Extreme FPS issue

[Andythebomb]

hey I am wondering how much memory dose your guys task manger say QuestViewer.exe  is using cause on mine it says it's using around 347,000K which seems a little high.

and i do have the latest drivers just checked.

[Pwntastic]

Yeah its a bit higher than you would expect, but that's about normal

[LockeDown]

hey I am wondering how much memory dose your guys task manger say QuestViewer.exe  is using cause on mine it says it's using around 347,000K which seems a little high.

and i do have the latest drivers just checked.

didnt realize it before but mine uses about the same.. its at 392,300k right now.. but still doesnt appear to affect my performance. course i got 4gb of ram too.

[St1ckman]

I have a weird FPS issue too, just recently audio-surf, and only audio-surf is running extremely terrible, at 12fps on the menu and 25fps on a track on 640x480... updated drivers and defragged my hard drives, etc etc etc nothing works.

[Dylan]

Yikes. What kind of framerates did you used to get?

Is it consistently that bad with various song file types?

[St1ckman]

I used to get roughly 60fps, lows of 30ish on extreme pressure, I used enhanced setting, 1280x1024 and aliasing 8x.

This only seems to be audio-surf having trouble, I bought Prey over the weekend 5 DOLLARS! and that works fine on full everything, and yes it's most definatly consistent, makes your eyeballs bleed.

On the latest Nvidia drivers, Using a Geforce 8800 GTX OC (BFG)

One thing which is weird is, I get the same fps when using Premium graphics, crap. Bleh.

(Oh and thanks for the reply)

(and another thing that may help, I haven't updated the game for about a week and a half -- give or take a few days, busy busy -- so maybe it was the update that broke me?)

[omnisine]

i'm on an hp laptop, 1.66ghz Duo Core, 1GIG RAM, nVidia GeForce Go 7400...
not a stellar config...but i expect it to be enuf to run audio surf without AA with normal settings at 1280x800...

i initially had drivers back from 2006 on my laptop...got frame rates of 25-30 but with major dips...
i recently reformatted my system, n upgraded to the 174.74...frame rates went upto 50-55 but i still experienced dips now n then...
tday i installed 167.58 from laptopvideo2go.com cuz it was the latest for hp laptops in the laptop branch of forceware drivers there...i'm gettings framerates of 55-60...but every 20-40 seconds i get a dip n the framerate falls to 20-25..n that most of the times ruins my score...

the funny thing is i get this exact framerate of 55-60 with the random dips to 20-25 at 1280x800 as well as 800x600...also it's not heavy traffic that causes these dips..cuz i get them at any random point...sometimes at very empty uphill climbs...

i've disabled V-sync...
tried the old dlls Dylan posted...
tried changing the affinity of Questviewer.exe to one core...
tried changing Processor scheduling to 'Programs' as well as 'Background services'..it doesnt make any difference...
set my nVidia settings to max performance instead best quality...
i defrag my harddrive regularly...
the programs running in the background, other than system exes n services are - zone alarm, nod32, norton ghost, steam (obviously), fraps...
my soundcard is an external firewire audio interface (Edirol FA-66)..i've set it to max buffer n latency..tried playing the game using my onboard sound drivers...no difference...

n no i dont own any xbox controllers n stuff...

anyone got any bright ideas?

 

[Riffraff]

Reporting poor performance as well. I'm running Vista 32 bit (no, don't bring up the "Vista sucks" argument - performance differences are minuscule in normal cases) and have the following setup:

Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.2 GHz
2 GB RAM CL4 @ 900 MHz
GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB

Resolution: 1280x1024

The performance isn't TRAGIC and IS affected by the graphic options BUT when using normal mode I drop to around 60 fps (which is OK, I guess, but still unexpected), when using enhanced to 50-60 and with premium mode it's 30-40. Call me crazy but I get around 40 fps in Crysis at maximum settings and DX10 and over 230 fps in the HL2 stress test. I don't think that Audiosurf has quite the graphical "oomph" to be draining my CPU and GPU power at these levels...

Waah? Underclocking your CPU?

[BigYeti]

Reply to Smash.


Complain about Developers : Tell me just 1 game that had 5 patches that either change the game play or the pointsytem in the first month ( you will not find such a game)

Ultima Online.   (Yes you will)

[St1ckman]

Ah.. forgot to reply, twas XBCD drivers... gah.

[Dylan]

Yay!

[WalmartSecurity]

Yay!

[St1ckman]

Yay!

I guess it's a 'yay' moment, but, I'd like to know why it happens.. Is it the game that doesn't like the xbcd drivers, or vice versa?

If you don't know, or can't be arsed, I can deal with that. I'd rather be able to play audiosurf than not at all!

[Dylan]

No, I haven't spent any time trying to actually solve the XBCD issue yet.

[zeeZ]

Extreme FPS? I'm getting 1000-6000+ FPS at the news/title screen, that's producing a lot of heat.
As stupid as it may sound to the people who can't get enough FPS but I'd like to have an upper limit...