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Random 8800GTS 3D Slowdowns

Well the 86.89s are no cop either, or perhaps it's the damn card.

Looking at the below captured framerate of Trackmania, should I be RMAing this thing?

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Echo - if this works sorry for the delay but I've been suffering the exact same problem with my kit, and I bought new mobo/cpu/ram/psu as well so tracking the problem was fun. My test was in Ghost Recon : AW, even the intro movies would start at some obscene fps then rapidly drop to 3/5 fps. In game it would trickle up to about 60 then rapidly drop to 12-21fps.

To put this in to context I was on the phone to BFG (USA) for over an hour and they said to RMA it (reminder to self tell ocuk tomorrow). The problems (for me) were firstly nub-error, secondly bios settings.

Firstly, I was able to take the memory ratio to it's slowest 1:1, leaving everything else at default. This made everthing work, so firstly give that a try to see if the gfx card or not - the fps wont be benchmark level but it wont drop.

The shaming noob mistake I made was thinking the motherboard was like my previous 10, with my two 1Gig sticks sitting side by side in slots 1 and 2. To get dual channel, they needed to be in 1 and 3, leaving 2 and 4 empty - hell its even colour coded, but once in the case it was hard to see dark-blue from black and covered in cables.

Once my user-error had been corrected, it was time to get the memory up to its potential. The motherboard (abit aw9d) did not auto detect the setting correctly at all, so I changed the voltage, ratio, and the timings according to the Corsair site.

Back into ghost recon, tested it out and im now getting the blistering performance I dreamed of, and was extremely happy from being close to tears the week previous from getting nowhere.

Really hope this works out for you too.

Bolly

edit: running 97.02 on a 8800GTX, Duo E6600, Abit AW9D mobo, 1Gb Corsair 6400C4x2 - nothing overclocked (sorry)
 
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nobody on these forums ever mentions OCZ power supplies, which are bloody rock solid, i use modstream and its the business, not a single problem with it, plus the reflective finish is awesome :p with two 7900GS' (both overclocked) 4400+ (overclocked) mushkin redline memory (also overclocked) and couple of hard disks
 
Bollyman said:
Echo - if this works sorry for the delay but I've been suffering the exact same problem with my kit, and I bought new mobo/cpu/ram/psu as well so tracking the problem was fun. My test was in Ghost Recon : AW, even the intro movies would start at some obscene fps then rapidly drop to 3/5 fps. In game it would trickle up to about 60 then rapidly drop to 12-21fps.

To put this in to context I was on the phone to BFG (USA) for over an hour and they said to RMA it (reminder to self tell ocuk tomorrow). The problems (for me) were firstly nub-error, secondly bios settings.

Firstly, I was able to take the memory ratio to it's slowest 1:1, leaving everything else at default. This made everthing work, so firstly give that a try to see if the gfx card or not - the fps wont be benchmark level but it wont drop.

The shaming noob mistake I made was thinking the motherboard was like my previous 10, with my two 1Gig sticks sitting side by side in slots 1 and 2. To get dual channel, they needed to be in 1 and 3, leaving 2 and 4 empty - hell its even colour coded, but once in the case it was hard to see dark-blue from black and covered in cables.

Once my user-error had been corrected, it was time to get the memory up to its potential. The motherboard (abit aw9d) did not auto detect the setting correctly at all, so I changed the voltage, ratio, and the timings according to the Corsair site.

Back into ghost recon, tested it out and im now getting the blistering performance I dreamed of, and was extremely happy from being close to tears the week previous from getting nowhere.

Really hope this works out for you too.

Bolly

edit: running 97.02 on a 8800GTX, Duo E6600, Abit AW9D mobo, 1Gb Corsair 6400C4x2 - nothing overclocked (sorry)
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Hi Bolly,

My sticks are in 1 & 3 but I appreciate the post :)

I still think the hardware is not at fault nor installed incorrectly, due to the fact I can immediately cure the issue by removing the 97.02s, run drivercleaner, and put them back in.

I'm fast running out of elimination methods, but my latest is to avoid switching to secondary display (telly), something of which I normally use a lot. Have thrown an old system together so I can watch tv stuff!
 
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Little did I know the ATX connector had changed since my 480w Antec Truepower, so the Hiper was a rush buy down town to have the system on its first weekend - I'd have chosen something beefier in hindsight. Although I don't think it is to blame in this instance.

I'm expecting a watt meter to arrive tomorrow, so will be potching around on that to see how much everything draws on load. Can't be anywhere near 580w surely.
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the hiper 580w is more than fine for the 8800gts or gtx, i run Xfire off my hiper with a overclocked cpu to 3.2Ghz without issue.
 
I think switching display to TV is the cause after all.

Haven't switched once since the latest 97.02 reinstall, and everything is working perfectly 2½ days later, with some 3-4 reboots under the belt also.

Guess I have to keep this naff XP2400+ / Ti200 box around for my telly until a Forceware revision fixes things :D
 
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