FPS Problems

[d3mmonul]

Seems in the last period i started getting some WEIRD fps drops constantly, at that moment i was thinking that maybe it's a hdd issue since the hdd that i was running the game it had like 5 years of service and it started getting some nasty smart errors so i decided to make a small test.. i changed the drive on the PC and the game runned fine with 40-50fps constantly... now i changed the broken drive that i had and replaced it with something else and it runned fine for the first 5 minutes then suddenly it dropped to 20-25fps and it wont go up no matter what i do. And i`m starting to think that it might be something else.... like the CPU or the OS in general. So far i`m using a sensor monitoring software named aida64, maybe i`m reading the values wrong.. cos CPU is 54C but core#1 and core#2 when playing i get like 65-60C on both cores. That might be the problem for the sudden fps drop or it might be something else?

PC SPEC:
MB: Asus P5G41T-M LX
CPU: Intel Dual-Core E5700 @ 3.00GHz
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
RAM: 4GB Kingstone DDR3-1333 (667 MHz)
HDD: Seagate 150GB SATA II (8MB cache)

 

[LokalHero]

In what game are you experiencing this sudden frame drop?

 

[d3mmonul]

Battlefield 3

 

[gamerk316]

HDD cache issues? Not all HDD's are created equal in performance. Still, thats a big FPS drop to blame on the HDD...

 

[d3mmonul]

Well i cant figure out if the CPU is overheating or it might be the HDD/OS and beside i was using a 8MB cache HDD without any problem then all these problems started happening

 

[Keanu Reeves]

Did you do a complete reinstall of BF3, or just a mirror and repair? If you haven't tried a complete, fresh install of the game on the new HDD, it's worth a shot.