TSGK Clan Forum

Lawitz · Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 23:35 Post subject:

I had bought new 4gb ram(2x2gb) for windows 7. I don´t think its faulty. I´ll try out the 9500gt in my old pc, if it gets a better score than my 8800gts then the card must be broken. I did a lot of stress testing and there was nothing wrong. the gpu runs games ok but apparrantly the performance is less than it should be. lets see what the 9500gt will return.

Ghost Dog_TSGK · Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 23:46 Post subject:

They might have just done a terribly shitty job of coding it for that card.

Happens often these days for games that release tandem on the PC and consoles.

They will even claim that card is supported as long as it doesn't BSOD after the title screen.

Lawitz · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 00:05 Post subject:

its not just bioshock anymore, apparantly I´m being robbed of 3d performance in general. I tried out my 9500gt and like the 8800gts it only got half of the 3dmarks it should have gotten. so the gpu is fine. next I´ll check the ram. I´ll try putting only 1 ram in and in a different slot. then I can test my old 2gb set.

edit: tried old ram, put new ram in a different slot, still the same result. so its not the ram or the gpu.

Diet H2O_TSGK · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 01:04 Post subject:

StonedCabbage · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 02:05 Post subject:

Full reinstall is on the cards, you tried swapping slots?

Lawitz · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 03:00 Post subject:

I had the problem with windows xp 32bit, I made the change to windows 7 64bit and the problem is still there, a bit worse even. 2 different OS, different drivers and still the same problem. a fresh os has no broken registry entries or leftovers. I don´t use powerdvd, what does that have to do with the problem unless you were to run it in the background?

cabbage, do you mean putting the gpu in the second pci-e slot? that would screw up the whole setup, I´d have to install longer watertubes and I can´t be bothered to do that since I will buy a new pc this summer. why should the primary pci-e slot be broken? does that happen? I could try out the 9500gt in the other slot but I don´t think that would make a difference.

Diet H2O_TSGK · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 03:10 Post subject:

In my experience Powerdvd can cause a lot of strage problems around performance - even after uninstalling. GL with finding a solution. You've looked at the events log in manager? You ran a dxdiag?

StonedCabbage · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 15:47 Post subject:

Lawitz · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 20:06 Post subject:

I somehow broke the bootmanager so I had to reinstall windows, was just testing some bios options and it happened. I´m not going to bother anymore I think, hl2dm runs fine, I finished bioshock 2, I´ll just wait till my next pc.

Zog Ecosse · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 22:06 Post subject:

I don't think I can help much anymore without actually having hands on the PC.
Check you overclock and make sure your PCIE bus is running at the right speed.

Lawitz · Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 02:09 Post subject:

the pcie speed is fixed to 100mhz. I´m getting the right amount of cpu marks in 3d mark, in the everest cpu benchmarks I have the fastest dual core cpu, so I think there is nothing wrong with the cpu performance here.

Zog Ecosse · Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 15:37 Post subject:

Just a few more observations after a weekend of Bioskock2

Make sure you set up Games for Windows_LIVE properly. I didn't and lost 3 hours play because the single player game wont save without it.
Of course, you also need it to play multiplayer.
I did not get much time to try multiplayer because I got the "gotta play this through to the end" bug on single player Cool

Unfortunately I picked Civil War as my intro to online multiplayer and this turned out to be a fairly standard TDM in a spectacular setting with a few likable twists to the gameplay.

I am hoping to try out the other variants over the next few days.

My playing name is bioZog so you can add me to you Games for Windows_LIVE friends list ( however you do that)

bioZoggy

Lawitz · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 22:29 Post subject:

I was just browsing a forum already having given up and what do I see, someone else has the same problem and there is an answer: raise the northbridge voltage, its a an error with the 965 boards. when you put a lot of strain on it (overclock) it doesn´t work properly and sets the pci-e slot to X1. so I upped the voltage from 1.25 to 1.45 and its at X16 now and the gpu performance has doubled->problem solved Very Happy

maybe I can even clock the cpu higher now as well, I´ll test it out soon.

and guess what, my sound lag problem is also gone also, apparantly the pci slots were affected as well. weird thing it was all fine with windowx xp.

I don´t want to play bioshock 2 through a third time though Laughing

Diet H2O_TSGK · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 22:46 Post subject:

Happy that you fixed it Lawitz.

Growling_Mad_Scientist · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 02:50 Post subject:

Lawitz · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 15:17 Post subject:

I once had a problem with windows xp sp1 where i had to install 3 device drivers in the exact correct order or one device would not work. sp2 fixed that for some reason. also a component of the nvidia chipset drivers was stopping something from working, i think it was my dsl modem. figuring out what is the cause of the problem is really annoying as the chances are high that your problem is kind of unique and no one can help you, you are the only person who can try to solve it. some people might give you some tips but most of the time all of those tips fail to fix anything.