0. I normally run my PC with the side closed, but it still looks ugly.
1. I definitely misworded my initial question a bit.
2. I don't know if I'll bother redoing the cables, given that it takes time to do it properly, and I might get the cables mixed up. Also I would rather do other things than focus on how neat my computer looks internally.
3. I originally had:
8GB 8GB, 2GB 2GB, 1GB 1GB 1GB. (in 3 computers)
Then I rearranged them to:
8GB, 8GB, 2GB 2GB, and I have three 1GB sticks lying around.
Does running in single-channel slow down my computer a lot? From research, I thought the effect wasn't significant. But then again, it might be plain wrong, or DDR2 advice that no longer applies.
Depends on the application. But there is really no point to doing it.
(03-16-2014, 02:53 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Check your cpu clock rates and temperatures during tf2 for throttling. Verify your ram speed and make sure it's running in dual channel mode. Then verify that your gpu isn't throttling either. Check for background tasks including virus scanners that might be running. Check for viruses.
Temperatures or clock rates don't seem to be the issue, neither does viruses as my system is squeaky clean. Definitely not viruses because I am extremely cautious with what I do and run periodic scans just because of Steam, my TF2 items and other things I do on the computer.
Barely hardware, but it's a nuisance that shadowplay won't turn on except in a DirectX application. You can record OGL and desktop applications if a DX one crashes without crashing shadowplay, but it can't be turned on manually any other way.
It's always possible that this is all a big misunderstanding and it's supposed to be just to stop low-level malware attacks, and that it'll be disable-able.
I landed on go wild on my jump to conclusions mat. I see you got think again which is probably correct.
Re-installed Windows 7. I think there was some stuff broken causing me issues but I shall see. Performance seems to be better in Resident Evil 4:UHD but performance in TF2 is still as abysmal as ever. Probably will avoid installing anything that might cause issues such as Geforce experience or Daemon Tools with SPTD.. Took my 2.5" SATA out of the external enclosure and installed it in my system for more disk space. Will report back after testing some games such as Skyrim which I was experiencing massive stuttering and lockups with.
I'm still waiting for a response on all of my suggestions, not just some of them.
I would also log HDD/CPU/GPU/memory activity while running tf2 to see if anything is eating up resources and if so what.
Is tf2 running off an external drive? Have you verified that the memory, cpu, and gpu are all running at the correct speeds?
Well I monitored gpu with Gpu-Z and when there is load the clock speed maxes out so it appears the gpu is running as it's max speed. Cpu however falls short 2 Mhz - 5 Mhz of it's clock speed and the FSB is running at 328 Mhz rather tha 330 Mhz - 333 Mhz it should be maxing out at. Right click properties from My Computer shows the incorrect clock rate at the end, should be 3.3 Ghz but is shown as 3.61 Ghz. As for ram I'll check Cpu-Z again but last I checked it appeared to be running in dual channel and Pci-e is at x16 bus speed. All my games are ran from an internal SATA drive for best possible performance.
As for cpu usage TF2 usually uses between 25% to just under 50% at most but I have to do more in depth logging to see if the cpu spikes high when I experience severely reduced framerates. Only other processes using cpu is audiodg with 10% to 11% usage max and occasionally Steam cpu usage will spike but not very high. Nothing else of any significance using cpu that would be causing poor performance and TF2 is the only game I experience this type of performance issue.
Literally after walking out of spawn fps goes from over 100 fps to 40 fps or 50fps and drops to 30fps or under when there is a lot happening on screen. These drops also occurred with my overclocked i7 and sli'd GTX 460's but wasn't as severe as it is now but back then it wasn't uncommon for my fps to drop to just under or around 60 fps.