Guest Super Hitman Posted June 25, 2008 Report Posted June 25, 2008 I can play for about 2 minutes or so and suddenly I start getting really, really low FPS and about 30 secs after, I get kicked (from MetalGear). It's not my CPU, it's a Core2Duo. The game always starts out normal and goes almost exactly the same length of time before the FPS suddenly drops. After that, the only way to get it back to normal is to reboot. My video card is an nVidia GeForce 8500 GT. The only thing I can think that might have affected it is that around the same time the problem started up, I installed the CUDA drivers for the card. I have since reinstalled the original drivers from the CD that came with the card, but the problem remains. I've tried changing various parameters in the driver, but nothing seems to have any effect. Has anyone run into this problem before? Anyone know a solution? Thanks.
Samapico Posted June 25, 2008 Report Posted June 25, 2008 Have you checked CPU usage when it happens? Could be an anti-virus program scanning stuff; doesn't take much for Continuum to drown itself in FPS suckage.
Guest Super Hitman Posted June 25, 2008 Report Posted June 25, 2008 The CPU (or one of the two virtual CPUs) is running between 70 & 100% when it happens. I've tried disabling the AV software, but that had no effect. I run Avast, and I've been running it for a few years without it ever affecting continuum. What's really strange is that everything is fine for those first 2 minutes and that quitting out of continuum and going back in, the problem is there immediately. The only way to make it go away is to reboot. It's almost as if the video acceleration just stops working or something. It runs fine if I run it at 800x600 resolution (the highest resolution I can play normally at, with or without software emulation turned on), but anything higher than that and it gets really slow. I've been running at 1600x1200 for years without a problem, using the same video card. There's nothing else running consuming CPU. It's just Continuum.
Samapico Posted June 25, 2008 Report Posted June 25, 2008 Continuum is a CPU !@#$%^&* :/ it usually eats as much CPU as it can Make sure 'No framerate limit' and 'Software emulation' in View->Advanced Options... are UNchecked.edit: Just read that you tried software emulation... bleh
»Dav Posted June 26, 2008 Report Posted June 26, 2008 try reducing the colours in the view --> options menu go to the graphics tab and set the colour depth to one below what it is now (if you can)
Guest Super Hitman Posted June 26, 2008 Report Posted June 26, 2008 Actually, I had already tried reducing the color depth and had left it at 8-bit (was set to 32 before the problem started). I've tried disabling all the effects, still no improvement.
»Dav Posted June 27, 2008 Report Posted June 27, 2008 is your resolution identical to the desktop resolution? if not try to make them the same.
Guest Super Hitman Posted June 28, 2008 Report Posted June 28, 2008 I got it working again. It was the video drivers. I uninstalled them and reinstalled them yet again. 3rd time's the charm. I guess the CUDA drivers aren't continuum-friendly.
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