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8800GTS 640 framerates

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Dr_Han

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I've grown used to 60+ fps on the majority of the games I play at 1680x1050 (CS:S, WoW, BF2). But lately, seemingly around the same time I installed TF2, my framerates have dropped dramatically. Nothing has changed system-wise. No additional software or other source of heat. Any ideas as to what could be happening?

I'm currently using the 163.71 drivers on a 8800GTS 640 with an Core 2 Duo e6420 @2.13 (stock) and 2GB DDR2. I drop into the 20s and teens in CS:S with all recommended settings and even into the 30s on WoW (a notoriously non-hardware-intensive game). Though all of the games are played online, I am not experiencing packet loss or choke.

Should I roll back to another set of drivers. If so, could someone recommend a stable set to me? Is there something else I can try? My old X1800XT could outperform these current results.
 
could try diff drivers

what maps on CS:S is this happening on, alot of poorly made maps make FPS drop alot, if it is a stock map, like Dust2 then it should play fine..
 
163.71 drivers are terrible, in my experience. After corruption in some movies, and poor framerates in NWN2, I rolled back to the 162.18 set and swore off of beta drivers. They supposedly did something for Bioshock, but I played that once and went back to other games, so there was no need to keep the betas (and I don't know that it did anything for Bioshock anyway).
 
I haven't tried the 163.71 drivers but the 163.69 WHQL drivers work great for me.
 
Make sure the card is properly seated in the PCI-E slot, and that the power connector is also properly connected. I have a friend who experienced very similar problems, turns out his card wasn't seated properly, and his framerate issues were solved.
 
KamelRed said:
I haven't tried the 163.71 drivers but the 163.69 WHQL drivers work great for me.
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I'd switch to those, but the 162.18s are working fine. Something is weird with the 163.71 drivers, or at least they were not working well for me.
 
Sounds like its a driver problem or not getting enough power. What PSU / Mobo?
 
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