Okay, well first of all, sorry to come in here with my first post being a question, but I've been dealing with this problem for a little while now and it's starting to drive me nuts! Anyways, so on with the question.
For some reason, when playing a game (BF2, Rome: Total War, anything I've tried) my framerate will gradually drop when nothing is happening on screen, or should I say, anything different. An example of this would be just sitting on the world map in Rome: Total War. Every five-ten seconds I'll watch 1FPS slip off the count. It's not like it's a really noticeable graphical glitch right away, but after a few minutes, or loads (which seems to accelerate the process) it becomes apparent. The strangest part of this problem is that the problem will just stop and I'll finally get a steady framerate after roughly 30-40% has been eaten away.
Now I have done a few things to try to remedy the problem. First off I went and updated my video card drivers, no difference at all. Then I realized that this wasn't happening a few months ago so I did a system restore back to mid August. Again, it had no effect on my issue.
Finally, just a few things that may or may not be worth mentioning. This does happen regardless of if I'm setting my resolution really low or high, ATI Catalyst center performance options to low, medium or high or colour depth to 16 or 32bit. As I did mention above, this wasn't happening a couple months ago and I don't remember fiddling with any options so other than a power outage or two (which has screwed with my windows before) I don't see how this could be a result of changed options.
So there you go. Any thoughts on what could be causing this would be of great help as I'm pretty much restricted from playing my PC games. (and I just bought BF2 a little while ago
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For some reason, when playing a game (BF2, Rome: Total War, anything I've tried) my framerate will gradually drop when nothing is happening on screen, or should I say, anything different. An example of this would be just sitting on the world map in Rome: Total War. Every five-ten seconds I'll watch 1FPS slip off the count. It's not like it's a really noticeable graphical glitch right away, but after a few minutes, or loads (which seems to accelerate the process) it becomes apparent. The strangest part of this problem is that the problem will just stop and I'll finally get a steady framerate after roughly 30-40% has been eaten away.
Now I have done a few things to try to remedy the problem. First off I went and updated my video card drivers, no difference at all. Then I realized that this wasn't happening a few months ago so I did a system restore back to mid August. Again, it had no effect on my issue.
Finally, just a few things that may or may not be worth mentioning. This does happen regardless of if I'm setting my resolution really low or high, ATI Catalyst center performance options to low, medium or high or colour depth to 16 or 32bit. As I did mention above, this wasn't happening a couple months ago and I don't remember fiddling with any options so other than a power outage or two (which has screwed with my windows before) I don't see how this could be a result of changed options.
So there you go. Any thoughts on what could be causing this would be of great help as I'm pretty much restricted from playing my PC games. (and I just bought BF2 a little while ago
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