Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

[Herox]

Ok. I have a brand new system, I built it just before Xmas. It includes these specifications:

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (Current nForce drivers off nvidia.com)
Athlon 64 3700+ SD @ 2.2Ghz
1.52 Gb RAM Corsair XMS
XFX GeForce 7800GT 256Mb GDDR3 (81.98 Drivers)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic (Game Mode) (Newest drivers from creative.com)
Western Digital 7200 Rpm 250 Gb Hard Drive
15' LCD Nec 1512 (I think this is my problem!!!)

Now my problem is, on most maps, there is a certain place where I could get anything from 30-50 fps. For example: Strike at Karkand: I will get anything from 30-40 fps at the intersection where you enter karkand from the USMC road, I usually get horrible FPS at the middle of the town.

This FPS is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE for my video card, and I'm tired of people telling me it is.

-I run all medium settings, AA 2x Anisotropic Filtering 2x.

-For some reason I can have AA 8x and Anisotropic Filtering 16x and see no FPS decrease......um ok?

-I haven't flashed my BIOS as I don't have a floppy drive.

-The only Mobo chipset drivers are the nForce 4 AMD drivers off of nvidia.com

-I strongly believe my FPS problem is due to my crappy 5 year old 15 inch LCD monitor. NEC 1512 15' Monitor. I have ordered a new monitor (Viewsonic 19'), and wanted to know if it would boost my FPS, I am entirely UNCONVINCED my monitor is not causing my problem, if that makes any sense.

-Also, I see people saying they can run medium settings with their 6600 GT's with no problem, and this p1sses me off. I have been trying to fix this for a week now, and am almost very close to bagging it and giving up on my computer.

Any questions?

Post here and feel free to ask anything you need to help me diagnose my problem.

Thanks!

-Herox

[[Joker-SI]]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

This is really strange. I have X800pro, all settings on MAX, AA 8x Anisotropic Filtering 6x
And i have 30-50 FPS.

Try defraging your hard disk.

EDIT: On what resolution are you playing ?

[Herox]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

This is really strange. I have X800pro, all settings on MAX, AA 8x Anisotropic Filtering 6x
And i have 30-50 FPS.

Try defraging your hard disk.

I've defraged 3 times today :P

ALSO, if it helps any of you, I scored 7094 on 3d mark 05, i suppose this means my card and system are working properly, just something wrong with my monitor maybe???

[hollowpoint367]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

your monitor won't increase or decrease performance at all...

[Herox]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

Well, anything but the monitor, what would be causing my low fps with such a high end card??

-Herox


1024*768 75 hz is my resolution!

[scrogathon]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

can you reinstall windows by anychance? it fixes mine everytime. btw x800xl running medium, except dynamics and im getting 70 fps constant and it goes to 50 lowest, 32 player.

[Herox]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

can you reinstall windows by anychance? it fixes mine everytime. btw x800xl running medium, except dynamics and im getting 70 fps constant and it goes to 50 lowest, 32 player.

True, I had listed my lowest FPS but I get around 130 fps at the start of the Karkand map, it just goes to 50-60 when I hit that one point.

When I tell you guys about my monitor, I think it is ghosting, It is like my computer is too fast for my monitor, that's what I mean by "will i get a performance increase." Sometimes I can see the horizontal refresh lines going accross my screen, and thats about it!

So is it truely my monitor?

-Herox

[scrogathon]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

ok, try turning on vsync in your video card settings, it will not let ur framerates go past, what your monitor is capable of showing, i have mine on cuz i hate the tearing and garbled textures, it makes my sh**ty monitor look good

[N2K]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

more mem? i have a gt running all high, AFx16, and AAx4, 1280x1024@75...dont use the nvidia settings to AAx8, it kills the performance, dont know why but with high res it looks great

[I_M_Weasel0r]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

The reason you get no performance drop at very high AA settings is that the CPU is the limiting factor, your 7800s waiting around on the CPU for more info. Not that your CPUs too slow, its just the latest cards are very fast especially down at 1024x768 where they dont have that many pixels to draw.
I couldn't say what your general problem is, 30fps is too low for your system unless an awfull lots going on, on screen.

[HckyDlsstrs]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

what kind of FPS you gettin? i have a 6600 and run everything on ultra with no problem.

[Herox]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

ok, try turning on vsync in your video card settings, it will not let ur framerates go past, what your monitor is capable of showing, i have mine on cuz i hate the tearing and garbled textures, it makes my sh**ty monitor look good

Awesome, I'll try that.

-Herox

[xcannon69]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

Hey maybe your power supply is bottlenecking your graphics card. How many amps does your PSU have on the 12V rail? Monitors shouldn't affect 3D performance at all.

[Sir. Headshot]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

Get 4gb of ram... it fixed my probs

[IndianScout]

Re: Something isn't right, 7800 GT.

get rid of the crappy 81.98 drivers

I rolled back to the 78.05 drivers with my 6800 Ultra and my performance more than doubled,

I had problems with those drivers too..

example

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/ojibewa/helo1.jpg