Ok, some of you might remember the thread i made a while back about framerates randomly dropping like a stone in HL:2, BF2 and Live For Speed.
I was completely certain it was a hardware fault. My ram was at the top of my list, and there was no way i was gonna change my mind... untill about two days ago.
I was happily camping on BF2, sniping the occasional person that strolled past me, but everything was generally quiet, and nothing was really happening on-screen when the game went from smooth to a slideshow for no reason. Goddamnit was my first response, because this happens every few days and the only way i found to fix it was to clear the cache and reboot. But i'd had enough of that and alt+tabbed out to check my CPU temps and whatnot.
Upon opening my Abit motherboard utility i found my cpu temp to be fine, so i thought i'd leave it open and play out the rest of the game as best i could. So i brought the BF2 window back up and..... everything was smooth again. I thought that was odd, but went with it. Next time i got the framerate drop, i alt+tabbed out of BF2 and loaded up said utility, left it running and went back to the game. Yet again, i had smoothness.
So i thought, this must have been my problem all along, damn dodgy utilities. There was only one thing to do, uninstall that crap! Which i did. About a day later, the framerate drop happened again, and i was crushed, but proceeded to alt+tab out of BF2 (thinking that i was wrong about the utility being the cause) and opened up just about everything i coulld find on the desktop, went back into the game... still had bad framerates.
After being quite annoyed with the whole ordeal, i thought i might aswell reinstall my motherboard utility, but was too lazy to go find the disk, so i opted for speedfan instead. Installed that, and was good to go. Later that day, was playing BF2 yet again (its all i play
), and was hit with the bad framerates at random again. At which point i said "**** this!" and alt+tabbed out, and loaded up speedfan to check my temps. Again, everything was normal, so i left it running and went back into the game. Can you guess what happened when i went back in?
GOOD FRAMERATES AGAIN!
I dunno how to explain this, it just doesnt make sense, the only thing that fixes my sudden framerate drops in games is to alt+tab out and load up either speedfan or my motherboard utility and leave it running in the background. If i load them up prior to starting a game, it also works fine... well, so far, i havent tested this much as yet.
So yeah, im baffled... has anybody got any ideas as to what the hell is going on?
Oh, and before people ask. I have all the new drivers for my system (have tried older ones too), i have the dualcore patch, i set affinity to one core in BF2 etc etc etc.
I was completely certain it was a hardware fault. My ram was at the top of my list, and there was no way i was gonna change my mind... untill about two days ago.
I was happily camping on BF2, sniping the occasional person that strolled past me, but everything was generally quiet, and nothing was really happening on-screen when the game went from smooth to a slideshow for no reason. Goddamnit was my first response, because this happens every few days and the only way i found to fix it was to clear the cache and reboot. But i'd had enough of that and alt+tabbed out to check my CPU temps and whatnot.
Upon opening my Abit motherboard utility i found my cpu temp to be fine, so i thought i'd leave it open and play out the rest of the game as best i could. So i brought the BF2 window back up and..... everything was smooth again. I thought that was odd, but went with it. Next time i got the framerate drop, i alt+tabbed out of BF2 and loaded up said utility, left it running and went back to the game. Yet again, i had smoothness.
So i thought, this must have been my problem all along, damn dodgy utilities. There was only one thing to do, uninstall that crap! Which i did. About a day later, the framerate drop happened again, and i was crushed, but proceeded to alt+tab out of BF2 (thinking that i was wrong about the utility being the cause) and opened up just about everything i coulld find on the desktop, went back into the game... still had bad framerates.
After being quite annoyed with the whole ordeal, i thought i might aswell reinstall my motherboard utility, but was too lazy to go find the disk, so i opted for speedfan instead. Installed that, and was good to go. Later that day, was playing BF2 yet again (its all i play
), and was hit with the bad framerates at random again. At which point i said "**** this!" and alt+tabbed out, and loaded up speedfan to check my temps. Again, everything was normal, so i left it running and went back into the game. Can you guess what happened when i went back in?GOOD FRAMERATES AGAIN!
I dunno how to explain this, it just doesnt make sense, the only thing that fixes my sudden framerate drops in games is to alt+tab out and load up either speedfan or my motherboard utility and leave it running in the background. If i load them up prior to starting a game, it also works fine... well, so far, i havent tested this much as yet.
So yeah, im baffled... has anybody got any ideas as to what the hell is going on?
Oh, and before people ask. I have all the new drivers for my system (have tried older ones too), i have the dualcore patch, i set affinity to one core in BF2 etc etc etc.
