Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Very low frame rate and a few clues. [RESOLVED]

Mana Dragon · 01-30-2007, 11:26 AM

Power Supply (NEW - just got it yesterday)
TURBO STEAM 460W ATX 12V v2.2

Motherboard
8VTAI
Epox EP-8VTAI
1 socket 462

CPU
AMD Sempron

RAM
DIMM Corsair CMX1024-3200 One Gig
DIMM Corsair CMX512-3200C2 512 MB

Video Card
Radeon X700 Pro AGP 256MB

Hard Drive
Western Digital ATA 37.2 GB

OS --- Win XP

Whew. Okay, not sure if anyone sees the motherboard,cpu forum but I had trouble getting my computer to boot all the way up. Finally discovered it was the Power Supply.

What happened was over the course of the week, my game would stall out and sometimes booting up the computer, the computer wouldn't get past the logo screen, or Windows XP would load for 10 minutes. Eventually it got worse and worse and at one point, I'd load up my game and as soon as it loaded, my computer rebooted. Then a few hours later, the computer would boot up, but not even get past the logo screen. (Motherboard's logo). So I took it to the shop and we tested around and we didn't expect it to be the Power Supply. This allowed us to boot up the computer and my game with no problems.

However, since I installed the new Power Supply, I've noticed my game play is alot slower than usual. I'm definetly not a hardware guy, but I'm thinking my computer had 2 problems instead of 1. My FPS is constantly below 10 even in enclosed areas. Once the game remembers the spell I've casted graphically, the FPS won't drop since it's seen it before, but once it loads alot of NPCs or other characters and spells, it really slows up.

Normally, my fps can be around 50. I'm into World of Warcraft, yep, that big MMORPG...

Now that I stare at a wall, my fps barely even goes over 20.

Before I want to say it's a game-only issue, when I boot up my computer, and I click on the internet, the computer will slow up. Even my music will sound messed up, like it echoes, not loops, but echoes like it's fuzzy and picking up where it left off after the slow up is gone.

Once again, once the computer recognizes Google, or my music player, it won't slow up anymore if I was to close out of them, and re-open them. It's hard to explain it as if I was on Desktop, but I'm seeing the issue generally over the computer, not just the game.

So truthfully, I'm not sure where to post this, but I'm a gamer and this issue plays the greatest effect on my gameplay. I'm not sure how else to explain this, I wish I could record a clip and show you, but we might blame the clip because recording or frapsing can slow down the game anyway.

It's hard to explain things through typing it out, but if there needs to be better explaining, let me know and I'll try to re-word it. Thanks in advance.

01-30-2007, 11:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mana Dragon Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 135 OS: Win XP	Very low frame rate and a few clues. [RESOLVED] Power Supply (NEW - just got it yesterday) TURBO STEAM 460W ATX 12V v2.2 Motherboard 8VTAI Epox EP-8VTAI 1 socket 462 CPU AMD Sempron RAM DIMM Corsair CMX1024-3200 One Gig DIMM Corsair CMX512-3200C2 512 MB Video Card Radeon X700 Pro AGP 256MB Hard Drive Western Digital ATA 37.2 GB OS --- Win XP Whew. Okay, not sure if anyone sees the motherboard,cpu forum but I had trouble getting my computer to boot all the way up. Finally discovered it was the Power Supply. What happened was over the course of the week, my game would stall out and sometimes booting up the computer, the computer wouldn't get past the logo screen, or Windows XP would load for 10 minutes. Eventually it got worse and worse and at one point, I'd load up my game and as soon as it loaded, my computer rebooted. Then a few hours later, the computer would boot up, but not even get past the logo screen. (Motherboard's logo). So I took it to the shop and we tested around and we didn't expect it to be the Power Supply. This allowed us to boot up the computer and my game with no problems. However, since I installed the new Power Supply, I've noticed my game play is alot slower than usual. I'm definetly not a hardware guy, but I'm thinking my computer had 2 problems instead of 1. My FPS is constantly below 10 even in enclosed areas. Once the game remembers the spell I've casted graphically, the FPS won't drop since it's seen it before, but once it loads alot of NPCs or other characters and spells, it really slows up. Normally, my fps can be around 50. I'm into World of Warcraft, yep, that big MMORPG... Now that I stare at a wall, my fps barely even goes over 20. Before I want to say it's a game-only issue, when I boot up my computer, and I click on the internet, the computer will slow up. Even my music will sound messed up, like it echoes, not loops, but echoes like it's fuzzy and picking up where it left off after the slow up is gone. Once again, once the computer recognizes Google, or my music player, it won't slow up anymore if I was to close out of them, and re-open them. It's hard to explain it as if I was on Desktop, but I'm seeing the issue generally over the computer, not just the game. So truthfully, I'm not sure where to post this, but I'm a gamer and this issue plays the greatest effect on my gameplay. I'm not sure how else to explain this, I wish I could record a clip and show you, but we might blame the clip because recording or frapsing can slow down the game anyway. It's hard to explain things through typing it out, but if there needs to be better explaining, let me know and I'll try to re-word it. Thanks in advance.