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Jul 23, 2008, 04:16 AM
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9600GT low CS:S framerates
I recently uprgraded to 9600GTs after having them SLId for about a week one burnt out so I am limping by on one (for now) and even with the loss my rig is more than sufficient to handle CS:S.
So I am stricken by the fact that my framerates sometimes dip down to 10FPS and never above 35FPS anyone have any suggestions?  |
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Jul 23, 2008, 04:21 AM
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BTW my other specs are,
EVGA N-force 680i motherboard
C2Q Q6700 2.66MHz stock-clocked
1gig of 800MHz Z-memory
1gig kingston memory
400W Xion PSU
PNY verto 9600GT
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Jul 23, 2008, 11:11 AM
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Driverheaven's Freerunner
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have you tried the standard updating drivers ect.? a thought that springs to mind; has sli been disabled on your rig? i don't have experience with XFire/SLi so i wouldn't know
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Jul 23, 2008, 01:20 PM
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everything is formatted but when i update to new drivers it slows it wayyyyyyy down to about 9 FPS
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Jul 23, 2008, 01:24 PM
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sounds like a problem with the source engine and that particular card, usually there'll be an update made by valve which becomes available on steam. have you had a look on the steam forums for anyone else having this issue?
Or you could alternatively try my fix - play team fortress 2 instead lol
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Jul 23, 2008, 01:30 PM
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I might get the orange box, but now I'm slightly concerned that the same thing might happen. What about installing old drivers? could that be a fix?
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Jul 23, 2008, 05:27 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by almost1148
I might get the orange box, but now I'm slightly concerned that the same thing might happen. What about installing old drivers? could that be a fix?
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If you were getting acceptable framerates on an older version of the same driver then perhaps that would be a good place to start.
And i do recommend the orange box, if not for TF2 then definately for Portal. Great collection of games, well worth it  |
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Jul 24, 2008, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Mousey
And i do recommend the orange box, if not for TF2 then definately for Portal. Great collection of games, well worth it |
ah that portal 
It seems to me that you are definitely having some type of driver issue. I assume that steam will provide a fix......oh and were you experiencing "lower that you might think" FPS when you had them SLi'd? I would assume that CS:S should max FPS 99% of the time with a 9 series card  IMO of course since I don't have one lying around to bench |
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