I exaggerated a little bit about that. Yeah, the framerate sometimes drops to 10-15 (in places like that first village and Balmora), but most of the time it's 25-30. I cap the FPS at 30. However, I do get the feeling that something's wrong. My 3Dmark03 scores are pretty dismal (3400). The airplane game runs great, but the others give me trouble. Running 3Dmark05 is an absolute joke. I didn't even finish the test because I couldn't stand looking at 5fps for more than a few minutes.
Here's my ideas on what might be the problem:
- Shitty video card
- Shitty motherboard
- IRQ issues (PCI-E root, USB controller, HD audio bus, and the Radeon display adapter all share IRQ 16)
- Heat (bios says 68C, that's on the hot side. detection utilities give me much better temp numbers)
I ended up putting a gig of RAM in here, btw. I guess that should make me worry more. All my applications run perfectly fine, it's just gaming that's giving me problems. New video card is coming soon, so at least I'll be able to cross one item off that list.
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