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GTRacer4
Errr...how can you 'trick' a game into doing that?
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Its quite easy. If you want me to explain, I be glad to tell you lot.

If any of you did the same trick, you may get nearly the same amount of stable framerates like me or not.
 
The one thing I hate about fear is that it runs like crap on my pc, and looks pretty arse. :(

3000 athlon 64 venice (over clocked by 200 mhz)
radeon 9800 pro
1024mb corsair ddr400 ram (2 X 512 in dual chan mode)
Sonic Xplosion sound card
ASROCK dual sata 2 mobo

TBH I wasn't overly impressed by the game, the maps are dull as hell.
 
Have you tried defragmenting your ram, I tell you by a PM what program you need to do this.
 
TVR&Ferrari_Fan
Its quite easy. If you want me to explain, I be glad to tell you lot.

If any of you did the same trick, you may get nearly the same amount of stable framerates like me or not.
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Sure. :)

PM that program to me too ;).
 
My ram? I'm guessing you mean HDD. I keep my drives pretty tidy and partitioned, it doesn't need a defrag atm, though I do use the standard Windows xp one, which I know isn't the best. The game is installed on a 180 gig 7200rpm Hitachi drive with 8 mb of cache, on a partition seperate to the windows installation.

But by all means, recemend away, infact, probs be better to post it in the thread, I'm sure others would want to hear.

Thanks :)
 
GTRacer4
Sure. :)

PM that program to me too ;).
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The program name I sent to code_kev is for defragmenting your ram. But give that a try first, before you try the AA idea.

If you have AA already running in game. But you can also defragment Ram, by some programs.

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More Screens:

- Oh look that rat in the corner is trying to escape.
- Another rat problem is delt with.
 
So I used Forceware coolbits to automatically overclock my vid card and then started playing FEAR mulitplayer. The picture started looking weird I think was is called artifacting?? Could it be because of fraps or is it just overclocking too much? Only other thing I can think of is a high ping rate?
 
Well I thought auto would be safe enough because I don't like the idea of overclocking because it sounds like a good way to break something expensive real easy especially when I don't know what I'm doing. :dunce:
 
Maybe it would be far more safer if you added a new heatsink to the graphics card. Also you know since you put it on auto overclock, that you have voided your warntey now Vip.
 
Oh yea, they have there ways of finding out. I am tempted to overclock my Graphics Card, but I think i will not overclock it at all.

I don't mind overclocking my CPU, because that has already had its warntey voided. Since I used a different heatsink.
 
Oh well... it's staying at "stock" from now on anyway. I sorta thought about it and then assumed since it was an official Nvidia software it wasn't voiding anything... Kinda like TRD for Toyota. :dopey:
 
Odd. My Dad has experience with computers, and he says if you put your card back to its stock speed again after overclocking (like he has to my Laptop), your warranty will be fine. Unless he is wrong (I very doubt it).
 
JeremyClarkson
...they do? overclocking is done through bios mostly, you don't have to pull apart anything hardware-wise, so your warranty shouldn't be voided.
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Well you're applying extra (unnecessary) stress to the component. If you apply a load of stress it will break. They will not replace something you've broken through negligence whilst overclocking.

A bit like adding a turbo to a Toyota Yaris/Vitz and then taking it back to Toyota complaining the engine exploded. But then you'd know that already 'ay Jezza? ;)
 
Thats not the whole point, I think something happens on your graphics card. Look wise, like under the heatsink and stuff, when you overclock.

Or something gets an input on a Graphic Cards CMOS Bios battery, or any other parts of the Graphics Card bios.
 
donbenni
Well you're applying extra (unnecessary) stress to the component. If you apply a load of stress it will break. They will not replace something you've broken through negligence whilst overclocking.

A bit like adding a turbo to a Toyota Yaris/Vitz and then taking it back to Toyota complaining the engine exploded. But then you'd know that already 'ay Jezza? ;)
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oh ok, sure, i get it now. i was just thikning that because there was no obvious hardware changes it would stay under warranty. thanks donbenni
 
TVR&Ferrari_Fan
Thats not the whole point, I think something happens on your graphics card. Look wise, like under the heatsink and stuff, when you overclock.

Or something gets an input on a Graphic Cards CMOS Bios battery, or any other parts of the Graphics Card bios.
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1) Graphics cards don't have a CMOS
2) Graphics cards don't have a BIOS

They have a VPU and onboard memory. The VPU is basically a small CPU dedicated to video processing (hence Video Processing Unit). All video card overclocking does is increase the core (VPU) speed and memory speed, so it can process more information at once. Basically just like overclocking your CPU and RAM, only on a smaller scale and much easier.

Edit: And your system will lock up if you push you video card too high. Killing a video card from overclocking is actually a pretty rare thing, so I'd worry more about those extra FPS than voiding your warranty. Heck, I've pushed my X850XT pretty damn far (and had it lock up), and it's still working.
 
donbenni
Well you're applying extra (unnecessary) stress to the component. If you apply a load of stress it will break. They will not replace something you've broken through negligence whilst overclocking.
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Yeah, ok but I don't have it overclocked now and it's working back to normal but say something happens :knock on wood: :scared: And I take it in and say I've never had it overclocked. There's no way they could tell right? :odd: it's not like these things have black boxes like in a jet right? :dopey:
 
Shannon
1) Graphics cards don't have a CMOS
2) Graphics cards don't have a BIOS

They have a VPU and onboard memory. The VPU is basically a small CPU dedicated to video processing (hence Video Processing Unit). All video card overclocking does is increase the core (VPU) speed and memory speed, so it can process more information at once. Basically just like overclocking your CPU and RAM, only on a smaller scale and much easier.

Edit: And your system will lock up if you push you video card too high. Killing a video card from overclocking is actually a pretty rare thing, so I'd worry more about those extra FPS than voiding your warranty. Heck, I've pushed my X850XT pretty damn far (and had it lock up), and it's still working.
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My 6800GT has its own bios. And I prove it to you in the morning, but Vip if your graphics card does die.

Well they will not change it for a new one, if were still in your warrenty timeline. Because it has already been overclocked and nothing can bring back your warrenty.
 
TVR&Ferrari_Fan
My 6800GT has its own bios. And I prove it to you in the morning.
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Oh, I'm sure it has a BIOS of some sort. All hardware needs a BIOS, so it can initialize and settings be set before the operating system has loaded.

But thats all its for, not for being big brother and logging what you do with the card.
 
VIPFREAK
So they do keep track? :odd:
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Why do you think ATi and NVidia say you will void your warrenty once you start the overclocking of your GPU. They would not say that just to scare people from Overclocking, they really mean it.
 
TVR&Ferrari_Fan
Why do you think ATi and NVidia say you will void your warrenty once you start the overclocking of your GPU. They would not say that just to scare people from Overclocking, they really mean it.
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:odd: I suppose but in the real world that person isn't gonna follow but I don't see how they have the power to "monitor" you either.
 

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