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post #1 of 11
6/26/12 at 10:05pm
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Well..
I was playing some HON (don't laugh) and every once and a while I would drop from 60 (vsync on) to 30's.
This is a game that I could run max back on one 6870. Then still max with two.
I know this should be less than a cakewalk for this card.

I had it slightly overclocked at the time and I pulled them off but it would still happen here and there. It was weird though because if I alt tabbed out to the desktop and then re-opened the game it would jump back to 60 and stay there. I played an hour long game and this happened twice. Alt tabbed and it fixed it. I have the newest drivers. The card is less than 4 hours old.

update: seems to happen less and less. Just need more time to diagnose. I think the card is fine.
Edited by pilla99 - 6/27/12 at 12:13am
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6/27/12 at 12:11am
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Bump and update with some pics I guess. Second catleap should be here tomorrow.
So far this card has been carving through what i've played.
HON
BF3
CS GO

gonna install SC2 Diablo III and whatever else I can asap.
Pics: This sucker barely fits.

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6/27/12 at 12:16am
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This is exactly what I have to do when I play Crysis 2.  If I don't Alt+Tab out and back in before I actually play, then I don't get liquid-smooth performance.  I thought it was just Crysis 2.

 

So far, it seems to me that this is normal for Crysis 2, but HON?  I don't know; maybe.  I mean, it sounds like it's the same thing, whatever it is.

It's like advanced alien technology! :)
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6/27/12 at 5:24am
Go in your nvidia control panel and select "prefer maximum performance" for power management
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6/27/12 at 8:12am
Running adaptive v-sync (forcing it from NVCP) instead of in-game v-sync may fix the drops to 30fps. It may not stop you from dipping under 60fps at times, but at least maybe it won't be as noticeable when it happens.
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6/27/12 at 11:19am
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I just find it strange that it would drop like that..?
I changed the power setting this morning and played some Starcraft 2. Another game that should run no problems. Played for about 30 minutes but right near the start I was running at 35 fps. Alt tabbed and came back in to rocket to 180fps.
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6/27/12 at 11:25am
this was happening on my 480 SLI setup as well but with dota 2 and diablo 3. for some reason I can't have 60fps constant with v-sync on. it dips down as low as 40fps although intermittently. once I updated to the latest beta drivers 304.48 the problem was fixed and I had constant fps again. try it
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6/27/12 at 11:36am
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this was happening on my 480 SLI setup as well but with dota 2 and diablo 3. for some reason I can't have 60fps constant with v-sync on. it dips down as low as 40fps although intermittently. once I updated to the latest beta drivers 304.48 the problem was fixed and I had constant fps again. try it

 

This.

 

If it doesn't work, then at that point I would say that it would be time to just think of Alt+Tabbing out and back in as normal.  It's become so normal for me in Crysis 2 that I don't even have to think about it:  I sometimes even forget that I did it and then I have to verify it by just paying close attention to my performance in areas where I know it would otherwise be sluggish.

 

I don't know what would (or could) cause this, but I'd rather be able to have this workaround instead of not having any way to get away from it.

It's like advanced alien technology! :)
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6/28/12 at 12:57am
Run PrecisionX and stress test it, see if there are any throttling or choking
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7/29/12 at 3:49pm
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Precision X shows that nothing abnormal is happening. Doesn't seem to matter what graphical settings I apply. Maximum performance is preferred in the Nvidia console.
This is the easiest game by far to run out of my collection but by far runs the worst.

1 6870 was outdoing this by leagues when I had it. Posted over in the HON forums but no one there seems to know what it could be. The only other progress I have made it that it seems to affect Kepler GPU's, running poorly on all of them. I am on the latest beta drivers that did nothing to help.

Also might as well update with the new case since the OP shows the old stuff.
HAF X



Edited by pilla99 - 7/29/12 at 3:54pm
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