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Whinge Languish
Filthy Vermin
Join date: 23 Aug 2005
Posts: 14
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10-07-2006 23:51
Okay, so I was getting not-great framerates in SL with my old system, so I put together an entirely new one with:
2.21GHz dual-core Athlon64 processor (leaps and bounds better than my old processor)
Two GeForce7600 512MB running in SLI (I had only a single 6600 128MB before)
2 gigs of RAM (double what I had before)
ASUS motherboard supporting NVidia's SLI
I got everything all set up, installed the latest drivers, enabled SLI in Nvidia's settings and everything, loaded up SL, and...GET EXACTLY THE SAME FRAMERATE AS MY OLD SYSTEM (in the 10-20 range)
I then manually set up a profile for SL in Nvidia's settings to force SLI on (tried all 3 types). No change with any of them.
Can anyone help me here? I really have the feeling I'm doing something wrong, as I should be seeing a big improvement over my old system.
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Vincent Nacon
Reseacher & Developer
Join date: 1 Mar 2006
Posts: 111
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10-08-2006 00:39
Naa, you're fine. 10-20FPS is the new standard for SL
I'm on AMD 64 2.4Ghz, 1GB Ram, 256MB@600Mhz ATI Videocard...
and is running around 10-20FPS, 30-60FPS up in the sky.
A lot of people are around at 10-20FPS on their beefy PC now these days.
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Whinge Languish
Filthy Vermin
Join date: 23 Aug 2005
Posts: 14
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10-08-2006 02:44
My friend with a similar and good system but still notably lower specs than me is getting 30-50+ FPS with draw distance way up and such, so...I really don't understand why I should be getting less than half the FPS he is. The only notable difference is that he's using an AGP card and my cards are PCIe...does SL disagree with this, SLI, or dual-core processors or something?
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Kathmandu Gilman
Fearful Symmetry Baby!
Join date: 21 May 2004
Posts: 1,418
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10-08-2006 07:18
Really need to make a sticky on this. Dual CPU machines and SL don't play well together right now. You need to set affinity to a single CPU for SL. Connect to SL, bring up the task manager (contrl+alt+del) and go to the SL process and right click it and then click Set Affinity. You should have multiple CPUs checked, deselect until you have only one CPU selected then close out. You should see a significant frame rate increase. If it does then you can locate a utility to automatically set affinity when you start SL, just do a search of the tech forums, there are only a bazillion posts covering it.
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