For people playing F.E.A.R./Extraction Point on thier G50...

Are you guys getting really ****ty FPS right after checkpoints/loading areas? The game runs perfectly about 2 minutes after every checkpoint and loading but right after checkpoints the game becomes unplayable and choppy as ****. Im running the pretty much the same settings as vicious had in his review, just with volumetric lights at 0 (i thought that might help). During firefights and crazy scenes the fps dont drop at all so it makes me think that its a hd problem becasue when it saves thats when **** hits the fan. Anyways if anybody can help me out it would be much appreciated....my old z96j with an x1600 ran it without problems...i mean come on.

Btw i have an A2 with the 175 drivers.
I realize this should be in the gaming forum instead but I thought this might be a g50 problem

 

I heard of "choppy" issues in another thread in regards to WoW, and it was completely solved when the person removed the jumpers from their hard drives. It turns out that all the shipped G50V-A2's HDD's are actually running at half their potential speed.

Thread is posted below by mario64.

 

The A2 has a hitachi drive that has jumpers and one persons was set at SATAI instead of SATAII changing the jumper fixed his issue he said.

The A1 uses Western Digital drives and they have no jumpers, so its not ALL G50's its only the A2's and so far we have only had that one person say that his jumpers were in the wrong position so not sure if its default to that or if it was a fluke.

Still the point I made in that thread is that in thory it should not matter 1.5gb/s vs 3.0gb/s both of them have way more overhead speed than what the drive needs so it was not a bandwidth limitation maybe a interface conflict if anything but still SATAII is supposed to be fully backwards compatible.

 

The A2's have Seagate drives in them. Specifically this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148307. Enabling SATA II definitely cleared up my WoW stuttering.

 

Meh seagate/hitachi its not WD and I dont own it so didnt see it with my own eyes.

I did not see any jumpers on the A1 and thats the point I am trying to make.

 

Sorry, I edited my post. Thought it was all G50V's. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

I Have FEAR installed I should test it for you when I find time.

I have to come to work for a stupid meeting on Tuesday and will have like 4 hours of nothing to do after until my shift starts so I can test then. Right at the save/check points right?

 

So yesterday I decided to remove the jumpers (**** that one screw by the subwoofer looking thing I didnt realize it was different than all the rest...took me 20 min to put it back together lol) I dont know if it really made a difference in normal usage, in FEAR sometimes it seemed like it helped but then sometimes it would be just as bad as before. Vicious, Im playing the Expansion (for some reason the expansion is hogs more resources...I get way more fps on the original) if that makes a difference and yes its at the checkpoints not really the loading ones if you know what I mean but when you get to a certain point in the level and it saves for you...

So now Im not sure whether its an Hd problem...would updating my drivers to the 177.79 make that big of a difference?

 

I'm getting the exact same problem. I have the G50V-A2, and it runs beautifully on FEAR, up until the loading points, exactly as you described. I'm going to also take out my jumpers soon, and then format and put RAID-0 on, then reinstall.

I'll tell you how that goes when I get around to it.

It's annoying how the G50V-A2 has to have those dumb jumpers on.

 

Yes please let me know if RAID-0 helps, I wasnt planning on doing it but i bought this computer so I could run games smoothly not have it lagg up everytime the game saves (which is a lot in fear).