Poor Gaming Performance?

wolfeking

wolfeking

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I have been trying to play Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood on me lappy, but on Mission 3 in story mode Im only getting 6-8 FPS with settings set to Low all over and resolution 1366*768. Specs are 4GB DDR3-1066, i3-380m, GT 540m 1gb, 7_64 bit.
The game ask for:
COJ:BIB Read Me File said:
Minimum System Requirements:

Operating System : Windows® XP (with SP3) or Windows Vista® (with SP1)
Processor : Intel® Pentium® 4 3.2 Ghz, Intel® Pentium® D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ or better
Video card : NVidia™ 6800 or ATI™ X1650 or better,
256 MB DirectX® 10.0–compliant video card or DirectX® 9.0c–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher
RAM: : 1 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista
DVD-ROM : DVD-ROM
Sound Card : DirectX® 9.0c Compatible Sound Card
Hard Drive Space : 4 GB (*)
Multiplay : Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer mode (for Internet multiplayer)

Recommended System Configuration:

Operating System : Windows® XP (with SP3) or Windows Vista® (with SP1)
Processor : Intel® Core® 2 Duo Family, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom™ or better
Video card : NVidia™ 8600 GTS or ATI™ X1900 or better,
512 MB of graphic memory
RAM: : 2 GB
DVD-ROM : DVD-ROM
Sound Card : DirectX® 9.0c Compatible Sound Card
Hard Drive Space : 4 GB (*)
Multiplay : Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer mode (for Internet multiplayer)

Supported Video Cards at Release Time:
NVIDIA GeForce™ 6800/7600-7950/8600-8800/9600-9800/GTX 260-280 series
ATI® RADEON® X1650-1950/HD 2400-2900/3650-3870/4650-4870 series
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my specs way exceed the recommended, so... does anyone know what could be up?
 
just this game on this mission. on the first 2 missions, i was getting on average about 70FPS with settings on Max. I set them back to min because of the drop in FPS.
 
Checked temps and they are running a steady 59*c on GPU and 57*c on CPU.
Mission 4+5 are running at an average of 12 FPS, but retried 1+2 and they ran at 120 FPS on low, 73 or so on max.
 
only quick fix would be to drop the fps alot and you'll be good, just pixilated, but it'll be playable, and if you aren't plug it in and put on performance instead of power.
 
ok, what your trying to say is drop the resolution. And thats on a 3-4 FPS gain. It really doesnt help at these sub HD resolutions.
Its always plugged in and on High Performance mode.

Im more interested in finding out why some missions are so low yet some of them are so high.
 
Is the game legal or not? It sounds like a ripped game problem, my friends have experienced this before. If not I don't know what to tell yah, except for that sometimes GPU's have a tendency to run better maxed 100% than lower. Which is extremely strange.
 
the game is legal. It was bought from the $5 bin at walmart (dual set with the original COJ).

Might it be a good idea to try to update the driver to the 275.33 Verde from nvidia?
 
sorry, yeah res., and dropping res helps alot, but may be cuz i'm on the crappiest integrated out at the moment from the past 5 years, my 9600se on another computer is better minus a couple features like newer shader and dx.
 
wolfeking said:
just this game on this mission. on the first 2 missions, i was getting on average about 70FPS with settings on Max. I set them back to min because of the drop in FPS.
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If it is only happening on one mission then I do not think the hardware is at fault,
And you are getting problems playing only that mission on that particular game and no other game or mission,so try doing a re-install of the game.
That is the only solution I can think of.
 
Ensure you laptop is plugged in to the power too.

Never confident with laptop gaming....

That GPU only has 128bit memory bandwidth and GDDR2, so bit rubbish.
 
Actually, its Gddr3.
notebookcheck.com said:
The NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M is a fast middle class graphics card for laptops. It is based on the same chip as the GeForce GT 435M but with slightly higher clock speeds. Furthermore, it now supports GDDR5 and 900MHz DDR3 graphics memory. However, GDDR5 wont be used because of the higher price and power consumption.
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I have reinstalled the game (saved the saved game folder though) and gotten a general increase in FPS (~20 in Mission 3 on high, ~65-70 on the others). The CPU usage is hovering at around 65%, GPU at between 35 and 60%, temps at around 73 GPU, 69 CPU. It has shut down twice so far, but im pretty sure thats a temp problem now.
 
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