when I lower resolution I see no gains whats going on?

I own a 6990m (800/1000) 15200 vantage gpu score

When I lower the resolution down to 720p my framerates dont go up, why is this?

 

Do you have V Sync on? If so your framerates would be limited to the refresh rate of your monitor.

 

vsync is off

 

Adjust other graphics settings and see if you get any difference in frame rates?

 

Bottlenecked by the CPU?

 

^ Cpu botttleneck.

 

Posting your entire system specs would help a lot.

 

Yup like Omega has said, please let us know of your system specs. That will help a lot in figuring out whether the CPU is the bottleneck here. Also, tell us what game you noticed this one.

 

2630qm
6990m
500gb 5400 rpm
win7

crysis warhead

ps FYI warhead was optimized crazy good I get 30-50 fps in 3d x10 and 30 fps in dx 9. they made it more of a gpu powered game.

crysis for example runs at 17fps no matter what in 3d

 

Try lowering the resolution even further. To the lowest it can go. Go in steps. Tell us if you suddenly start seeing gains at a certain resolution. I'm pretty sure this is a CPU bottleneck.

 

Try 3Dmark11 to compare. It's more of a GPU-focused benchmark.

 

This was a drop from 1080p to 720p?

When a game's framerate doesn't increase with lowered settings, it points to a CPU bottleneck, just about every time. Especially when one has a card of the 6870's power.

 

yea the drop was from 1080p to 720p.

my 3d is running great for some reason..cheap enthusiast CW Im getting lows of 30 and the tech amd hd3d is locked at 24fps

at just 820/1020 im getting 15500 vantage gpu.

also just curious.. how do the pros consistently overclock so high is the a tweak or program to allow for higher overclocks?

 

Say what? You don't need to be a "pro" to OC. At a certain voltage, there is only so far that you can go before your system will crash. Science doens't change for the "pros". I wish it did. Would give me a reason to become one

It works like this - the "clock" is actually generated by an analog component, called the PLL. Simply put, it has a capacitor that charges and discharges at a very very high rate. Every charge is a 1 and discharge is a 0. The faster it charges, the faster your clock. The faster it charges, the faster it needs current to fill it up => more voltage. If you overvolt, you can increase your clocks more. However, there is a downside to this. A larger voltage means higher temperatures. While at max possible clock at stock voltage you might be in the safe temps range, when you overvolt, you give more room for the temps to increase, in effect increasing the chance that you fry your chip. The "pros" know to monitor this. They also know how to flash the vBIOS so the can overvolt.

I'd suggest you stay away from the overvolting stuff. Your problem is most likely not GPU related. A fact that we can confirm if you reduce your resolution further to like 640x480 or 800x600 whatever is available. If you see gains, then we know what the problem is. If it is CPU related, you can OC your chip to kingdom come and you will still not see a gain in frame rates.

 

Crysis only uses two cores. You can only do so much from this point.

I would say to put the resolution at 1600x900 and play at that. I play at 1680x1050 often enough and it allows me to max out that game in particular.

 

It is possible that the problem is in MSAA Antialiasing or smth like this. decrease multiplier to 2x or even to disable