I've been getting a lot of pausing ingame, meaning the game will freeze for a short period of time. Sometimes the pause will be upwards of 1min, other times it will be less than 10s. Up until last week I was running 768mb PC2100 DDR, which I thought was the cause, but now I know that's not the case.
I know it's not that my PC can't handle it. In HL2 I'll be getting upwards of 100fps when it will pause(running full detail @ 1024*768). HL2 is also the worst for flickering, simply looking around while outdoors will make pieces of the world/walls or objects disappear very briefly, "flicker." BF2 isn't quite as bad as my other games, I'll only get the odd pause(All high, no AA, 1024*768). FEAR brings on a lot of pauses, not quite as many since I lowered the texture res(running mostly med/high settings @ 1024*768). Still in those games they run very smoothly aside from the pausing.
I've also been monitoring my GPU core temp. It idles at 55-60C, and I've seen it go up as high as 75C midgame in FEAR. Other games don't push it quite as high, 70C at the most usually. At the end of very long pauses, 1-2min, my PC will sometimes beep. I thought at first it was the GPU core temp alarm, but that's not set to go off unless it hits 120C. Also my CPU idles at ~30C, never goes above 45C under stress. Everything has stock cooling, aside from a rear case fan.
My specs are in my sig. I built the computer myself, but I'm still relatively new to all of this. If anyone knows what might be going on, please let me know. Or if you need anymore info just ask and I'll try my best to answer. :)
I know it's not that my PC can't handle it. In HL2 I'll be getting upwards of 100fps when it will pause(running full detail @ 1024*768). HL2 is also the worst for flickering, simply looking around while outdoors will make pieces of the world/walls or objects disappear very briefly, "flicker." BF2 isn't quite as bad as my other games, I'll only get the odd pause(All high, no AA, 1024*768). FEAR brings on a lot of pauses, not quite as many since I lowered the texture res(running mostly med/high settings @ 1024*768). Still in those games they run very smoothly aside from the pausing.
I've also been monitoring my GPU core temp. It idles at 55-60C, and I've seen it go up as high as 75C midgame in FEAR. Other games don't push it quite as high, 70C at the most usually. At the end of very long pauses, 1-2min, my PC will sometimes beep. I thought at first it was the GPU core temp alarm, but that's not set to go off unless it hits 120C. Also my CPU idles at ~30C, never goes above 45C under stress. Everything has stock cooling, aside from a rear case fan.
My specs are in my sig. I built the computer myself, but I'm still relatively new to all of this. If anyone knows what might be going on, please let me know. Or if you need anymore info just ask and I'll try my best to answer. :)
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