FarCry 2 - Low FPS?

[eviljedi]

Hey, I recently upgraded my CPU, GPU and RAM. I've been using my PC fine for over a month now and I've been playing CS:S and DOD:S with good FPS.

My specs: e6850 @ 3ghz, 4870, 4gbs ram.

Occasionally my FPS in DOD:S will drop dramatically down to below 15 for a second or two but then it goes right back up to normal (I think this might be due to the graphics card not getting enough power, but that's just a guess) but apart from that, everything has been fine.

Yesterday I installed FarCry 2 and I was getting really crappy FPS. I tried different drivers including the hotfix but none of them made any difference. I decided to reformat since I changed from an Nvidia card to ATI, I thought perhaps remnants of the nvidia drivers were interfering.

After reformatting and installing the latest drivers I'm still getting the exact same performance. I can't figure it out. People with worse specs than mine are getting better performance on very high than I'm getting on LOW!

Benchmarks from FC2:

LOW:

http://img65.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fc2benchfj6.jpg

HIGH:

http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fc2bench2zb9.jpg

If anyone has any ideas on how I can fix this, or how I can test if it's a hardware fault - please tell me. I really have no clue what to do now.

[Malskazz]

You sure its not a OS issue? I doubt it tho.. I really think its something with the hardware

[+shift. MVC]

Full system specs? In particular your PSU (brand and model). And are you using the latest drivers?

[eviljedi]

I have a shuttle SD39P2 with a 400w PSU. Here's the specs: http://eu.shuttle.com/en/desktopdefault.as...170_read-13828/

Don't think 400w isn't enough. The shuttle PSUs are known for being able to handle much more than standard PSUs. Just have a look here

Although I won't rule out the possibility that I have a faulty one.

I'm on 32bit Vista with all the latest drivers installed.

Edited October 25, 2008 by eviljedi

[Olemus]

The Wattage is not important, its the amount of power it can kick out on the 12v rails and how reliable it is in terms of actual output, much better off with a named brand :)

[CPressland]

That is strange, I mean, it's not like you're running at a super high resolution either...

As said in a previous thread, we got FC2 running on a 3500+ and a 7600GT with better framerates

[eviljedi]

I tried running it at 800x600 in windowed mode:

http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fc2fx2.jpg

and 640x480 fullscreen everything on LOW:

http://img61.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fc2xb4.jpg

:(

Edited October 25, 2008 by eviljedi

[john0877]

Occasionally my FPS in DOD:S will drop dramatically down to below 15 for a second or two but then it goes right back up to normal

could do this ingame or out of game it probly wont matter, but open task manager and sort tasks in ascending by CPU Usage and watch it for around a minute and see if anything other than System Idle Process jumps up to like 40-50% Usage. it may be one of the svchost.exe's. if it is, get Process Explorer and check out which service that associated svchost.exe is hosting and try disabling that service and then check the FPS in the game.

my case i was getting that exact symptom and tracked it to DNSClient service so i disabled it and had no problems after that.

if the problem still happens then you can reenable the service that you disabled.

[Numpad]

not over heating is it?

i used to have a problem years ago where every 2 mins my game would stop for 2secs.. took me months to realise it was Norton doing it for some reason!

[White Cuban]

Comparing a game in source engine to farcry 2 lawl, source engine is from like 2002 or something, and it wasen't the best then, my integrated laptop can run it, but it can't run far cry 2 in half a fps a minute, so i don't see any comparison here.

[eviljedi]

Comparing a game in source engine to farcry 2 lawl, source engine is from like 2002 or something, and it wasen't the best then, my integrated laptop can run it, but it can't run far cry 2 in half a fps a minute, so i don't see any comparison here.

Well those are the only other games I've played so I can only compare it to them.

[azz0r_wugg]

Quad Core here with a 8800GTS, and I get a terrible fps with things set to there lowest option.

...people wonder why games get pirated

[White Cuban]

Quad Core here with a 8800GTS, and I get a terrible fps with things set to there lowest option.

...people wonder why games get pirated

Thats the DRM your talking about i assume.

[giantpotato]

Did you install the ATi Far Cry 2 Hotfix?

http://www.bigdownload.com/games/far-cry-2...fix-patch-winxp

Nevermind, I really should read the entire post before replying.

[ViperAFK]

odd my friend has a 4870 and the 8.10 drivers and gets 40 fps on ultra with 4xaa. Did you try the ati hotfix? Are you playing in dx 9 or 10? dx10 has better performance for me.

Quad Core here with a 8800GTS, and I get a terrible fps with things set to there lowest option.

...people wonder why games get pirated

I can run ultra with 2xaa on a 9600gt, what drivers are you running?

[Draken]

I'm so happy of leaving PC gaming behind :) now all I have to do is insert my disc and play (Y)

but oh well, try closing many tasks as you can from the task manager, turn off you AV etc etc or get XP

[ViperAFK]

I'm so happy of leaving PC gaming behind :) now all I have to do is insert my disc and play (Y)

but oh well, try closing many tasks as you can from the task manager, turn off you AV etc etc or get XP

and all I have do to is click the icon on my desktop :p

[Groovedude]

be interesting to know what background services you have running :)...

[RAID 0]

I'm so happy of leaving PC gaming behind :) now all I have to do is insert my disc and play (Y)

but oh well, try closing many tasks as you can from the task manager, turn off you AV etc etc or get XP

:rolleyes:

[+shift. MVC]

get XP

:rolleyes:

When will the FUD end?!

[azz0r_wugg]

Thats the DRM your talking about i assume.

No. I downloaded it to make sure it ran fine before buying it.

I was right to guess it runs like ass. Will wait for a patch.

I don't condone piracy either, just learned my lesson since Crysis.

[eviljedi]

be interesting to know what background services you have running :)...

Nothing abnormal. I tested it on a clean install with only the windows updates and ati drivers added.

I took my 4870 and put it in my other pc (e4400 @ 2.4Ghz, 2gbs ram, 300w psu, vista sp1) to see if I noticed any performance differences. I also tried running the benchmark with my old 8600GTS. Both graphics cards were using the latest drivers.

4870:

HIGH, 1024x768:

http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=atihighke6.jpg

LOW, 1024x768:

http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=atilowol7.jpg

8600GTS:

HIGH, 1024x768:

http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nvidiahighno9.jpg

LOW, 1024x768:

http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nvidialowpr7.jpg

Only a 10FPS increase from the 8600GTS really sucks. Maybe FC2 is just **** with ATI but I've seen other people posting saying they are running it fine. Maybe I've got a dud card? Or perhaps it's just the CPU limiting these results. I still have no idea...

Edited October 25, 2008 by eviljedi

[CPressland]

Very very strange, i've got a Q9450 CPU /w 8GB DDR2 RAM and ATi 4850 and I get about 70-120 FPS @ 720p

Humour me, what anti virus are you running?

[rajputwarrior]

:rolleyes:

When will the FUD end?!

i don't think its necessarily a bad idea, if you can throw xp on it and see the performance you get, if could be a driver problem related to the OS (not saying is the OS's fault)

[+shift. MVC]

Yes, but to say that Vista is the cause of bad gaming FPS is just ignorant and uncalled for especially when a lot of people have zero problems (and maybe even improvements in FPS) with Vista compared to XP.