GTX280 + Crysis perf issues

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So, this MAY NOT belong here, unsure.

I just got my GTX280, and tried out Crysis. Does great at first, 1680x1050, ultra high, 4xAA, Vista 64 bit (Ultimate), 64bit Crysis, DX10 mode.

After 20-30 minutes of play however, the card goes to hell. If I exit/restart the game, it seems to be OK again, but my perf slowly degrades again. On the first level, I start at around 25FPS, and slowly drop. By the time I get to the final video with the frozen ship, perf is terrible. The audio of the video is terribly out of sync with the video, and the video is playing at about 5 FPS (the video is lagging BEHIND the audio).

I'm on NV's latest beta drivers, and on a fresh SP1 Vista install. Is this still the damned memory leak that has plagued crysis forever, or will this be something else?
 
The memory leaks were fixed in patch 1.1 or 1.2. Did you update crysis? Is your card overheating? Is anything else in your computer overheating? I'd monitor your temps or try adjusting the fan speeds in the Nvidia cp.
 
What are your GPU temps after 5-10 minutes of Crysis gameplay? What are your specs?
 
GTX280, Q6600, 4 GB RAM, X-Fi.

I ran RTHDRIBL for a while, and found that my temps didn't go over 74C or so...but I can look again. What is the best program for logging temps (CPU & GPU at once)? I know GPUz has some history tracking...am I best just using Rivatuner (can it do CPU temps)?

Also, GPUz reports two GPU temps - and I know that the GTX280 has two sensors, which is right (one always lags by about 8C)?

Also, FWIW, when I still had my 8800 GTS, I saw these problems, but thought it was the memory leak.

Finally, I'm running Crysis 1.21

Thanks.
 
Try Furmark. This *really* sounds like overheating.

I had a card that performed just like yours. It's dead now, and the corpse is in the mail to BFG.
 
Crysis likewise often stayed around 80, though it would eventually degrade in performance.

Try FurMark. It made my card's temperature shoot up to 105 C+ and was the surest sign something was wrong.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
Crysis likewise often stayed around 80, though it would eventually degrade in performance.

Try FurMark. It made my card's temperature shoot up to 105 C+ and was the surest sign something was wrong.
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About how long did it take to hit that high with furmark? And had you sped up your fan at all?

Thanks.
 
My fan automatically sped up to 100% once it broke 100. It took about five to ten minutes to get there.
 
Will the replacement be ANY better? I just bought this GTX280. I don't know it is temps for sure, but I WILL start there as soon as I get home (in a few hours) - I'll probably just watch furmark and kill it if I get to 99C/100C.
 
If your card is overheating like that, there likely won't be much you can do about it. You can run it for as long as it lets you, but it will most likely die, even if you only play games that bring it up to more modest temperatures. I used it for COD4 for about a week before it died.

dead280li9.jpg


That's the last thing my 280 ever showed me. If you can make out some of the text, you can see I was playing COD4.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
If your card is overheating like that, there likely won't be much you can do about it. You can run it for as long as it lets you, but it will most likely die, even if you only play games that bring it up to more modest temperatures. I used it for COD4 for about a week before it died.

That's the last thing my 280 ever showed me. If you can make out some of the text, you can see I was playing COD4.
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Here's my results after 17 minutes or so. I was hanging at 80 for about 4-5 minutes, before I had a phone call and killed the app. If you think I need to run it longer, I will...but seeing as how you said you hit 100 in no time, I don't think heat is my issue. Thoughts?

http://rampant.empiresleague.com/Furmark1.png

Edit: In my SS, look to the middle of the fur....donut....see that white line? Is that an artifact, or just the fur lining up just right. 80C shouldn't be artifacting?
 
rampantandroid said:
Edit: In my SS, look to the middle of the fur....donut....see that white line? Is that an artifact, or just the fur lining up just right. 80C shouldn't be artifacting?
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I noticed that too. You could simply have a different problem than everyone else :p

That you can run FurMark for 15 minutes with temperatures that decent says to me that you either have a bad card and a ridiculously well-ventilated case, or that your card doesn't have the same problem everyone else's seems to.

You may need to look elsewhere for your Crysis issues. I noticed them too, but I blamed the other problems my card was having. Perhaps it was something different? A driver issue?

Also, just curious, how does the temperature do if you jack up the AA to 16X? Also, you might try playing Crysis in windowed mode for a while with GPU-Z off to the side to monitor temperatures. Check to see if anything correlates with your drop in performance.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
I noticed that too. You could simply have a different problem than everyone else :p

That you can run FurMark for 15 minutes with temperatures that decent says to me that you either have a bad card and a ridiculously well-ventilated case, or that your card doesn't have the same problem everyone else's seems to.

You may need to look elsewhere for your Crysis issues. I noticed them too, but I blamed the other problems my card was having. Perhaps it was something different? A driver issue?

Also, just curious, how does the temperature do if you jack up the AA to 16X? Also, you might try playing Crysis in windowed mode for a while with GPU-Z off to the side to monitor temperatures. Check to see if anything correlates with your drop in performance.
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I'll do that tonight. I can also start another round of furmark, see if I can repro that white line...but my guess is that is was just rendered, as part of the fur....and the screenshot happened to catch it. I certainly was not seeing any massive corruption in the image.

I'll try Crysis in windowed mode tonight. And I can't get furmark to do 16x, if I do 16x or 32x, it defaults to 8x.


Edit: NEVERMIND. AUGH! I feel stupid. NV control panel was forcing my AA setting to 8xQ AA, which probably explains my poor Crysis perf...I'll check that hypothesis now.

Next edit: 4 minutes of Furmark @16x, and I'm seeing 81C holding steady, but I'll leave it go longer.

Edit of my previous edit: 13 minutes, holding at 84C (it randomly jumped from 80C to 84C in a short pd of time.) I'll go to Crysis in windowed mode shortly.
 
Final post before Crysis: Furmark for 25 minutes, and I'm at 85C on the one GPU temp sensor, the other reads 77C. What is up with 2 temps? Which is right? I'd like to believe the lower temp...but I have my doubts.

Do my temps seem OK? And that doesn't seem to be artifacting. As the fur rotates, I can see a little shimmer, but no solid white lines.
 
And finally Crysis...the village level (second level) never pushed above 70C. I never saw perf drop below 15FPS, and when it went that low, I was in massive amounts of foliage, at 4xAA.

That sound normal? I usually have 20-25 FPS in the game now.
 
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