Will 3gb of RAM bottleneck a Quad Core?

[SciD]

Is PES 11 better or I should go for this one. The demo worked brilliantly on PS3.

I am itching for a sports game now and NBA 2K11 is not exactly dream on PS3.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

True, but Fifa 11 PC doesn't exactly push the graphical envelope.



You haven't tried it yet, K.I? It's everything we've been asking for all these years, but MM has a few nasty bugs.



The full game should be fine as well then.

No I haven't. I was actually waiting to get myself a decent controller before getting FIFA 11 but just couldn't get around to buying one. Will try and get the controller and the game this week!

 

[ursonly11]

Dedicated graphics or on board ? On board will always cause this kind of problem.

 

[P Squared]

Dedicated, from his sig.

 

[Chewie]

He's got basically the same graphics card as me Except mine is from a different company. I'm looking to buy a second one and run them in crossfire over the holidays

 

[ursonly11]

Ohh sorry I missed that, so while talking about ATI, try to tweak it through Catalyst Control Centre. And have you tried on Win 7 32Bit. I am kind of sure it will work better than Win 7 64bit. I mean this is my personal experience.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Dedicated graphics or on board ? On board will always cause this kind of problem.

Dedicated, from his sig.

Correct. I wouldn't touch an onboard card with a bargepole for gaming.

Ohh sorry I missed that, so while talking about ATI, try to tweak it through Catalyst Control Centre. And have you tried on Win 7 32Bit. I am kind of sure it will work better than Win 7 64bit. I mean this is my personal experience.

Trouble is, I don't have Win 32bit installed - I am dual booting with Win XP and Win 7 64bit - Win 7 is working fine for all other games - it's only Fifa that's having this issue.

I've tried all sorts of tweaks with CCC, nothing works. I reckon we'll see a patch pretty soon, so I'll stick with XP until then.

Anyway, I might pick up the extra RAM tomorrow - if anything, it'll be worthwhile as then I can run in dual channel. Maybe it'll help, maybe not - we'll see eh?

 

[MasterBlaster76]

OK, I went up to 4gb today. I loaded up Fifa 11 and it was as smooth as silk! Great, I thought - problem solved. But when I restarted the system again, the lag was back! I have no idea what's going on with this game, but it seems to have something against Win 7 64bit and/or ATI.

Back to XP for now then.

 

[Abhas]

Just wondering, have you tried switching the antivirus off during the time you play? I experienced the lag yesterday, and it was really annoying. I minimized the game and checked the processor usage to find 100% being used. on checking, I realised it was FIFA taking up 50% (and a bit more), and the rest taken up by the antivirus. i disabled it, and the game was smooth again.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Just wondering, have you tried switching the antivirus off during the time you play? I experienced the lag yesterday, and it was really annoying. I minimized the game and checked the processor usage to find 100% being used. on checking, I realised it was FIFA taking up 50% (and a bit more), and the rest taken up by the antivirus. i disabled it, and the game was smooth again.

That's worth a go, cheers.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Regarding the RAM upgrade - Win 7 64bit is reading it as 4gb, but XP is only reading it as 3.50gb - is that because Win XP, being a 32bit system, can't recognise 4gb?

 

[P Squared]

Yes I had the same problem too. Your graphics card is using the .5 GB.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Yes I had the same problem too. Your graphics card is using the .5 GB.

Is that just happening under Win XP then?

MasterBlaster76 added 1 Minutes and 2 Seconds later...

I minimized the game and checked the processor usage to find 100% being used. on checking, I realised it was FIFA taking up 50% (and a bit more),

From what you can see, is the game utilising all your CPU cores?

 

[Abhas]

Yeah it is utilizing both the cores, but is generally limited to 50%. Goes up till 55% at times, but that's about it. (while its minimized though.. don't know what's happening in gameplay.

 

[P Squared]

Is that just happening under Win XP then?

Nope, it happens in all 32 bit systems.