and it ran fine until it got to the Red Valley section where the PC again just completely struggled to run, it was getting around 2FPS, the end score for 3dmark06 was this:

GT1 - Return To Proxycon 55.97 FPS
GT2 - Firefly Forest55.98 FPS
CPU1 - Red Valley 1.63 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley 2.25 FPS
HDR1 - Canyon Flight115.25 FPS
HDR2 - Deep Freeze70.94 FPS

I had Very High settings on Far Cry 3 and it was not very smooth at all.

My specs are: i7 920, P6X58D, 12gb RAM and 7870.

Any ideas?

 

[Andybtsn]

Cheers for the response. I think it's just Far Cry now actually, I played around with BF and also Sleeping Dogs runs fine on everything on the best settings so I guess FC is just too much for my PC!

 

[Andybtsn]

Yeah it's stock. Judging from responses I should be able to play in this state mind, I may try oc it to see if there's a big difference.

 

[Andybtsn]

I tried it before but I had occasional crashes on my PC so I just reverted to stock. Been so long doubt I can remember how!