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[Adamski_707]

Im encountering a rather nasty and to me game breaking problem.

The game runs fine and smooth but within 5 minutes or so of loading up a save and playing it. My fps will instantly drop to insanely low levels for about 2 minutes rendering it unplayable.
This then happens again every 5-10 minutes and to me i cant play like that.
This happens in both ME1 and ME2 and a few other games i own.

System spec

OS: Windows XP sp3
GPU: nvidia Geforce 8600GT 512mb
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @3GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P5K SE
RAM: 2GB

Any help is greatly appriciated.

Modifié par Adamski_707, 29 janvier 2010 - 11:29 .

[Adamski_707]

whoops double

Modifié par Adamski_707, 29 janvier 2010 - 11:29 .

[Gebut]

Do you have any problems with other games or only Mass Effect 2?

[Adamski_707]

Gebut wrote...

Do you have any problems with other games or only Mass Effect 2?

As i edited in

I have it in ME1 aswell and pretty much everyother game i have played recently. Although recently i have only played ME1/2, Killing Floor and Company of Heros (COH works fine though)

[Gebut]

Adamski_707 wrote...

As i edited in

I have it in ME1 aswell and pretty much everyother game i have played recently. Although recently i have only played ME1/2, Killing Floor and Company of Heros (COH works fine though)

Well my first thought when reading your post is that your cpu might be overheating. Processors usually have a safty when getting to hot, and they clock themselves down to recover, and then fire back up again. Might not be it, but you could try and get any dust from the cpu fan.

Other then that, make sure you got latest drivers for your components

[Adamski_707]

Gebut wrote...

Well my first thought when reading your post is that your cpu might be overheating. Processors usually have a safty when getting to hot, and they clock themselves down to recover, and then fire back up again. Might not be it, but you could try and get any dust from the cpu fan.

Other then that, make sure you got latest drivers for your components

Well ill get the case off then and do a little clean ill post back after and as far as im aware drivers are up to date but ill check just to make sure.

[serander]

Have same problem, only that freeze lasts ~15-20 seconds, during those game pretty much freezes up (sound starts to stutter repeat very fast), then it runs smoothly again. Noticed it happening mostly when entering new rooms.



Specs:

OS: Windows XP sp3

GPU: nvidia Geforce 260GTX 896mb

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @3GHz

RAM: 2GB



Shouldn't be overheating problem, got a temp indicators running in background and alt-tabbing just after freeze does not shows any extreme digits.

[Gebut]

Serender



You might be right, but yours sound more like a sound issue with sound repeating or some conflict of some kind. I had that error myself in certain games on my old rig. Can be real nasty troubleshooting problems like that.

What soundcard do you have?

[serander]

Old SB live! series

[Gebut]

Creative, have a couple myself. Absolutely hate them, always giving me problems =)
When dealing with soundcard troubleshooting I usually try and disable EAX and stuff like that, maybe try and turn Hardware Sound Acceleration down a notch and test it.

Creatives drivers can also sometimes be a mess, with newest drivers not working so good while original drivers that comes with the card does, etc. Like I said, it can be nasty business troubleshooting, even worse than dealing with a pack of angry Krogans.

Modifié par Gebut, 30 janvier 2010 - 12:06 .

[serander]

Thanks for tip, will try to switch to MB (Asus something) onboard soundcard.

[Adamski_707]

Right im back after case off etc and some testing.

I cleaned out what little dust there was in and around my whole case.
To no avail but i noticed the fan on my graphics card wasnt working (since i havent put the case back on yet) and i checked the temp it was at 124 degrees celcius when at my desktop!

I have since put a desk fan beside it to cool it just to see if its the problem testing now.
With the external fan the card is running about 18 degrees cooler

Modifié par Adamski_707, 30 janvier 2010 - 12:41 .

[Adamski_707]

Just incase anyone has a similar issue.



I think i have resolved it. Cooling issue, cleared out the dust in and around my graphics card as the fan was clogged, seems to be running fine now.

[Tankkiller1337]

I have the same graphics card like you and Windows XP SP3 aswell.



And I am encounterting the absolute same problem like you, are you really sure that you can fix the problem just by dusting out the fan and the graphics card?

Seems a little weird if several people have this problem.

[Adamski_707]

I still get some graphical issues now and again but im not getting the huge fps drops every 5 minutes so its nothing game breaking.