[SOLVED] Sandy Bridge performance issues?

[besweeet]

I've had my GT680 for about a week. My previous computer was a mid-2009 15" MacBook Pro (Win7 via Boot Camp, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 8GB RAM, 9600M GT 256MB), and MTA played between 30 and 36FPS (36FPS is the max of the server I usually play on).

With my GT680, on the other hand, I'm not getting good performance whatsoever.

I get the same frame rate at 1920x1080x32 (3xAA, Very High, full screen) as I do at 640x480x16 (0xAA, Low, Windowed). The actual numbers that I'm talking about are less than 25FPS. So, no matter what my video settings are, I'll never reach a good frame rate. I've tried on 266.58 ForceWare and 260.xx. My observation here is that the problem is not my GPU.

I'm starting to think that it's the processor. Maybe MTA needs some performance enhancements? I can easily hit 120~FPS in single player at 1920x1080x32 (3xAA, Very High, full screen). All of my other games (Black Ops, TDU 1/2, Bioshock, etc) all play fine at 1920x1080, high settings.

I'm using the "latest" nightly build of 1.0.4 (the one from 4 days ago).

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Cause of the problem and solution:

viewtopic.php?f=104&t=31745&start=15#p337597 (and post below).

[MrDadosz]

Maybe your CPU is throttling? I had that problem in other games.

[DeVo]

Maybe your CPU is throttling? I had that problem in other games.

CPU usage doesn't exceed 10% with Firefox, lots and lots of programs and MTA:SA.

[MrDadosz]

And what about temperatures during playing games?

[DeVo]

And what about temperatures during playing games?

20c -> 30c

Also I've an external fan to help out if there's high temp.

I'll try to download new driver when Windows 10 get released, maybe it's driver issue .. but still very odd that I get more FPS rate at modern games than MTA:SA.