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    Games slow after standby

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by lumberbunny, Sep 7, 2006.

  1. lumberbunny

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    Has anyone had this happen to them? After my computer wakes from standby, all of my games run at about 20% of the framerate that they run at before standby or after a reboot. Any suggestions?
     
    lumberbunny, Sep 7, 2006
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    Standby is also known as "suspend to ram". It basically puts the system into a low-power state, so it can recover quickly, but that involves putting data in different places, so that may cause some problems for a few minutes.
    It may also lower the clock settings on your video chip going into and out of standby. Check with Rivatuner/atitool and see what they report.
     
    Pitabred, Sep 7, 2006
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    I checked Rivatuner, and the frequencies are 507/375 before a standby, and 100/0 after a standby while gaming. While not gaming they are always 100/0. So what is keeping my GPU from going to performance clock speeds after the system has been in standby?
     
    lumberbunny, Sep 8, 2006
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    Use a program like "Free RAM XP" to free your RAM after standby or hibernation.

    I find it very useful.
     
    usapatriot, Sep 8, 2006
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