Hi
With everything set to Gamer (high) in Crysis Warhead, the game sometimes lags (especially when there's 10 soldiers pumping lead into me :lol. It's fine when I'm just walking about and stuff in the game, but when there's action the lags can stop me being able to shoot my enemies (which then causes me to die ). On Enthusiast settings, the game's pretty unplayable (around 10 to 20 fps), but I don't need ultra high settings. I'm trying to pinpoint where the bottleneck(s) is/are, because my graphics card is good for the resolution I play at (1440x900). This is a good place to post my specs, so:
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ Brisbane 3.1GHz 2x512KB L2 cache.
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) dual channel DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 RAM
GPU: nVidia Geforce 9800GT 512MB GDDR3 RAM with 1xDual link DVI, 1xHDMI, 1xVGA PCI-express x16
HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250GB
PSU: 420Watt Thermaltake TR2
Chipset: nVidia nForce 520LE (w/ PCI express version 1)
That's it, any other specs would be unnecessary.
My suspicion right now is that the bottleneck is the harddisk (because it lags while it's loading soldiers, terrain, etc., takes AGES loading levels, and generally seems pretty slow in both Linux and Windows). I will see about this, because when I get the money I'm gonna get myself a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB harddisk to play with , I heard that this is one of the fastest if not the fastest high capacity harddisk, and the fastest spinpoint F1.
Another bottleneck could be my CPU, which by todays standards has some pretty old technology and isn't up to scratch with the C2Ds or the most recent AMD CPUs. It gets a 5.5 on the Vista Experience Index.
Could the chipset cause slowdowns? It only has PCI express version 1, I heard that's twice as slow as version 2. Although I don't think it's my VGA card causing the lags.
The fourth (and very unlikely) candidate is the PSU, I thought that maybe if my computer was using most of the power that the PSU could provide, it would scale back the clock speed of the CPU or something....not too sure about that though.
I do know that my graphics card/CPU combination can do crysis at high settings with no lag cause I've seen plenty of videos on youtube about it (not to mention benchmarks).
PS. I've disabled CPU frequency scaling in the Operating System (not in the BIOS because I use it in Linux).
With everything set to Gamer (high) in Crysis Warhead, the game sometimes lags (especially when there's 10 soldiers pumping lead into me :lol. It's fine when I'm just walking about and stuff in the game, but when there's action the lags can stop me being able to shoot my enemies (which then causes me to die ). On Enthusiast settings, the game's pretty unplayable (around 10 to 20 fps), but I don't need ultra high settings. I'm trying to pinpoint where the bottleneck(s) is/are, because my graphics card is good for the resolution I play at (1440x900). This is a good place to post my specs, so:
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ Brisbane 3.1GHz 2x512KB L2 cache.
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) dual channel DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 RAM
GPU: nVidia Geforce 9800GT 512MB GDDR3 RAM with 1xDual link DVI, 1xHDMI, 1xVGA PCI-express x16
HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250GB
PSU: 420Watt Thermaltake TR2
Chipset: nVidia nForce 520LE (w/ PCI express version 1)
That's it, any other specs would be unnecessary.
My suspicion right now is that the bottleneck is the harddisk (because it lags while it's loading soldiers, terrain, etc., takes AGES loading levels, and generally seems pretty slow in both Linux and Windows). I will see about this, because when I get the money I'm gonna get myself a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB harddisk to play with , I heard that this is one of the fastest if not the fastest high capacity harddisk, and the fastest spinpoint F1.
Another bottleneck could be my CPU, which by todays standards has some pretty old technology and isn't up to scratch with the C2Ds or the most recent AMD CPUs. It gets a 5.5 on the Vista Experience Index.
Could the chipset cause slowdowns? It only has PCI express version 1, I heard that's twice as slow as version 2. Although I don't think it's my VGA card causing the lags.
The fourth (and very unlikely) candidate is the PSU, I thought that maybe if my computer was using most of the power that the PSU could provide, it would scale back the clock speed of the CPU or something....not too sure about that though.
I do know that my graphics card/CPU combination can do crysis at high settings with no lag cause I've seen plenty of videos on youtube about it (not to mention benchmarks).
PS. I've disabled CPU frequency scaling in the Operating System (not in the BIOS because I use it in Linux).