Tricking Windows? Please help.

[diesiel]

Alright, i'm playing Hellgate:London with the following specs:

E4300 @ 2.7 ghz
2 gigs ram
8800 gts


Should be more than enough to run high settings, right? Well i have a feeling that Hellgate is SCALING down because perhaps it thinks my cpu is too shitty to play high (They have some built in down-scaling program into it).

Now when i check dxdiag It says I'm at 1.8 Ghz (Which isn't true, since i'm overclocked). What i want to know is can i essentially TRICK the computer into thinking it really has 2.7 Ghz (Which really isn't 'tricking', since i am running at that frequency). Thanks! Oh and By the way, it really does display 2.7 ghz on 'my computer' but not in dxdiag.

 

[Nenu]

Alright, i'm playing Hellgate:London with the following specs:

E4300 @ 2.7 ghz
2 gigs ram
8800 gts


Should be more than enough to run high settings, right? Well i have a feeling that Hellgate is SCALING down because perhaps it thinks my cpu is too shitty to play high (They have some built in down-scaling program into it).

Now when i check dxdiag It says I'm at 1.8 Ghz (Which isn't true, since i'm overclocked). What i want to know is can i essentially TRICK the computer into thinking it really has 2.7 Ghz (Which really isn't 'tricking', since i am running at that frequency). Thanks! Oh and By the way, it really does display 2.7 ghz on 'my computer' but not in dxdiag.

Theres no trickery required, disable Speedstep.
It clocks your CPU to x6 multiplier when its not in use much. This is when Hellgate reads the speed.
Its mighty silly of the devs to use that method if Hellgate does do that!

Heres how to disable speedstep
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=363057

 

[diesiel]

I think you may have misunderstood.

Speedstep IS disabled, the cpu really is at 2.7 ghz but dxdiag is reporting it as stock value.

When i check properties of 'my computer' it says 4300 @ 1.8 ghz, 2701 mhz.

I think that hellgate is still seeing 1.8 ghz and throttling.

 

[Leman]

I think that the program knows what processor you're using, and has stored information.

That, or it reads the stock/rated FSB speed and current multiplier.