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4GHz E8400 weird gaming behavior

Flexion

Flexion

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Hey everyone,

I've just OC'd an E8400 with 4GBs of DDR2 to 4GHz. I'm running an 8800gt with it and I'm noticing some strange behavior. The system is stable and OC'd from within windows. AFAIK Speedstep is turned off.

Both Gears of War and Crysis cinematics are playing way too fast and the dialog is cutting off way too quick. IE.) certain words are missing from the end of sentences, only to be cut off by new sentences. Framerate is much better than my Opteron 170, but what good is that when the games are going too fast! :eek:

Am I missing a dual core driver or something like that? I knew I had to install some kind of driver for my Opteron 170, but do I need to do this for a core2duo? I haven't been on the blue team for a while (3 years), so any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
Did you try changing the sound options? I had a problem in HL2 with voices cutting in and out that was resolved my changing sound quality from "high" to "med." Not exactly the same but worth a shot.
 
This oddly happend on my system with a 6850 once. I think I installed a different gtx driver or reinstalled the game and I finally could hear the full sentences.
 
Flexion said:
Hey everyone,

I've just OC'd an E8400 with 4GBs of DDR2 to 4GHz. I'm running an 8800gt with it and I'm noticing some strange behavior. The system is stable and OC'd from within windows. AFAIK Speedstep is turned off.

Both Gears of War and Crysis cinematics are playing way too fast and the dialog is cutting off way too quick. IE.) certain words are missing from the end of sentences, only to be cut off by new sentences. Framerate is much better than my Opteron 170, but what good is that when the games are going too fast! :eek:

Am I missing a dual core driver or something like that? I knew I had to install some kind of driver for my Opteron 170, but do I need to do this for a core2duo? I haven't been on the blue team for a while (3 years), so any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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The Intel Core 2 Duo speeds up the time!! If you increase the OC you might even finish the game before you start it! :D

J/K , reinstall the game and see what happens.
 
Is there a core affinity patch for C2Ds? I forget. I know there was one for the AMD 64 X2 processors, and I used to have the same problem in some games when I had my 3800 x2.
 
chrisf6969 said:
Turn your speed hax off, you fucker! :eek: j/k
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HAHAHA...

Seriously. I'm considering running at stock just to play these games. But I'd lose those buttery smooth framerates. Crysis at 4.05GHz and 8800GT at 1680x1050 is actually quite smooth without FSAA and such.

Anyone have any idea? Maybe I do need to set core affinity on these games manually. I did re-install the games, and my RAM\Proc isn't shoddy, as I've ran stability tests.
 
Did you reinstall the OS when you upgraded from your Opteron?

Maybe you have some crap left over in your system from the AMD dual core patches or whatever that you don't need with Inte' chips & its screwing things up.

3 possible problems: OS, drivers, apps

you reinstalled the app (game) - so that reduces the chance its that. Do you have all of the latest patches for the games?

drivers - did you properly uninstall old drivers when you installed the newest / current drivers ?

OS - is it a CLEAN install since you've upgraded the system?
 
I've had this problem before.

It can be resolved with some tweaking of the graphics settings in the game (e.g. low/medium/high/very-high).

When I set the game to run on Medium, I would CONSTANTLY run into cutoffs in the cinematics of Crysis.

Once I bumped everything up to High, I got to hear the entire convo and actually see some damn fine visuals.

However, game play FPS was a bit wonky.


Nevertheless, it did solve the whole cutting off the speech problem. That was truly annoying.
 
chrisf6969 said:
Did you reinstall the OS when you upgraded from your Opteron?

Maybe you have some crap left over in your system from the AMD dual core patches or whatever that you don't need with Inte' chips & its screwing things up.

3 possible problems: OS, drivers, apps

you reinstalled the app (game) - so that reduces the chance its that. Do you have all of the latest patches for the games?

drivers - did you properly uninstall old drivers when you installed the newest / current drivers ?

OS - is it a CLEAN install since you've upgraded the system?
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Thanks for the advice.

I had to do a clean re-install, because I'm running "suicide-like" 3 raptor 36GB raid-0. j/k I've owned these raptors for 3+ years and no signs of failure or corruption. I know the risks, but 32K clusters and 3 drives in raid-0 is amazing. But yeah, the onboard raid didn't recognize my old array.

Installing the latest patches of the games probably will help, but that wouldn't explain why I didn't have these issues with my Opteron 170. Something's just not right. Does doing a right click over the shortcuts, going into properties and setting core affinity manually solve such problems?

I'm going to try re-installing newer Nvidia drivers and such. The Gears of war and Crysis cinematics are normally 24-30 FPS, but now they're running at 60+FPS and it seems like watching a movie in fast forward. Although game developers should make fast forward an option (hint, hint) for 2nd time players, I'd like to have a button, and not have it as a default. LOL. :D

P.S. All game settings for both Gears and Crysis were set at High or Max
 
You never mentioned the OS you are running or the sound card. Perhaps your sampling rate is not set correctly for your sound card. Early Audigy drivers in Vista would play sounds at a faster rate when using 48KHz and above. I had to set to 44.1 at all times until about a couple of revisions ago.
 
tesfaye said:
You never mentioned the OS you are running or the sound card. Perhaps your sampling rate is not set correctly for your sound card. Early Audigy drivers in Vista would play sounds at a faster rate when using 48KHz and above. I had to set to 44.1 at all times until about a couple of revisions ago.
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Sorry about that. The OS is WinXP with SP2 and all recent updates. The sound card is an Audigy. I used the same drivers as when I had an Opteron at 2.7GHz, with no problems.

I do have a 4GB DDR2 setup and WinXP only sees 3.5GB. Wonder if there's a memory leak or something like that? Many forum members said this wouldn't be a problem. Maybe I'll do an install of vista and see if I have similar problems.

This is a clean install, with no leftover crap from the previous installation.

I'm pretty sure it's the Proc and not the sound card. If it was only the sound card, it wouldn't explain why the video is in fast forward. The audio is at the right speed, as it is being cut off at the very end of the dialog sentences of cinematics, by the next sentence.

With all the E8400 overclocking hype, I'm sure lots of people are having fun benchmarking, as they're just getting their new processors. Anyone actually gaming yet and noticing strange behavior at 4GHz?
 
Flexion said:
Sorry about that. The OS is WinXP with SP2 and all recent updates. The sound card is an Audigy. I used the same drivers as when I had an Opteron at 2.7GHz, with no problems.

I do have a 4GB DDR2 setup and WinXP only sees 3.5GB. Wonder if there's a memory leak or something like that? Many forum members said this wouldn't be a problem. Maybe I'll do an install of vista and see if I have similar problems.

This is a clean install, with no leftover crap from the previous installation.

I'm pretty sure it's the Proc and not the sound card. If it was only the sound card, it wouldn't explain why the video is in fast forward. The audio is at the right speed, as it is being cut off at the very end of the dialog sentences of cinematics, by the next sentence.

With all the E8400 overclocking hype, I'm sure lots of people are having fun benchmarking, as they're just getting their new processors. Anyone actually gaming yet and noticing strange behavior at 4GHz?
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Because any 32bit OS can't see the full 4gigs.
 
# 1 - Its not the processor being too fast. That only used to happen way back in they day when you had set hardware, like on consoles, and you tried running it on new much fasters machines.

All new games clocks are made to be speed hack proof, and independent of processor speed.

ITS NOT THE CPU, unless you haven't stability tested your rig and your CPU is actually not stable and causing the problems.

Like I said before its probably one of 3 main culprits. (OS, app/game, driver). Since you have a clean install, lets presume its not the OS. Probably not games since they are newly installed & patched up to date that means:

Its most likely a driver problem or possibly a hardware/bios problem. Could be something like a PCI latency timer (BIOS setting) for the soundcard.

# 2 - you brought up the 4Gb thing. But no its shouldn't be that either. That has to do with you running 32-bit OS vs. 64-bit. The missing memory is used for allocation tables, etc... place holders of where all the other 3.5Gb of information is stored basically. Totally different from a "memory leak".... Your other 1/2 Gb didn't leak out. ;)
 
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