[Verty333]

Hi,

I recently have been having a weird problem with my game performance, for all games when I start playing they will run at a nice smooth frame rate, for example stalker would run at about 70 fps, then after about 2 minutes the fps will drop and stay low, stalker drops to about 14fps.

This performance drop is irrellevant of any in game setting ( AA, Res, Texture detail etc), I tried dropping all the settings and exactly the same thing happens.

I have a 865dPerl intel motherboard, P4 3.2, 1gb RAM, and a Sapphire X800 Xt.

I reformatted my computer and installed everything clean but im still getting the same problem.

Any help would be great.

[SYL\X/3K]

are the temperatures running right, cpu and gpu?

[Verty333]

No problems with the heating.

[600MHZ]

Are you running Vista?

[Verty333]

No, do not have vista (thank god)

[peterhuang913]

the video card might have "aged"

[Verty333]

Originally Posted by peterhuang913

the video card might have "aged"

Do you mean its crap now compared to newer cards?

Or the componenets are stuffed because its old?
Ive only had it for about 2 years.

[Verty333]

So no ideas any one?

Whats the order i should re-install drivers after a clean reformat?

This is so annoying, my computer that I set up for games like 2 years is now a piece of **** that cant even run games properly from 3 the years ago (hl2)

[SYL\X/3K]

try updating ur video drivers and check if you have Direct x 9.0c installed

[peterhuang913]

i meant that the card probably broke because of time or the thermal stuff is not as good as new, etc...