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System Performance Seems Locked In Games

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NinjaNife

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Processor Intel i7-875K 2.9GHz (OC'd to 4.0GHz)
Motherboard MSI P55-GD80
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Video Card(s) EVGA GTX 470 1280MB Superclocked+ 750/1500/1750
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I hope this is in the right forum. If not, please move it to the correct forum. I am trying to figure out why my FPS is being locked in video games (Crysis will be the example for this post). Please review my system specs below to understand this next part. In Crysis, my current FPS is around 30-40. One of my friends, who has a similar system (AMD 9950 2.6GHz CPU with an ATI EAH 4870), gets 60-90 with the same settings (running all on High and 1600x1050 resolution). At first I thought my video card was slowing it down, and so my friend sent me his EAH 4870 for me to test. I installed it and updated all of the drivers, but still get within 5FPS as before (35-45 now). Now I am wondering what could be slowing me down. Does anyone have any ideas why my FPS is so much lower than his? If needed I could post my friends exact system specs as well.
 
I just noticed my System specs aren't in my Sig anymore... I will post them ASAP. My bad lol.
 
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Hard Drive: 2.1 TB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Monitor: ASUS VH242H
Sound Card: PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
Speakers/Headphones: Razer Barracuda
Keyboard: Razer Lycosa
Mouse: Cooler Master Storm Sentinel Advance
Mouse Surface: Razer Destructor
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Motherboard: ASUS M4N72-E
Computer Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
 
Your framerate seems about correct for Crysis, his seems too high, almost like he has a custom cfg.
 
Your friend has a 4870? That's equal to a GTX260, and better than the GTS250, which is basically a upgraded 9800GTX.
 
Also, system performance is affected by how many programs you have running. Have you checked to see how many processes is running on his system compared to yours?
 
Wile E said:
Your framerate seems about correct for Crysis, his seems too high, almost like he has a custom cfg.
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We tested today with clean installs, no mods, and no custom configs, just ingame settings. He got a steady 60FPS at "High" settings.

BarbaricSoul said:
Your friend has a 4870? That's equal to a GTX260, and better than the GTS250, which is basically a upgraded 9800GTX.
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I know it is better, but what I mean is when I used the *exact same card* (we took it from his computer and put it in mine), and I still got the same FPS.
 
BarbaricSoul said:
Also, system performance is affected by how many programs you have running. Have you checked to see how many processes is running on his system compared to yours?
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Both of us were using new installs of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with just a few installed programs. About 100 processes average.
 
These were my friend's specs at the time of the test:

Processor: AMD Phenom 9950 3.0GHz CPU (2.6GHz OC to 3.0GHz)
Memory: GSkill 1066MHz DDR2 8Gb RAM(4x2Gb sticks brought down to 800MHz due to AMD CPU limitations)
Motherboard: ASUS M3N78 Pro Motherboard
Graphics Card: ASUS EAH 4870 1Gb Radeon 256-bit GDDR5
Power Supply: SIGMA FOCUS SP800B 800W
 
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