I enabled this thing in my bios and then installed the driver for it. I did this right when I built my new machine and had a GF3 in there awaiting my 6800 GT. So I never actually played any games except starcraft + tribes I. Thus I never really tested the hardware.
Flashforward to last Friday. I get my new shiny 6800 GT. I toy around in Farcry and turn up the settings ect. It seems ok but nothing spectacular performance wise. I try BFV and it is like a slideshow. Since I didnt have time to play with it on Friday I just figured it was some issue in the bios.
I come home today and sure enough fastwrites is enabled. I turn it off and some of the stuttering is gone but still getting what I considered subpar performance. I was also getting some wierd instances of the machine literally locking for 10 seconds and then coming back to life in games. So I start to trouble shoot by turning down the settings. I get Farcry to work good but the levels of detail werent any higher than my 5900. BFV however was a slideshow at resolutions and details I played on my 5900.
I installed DX9c and fire up dixdiag and to my horror it is showing 1100mhz for the cpu clock. I check my WinXP computer properties box and it shows 2.2Ghz. Ok this is wierd I think and reboot and check the bios. Sure enough it says 2.2Ghz. Ok back into Windows and I download wcpuid and fire it up. Sure enough it shows 1100Mhz. At this point I think "hmm I wonder is the thing is in sleep mode but not coming out". So I reboot and disabled it via the bios. Reboot and now wcpuid is showing 2200Mhz and BFV runs maxed without issue, Farcry the same.
So I guess my question is has anybody been experiencing issues with this feature putting the CPU in a low power mode and not bringing it out when it is needed? I would love to have it enabled as it kept my CPU temp around 30C along with my case temps. Now that the chip is full speed it only added 7C but I would like it to work if possible.
Any solutions to this problem would be appreciated.
Thank you
Flashforward to last Friday. I get my new shiny 6800 GT. I toy around in Farcry and turn up the settings ect. It seems ok but nothing spectacular performance wise. I try BFV and it is like a slideshow. Since I didnt have time to play with it on Friday I just figured it was some issue in the bios.
I come home today and sure enough fastwrites is enabled. I turn it off and some of the stuttering is gone but still getting what I considered subpar performance. I was also getting some wierd instances of the machine literally locking for 10 seconds and then coming back to life in games. So I start to trouble shoot by turning down the settings. I get Farcry to work good but the levels of detail werent any higher than my 5900. BFV however was a slideshow at resolutions and details I played on my 5900.
I installed DX9c and fire up dixdiag and to my horror it is showing 1100mhz for the cpu clock. I check my WinXP computer properties box and it shows 2.2Ghz. Ok this is wierd I think and reboot and check the bios. Sure enough it says 2.2Ghz. Ok back into Windows and I download wcpuid and fire it up. Sure enough it shows 1100Mhz. At this point I think "hmm I wonder is the thing is in sleep mode but not coming out". So I reboot and disabled it via the bios. Reboot and now wcpuid is showing 2200Mhz and BFV runs maxed without issue, Farcry the same.
So I guess my question is has anybody been experiencing issues with this feature putting the CPU in a low power mode and not bringing it out when it is needed? I would love to have it enabled as it kept my CPU temp around 30C along with my case temps. Now that the chip is full speed it only added 7C but I would like it to work if possible.
Any solutions to this problem would be appreciated.
Thank you