6850 bbc2 stuttering

[Djentleman]

First off i would like to say thank you for reading my thread!
I have been recently been playing Bbc2 on my new 6850. But whenever i play play it, I get stuttering whenever i run or drive/fly. Its not extreme, but it does get on my nerves since its only a one month old card. It does it both overclocked and standard factory clocked.
And i've downloaded the latest drivers.
Specs:
Amd 1100t X6 core @3.3ghz
Powercolor 6850 standard clocks
3gigs of ddr2 1066mhz
Ocz 500watt modular power supply. (with a 12v rail on 28 amps, so plenty of power 😉 )
Seagate baracuda 300gig at 7200rpm.

Thanks for looking and for your help!
Eli

 

[Djentleman]

Also this is the only fps shooter i play.

 

[giggitygoo]

Have you turned off your system page file?

 

[Djentleman]

System page file?

 

[giggitygoo]

I feared you might say that. give me a sec to step by step you through it

 

[giggitygoo]

what OS are you running?

 

[Djentleman]

Windows 7 ultimate 64bit.

 

[giggitygoo]

go to the control panel, go to the system tab, click ADVANCED SETTINGS, go to the ADVANCED SYSTEM SETTINGS TAB, on that tab you will see a section called PERFORMANCE with a settings button, click it. on that page you will see a tab called ADVANCED with a section called VIRTUAL MEMORY. it is currently set to your system default amout whatever number that may be. click CHANGE. on that page it there will be a button labeled NO PAGE FILE, click it and restart your comp.

 

[giggitygoo]

if it doesn't fix the problem it will make your whole comp run way faster than before at least.

 

[giggitygoo]

its a trick very few ppl know about to make computers run WAY faster. you can only do it if you have 3+ gigs of ram.

 

[giggitygoo]

also, what kinda clocks can you get your 6850 up too? i have a sapphire toxic 6850 that i can push up too 1000mhz core and 1200 mhz mem (4800)

 

[Djentleman]

huh, that's weird..... gpuz says my gpu is at 850mhz and msi says it's at 775?

 

[Djentleman]

Nope i'm wrong its fine

 

[Djentleman]

The games fps is not the problem.... It has 60fps on AVG. It's the fact that it does drastic dips. especially in starcraft 2

 

[HugoStiglitz]

U sure u got DDR2?

ur first post says 1066mhz (DDR3)
ur sig says DDR2 800

and i dont know of any AM3 / AM3+ (Judging by ur 1100T) boards with DDR2

 

[Djentleman]

Nope, it says 1066mhz ddr2. Its overclocked.
Also my motherboard is am2+. Which my 1100t cores are at 3.3ghz. So that is stock

 

[Djentleman]

Could it be my drivers?

 

[larkspur]

Have you tried turning down graphical settings in the games that are affected? What resolution are you gaming at? Also check the driver settings in CCC and turn down anything aggressive.

 

[Djentleman]

I have. I play it 1920 by 1080p. I turn off anit aliasing in ccc. Also i put on low and i get around 100fps. AND then the problem goes away.

 

[Djentleman]

But i shouldn't be getting sudden spikes of lagg at 60 fps

 

[swifty_morgan]

you're running an odd memory amount keeping you from running in dual channel mode ( ganged )... which you need to set in the BIOS. The 6850 with it's 1gig of vram cannot give you stutter free performance. Lower your resolution and play with your settings in the CCC and in the games control panel. You may also have a bad over clock on the ram or not providing enough voltage to it... ??? Is there a DX9 mode for this game ? If so try it.

 

[larkspur]

Well it sounds like something is bottle-necking during demanding content in both bbc2 and starcraft 2. Have you tried running a benchmark like 3dMark? It will allow you to compare your results to similar systems and confirm that your GPU is performing where it should, CPU, ram etc. Sandra is another one that gives more info on ram and cpu benchmarks than 3dmark.

 

[Djentleman]

Thanks, i'll take a look at them.

 

[Djentleman]

Ok, so i downloaded both of those. And i didn't like them lol! But i did like uningine; now that is some amazing software.
So is this uningine benchmark good for the 6850?
file:///C:/Users/ERI/Documents/unigine_20111015_2120.html

 

[Djentleman]

file:///C: /Users/ERI/Documents/unigine_20111015_2120.html
Sorry i had to pu a space so it wouldn't make an emo :/