I installed a new harddrive recently and reinstalled just as well OS. After updating all the drivers and the OS, I noticed something gone wrong with performance. Bonus, I thought, since I like to tinker... ;)
Framerates were dipping down in several games that ran smoothly before. Weird, I thought and then I rememberred an old fix for F.E.A.R.
I installed F.E.A.R just to confirm my suspcions (so I could report my findings later). Turns out that F.E.A.R ran like it had a 30FPS cap and so I looked for the solution:
http://forums.vgames.com/thread.jspa?threadID=33244&start=0&tstart=0
Tried it in several games and now the minimum is great and no dips. Here's Stalker: Shadow of chernobyl:
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
29287, 269268, 77, 180, 108.765
In case people want to try this:
settings: Everything on max @ 1920x1200 res
System in sig (CPU@3400, mem@4-4-4-12, 800, 400FSB
Catalyst 8.12
Benchmarked with Fraps
I made a run from the broker in the beginning, through the village on the road and used the road to the house where first assigment is. There I turned and ran back again.
Perhaps others have same issues, so I wanted to post it here. :)
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