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dirt 3 dropping frame rates in SLI

Discussion in 'Off Topic - All other stuff here' started by bsft, Jan 7, 2012.

  1. bsft

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    Hello All, I am running Dirt3 boxed version one, and have been doing so for a while with no issues.
    My set up is 990 chipset motherboard, AMD 965 quad core, 1000watt psu, 12 gig ram, windows 7 64 bit, and 2 x GTX560ti in sli.
    Its been running perfect for ages . Now for some reason, the frame rates drops down to below 30 fps at times. Does not matter what race, conditions or car. I have tried re-installing the game with no success. Yes I did a google search and came up with no conclusive answer. I am up to 209 races, but even if I go back to an old race, same problem. I have done NO updates of the game whatsoever. I even tried disabling SLI, antivirus, even removed a card and ran one vga card, still nothing.
    Got me stuffed.
    Any ideas?
    bsft, Jan 7, 2012
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    Hmj, i had something similair with cod mw multiplayer. It always worked percfectly online and suddenly shocking game play.....internet speed was top but it only got solved by reinstalling windows....
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  3. bsft

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    only play offline, no time to play online, constantly being disturbed by kids.
    All other games work fine.....
    I may consider a windows re-install, really what I need is a dedicated pc. Fat chance of that happening with my cow of a wife.
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    I know whats thats like, kids and wife click on everything and install most bad software
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    I will try reverting to an older version vga driver.
    bsft, Jan 7, 2012
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    What driver version are you using ?

    Did you ever tried to overwrite your in game graphic settings with NVIDIA Inspector ? I am getting better results like that ... but I don't play any codemasters series games ...


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    bleco, Jan 7, 2012
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  7. bsft

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    Thanks Bleco, I use that program and found one of my cards is running a slightly lower voltage than the other. One is 1.012v and the other 1.025v. This is probably part of the problem. I will try to adjust it once I have had enough caffiene.
    That and I will try an older vga driver as well.
    Cheers, David.
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    Glad it helped! this software is very usefull...


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    bleco, Jan 7, 2012
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