Drunk Clown
01-06-2012, 02:32
So I was playing an online game called Dota 2. When I found a match I noticed immediately that I had major FPS problems.
Well, at first I thought it was just connection problems but when I payed attention I noticed it wasn't the regular "high ping" FPS problems. After winning the match I wanted to try out other games if they had the same problems. First Team Fortress 2 to see what my ping was as I can't see it in Dota 2. My ping was a solid 15-20 but my FPS were about 20-30, which would otherwise be around the 70.
My next step was to play a single-player game; I picked Shogun 2. When I did some custom battles I noticed that the animations were okay, but when I moved the camera he wouldn't go smooth (sorry don't know how to describe it otherwise). So I turned down everything to low and small size army. Subsequently I did a custom battle with 1 unit on both sides; this went smooth, without problems.
Then I went on to Skyrim. When I launched Skyrim everything went as it always went; the loading times weren't longer. However when I was in the world my FPS was about the 10 (which I checked with Xfire). Normally it would go smooth, however I don't know what my usual FPS is.
Last I launched Mafia 2 which had the same results as Skyrim.
I did and do not understand what had changed. And yes I said did, cause when I rebooted my PC, as last effort before I would go to bed, and launched Skyrim the game played as it has always played; smooth. (Same goes for Dota 2)
So my question is: What could have happened? And why did it return to normal when I just rebooted my PC?
I hope one of you can answer these question.
Well, at first I thought it was just connection problems but when I payed attention I noticed it wasn't the regular "high ping" FPS problems. After winning the match I wanted to try out other games if they had the same problems. First Team Fortress 2 to see what my ping was as I can't see it in Dota 2. My ping was a solid 15-20 but my FPS were about 20-30, which would otherwise be around the 70.
My next step was to play a single-player game; I picked Shogun 2. When I did some custom battles I noticed that the animations were okay, but when I moved the camera he wouldn't go smooth (sorry don't know how to describe it otherwise). So I turned down everything to low and small size army. Subsequently I did a custom battle with 1 unit on both sides; this went smooth, without problems.
Then I went on to Skyrim. When I launched Skyrim everything went as it always went; the loading times weren't longer. However when I was in the world my FPS was about the 10 (which I checked with Xfire). Normally it would go smooth, however I don't know what my usual FPS is.
Last I launched Mafia 2 which had the same results as Skyrim.
I did and do not understand what had changed. And yes I said did, cause when I rebooted my PC, as last effort before I would go to bed, and launched Skyrim the game played as it has always played; smooth. (Same goes for Dota 2)
So my question is: What could have happened? And why did it return to normal when I just rebooted my PC?
I hope one of you can answer these question.