Bad FPS in games

[adt]

Hi guys,

How come I am getting really bad FPS in games such as Borderlands, GTA 4, Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising and any other open source game. I get bad FPS with AA disabled as well. like for example with GTA everything on High or low I still get bad FPS of about 10 to 15. I know people who have lower specs but get way more better performance.
Is there something wrong with my system? Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Probably because you are playing 32-bit games in 64-bit Windows 7.

I still play most of my games in Windows XP 32-bit. Better performance all around.

 

[adt]

Probably because you are playing 32-bit games in 64-bit Windows 7.

I still play most of my games in Windows XP 32-bit. Better performance all around.

But aren't these new games optimized to work better on 64 bit systems?

 

[sup3rsprt]

Not really. If they were truly optimized for 64-bit then they would have been compiled as 64-bit applications.

 

[adt]

Not really. If they were truly optimized for 64-bit then they would have been compiled as 64-bit applications.

Damn, so is there anything that I can do in order to get some good performance? Someone told me that my ram sticks are too slow so they take time to load textures giving me bad FPS.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Textures are loaded into graphics memory for the most part. And you have one of the best video cards on the market, so that shouldn't be a problem.

 

[adt]

Is there any solution to this then? I thought 64 bit systems were better.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Your specs are a lot better than my gaming computer. But like I say I play games in 32-bit Windows XP and they are fast enough. Many others have experienced the same (slower performance in Windows 7), even with the latest and greatest hardware.

There might be something wrong other than the fact you are playing games in 64-bit Windows.

Have you tried running any benchmarks? Maybe it will help determine the bottleneck if it isn't Windows itself.

 

[adt]

Your specs are a lot better than my gaming computer. But like I say I play games in 32-bit Windows XP and they are fast enough. Many others have experienced the same (slower performance in Windows 7), even with the latest and greatest hardware.

There might be something wrong other than the fact you are playing games in 64-bit Windows.

Have you tried running any benchmarks? Maybe it will help determine the bottleneck if it isn't Windows itself.

Yeah I have ran benchmarks and I only get low FPS in games that have open environments such as GTA 4 & Borderlands. But in other games such as Resident evil 5 I get an FPS of about 50 using the benchmark tool. So yeah it's just with open environment games, even when I had vista a month ago

 

[sup3rsprt]

Well GTA 4 is a very demanding game (demanding means requires a fast computer). Borderlands not so much really. Resident Evil 5 even less so. I have all of these games myself.

Does your FPS get any better when you reduce the screen resolution?

 

[adt]

Well GTA 4 is a very demanding game (demanding means requires a fast computer). Borderlands not so much really. Resident Evil 5 even less so. I have all of these games myself.

Does your FPS get any better when you reduce the screen resolution?

I cannot remember if I get better FPS when I reduce the screen res. I will have to check tomorrow because I have to go sleep now. I will report back here tomorrow, and thanks for the help sup3rsprt.

 

[sup3rsprt]

You're welcome. Good night and we'll help you some more tomorrow

 

[Frostmourne]

Your cpu isn't that good. 2.33GHz is slow for most new games. The 4 cores/threads are not being utilised.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Your cpu isn't that good. 2.33GHz is slow for most new games.

I might agree if I hadn't played Borderlands and RE5 on a single core CPU where they played quite good actually.

 

[Frostmourne]

Depends on the clock - 2.33GHz is low and 4MB of cache is not enough for games. A Phenom II 955 would give much better framerates or a 965. Its equivalent to an E8500 in dual core games.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Those games I just mentioned, I played them on a 2.4GHz single core CPU which only has 512KB of cache. So I fail to see how a 2.33GHz quad core 4MB cache could play these games any worse.

 

[Frostmourne]

I did say "most" - have you tried Crysis Warhead at 1080p with everything set to high and AA/AF off? The quad wouldn't work smoothly and neither would a single core. Exactly why I'm building a new system around a Phenom X4 965 @ 3.4GHz stock. That can match a Core i7 860.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Crysis will bring just about anything to its knees. But nowhere did I see the original poster bring up that particular game, nor that resolution, so I think it's irrelevant.

 

[ZeesuS]

I think that you should get faster memory.. like 800MHz DDR2..

 

[knell]

Probably because you are playing 32-bit games in 64-bit Windows 7.

I still play most of my games in Windows XP 32-bit. Better performance all around.

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