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February 5th 05, 02:53 PM
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Strange performance problem
Hi,
I have 2 seperate boot partitions on my PC, both have Windows XP pro installed with exactly the same setup. Both have all the same patches etc applied, and are running the same programs. Both have exactly the same drivers for everything. PC is an athlon xp 3200+, geforce 6800gt (agp), 512mb dual channel ram, abit an7 motherboard (nforce2). I have a weird problem, where in one partition, everything runs fine - I have all the geforce settings to absolute maximum, and any game runs perfectly - such as pro evo soccer 4, knights of the old republic etc. In the other partition, I have a lot of slowdown and jerkiness in these games. The games have the same performance options set up - they are installed in the same folder on a seperate partition, so they share the same files from both operating systems. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this in the 2nd partition - it has to be Windows related, since it does work in the other partition, but other than the drivers, geforce setup and game settings, I can't really think of anything to try changing... Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Daniel. 
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February 5th 05, 03:39 PM
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Strange performance problem
"Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 seperate boot partitions on my PC, both have Windows XP pro installed with exactly the same setup. Both have all the same patches etc applied, and are running the same programs. Both have exactly the same drivers for everything. PC is an athlon xp 3200+, geforce 6800gt (agp), 512mb dual channel ram, abit an7 motherboard (nforce2). I have a weird problem, where in one partition, everything runs fine - I have all the geforce settings to absolute maximum, and any game runs perfectly - such as pro evo soccer 4, knights of the old republic etc. In the other partition, I have a lot of slowdown and jerkiness in these games. The games have the same performance options set up - they are installed in the same folder on a seperate partition, so they share the same files from both operating systems. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this in the 2nd partition - it has to be Windows related, since it does work in the other partition, but other than the drivers, geforce setup and game settings, I can't really think of anything to try changing... The second boot partition is on a much slower part of the HD. How many partitions do you have? How are they organized? E.G. WinXP1 10GB Games 140GB WinXP2 10GB on a 160GB HD? Have you defragged? REM Insert insults he- ........ REM End insults. Work it out! Dave
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February 5th 05, 04:38 PM
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Strange performance problem
The partitions are 10GB (xp1) 10GB (xp2) then 60GB (storage/games) which are
on 2x western digital 7200rpm 8MB cache hard drives, arranged in a RAID 0 array, using a highpoint raid card. Hard disk performance is the same on both partitions, when the games slow down, it is not reading from the hard disk, it has already loaded - it is simply the frame rate slowing down. "Dave" wrote in message ... "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 seperate boot partitions on my PC, both have Windows XP pro installed with exactly the same setup. Both have all the same patches etc applied, and are running the same programs. Both have exactly the same drivers for everything. PC is an athlon xp 3200+, geforce 6800gt (agp), 512mb dual channel ram, abit an7 motherboard (nforce2). I have a weird problem, where in one partition, everything runs fine - I have all the geforce settings to absolute maximum, and any game runs perfectly - such as pro evo soccer 4, knights of the old republic etc. In the other partition, I have a lot of slowdown and jerkiness in these games. The games have the same performance options set up - they are installed in the same folder on a seperate partition, so they share the same files from both operating systems. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this in the 2nd partition - it has to be Windows related, since it does work in the other partition, but other than the drivers, geforce setup and game settings, I can't really think of anything to try changing... The second boot partition is on a much slower part of the HD. How many partitions do you have? How are they organized? E.G. WinXP1 10GB Games 140GB WinXP2 10GB on a 160GB HD? Have you defragged? REM Insert insults he- ....... REM End insults. Work it out! Dave
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February 5th 05, 04:42 PM
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frame rate slowing down
proportional to your 'video card' "Daniel" wrote in message ... The partitions are 10GB (xp1) 10GB (xp2) then 60GB (storage/games) which are on 2x western digital 7200rpm 8MB cache hard drives, arranged in a RAID 0 array, using a highpoint raid card. Hard disk performance is the same on both partitions, when the games slow down, it is not reading from the hard disk, it has already loaded - it is simply the frame rate slowing down. "Dave" wrote in message ... "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 seperate boot partitions on my PC, both have Windows XP pro installed with exactly the same setup. Both have all the same patches etc applied, and are running the same programs. Both have exactly the same drivers for everything. PC is an athlon xp 3200+, geforce 6800gt (agp), 512mb dual channel ram, abit an7 motherboard (nforce2). I have a weird problem, where in one partition, everything runs fine - I have all the geforce settings to absolute maximum, and any game runs perfectly - such as pro evo soccer 4, knights of the old republic etc. In the other partition, I have a lot of slowdown and jerkiness in these games. The games have the same performance options set up - they are installed in the same folder on a seperate partition, so they share the same files from both operating systems. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this in the 2nd partition - it has to be Windows related, since it does work in the other partition, but other than the drivers, geforce setup and game settings, I can't really think of anything to try changing... The second boot partition is on a much slower part of the HD. How many partitions do you have? How are they organized? E.G. WinXP1 10GB Games 140GB WinXP2 10GB on a 160GB HD? Have you defragged? REM Insert insults he- ....... REM End insults. Work it out! Dave
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February 5th 05, 09:24 PM
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Strange performance problem
It's just a thought, but have the scratch pads might be
different in different disks in each of the game programs. For example, the faster program may have scratch files in two disks, but the slower program may have scratch files in only one disk. Tom "Daniel" wrote in message ... The partitions are 10GB (xp1) 10GB (xp2) then 60GB (storage/games) which are on 2x western digital 7200rpm 8MB cache hard drives, arranged in a RAID 0 array, using a highpoint raid card. Hard disk performance is the same on both partitions, when the games slow down, it is not reading from the hard disk, it has already loaded - it is simply the frame rate slowing down. "Dave" wrote in message ... "Daniel" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 seperate boot partitions on my PC, both have Windows XP pro installed with exactly the same setup. Both have all the same patches etc applied, and are running the same programs. Both have exactly the same drivers for everything. PC is an athlon xp 3200+, geforce 6800gt (agp), 512mb dual channel ram, abit an7 motherboard (nforce2). I have a weird problem, where in one partition, everything runs fine - I have all the geforce settings to absolute maximum, and any game runs perfectly - such as pro evo soccer 4, knights of the old republic etc. In the other partition, I have a lot of slowdown and jerkiness in these games. The games have the same performance options set up - they are installed in the same folder on a seperate partition, so they share the same files from both operating systems. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this in the 2nd partition - it has to be Windows related, since it does work in the other partition, but other than the drivers, geforce setup and game settings, I can't really think of anything to try changing... The second boot partition is on a much slower part of the HD. How many partitions do you have? How are they organized? E.G. WinXP1 10GB Games 140GB WinXP2 10GB on a 160GB HD? Have you defragged? REM Insert insults he- ....... REM End insults. Work it out! Dave
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#6
February 6th 05, 10:36 PM
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Strange performance problem
Check your pagefile. It may be too small on one partition.
frame rate slowing down
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