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FEAR problems.
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If you really mean others days Betas, Roll Back, and I bet its fixed.
Found this but don;t know if it will help:
"I was getting crappy framerates in FEAR with my 8800GTX, so I posted on the Serria forums. Turns out all you have to do is disable the "empty" HID-compliant devices in the device manager. Framerate shot through the roof once I disabled the three of them I had.
I don't even know what the seemingly empty HID devices are, but they have no drivers associated with them. Whatever they are, they certanly screw with FEAR framerates.
BTW, I'm using Vista, so I don't know if this works with XP. "
Although your 12 fps is low, I noticed on xbits site that a 8800GTX on full detail and 16FSAA at 1600x1200 drops as low as 18 fps and that was with a quad core processor as FEAR is very cpu dependant. It is recommended, even with a GTX, to run no higher than 8xMSAA at that res or higher.
"I was getting crappy framerates in FEAR with my 8800GTX, so I posted on the Serria forums. Turns out all you have to do is disable the "empty" HID-compliant devices in the device manager. Framerate shot through the roof once I disabled the three of them I had.
I don't even know what the seemingly empty HID devices are, but they have no drivers associated with them. Whatever they are, they certanly screw with FEAR framerates.
BTW, I'm using Vista, so I don't know if this works with XP. "
Although your 12 fps is low, I noticed on xbits site that a 8800GTX on full detail and 16FSAA at 1600x1200 drops as low as 18 fps and that was with a quad core processor as FEAR is very cpu dependant. It is recommended, even with a GTX, to run no higher than 8xMSAA at that res or higher.
But I think I have found the source of your problem if the above doesn't fix it.
"ORIGINAL POST: As bug discoveries go, we can't technically claim to have discovered this one. Still, it seems that by stumbling upon a major slowdown in F.E.A.R. during a recent Maingear desktop review, we've come across what might be a more universal issue in PC gaming performance. We're not trying to cause a panic. F.E.A.R is the only game we've seen suffer a significant frame rate loss. But an intriguing post on the official F.E.A.R. forum indicates that the issue might be more widespread. The potential culprit? USB mice and keyboards.
We found a disturbing performance issue in F.E.A.R.
(Credit: Gamespot)From what we've seen, if you have either a USB mouse or keyboard connected to your PC while playing F.E.A.R., you'll get a major frame rate drop on even the mightiest of gaming PCs. We're talking from 150 frames per second down to 13 fps or so. Using old-school devices appears to fix the issue. We found big performance hits with Logitech and Saitek hardware, although there's a world of USB devices that we haven't tested. We found that the Creative-made mouse and keyboard that come with Velocity Micro PCs don't seem to cause as much trouble, but they still show a measurable decline in performance, by roughly 10 fps.
The less severe drop-off with certain hardware might explain why we never noticed the problem until the Maingear review. If all USB input devices cause some kind of performance loss in F.E.A.R., the scores for all of the systems we've reviewed with that test will have suffered, giving us no "normal" baseline to compare to. We only noticed the problem because, for some reason, the Maingear system caused a significant-enough slowdown. We were also able to replicate the issue by connecting the same Logitech G5 mouse and Saitek Eclipse keyboard to a to-be-reviewed Falcon Northwest PC we have in the lab, so the issue isn't unique to Maingear (and that's why we didn't slam that system in the review). Still, we've tested F.E.A.R. on other PCs in months previous with one or both of those devices connected to them, and saw no frame rate drop until now."
Apparently their are threads about it on the forum site of FEAR. The simplest solution is to use an old fashioned keyboard and mouse although this article states that Logitech had realeased a fix for their keyboards and mouse (even though it's not their problem and it's a game bug) but not sure about any other keyboard and mouse manufacturers.
"ORIGINAL POST: As bug discoveries go, we can't technically claim to have discovered this one. Still, it seems that by stumbling upon a major slowdown in F.E.A.R. during a recent Maingear desktop review, we've come across what might be a more universal issue in PC gaming performance. We're not trying to cause a panic. F.E.A.R is the only game we've seen suffer a significant frame rate loss. But an intriguing post on the official F.E.A.R. forum indicates that the issue might be more widespread. The potential culprit? USB mice and keyboards.
We found a disturbing performance issue in F.E.A.R.
(Credit: Gamespot)From what we've seen, if you have either a USB mouse or keyboard connected to your PC while playing F.E.A.R., you'll get a major frame rate drop on even the mightiest of gaming PCs. We're talking from 150 frames per second down to 13 fps or so. Using old-school devices appears to fix the issue. We found big performance hits with Logitech and Saitek hardware, although there's a world of USB devices that we haven't tested. We found that the Creative-made mouse and keyboard that come with Velocity Micro PCs don't seem to cause as much trouble, but they still show a measurable decline in performance, by roughly 10 fps.
The less severe drop-off with certain hardware might explain why we never noticed the problem until the Maingear review. If all USB input devices cause some kind of performance loss in F.E.A.R., the scores for all of the systems we've reviewed with that test will have suffered, giving us no "normal" baseline to compare to. We only noticed the problem because, for some reason, the Maingear system caused a significant-enough slowdown. We were also able to replicate the issue by connecting the same Logitech G5 mouse and Saitek Eclipse keyboard to a to-be-reviewed Falcon Northwest PC we have in the lab, so the issue isn't unique to Maingear (and that's why we didn't slam that system in the review). Still, we've tested F.E.A.R. on other PCs in months previous with one or both of those devices connected to them, and saw no frame rate drop until now."
Apparently their are threads about it on the forum site of FEAR. The simplest solution is to use an old fashioned keyboard and mouse although this article states that Logitech had realeased a fix for their keyboards and mouse (even though it's not their problem and it's a game bug) but not sure about any other keyboard and mouse manufacturers.
It would appear it is not graphics related at all. See my post above. A very bizarre bug if you ask me.
I've had a similar problem very early on in the game just when you walk into the first building and get to the room past the dimly lit store room (the one with the desk and the light). Even at quite low settings (1280x1024 med-high garphics), it dips down into the teens. Put me right off the game tbh so haven't played it much past there.
And do you have a usb mouse or keyboard out of interest?
Indeed, just never considered that might be the issue. Always presumed dodgy drivers or badly optimised game.
And neither would I have. I think I would have pulled my hair out playing around with settings, swapping drivers, updating the game etc and it would have been to no avail.
Apparently not everybody with a udb mouse/keyboard is affected but good to see that the game designers acknowledged it was a bug in the game. Although I noticed from the article I posted that it was a few months ago so who knows, the game designers may have released a fix themselves now but I haven't been to FEAR's website to check.
It's definately not over heating
The game isn't too stressful
I'm talking playing the game for 2 minutes (fighting, running around, intense battles) then it'll LOCK at 12fps. It won't dip and then shoot back up...it locks. I then have to exit the game and re load it.
I do have USB devices...I have a G15 and a G7.
The game isn't too stressful
I'm talking playing the game for 2 minutes (fighting, running around, intense battles) then it'll LOCK at 12fps. It won't dip and then shoot back up...it locks. I then have to exit the game and re load it.
I do have USB devices...I have a G15 and a G7.
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Oh yeah, i heard that stupid thing about USB keyboards and mice affecting Fear performance, ive got an Eclipse2 USB keyboard, and some cheapo USB mouse, and Fear ran fine for me.
Sounds like you have the keyboard/mouse usb bug then
I have a wireless logitech usb keyboard and mouse and it ran fine for me but it seems it does affect a lot of people.