My Core 2 Quad not able to handle games?

[miggtt699]

Hello there guys, I've been experiencing something that really shouldn't be happening. I own an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX6700 that I run both at stock speeds and sometimes at the overclocked speed of 2.96GHz. And I have never encountered a game that I play that made my Quad come to it's knees.

Now recently I got Saints Row The Third and my fps constantly dips bellow 30, either on low, medium or high, the difference in FPS from LOW to ULTRA is about 5 FPS, so it's not a GPU bottleneck, and I've also checked with afterburner, in 1280X720 I get ~20-35FPS and the GPU usage is around 50-60%. Is that game so demanding that it requires me a CPU better than a C2Q?! I've searched the requirements and it says as recommended (Any Quad Core Processor (Intel® Core i5 or AMD Phenom™ II X4) or 3.0+ Dual Core CPU). I'm confused. Am I doing something wrong?

Waiting for replies, and thanks for reading.

 

[miggtt699]

do you have the lastest driver for your video card?

Yes I do.

 

[swilczak]

I believe you can run the game on either directx 9 or 11. Are your running it on directx 9?

 

[miggtt699]

I believe you can run the game on either directx 9 or 11. Are your running it on directx 9?

Yes because my graphics card doesn't support DX11

 

[Novuake]

Look here. If it was the graphics card, it would drop the frames dramatically from LOW to ULTRA settings, and this isn't happening, I get a 5 FPS hit, it's not the graphics card. It's the CPU.

Well then there you go, upgrade your platform LIKE I SAID...

 

[swilczak]

Technology changes so quickly you are lucky that your system even runs any modern games really. Most PC gamers look into getting a whole new machine after 5 years or less. Your PC must be 6 or 7 years old so what do you expect?

 

[computer_nugget2]

bro get a q9650. and dont play saints row 3 lol

 

[miggtt699]

Look here. If it was the graphics card, it would drop the frames dramatically from LOW to ULTRA settings, and this isn't happening, I get a 5 FPS hit, it's not the graphics card. It's the CPU.

Well then there you go, upgrade your platform LIKE I SAID...

It's not the plataform. I ran tests, and it seems like the FPS is jumpy at LOW, going from 50FPS down to low 20s. What's causing this are Frametimes. Those dip down to 100ms very frequently. Again if you don't know what you are saying, don't push it down my throat. My system is well capable of running this game no issues. I run heavier games on a daily basis. Stop blaming it on the hardware.

 

[miggtt699]

bro get a q9650. and dont play saints row 3 lol

I'm not going to get things I don't need Dx My QX6700 @3.48Ghz blows the Q9650. I've done benchmaks on it, I've seen it with my own eyes.

 

[Novuake]

You aren't making sense, but ok...

 

[miggtt699]

You aren't making sense, but ok...

How am I not making sense? I've told everyone this. It's not the graphics card. I'm getting high frametimes, I've seen this on the AMD problem with crossfire, and I don't run any SLI setups or anything. It might be a driver issue, It's not the graphics card that can't run it.

 

[swilczak]

How you get high frame rates on a 9600gt 1gb ddr3 is beyond anything I will ever understand lol. Look at this benchmark, your card is at the very bottom of the chart.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+9600+GT

 

[computer_nugget2]

what if we all just got trolled?

and if the your qx outperforms the q9650 at that overclock, why not run the game at that overclock?

 

[miggtt699]

Saints row the third is not even cpu demanding so try change proprity in the tsak manager for the game to a higher one. It might be because the cpu is old it needs to use more resources instead of by ipc or instruction set to get the fps it should be.

It already has been fixed.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1774419/high-frame-times-saints-row-reason.html

 

[miggtt699]

Good to hear, any chance you getting a dx11 card in the future, most games are now dx11 and I have to say dx11 games look amazing. I have gone from a 9600m gt 512mb gddr3 to a gt 640m then recently to a gt 650m, already had a deskyop r6850 but its amazing how good dx11 looks. Its more real life like.

I know, will probably search around for a HD 5000 series card or GTX 500 series card, not too sure as of yet. I'll use my 9600GT till it gets to it's knees, I still play Far Cry 3 @720P on ultra with around 30 FPS so it's fine as of now.

 

[computer_nugget2]

i knew it. if you are gonna get a new card, get a hd7850

get this one, this one is on sale for really cheap!
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-ax78501gbd5dh

 

[miggtt699]

i knew it. if you are gonna get a new card, get a hd7850

get this one, this one is on sale for really cheap!
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-ax78501gbd5dh

I can't afford a new card >_>

 

[computer_nugget2]

damn :/

sell your body on the streets LOL

run the card on dx10 mode until it explodes.

 

[dakota breeden]

bro get a q9650. and dont play saints row 3 lol

Sorry for replying to this sooooo late.....I have a q9650, Asus P5Q3, gtx 550 Ti, 6GB OCZ 1333Mhz, Seagate 160GB sata 2(with windows on it), Seagate 160GB sata 2(with all my games on it), WD 250GB sata 1(what I had planned on recording on). I cannot play anything other that Killing Floor and CoD WaW while recording. I should be able to play BF3 on Ultra correct? I have to play it on low even while not recording. I am not sure what my bottleneck is! I have my CPU overclocked to 3.5Ghz, my GPU memory to 2300Mhz, and my shader/clock speed to 1000Mhz. I have tried recording to all 3 different drives, still pretty much unplayable with like 20 fps. I have tried Fraps, and Bandicam. Not sure what else to do, if someone could please help that would be awesome! Thanks

 

[jessterman21]

bro get a q9650. and dont play saints row 3 lol

Sorry for replying to this sooooo late.....I have a q9650, Asus P5Q3, gtx 550 Ti, 6GB OCZ 1333Mhz, Seagate 160GB sata 2(with windows on it), Seagate 160GB sata 2(with all my games on it), WD 250GB sata 1(what I had planned on recording on). I cannot play anything other that Killing Floor and CoD WaW while recording. I should be able to play BF3 on Ultra correct? I have to play it on low even while not recording. I am not sure what my bottleneck is! I have my CPU overclocked to 3.5Ghz, my GPU memory to 2300Mhz, and my shader/clock speed to 1000Mhz. I have tried recording to all 3 different drives, still pretty much unplayable with like 20 fps. I have tried Fraps, and Bandicam. Not sure what else to do, if someone could please help that would be awesome! Thanks

Start a new thread - recording and gaming at the same time is extremely CPU-intensive. Or get a newer GTX and use ShadowPlay.

 

[bmacsys]

Hello there guys, I've been experiencing something that really shouldn't be happening. I own an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX6700 that I run both at stock speeds and sometimes at the overclocked speed of 2.96GHz. And I have never encountered a game that I play that made my Quad come to it's knees.

Now recently I got Saints Row The Third and my fps constantly dips bellow 30, either on low, medium or high, the difference in FPS from LOW to ULTRA is about 5 FPS, so it's not a GPU bottleneck, and I've also checked with afterburner, in 1280X720 I get ~20-35FPS and the GPU usage is around 50-60%. Is that game so demanding that it requires me a CPU better than a C2Q?! I've searched the requirements and it says as recommended (Any Quad Core Processor (Intel® Core i5 or AMD Phenom™ II X4) or 3.0+ Dual Core CPU). I'm confused. Am I doing something wrong?

Waiting for replies, and thanks for reading.

Just noticed this was a necro thread.