FPS on COD4 3870X2

[msaunders]

Hi

Been tweaking my setup (Q6600/PK5/3870X2/VISTA64/4GB DDR2) and I noticed whilst playing COD4 frame rates can drop quite low .

COD4
Everything Up Full Detail
AA Off
1280x1024
Corposes : Medium

FPS vary from 80's and drop down to 30's depending on whats going on but to me this is just not good enough considering the hardware driving this ....

is this down to the ATI drivers and the 3870x2 min FPS issue or do you think something else is going on ? Anyone else seeing this ?

tks
M

 

[msaunders]

Hi Guys

Wow lots of interesting answers. So is the consensus that this is still driver issues ? I would be very dissapointed if this was bad design with the 3870x2 as I dont want to fork out for a replacement card for a while .

I noticed that playing COD4 with AAx2 , makes a big performance impact and I thought the 3870x2 would be able to handle this no worries . I am playing 1280x1024 with everything at full and corpses set to medium. FPS can drop to 30fs.

M

 

[msaunders]

Hi

No I havent got V-Sync on . Dual Cards is also off.

My CPU speed is 3.2GHZ (360x9)

Still trying to OC my chip to 3.6 but its not stable .

vCore set to 1.5 (in BIOS version 0704)

 

[msaunders]

What speed is your CPU msaunders as at 1280x1024 that is CPU bound territory and I could only see 3.6Ghz - 4Ghz being able to release the power of the card and that might not even be enough.

I am not convinced of this. The FPS drops are being caused by something else, not CPU. If it was CPU bound , then surely you would get a consistant FPS rate and not huge variances . The hardware driving this game should be well capabale, its only DX9 too after all ....

 

[msaunders]

run a 3dmark on both clocks and you will see if it is the case or not

I would , if I knew how

 

[msaunders]

Hi HeX

Is there a thread covering the BIOS flash ? Where did you get the BIOS from/ how did you do it ?

thanks
Martin

 

[msaunders]

I followed this:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2782722&postcount=12

Worked a treat

Hi HeX

Ok thanks . Has anyone else done this and found it improved performance ?

 

[msaunders]

Hey HeX

I know its off topic but what settings are you using to OC your cpu and MB to 3.4Ghz (425) I assume its 425x8 but what voltage/ bios settings ? What temp is your CPU hitting @ load ?

Cheers
M