What wrong with my Video card?

Cooldog · Sep 24, 2008

OK, i have a GIGABYTE GV-NX86T512H GeForce 8600GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video card. today all of a sudden out of nowhere, in the middle of a game i started getting 11 FPS on med settings, the FPS used to be always fine until then. the game was Supreme Commander Forged Alliance that i was playing when i sall it happening. it was fine yesterday. i had it for about 162 days, 4/14/08. anyone know what the prob is? :confused:

Also my drivers are up to date and it is nvidia driver.

I got it from NewEgg.com
PLZ HELP

largon · Sep 24, 2008

Errr.. Ok...
So does it do that always now?

On a side note; the poll must be the most useful poll ever in forum history...

xu^ · Sep 24, 2008

sure it just isnt the game ? supreme commander can make the best of systems chug on large maps with lots of units

largon · Sep 24, 2008

Running out of video memory could cause FPS to plummet.

iStink · Sep 24, 2008

Replay parts of the game that you are certain you had good performance in. If you still notice a severe drop in fps, restart the computer and try again. If you still notice a drop in fps, report back here.

wolf2009 · Sep 24, 2008

maybe the card finally realised that it's a 8600GT going up against Supreme Commander, LOl .

And you voted yes in your own vote, isn't it obvious that it happened to you ?

3870x2 · Sep 24, 2008

yeah, that game is called supreme commander for a reason, it pwnts the sh1t out of your card. Im surprised you can play it at all on an 8600GT w/out presenting a slide show...

JC316 · Sep 24, 2008

You are probably running out of video memory and bye bye frames. Either lower the settings or get another video card. I recommend the 8800GS

Cooldog · Sep 25, 2008

JC316 said:
You are probably running out of video memory and bye bye frames. Either lower the settings or get another video card. I recommend the 8800GS

It used to work fine in tell there was a TON of units out there and the FPS were still fine.

largon said:
Errr.. Ok...
So does it do that always now?

yes

iStink said:
restart the computer and try again. If you still notice a drop in fps, report back here.

Tried that and did'nt help.

wolf2009 said:
And you voted yes in your own vote, isn't it obvious that it happened to you ?

Didn't want all of them to be no :rockout:

One more thing, would my video card still run it if it was dead?
someone told me that there's a back up video on it but would it give me 12 FPS if it was dead using that?

thraxed · Sep 25, 2008

use the driver from a 162 days ago? does it still do it? obviously something changed, get rid of the spyware running in the background. Kill some window services. Still does it? Fresh Install? Still does it? Yeah buy new improved card.

Fitseries3 · Sep 25, 2008

resize your pagefile to 4096 min and max. reboot and try playing again. should help but may not solve the problem.

Pinchy · Sep 25, 2008

Same thing happened to me on CS:S on my old X800XT. I would be playing at 120 FPS then all of a sudden would just plummet from 9-15 FPS. Had to restart the comp to get it back to normal, but it would ALWAYS plummet after a while of playing.

I noticed it dropped a lot faster from playing with BOTS to online. Ie, with bots it would take 10-15 mins to drop, online about 2-3 hours (which made me think...bots make the cpu stress)

Turns out the CPU was overheating at 65*C. Put a new CPU cooler on and the problem went away.

Cooldog · Sep 26, 2008

Pinchy said:
Same thing happened to me on CS:S on my old X800XT. I would be playing at 120 FPS then all of a sudden would just plummet from 9-15 FPS. Had to restart the comp to get it back to normal, but it would ALWAYS plummet after a while of playing.

I noticed it dropped a lot faster from playing with BOTS to online. Ie, with bots it would take 10-15 mins to drop, online about 2-3 hours (which made me think...bots make the cpu stress)

Turns out the CPU was overheating at 65*C. Put a new CPU cooler on and the problem went away.

My game just started out slow with low FPS even if i just sarted my comp and played a game right away.

Cooldog · Sep 26, 2008

fitseries3 said:
resize your pagefile to 4096 min and max. reboot and try playing again. should help but may not solve the problem.

resize what page file and how?

Fitseries3 · Sep 26, 2008

right click on COMPUTER and click properties

then click advanced system settings on the left side

click performance

click advanced

under virtual memory click change

uncheck auto and select custom size

set initial and max BOTH to 4096 and click set

hit ok out of everything and reboot.

Cooldog · Sep 26, 2008

fitseries3 said:
right click on COMPUTER and click properties

then click advanced system settings on the left side

click performance

click advanced

under virtual memory click change

uncheck auto and select custom size

set initial and max BOTH to 4096 and click set

hit ok out of everything and reboot.

is that for xp or vista?

Fitseries3 · Sep 26, 2008

vista. xp is similar. about the same place.

Cooldog · Sep 26, 2008

should i do that both both drives?

Fitseries3 · Sep 26, 2008

no just the OS drive

Cooldog · Sep 26, 2008

also so you know my C drive was already set my initial size as 3070 and max sze to 4092.

Fitseries3 · Sep 26, 2008

set both to 4092. it may not help you much.

you can also disable indexing. that may speed you computer up a bit.

go to my computer and right click each drive and go to properties

at the bottom there is an option for indexing. uncheck and hit apply

Cooldog · Sep 26, 2008

yep just did that

Fitseries3 · Sep 26, 2008

Cooldog · Sep 26, 2008

but still, any clue why it would start sucking if i changed nothing?

Fitseries3 · Sep 26, 2008

a component getting hot and causing the computer run like shit. i get that all the time when i OC and bench. 600mhz FSB will really roast a northbridge if it's not cooled properly.

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Memory	2× 8GB DDR4-3200 ◦◦◦ 2× 8GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical LP DDR3-1600
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Keyboard	Logitech Elite Keyboard from 2006 / Contour Balance Keyboard / Logitech diNovo Edge
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