Interesting issue

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 16, 2009

Been running shift fine all day, spent 6 hours mastering corners and career mode, took a break, went to play again and it keeps encountering problems, as soon as I am in a race no matter what track, its jerky appearing to not handle the gfx set im unsure why...as its been running fine on max settings most of the day.

dual core 2.7gb athlon
gtx260 geforce
500gb hdd
2gb ram
vista 32bit

Dan Coldrick · Nov 17, 2009

Temperatures?

Damian Henderson · Nov 17, 2009

^^^

Run this and do gaming session check max temp after 30 mins or so

http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 17, 2009

temps are fine, however hdd light flashes eractic, and in task manager there is nothing listed thats using it...

for example every item listed isusing 0-1 cpu usage on idle, yet resource monitor says cpu usage is 50%, its settled down now but still does it when it wants to.

Damian Henderson · Nov 17, 2009

Sounds like something in Vista is doing something.

You got indexing on?

Done any virus scans recently? (what software to)

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 17, 2009

fresh vista install doubt i have any viruses, whats indexing?

Damian Henderson · Nov 17, 2009

Here:

http://www.vistaultimate.com/tweak-windows-vista-indexing.htm

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 17, 2009

I have took the user folder off indexing so hopefully it will speed it up, thanks.

Dan Coldrick · Nov 17, 2009

Jason what are your temps after a while?

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 17, 2009

Wouldnt know, hwmonitor requires premium after 10 minutes so dont use it, havent found a freeware temp software yet, tried coretemp but it gave false readings.

Damian Henderson · Nov 17, 2009

Jason Dewhurst said:
hwmonitor requires premium after 10 minutes so dont use it,

It's completely free, can have it running as long as you want.

Dan Coldrick · Nov 18, 2009

Damian Dainhumain said:
It's completely free, can have it running as long as you want.

Yep, Jason it would help us if we could see your temps, normally one of the 1st things that cause probs.

Michel Salvador · Nov 18, 2009

i use hwmonitor always been free + new 1 black box 2.0 link

http://blackbox.hardwaremania.com/en/features

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 18, 2009

When I installed hwmonitor i got a pop up crashing my game saying hwmonitor can only run 10 minutes on free version.

Damian Henderson · Nov 18, 2009

:embarassed::embarassed::embarassed::jaw:

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 18, 2009

Ok heres some screens for you.

CPU:

http://img269.imageshack.us/i/cpure.jpg/

MEMORY:

http://img163.imageshack.us/i/memoryz.jpg/

GPU:

http://img195.imageshack.us/i/gpup.jpg/

SYSTEM:

http://img41.imageshack.us/i/systemkw.jpg/

BENCHMARK:

http://img188.imageshack.us/i/benchmarkm.jpg/

Semi Idle, browsing forums.

Jason Dewhurst · Nov 18, 2009

went into the pc shop today had a lengthy chat with them, and they said bring it in, apparantly it shouldnt be getting that hot and my ram should be displaying right.

So looks like im going to be without net access for a few days.