Alright, here's my specs:
AMD Phenom II Black Edition unlocked to 3 cores, OC'd to 4GHz
ATI 6870 1 GB DDR5
4 GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz DDR3
AsRock Extreme 970 MB -using the onboard Realtek HD sound
Windows 7 x64
Alright, so here's the deal, no matter what performance options I check or uncheck, games seem to only render at whatever fps they "feel like." For instance, Monster Hunter Tri, I crank the graphical options up to infinity (except I don't turn on AA since it unnecessarily slows the game down and it's almost useless at 1080p) and it runs at about 33 fps until there are several monsters in one area, then it slows down to about 27 fps and stutters. Now, here's the issue I am having, I turn down all the graphical options and it runs exactly the same. I would post my config, but I'm talking serious back and forth trial and error with all the performance options and nothing works. New Super Mario Brother Wii and Super Mario Kart are the same. In fact, the only thing that seems to be actually be affected by changing the performance options are Gamecube games.
AMD Phenom II Black Edition unlocked to 3 cores, OC'd to 4GHz
ATI 6870 1 GB DDR5
4 GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz DDR3
AsRock Extreme 970 MB -using the onboard Realtek HD sound
Windows 7 x64
Alright, so here's the deal, no matter what performance options I check or uncheck, games seem to only render at whatever fps they "feel like." For instance, Monster Hunter Tri, I crank the graphical options up to infinity (except I don't turn on AA since it unnecessarily slows the game down and it's almost useless at 1080p) and it runs at about 33 fps until there are several monsters in one area, then it slows down to about 27 fps and stutters. Now, here's the issue I am having, I turn down all the graphical options and it runs exactly the same. I would post my config, but I'm talking serious back and forth trial and error with all the performance options and nothing works. New Super Mario Brother Wii and Super Mario Kart are the same. In fact, the only thing that seems to be actually be affected by changing the performance options are Gamecube games.