What are the possibilities of this ??

Motoxrdude said:
When you pay a few hundred dollars for a video card, wouldn't 30 frames per second on WoW make you upset too?
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The correct answer to this question is "Yes, yes it would" lol.

But seriously that would be enough to make me mad (but on a different game...because I'm not a big fan of WoW)
 
The problem is still here.
I heard someone suspecting it might be due to overheating so I have this information for you experts.

Monitoring Chip : SMSC EMC6D103
Voltage CPU : 1.18 V
+3.3V Voltage : 3.30 V
+5V Voltage : 5.10 V
+12V Voltage : 12.00 V
Chassis Fan : 2216 rpm
Power/Aux Fan : 1930 rpm
Processor Temperature : 87 °C
Mainboard Temperature : 59 °C
Power/Aux Temperature : 37 °C
:
Monitoring Chip GPU : nVidia Driver + Thermal Diode
GPU Temperature : 51 °C
GPU Diode : 52 °C
GPU Fan : 38%
:
Hard Disk Temperature ST3320620AS : 30 °C

These values were taken when my FPS had dropped from 75 to 20 in a raid.
Is my computer overheating?

Btw, I'm using the latest driver for my card, problem still exists.


For my in-game settings, I have vert syn on with triple buffering if that's what you were asking. Settings from nVidia control panel are : 75 refresh rate , 32 bit , high performance.

Any help is hugely appreciated. If my FPS remains the same I might just go to a computer tech. and ask him to format the whole thing for me, might even add 2G of ram to hopefully buff my machine's performance but since i'm using windows XP i'm not sure if 4G ram is useful at all.
 
87*c processor is pretty hot, that's a real consideration. Check that airflow is sufficient, clean the heatsink if needed, reapply thermal paste, etc. You can check CPU usage by keeping the task manager up, then alt-tabbing out and checking the graph, it will show the in-game usage, opposed to the often lower out of game usage.

If the Lower FPS is just a jump, rather than a long term effect, you can attempt to turn of V-sync and triple buffering. V-sync will cause FPS stutter at times, and even with the extra buffer unit that is achieved with triple buffering, this can still be apparent.
 
The drop in FPS is not a spike.
Let's say when i reboot my computer, load WoW and start raiding, i get 50~75 FPS.
After a while it goes down to 30ish and eventually 20 something, I had less than 10 FPS last night when the boss was doing some special moves with lightnings and shit but I mean less than 10 FPS...... I call that BS with my computer and it's world of warcraft omg not like Oblivion or Crysis etc.

I used to think overheating is kinda impossible because I'm using a pretty decent case, it's 'Cooler-Master'. Fans are all working, not sure about the thermal paste though.
 
I got another question.
How do you check how much ram your system's using?
and at what value should I consider adding more ram?
I have 2 GIG ram atm.
 
Ok I ended up bringing my computer to a computer store and had my computer's C drive formatted, they also helped me clean my computer too and yes, LOTS of dust stuck in the CPU fan and display card fan. I didn't see the dust in there until they removed the CPU fan and the card because I was too afraid of screwing up. FPS is good again now. :)

I wouldn't mind if anyone could post some instructions in cleaning those parts I mentioned.

Display card fan seems easy, I saw they removed a screw and pulled the card out then started cleaning with vacuum cleaner and brush.

To remove the CPU fan seems a bit trickier though and I am not confident to do it myself. :P
 
A couple of answers that should have been provided a while ago (I hope you didn't take your PC in because of the lackluster replies! They can be helpful, but they are damned expensive, and more often than not, all they mange to do to set things right is a tiny bit of maintenance.)

Total system memory in-use can be checked via the task manager (ctrl,alt,delete), near the bottom or on the performance tab. It will list physical and virtual memory (swap/page file, a section of predetermined HDD space set aside to act as a slower version of RAM). 2Gb's of RAM is fine for now, but the best way to determine when to upgrade RAM is when you no longer have enough to keep up with your apps! It really is a per basis decision.

General maintenance is a must. I don't mean to berate, but the dust in the fan/heatsink was probably your problem, and those porn-stealing "techs" just took you for a ride. :D I'll admit some CPU heatsinks can be quite bitchy, to remove the fan requires no more than a screw driver, but you shouldn't be afraid of breaking anything (long as the computers off and unplugged! And you ground yourself to remove any ESD (static electricity)). Just examine the confounded contraption and work out how to unclasp it. You don't even need to remove the heatsink to clean it most the time, you can use a can of compressed air, or lacking that some papertowels and q-tips, maybe some Isopropyl alchohol. This job doesn't require finesse..

Any other questions? Any at all, regarding anything, We're happy to answer. :)
 
hermeslyre said:
A couple of answers that should have been provided a while ago (I hope you didn't take your PC in because of the lackluster replies! They can be helpful, but they are damned expensive, and more often than not, all they mange to do to set things right is a tiny bit of maintenance.)

Total system memory in-use can be checked via the task manager (ctrl,alt,delete), near the bottom or on the performance tab. It will list physical and virtual memory (swap/page file, a section of predetermined HDD space set aside to act as a slower version of RAM). 2Gb's of RAM is fine for now, but the best way to determine when to upgrade RAM is when you no longer have enough to keep up with your apps! It really is a per basis decision.

General maintenance is a must. I don't mean to berate, but the dust in the fan/heatsink was probably your problem, and those porn-stealing "techs" just took you for a ride. :D I'll admit some CPU heatsinks can be quite bitchy, to remove the fan requires no more than a screw driver, but you shouldn't be afraid of breaking anything (long as the computers off and unplugged! And you ground yourself to remove any ESD (static electricity)). Just examine the confounded contraption and work out how to unclasp it. You don't even need to remove the heatsink to clean it most the time, you can use a can of compressed air, or lacking that some papertowels and q-tips, maybe some Isopropyl alchohol. This job doesn't require finesse..

Any other questions? Any at all, regarding anything, We're happy to answer. :)
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Nah ppl here are nice and helpful which I am very glad.
I'm in a habit of formatting C drive because I think 'rubbish' accumulates over time and I noticed my computer startup loading speed was slow.

Yea I believe the problem was overheat, hopefully I can manage to clean up my computer on my own soon. :)
 
Well, to help you on the software side, Ccleaner,

http://www.ccleaner.com/

It's the best free crap cleaner, and it won't delete any needed or useful files, be assured. It's also got a registry cleaner as well, run this every once in awhile as well.
 
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