Poor performance in BF2 w/ X850XT

[Maximos]

My specs are in the sig, except for the fact that I have the X850XT at PE speeds set to "Only in 3D" in CCC . It's a fairly new install of Windows, about a week old. Settings are at "High" with 4x AA (In-game) and 8x HQ AF (CCC). I'm running at native res, which is of course 1280x1024 (In-game also). I'll be playing, and all of a sudden my FPS drops to 10-20. I'm using FRAPS to determine the FPS. I may have been because my processor, which was clocked 3.4 at the time...I lowered it a bit to see if that was the problem.

Edit: Well, It seemed that the problem lied with the processor, which makes sense because it failed Prime95 after a couple of minutes. I think I'm fine...but I'm gonna bump the AF back to 16x According to the CCC, I'm idling at 47 C. Is that safe?

 

[Entropy]

Thats safe, I'd recommend dropping down textures to Medium unless you have 2Gb of ram. You'll get lots of hitching otherwise.

 

[Maximos]

Thats safe, I'd recommend dropping down textures to Medium unless you have 2Gb of ram. You'll get lots of hitching otherwise.

Thanks

 

[Mayhs]

what r ur fps now?

 

[Maximos]

I have not checked yet...will do so tomorrow.

 

[PWMK2]

I know many people have hot prescotts, but idling at 47C is not good... my 3.0 GHz prescott idles at 36C... (stock HSF)

 

[tvdang7]

im having simliar problems but i think its my video card overclock. i could be wrong tho. does any other game have poor performance at that cpu speed?

 

[Maximos]

I know many people have hot prescotts, but idling at 47C is not good... my 3.0 GHz prescott idles at 36C... (stock HSF)

I was talking about my graphics card My CPU idles at 37 C.