i am getting really low framerates in my games even though i am running dual 3870's in crossfire. in counter strike source i get around 40-50 with max settings no AA and trilinear filtering. about 50 in BF2 with max settings and no AA and in WoW i get about 20-30 with settings at medium while in a 25 man raid. I am running Vista ultimate 64 bit with the most recent 8.5 ATI drivers. any help?
The hardrive is the weak link but it shouldn't result in thoses sort of frame rates,
i'ld check the temperature, ATI cards are known to kick out a load of heat, one of them may have shut down and the other could have "throtelled due to heat
Where you able to play that games with good framerates with the same cards before? Ome games dont work well or dont work at all with crossfire or sli configurations. Disable Crossfire support with the ati control panel in display properties when you trry to play one of these games and see what happens.
I think it has to do with your GPU, but I dont know how, because my brother got kinda the same problem in AoC, with the same GPU as you in crossfire. Whenever he is in dungeons and such he gets like 100+ fps, and in the cities where there are loads of players it dips to about 10-20fps. I dont know how it can be, but it might be the driver, because both he and other players in game with 3870 has had some minor problems. They are probably gonna fix some of it in an up-coming driver.
Edit: He is using 64-bit ultimate too, it might be that and the driver there is somehow bugging together.
I had a similar problem with my last machine. Turns out it was my CPU overheating. So monitor your CPU and GPU temps and make sure they arent WAY high.
I had a similar problem with my last machine. Turns out it was my CPU overheating. So monitor your CPU and GPU temps and make sure they arent WAY high.maartyr
my cpu is at around 40C and my video cards are around 60 which is perfectly fine. and i did a virus and spyware scan and got nothing.
I think it has to do with your GPU, but I dont know how, because my brother got kinda the same problem in AoC, with the same GPU as you in crossfire. Whenever he is in dungeons and such he gets like 100+ fps, and in the cities where there are loads of players it dips to about 10-20fps. I dont know how it can be, but it might be the driver, because both he and other players in game with 3870 has had some minor problems. They are probably gonna fix some of it in an up-coming driver.
Edit: He is using 64-bit ultimate too, it might be that and the driver there is somehow bugging together.
TheFreeloader
That means you have a problem with your internet connection.
disable your anti-virus, spyware scanner, etc. everything is running in the background. Make sure they are not running at all. If you really want to game you would do a clean install of windows and not put any of that anti virus crap on your pc.
disable your anti-virus, spyware scanner, etc. everything is running in the background. Make sure they are not running at all. If you really want to game you would do a clean install of windows and not put any of that anti virus crap on your pc.rob1101
i have had this problem since day 1 of install and i just recently put Anti-virus on.
well i just found out that disabling through bios or amd overdrive no longer works with vista SP1. but i have had this problem before SP1 was released so the tlb cant be the only problem.
edit: i have an older version of my bios without the TLB fix.
You should have a gaming partition set up .Where ther is nothing else on it just games .If you dont do it .And why Vista ultimate. Try bringing up the task manager and setting your games priority to high.
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