Heads Up Everyone

I just wanted to let anyone know who is experiencing frame rate issues in games when it is known that they should be performing better to please check your processor speed.

Specific games with which problems encountered:

Counter Strike: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
(All Source based games can be implied as well)
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142

Problem: I was experiencing poor frame rates in the games listed above, for several months I continued to play thinking it was my video card which was not just powerful enough. I went through multiple driver reinstalls with no solution.

A week ago I had enough of it and decided to run mobile meter while I gamed and look at the resulting graph afterwards.

I had expanded mobile meter across my entire desktop so I could see the graphs for the past 10 minutes or so.

I noticed something, my CPU (Intel Core Duo T2400 1.83ghz) never went above 1ghz while playing those games. I then opened up NHC and forced maximum performance resulting in a full 1.83ghz all the time. I tried playing my games again and performance was now excellent. As further precaution I disabled Intel Speedsteping in the BIOS so now my CPU is constantly clocked at 1.83ghz. This will affect heat and battery life if you are mobile, but I am rarely mobile and recently applied AS5 to my CPU.

So just in case you thought you tried everything, check your CPU.

 

What was your NHC settings before you changed it?

 

I did not have NHC installed or any CPU controlling software.

I installed NHC to force maximum performance.

 

Ohhh. Hmm...that's really interesting. Well i'm glad its working for you now. You were playing thinking it was your GPU for a long time. Must feel better to play games at your lappy's full potential. Did you ever post b4 on the poor frame rates?

 

Definitely, yeah I did but I sort of gave up on it a month or two ago.

 

so thats why i dont use third party power management programs.

 

But it was NHC that allowed him to use his processor to its max.

NHC is a great program...

 

Of course now I do not actually use NHC to force maximum performance since I disabled Intel Speedstepping but I still keep it for when I do not want to run a maximum speed or if I am mobile.

NHC is an excellent program.

 

Will forcing the proc to run at max 100% of the time affect its lifespan very much?

(I have a feeling that answer is "Not if you have adequate cooling," but I want to make sure)

 

No because it was designed to do so.

 

What IS intel speedstepping?

Oh and did you ever do this here?

 

It clocks down the cpu when it isn't needed at full power and then clocks it back to normal when the full ghz is needed. Apparently it was not clocking back up for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedStep

 

Off topic but Ineed recently gotten into watching bleach. What I thought was bleach before was actually another show (dont ask). Downloading the first season.

Yeah speedstepping is kidna iffy heard alot of problems with it.

 

Another show? lol.Ok....well its good. There kind of on fillers right now so you have time to catch up. Manga is good too.


Patriot...did you get my edited post about this hotfix

 

Yup, bleach manga >>> Bleach anime

EDIT: I noticed this when i forgot to set my processor to max power (I also use NHC for manual speedcontrol).