Alex Ball
Web Nerd
Hey guys,
I've got two PCs at home. One downstairs for 'gaming' and one upstairs for 'gaming'.
Anyway, The upstairs one is primarily used for sim-racing. Recently (last 3 months or so?) I've noticed that I get really guff framerates in my favourite games - rFactor mainly. I switched back to 1 monitor last night (from three) to see if it was a resolution issue, but it didn't help. I get 23-26 FPS at the start of a race with 20 AI cars.
I have reinstalled windows, all drivers, done windows update and tried again, with the exact same FPS.
I just tried it on my PC downstairs, and get 200-290 fps with the same car, same track and same amount of AI.
I tried swapping the graphics cards around and the FPS didn't change - in both cases the FPS is the same.
The spec of the PCs are:
Upstairs:
i5 2500k (tried both standard clock and @ 4.2)
ASRock mobo (decent one)
16gb ram
2tb hitatchi HDD (sata3) (brand new yesterday, a 1gb seagate before that)
AMD 6970
Creative XFi PCI-E
Downstairs
i7 2600k
Gigabyte mobo
8gb ram
128SSD (system), 1.5tb seagate (games)
AMD 7970
Creative XFi PCI-E
In addition, I have recently changed the following chasing FPS:
Graphics (started with 5970, then went to 2x 6970 CF, then 2x 580 SLI, now back to single 6970)
Motherboard (when trying to get CF to work properly)
Ram (went from 4gb, to a 8gb kit now to a 16gb kit)
HDD (old 1tb was old, so replaced for new)
PSU (just incase)
So, what can I do to check what might be wrong? Anyone got any ideas? I used to get 100-120fps on the upstairs PC before I upgraded - back then it was a i7 860, 4gb ram, and a 5970. Very weird.
Cheers in advance.
-al
I've got two PCs at home. One downstairs for 'gaming' and one upstairs for 'gaming'.
Anyway, The upstairs one is primarily used for sim-racing. Recently (last 3 months or so?) I've noticed that I get really guff framerates in my favourite games - rFactor mainly. I switched back to 1 monitor last night (from three) to see if it was a resolution issue, but it didn't help. I get 23-26 FPS at the start of a race with 20 AI cars.
I have reinstalled windows, all drivers, done windows update and tried again, with the exact same FPS.
I just tried it on my PC downstairs, and get 200-290 fps with the same car, same track and same amount of AI.
I tried swapping the graphics cards around and the FPS didn't change - in both cases the FPS is the same.
The spec of the PCs are:
Upstairs:
i5 2500k (tried both standard clock and @ 4.2)
ASRock mobo (decent one)
16gb ram
2tb hitatchi HDD (sata3) (brand new yesterday, a 1gb seagate before that)
AMD 6970
Creative XFi PCI-E
Downstairs
i7 2600k
Gigabyte mobo
8gb ram
128SSD (system), 1.5tb seagate (games)
AMD 7970
Creative XFi PCI-E
In addition, I have recently changed the following chasing FPS:
Graphics (started with 5970, then went to 2x 6970 CF, then 2x 580 SLI, now back to single 6970)
Motherboard (when trying to get CF to work properly)
Ram (went from 4gb, to a 8gb kit now to a 16gb kit)
HDD (old 1tb was old, so replaced for new)
PSU (just incase)
So, what can I do to check what might be wrong? Anyone got any ideas? I used to get 100-120fps on the upstairs PC before I upgraded - back then it was a i7 860, 4gb ram, and a 5970. Very weird.
Cheers in advance.
-al
