I might be stating the obvious: try turning off cool'n'quiet.

 

Oh wow. We are all in awe of your 1337 computer.

Go out some time, will you? See people. Real people.

And stop pestering a thread with a very valid question, which you haven't done the least to answer.

/Lux

Well if it isn't the kettle calling the pot black.

What have you contributed to this thread aside from this pointless flaming post?

At least I told him his framerate is normal for his cpu, which is more helpful than your bs.

The reason I'm showing those shots is to provide him with a comparison for his own system. I also know there are alot of people wondering what a fast system can archive so I obliged them. Before I got my core2duo I always wanted to know what rpgwizard was getting with his overclocked opteron.

If he had hopes of reaching 40-50fps with a mere 200-500mhz increase, then I was simplying telling him the honest truth. Which is even an e6600 can't get 60fps so he shouldn't expect to either. My 60fps is on a 3.2ghz core2duo.

 

I don't think there's alot to do, other than to accept the fps that I have now - or buy a new cpu. I don't believe that I have ever had cool 'n' quiet enabled!

Might be a problem with not increasing the voltage though, well I guess I'll try increasing the voltage a bit.

 

Well my 3800+ (200MHz slower than your originally) can overclock to 2.4GHz without a change in voltage and with cool&quiet on and still be stable. I think it's likely your chip can too.

Btw: Voltage won't affect the speed you get out of it, only the reliability. Not enough voltage = crashes. Too much voltage = dead cpu. I've had 2.8GHz on my cpu before (with plenty of voltage), and I can play around in the bios safely at 3.0GHz, but windows won't load at that speed. I suspected it was drive communication errors from using a 300MHz base clock (600MHz DDR), on a motherboard built for 200MHz (400MHz DDR).

EDIT: I haven't run FFX in a while, but I'm fairly sure the intro is slow for me too, and my system is nearly identical to yours. The game hovers just on full speed most of the time, but special effects (eg summons, starts of battle) drop the fps a lot.

 

Well, I'm pretty new to overclocking, What I know is basically about voltage, FSB, and multiplier. The only thing I changed was the FSB, I almost got it to 2.7 without increasing the voltage..

Strange that you get full speed though - Well I'm on 40 fps pretty often I guess my average is far below 50 fps .

Do the version of the game that you have, have any impact on the speed, say a PAL vs. an NTSC version. Or rather impact on the speed that the game runs on compared to on a ps2? (since there's a 10 fps difference)

 

I have the PAL version I think, so I only need 50fps for full speed

Also my graphics card is a little better than yours, and I'm running from iso, which should be faster than dvd. If you have a bad virus-scanner it could be slowing your game down by continuously scanning the disk/iso which you're playing.

 

I have the PAL version I think, so I only need 50fps for full speed

I also have the PAL version...

Also my graphics card is a little better than yours,

Shouldn't make any difference, it's easy-mode for a graphics card to run a game like that, there's no fps impact if I change aa for example, the fan runs idle (on the GPU) all the time, which it doesn't if it's doing anything more demandning .. - Though it's true it's better than mine

and I'm running from iso, which should be faster than dvd.

I'm also running it from an iso...

If you have a bad virus-scanner it could be slowing your game down by continuously scanning the disk/iso which you're playing.

I have turned off all such programs, that is not needed, no difference...

Thanks for the tips anyway!

 

Oh and here's my setting, believe everything important is there . (saved in bad quality for the people with slow downloads)