Just reinstalled Metro LL as i got a free copy of the "Complete Edition" from a friend. I previously had both Metro and Last Light and had pretty good performance in both games on WIN7 certainly very playable and still nice looking.... until tonight.
I loaded up the game and all was well, I set my favoured controls set Graphics to Default 1920x1080 with no Vsync.
The game loads into first cut scene and it runs smoothly and i took control of my guy and just glimpsed out of the corner of my eye the MSI overlay stating:
Mem - 1275Mhz (bouncing down to 150Mhz for a split second here and there)
Core - (constantly fluctuating between about 400Mhz and 600Mhz)
Spat half a glass of coke across my desktop eyes on stalks... the usual reaction
I restarted the game just in case... Continue the game and the Core is now at 1080Mhz dropping slowly at first to about 1000Mhz then all the way back down to the earlier 400ish Mhz within about 2 mins (just as i typed this bit Display driver crashed and recovered very quickly) I am not sure what the issue is but it feels driver related or i ticked a setting or something stupid
Here is what i'm playing on
i7 4770k Stock
8GB DDR3 1600
R9 290 1080/1275 power +50 OC profile (have tried stock too)
1200w PSU
Win 8.1 Case temp is 22c, GPU temp is 38C idle and about 60C in Metro
This is a fresh installation of Windows OS 8.1 and barring MSI afterburner and Driver 14.4 it is barebones programwise.
Any ideas? I feel like I'm missing something ... ticked the wrong box or enabled a setting by mistake? metro options are pretty basic so it can't be them and I've checked them and double checked them and they all are as they should be
When i run Heaven it's fine, i'm hitting my usual scores and avg max fps etc .... just can't work out what it is with metro.
Advice is much appreciated though I'm not after opinions on the merits or flaws of the 290 or AMD .. I'm well aware of them
I loaded up the game and all was well, I set my favoured controls set Graphics to Default 1920x1080 with no Vsync.
The game loads into first cut scene and it runs smoothly and i took control of my guy and just glimpsed out of the corner of my eye the MSI overlay stating:
Mem - 1275Mhz (bouncing down to 150Mhz for a split second here and there)
Core - (constantly fluctuating between about 400Mhz and 600Mhz)
Spat half a glass of coke across my desktop eyes on stalks... the usual reaction
I restarted the game just in case... Continue the game and the Core is now at 1080Mhz dropping slowly at first to about 1000Mhz then all the way back down to the earlier 400ish Mhz within about 2 mins (just as i typed this bit Display driver crashed and recovered very quickly) I am not sure what the issue is but it feels driver related or i ticked a setting or something stupid
Here is what i'm playing on
i7 4770k Stock
8GB DDR3 1600
R9 290 1080/1275 power +50 OC profile (have tried stock too)
1200w PSU
Win 8.1 Case temp is 22c, GPU temp is 38C idle and about 60C in Metro
This is a fresh installation of Windows OS 8.1 and barring MSI afterburner and Driver 14.4 it is barebones programwise.
Any ideas? I feel like I'm missing something ... ticked the wrong box or enabled a setting by mistake? metro options are pretty basic so it can't be them and I've checked them and double checked them and they all are as they should be
When i run Heaven it's fine, i'm hitting my usual scores and avg max fps etc .... just can't work out what it is with metro.
Advice is much appreciated though I'm not after opinions on the merits or flaws of the 290 or AMD .. I'm well aware of them
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