FEAR lag

[GhostHunter]

Getting really bad FPS in FEAR, like 35-40ish under medium-low settings. Just added more memory: DDR2 6400.

Any ideas what might be going on?

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[veK]

bad videocard

[Andrew]

So it was working good before you added more ram?

[thesnake]

put settings on minimum not medium or low it makes great diffrence

then when u are at minimum u can make the graphics better by changing

somthing in the advanced graphics menu without slowing the game

sry but i dont remeber what its name but its at the end of the menu

try testing

[Andrew]

video card Drivers are updated?

I wouldn't think video card is bad (unless you mean it is broke veK). FEAR played fine on my friends 4 year old computer. So I would think a new computer/vid card it should play great.

Maybe computer is overheating? Tried making sure all programs (systray) are shut down before playing?

[Timenn]

What free space do you have on your harddrive (primary)?

I don't know if hard disk space is related to your slow down problems, but it is a known fact that Windows takes up more disk space with temporary files when memory size is increased.

Your pagefile.sys will increase till either one or two times your total memory. If you have enabled hibernation than another amount of total memory size is allocated to hyberfile.sys

[GhostHunter]

So it was working good before you added more ram?

No. That was one of the reasons that influenced the purchase of more.

video card Drivers are updated?

I wouldn't think video card is bad (unless you mean it is broke veK). FEAR played fine on my friends 4 year old computer. So I would think a new computer/vid card it should play great.

Maybe computer is overheating? Tried making sure all programs (systray) are shut down before playing?

The video card drivers are actually the latest. nVidia hasn't released a 64-bit update to the 7 series since last year.

And the heating idea makes sense. But I've taken care of that: the machine has one 80mm fan, one 120mm fine, and a dual-fan PCI cooler directly under the card itself helping to push air out.

What free space do you have on your harddrive (primary)?

I don't know if hard disk space is related to your slow down problems, but it is a known fact that Windows takes up more disk space with temporary files when memory size is increased.

Your pagefile.sys will increase till either one or two times your total memory. If you have enabled hibernation than another amount of total memory size is allocated to hyberfile.sys

It's a 200GB drive that has roughly about 48GB or so free. The unit's had all temp files cleaned, defrag run, disk clean-up run, and items taken off of start-up that might be running in the background to slow it down while it processes FEAR.  :-

[Andrew]

That's weird. It could be a single video setting in your graphics card options, or in FEAR game itself. My guess would be to play with settings in the game until it works better (maybe try settings all low, then increase them one at a time until you notice lots of drop in frames per second). Might just be a single setting that screws it up.

Also check your audio settings (and drivers). It is possible your audio card is slowing it down, or an audio setting in the game slows it down. I've had a problem once with audio really slowing down a game when it shouldn't be. But for whatever reason it did. Maybe try making the audio setting as low as possible and see if that makes a difference.

[thesnake]

yes thats what i said..put settings on minimum not low then start testing to level up some

stuff and see if its causing the lag with the testing boton

[Cyborg]

Could you possibly run some other game or 3dMark06? That'd give indications on what could cause the trouble.

[GhostHunter]

0.o

Well, I reseated my dual-fan PCI slot cooler under the graphics card. Also installed some really base-line Audigy 2 card. Whatever it was, the FPS went up and now I'm able to crank out FEAR, Battlefield 2, etc. max without lag.

Going to say it was a bad onboard AC97 on top of the lack of 64-bit drivers.

Thanks for the help guys