FPS problems while gaming

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I've suddenly had problems with gaming on my rig (8800 GTS & 4gigs of RAM). The fps in the games i play, age of conan and cod4, both have had pretty awful dps lately.

In age of conan, for example, I can have the graphics set to the absolute lowest and shittiest quality and put my face in a pixelated wall and the second i jiggle the camera my fps goes nuts. That's something else thats odd, the fps is overall worse but only terrible when i move the camera (yet what im looking at doesnt seem to be a factor). Even in cod the menu is choppy!

So far i've tried unplugging the computer for while, updating drivers, uninstalling then reinstalling all graphics drivers, and i just put the card in a friend's computer and it works marvelously. I'm really out of ideas now, atm. Any help would be appreciated.

If you need more info on the computer specs lemme know. Thanks!
 
Specs always help.

Reinstall the video drivers.

32bit OS? Pull 2GB of RAM out and test again.
 
It may be your Firewall and/or AV going nuts while you are playing.
I've had this happen on a few games, Colin McRae Dirt being the worst.

Disconnect from the web and disable them both.
If performance is back up you can find which is the cause.
 
I forgot to mention when i unplugged the computer i also unplugged the router (internet was acting up at the same time).

It fixed my internet problem but the fps was still horrible.

As for the removing 2 gigs of ram, i just gave that a shot and my desktop never came up once i signed in.. i waited a bit and still nothing (although im sure that tip was for assuming i had a 32bit OS)
 
Well I thought to my dumbass self, hey.. maybe the stick i left in there was bad, so i switched it with the one i took out and the computer booted up like normal.

So maybe i found a bad stick of RAM? either way, when i started up my games it has the same fps problems :(

Could this be just how they run with only 2gigs of ram? Or have i not found the problem yet?

I'll probably still go to fry's tomorrow and switch out both sticks to make sure.
 
It might now be getting low on memory.
ALT tab out of the game and see how much memory is left (for XP) or how much memory the game is taking (on vista).


Regarding the Firewall and AV being possible culprits, they still are even when you arent connected to the internet:

If the Firewall is blocking any gaming traffic, it can occupy a significant amount of CPU should the game be constantly trying to connect.

Your AV scans your system, it doesnt require an internet connection to function so is not affected by disconnecting.
It may be scanning files being read and written as the game runs, causing excessive CPU use.
These may be files not generated by the game but by the OS as the game runs.
Are you running any logging software or Windows Performance Monitor or anything else that writes to the disk a lot?
 
Well i just came back from fty's and im getting the same problem with new RAM.

I checked the memory use of the games and the numbers dont seem excessive.

I doubt it's the firewall, although i can try turning it off, because I've been using the same firewall since i built the computer and it's never given me problems.

I don't know anything about this AV deal.. how do i find out if that's the problem/fix it?
 
I use Avast and right click the taskbar icon and select "stop on access protection" to disable it.
 
Have you looked into the BIOS? Also, don't over look chip-set drivers.

Have you downloaded GPU-Z to see if maybe your motherboard was cutting off some of the bandwidth on the PCI-E slot?
 
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