Ok... here's my issue....
My 1 HDD crapped out due to a virus so, fortunately, I had bought that 1TB HDD and reinstalled windows on that... is working fine.
Now, it was a clean install... no issues. I reDL'd the video drivers for my nvidia 9500GT 1GB card. The ones that the nvidia site recommends. The only changes I had made was to hook up my TV to my card via DVI to HDMI converter. I had to "mirror" my screen to show on both.
So, when I started playing Qlive yesterday... I noticed that I had teh same cfg settings I had prior. Max FPS set at 125 and pins to it solid the whole game.... but then, every 5 to 8 minutes I would drop to 14-18 FPS... for about 2 minutes. I figured maybe it was the duel monitor settings that were lagging down my Vidcard... so I turned it off and went back to my normal display..... still happened. Smokey told me about teh nvidia beta driver release..... so I tried that... same thing. Then I realize3d that maybe even though I changed my duel monitor settings... still having the DVI cable plugged in was causing the vidcard to still use the resources... so I unplugged it from my card.... same problem still.
I am not using anything different that I use to.... Same vid card, (was) teh same drivers, same firefox, same everything..... same cfg, same settings......But no matter what I still get the same issue.
It only happening every so often makes me believe its the card some way..... but it runs perfect for 70% of the game and as well with other games...
Suggestions?
My 1 HDD crapped out due to a virus so, fortunately, I had bought that 1TB HDD and reinstalled windows on that... is working fine.
Now, it was a clean install... no issues. I reDL'd the video drivers for my nvidia 9500GT 1GB card. The ones that the nvidia site recommends. The only changes I had made was to hook up my TV to my card via DVI to HDMI converter. I had to "mirror" my screen to show on both.
So, when I started playing Qlive yesterday... I noticed that I had teh same cfg settings I had prior. Max FPS set at 125 and pins to it solid the whole game.... but then, every 5 to 8 minutes I would drop to 14-18 FPS... for about 2 minutes. I figured maybe it was the duel monitor settings that were lagging down my Vidcard... so I turned it off and went back to my normal display..... still happened. Smokey told me about teh nvidia beta driver release..... so I tried that... same thing. Then I realize3d that maybe even though I changed my duel monitor settings... still having the DVI cable plugged in was causing the vidcard to still use the resources... so I unplugged it from my card.... same problem still.
I am not using anything different that I use to.... Same vid card, (was) teh same drivers, same firefox, same everything..... same cfg, same settings......But no matter what I still get the same issue.
It only happening every so often makes me believe its the card some way..... but it runs perfect for 70% of the game and as well with other games...
Suggestions?