DTWD Posted October 9, 2010 Posted October 9, 2010 I had stirling performance in Black Shark (well damn good) pre the latest patch. The patch came along and it took a bit of a nose dive, which I was shocked at due to the new sound engine supposidly taking load off the one core situation. So I made some adjustments using (I forget the guys name, checksix was it?) alpha tweak guide, made a bit of an improvement and I carried on playing. I then went about fiddling with the mission editor and after a few weeks (don't get much time to play) of running through situations with that I noticed a severe slowdown in performance, so severe that it went into a slideshow at times (this is just watching the AI). Well there I was watching the PC boot up (due to boredem and lazyness) and what do I see? Something along the lines of: "CPU 2.40 @ 2.16", what is this I thought? The Q6600 runs at 2.4 not 2.16, which is what I would expect if the mobo had removed the overclocks. It would appear at some point in the recent past part of my overclock had decided to switch back to automatic instead of 400mhz. Lo and behold, a few seconds later it's all back at 3.2GHz and the game's performance has taken a "mysterios" jump! No idea why it happened, every other part of the over clock stayed the same, so it's not like it's wiped out the overclock (it has done that in the past). I was seriosly worried for a10 for a bit, thinking of all the expense I would need to run that new water, but yay PC is now fast again! Regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Panzertard Posted October 9, 2010 Posted October 9, 2010 Intel Speedstep? There's been a few versions which featured a few bugs previously. Can cause such funny issues. The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it's open | The important thing is not to stop questioning
FGSchtuzer Posted October 9, 2010 Posted October 9, 2010 I disable any energy-saving features in motherboard BIOS so that I can stable maximum output from my OC-ed CPU. Especially when gaming. 1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
eV1Te Posted October 9, 2010 Posted October 9, 2010 On a quad core cpu with intel speed step enabled, it will not run on full power until almost 2 full cores work at 100%. So running a game/application that only uses 1 Core, will never be able to make the CPU go out of it's power save mode! Download the small application Cpu-Z which displays the current frequency etc. of the CPU. So you can check what is actually going on while playing DCS. 1
DTWD Posted October 10, 2010 Author Posted October 10, 2010 Thanks chaps, I will take a look at the energy saving. I already have Cpu-z (an invaluable tool when overclocking), but I never thought of firing it up during DCS, will give it a go. Cheers. Regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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