I was hoping someone could help me figure out why I'm getting such miserable performance from my system playing CS:S and to a lesser extent NFS:MW
I've noticed that in cs:s as soon as I get people running around on my screen, lots of shooting/physics going off, that my FPS hits the toilet, hovering around 15-25 fps. I have a fairly decent system I think, and I noticed that in another thread on this forum, someone was managing to pull 130fps constant from cs:s on a 6600GT (which pales in comparison to my card), and on a roughly equivilant processor to mine.
I've noticed that I can up the Aniostropic Filtering all the way to 16x and not notice a performance hit, and 4x AA barely impacts my play either. So I'm thinking it's CPU limited. I play @ 1920x1200 resolution, but even if I drop it down to 720x480, I still get the same 20fps when in heavy firefights.
I believe all my relevant system stats are below. Can someone suggest why the heck I'm getting such poor performance from this game (and to a lesser extent, other games as well)
Athlon64 3200 Venice @ 2.13Ghz
X850XTPE (x800Gto2 unlocked) @ 540/590
4x512 Cosair Twinx @ 2.5 3 3 6
A8N-SLI mobo
I've noticed that in cs:s as soon as I get people running around on my screen, lots of shooting/physics going off, that my FPS hits the toilet, hovering around 15-25 fps. I have a fairly decent system I think, and I noticed that in another thread on this forum, someone was managing to pull 130fps constant from cs:s on a 6600GT (which pales in comparison to my card), and on a roughly equivilant processor to mine.
I've noticed that I can up the Aniostropic Filtering all the way to 16x and not notice a performance hit, and 4x AA barely impacts my play either. So I'm thinking it's CPU limited. I play @ 1920x1200 resolution, but even if I drop it down to 720x480, I still get the same 20fps when in heavy firefights.
I believe all my relevant system stats are below. Can someone suggest why the heck I'm getting such poor performance from this game (and to a lesser extent, other games as well)
Athlon64 3200 Venice @ 2.13Ghz
X850XTPE (x800Gto2 unlocked) @ 540/590
4x512 Cosair Twinx @ 2.5 3 3 6
A8N-SLI mobo