FEAR demo problem

[ajbrun]

I'm getting less than a frame a second in the main game in FEAR. The previous corporate bits are OK (snowy mountain etc), but the main game bit isn't. I eventually get to a man sitting in a cell. He's very pixelated, so that leads me to believe that it's a graphics problem.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

[XA04]

Well, it's obvious it's your total rubish graphics card, you need to get an Geforce MX 420 or something!.

Just kidding .

So you can get in the menu OK? Have you tried playing around with the settings?

I use a 9800 pro, and it runs OK at default settings, but resolution at... erm, 1024x768 and 1280x960 (bit slower), but after tweaking the settings around I can get pretty good performance.

If you can't get into the menu at all, have you tried updating your drivers? Or possibly some hacked ones from www.guru3d.com ?.

[Dougal]

IIRC try disabling some of the options, esp. soft shadows.

[ajbrun]

Sorry, I was in a bit of a rush this morning, so didn't do a very good post. If I'd have had time, I'd have said I've updated the drivers, so I know that's not the problem.

I can get onto the menus, but they sort of take time to react. For example, I move my mouse over a menu, and it only changes colour to show that it's selected a second later.

AFAIK, everything is on its minimum setting, so I really have no idea what else to try.

[vincent]

whats your GPU and current drivers?

i had the exact same problem with my rady 9800 Pro...turned out to be the 5.6 catalyst drivers

[ajbrun]

Well, my current system is in my sig (except swap the Geil for another Crucial). My GPU driver is 77.77. What other drivers do you need?

[ajbrun]

Right, now I'm really not happy. The bet on soldier demo is doing the same thing as FEAR . Has anyone got anything else I could try doing?

They were both downloaded using ABC, and both too ages to initialise the install. I double clicked the exe, but it would only start actually installing about 5 minutes later. Could it be a problem with the download?

[plesuvius]

Reinstall windows!

Sounds like you have a crudload of spyware or something on your system slowing it down. Possibly a bad set of drivers or a lower level problem.

If i ever got a system to the point where i couldn't track how much spyware was on it, and it was taking 5 mins to start an install, i would reinstall windows on it just to rule out the software.

Clean installs are good for what ails ya.

[ajbrun]

Hmmmm, I might. I do run about 3 anti spyware programs regulaly, but ad-aware is generally the only thing that comes up with something, and it's generally the same thing too.

[Bobby]

I've seen these symptons before when a fan has failed. Have a look at the GPU's temp in the Display Panel. The fan might well have come loose ...

Might be worth checking processor temp. as well.

[ajbrun]

I will check the temperature (when I get back to my PC next week), but I don't think it's the fan. I recently opened my PC to change some memory. As far as I could tell, everything seemed fine, although the graphics fan did seem a bit buzzey. AFAIK though, it's been like that for a while, and the noise it gone when the case is put back together. Is there a thing that checks graphics temperatures too?