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<<frame rate slowing down

proportional to your 'video card'


"Daniel" <zen6575@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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" <dave2972@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Daniel" <zen6575@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:4204ddca$0$4097$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
> >> 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 here:-
> >
> > .......
> >
> > REM End insults.
> >
> > Work it out!
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
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