Performance issues with older games...

[RJF049]

I am running a 3930k with a gtx 680. I usually play newer games like battlefield 3 or metro last light. They all run perfect. in fact, every game i've played ran great. But recently, older games like left for dead 2 and team fortress and Mirror's edge have odd framerate issues (dropping from 60 to 20{its pretty unplayable}). I noticed it happened AFTER i went from sandybridge to sandybridge-E. Would that cause the issue? Should i have re-installed the games or even windows 7 with the new platform?!@!!$@#@*(Q#*)(*^#$
I NEEED HELP!! @_@

[panfriedpuppies]

Reminds me of when I tried to play Fallout 3 on my PC

Had to set the core utilization down to 2 cores or else it'd freeze and be unplayable, you might be having a similar issue.

[RJF049]

Reminds me of when I tried to play Fallout 3 on my PC

Had to set the core utilization down to 2 cores or else it'd freeze and be unplayable, you might be having a similar issue.

How do you set that up?

[panfriedpuppies]

How do you set that up?

I used a guide for it.

So for me I went to

Documents>My Games>Fallout 3>Fallout.ini

In fallout.ini

Changed some values in there.

I'm sure it's different for other games with different engines, do some research.

[RJF049]

I used a guide for it.

So for me I went to

Documents>My Games>Fallout 3>Fallout.ini

In fallout.ini

Changed some values in there.

I'm sure it's different for other games with different engines, do some research.

Thanks! I will do that!

[Hazy125]

You can find the game process in task manager, right click on it and click set affinity. From there you can tell it how many cores you want that process to use

[Maverik5124]

Disabling hyperthreading could do the trick. This will reduce the "cores" the game sees from 12 to 6. This might solve the problem

[RJF049]

Thank you all for the tips! It ended up being the OS. I never re-installed windows after changing the motherboard/cpu lol. Now, everything is running perfect with all 6 hyper-threaded cores enabled.

[KneesWeak]

Thank you all for the tips! It ended up being the OS. I never re-installed windows after changing the motherboard/cpu lol. Now, everything is running perfect with all 6 hyper-threaded cores enabled.

yeah usually when u plop in a new mobo you might wanna do a clean install of windows because the old drivers can screw with things