Fallout: New Vegas is choppy as hell

[Belgian_Waffles]

20 gigs, holy fuck its a monster PC

It's a workstation that's being lobotomized into a gaming machine from the sounds of it.

Ding, ding, ding, We have a winner!

 

[Hashime]

What GPU are you using?

ATI 4870
If that's what you mean.

Integrated or dedicated?

Dedicated
Raidon 48 HD card

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

What GPU are you using?

ATI 4870
If that's what you mean.

Integrated or dedicated?

Dedicated
Raidon 48 HD card

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

Alright, thanks.

 

[Sleekgiant]

20 gigs, holy fuck its a monster PC

It's a workstation that's being lobotomized into a gaming machine from the sounds of it.

Ding, ding, ding, We have a winner!

You're a bad person and you should feel bad

 

[Hashime]

What GPU are you using?

ATI 4870
If that's what you mean.

Integrated or dedicated?

Dedicated
Raidon 48 HD card

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

Alright, thanks.

And if your OS isn't 64-bit upgrade that too (if it supports that). I'd hate to see such monster hardware go to waste.

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

What GPU are you using?

ATI 4870
If that's what you mean.

Integrated or dedicated?

Dedicated
Raidon 48 HD card

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

Alright, thanks.

And if your OS isn't 64-bit upgrade that too (if it supports that). I'd hate to see such monster hardware go to waste.

How much do ATI 5570's go for?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

HD 4000 series aren't workstation cards. It's also not one of the cards that the machine ships with, which are all FireGL or Quadro workstation cards.

The 4870 is the HD4000 series's version of the HD 5000 series' 5870 - a high level enthusiast card.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much.

The problem probably isn't the GPU (which is a 1 generation old gaming GPU) but the fact that all the rest of the rig's guts use workstation/server gear - mobo, CPU, RAM, the lot.

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much.

The problem probably isn't the GPU (which is a 1 generation old gaming GPU) but the fact that all the rest of the rig's guts use workstation/server gear - mobo, CPU, RAM, the lot.

Exactly,
I can boot up Crysis right now and run it on it's highest setting without so much of a hiccup, but if I boot up New Vegas or Oblivion, my computer falls apart.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

im not much of a tech guru, but perhaps more RAM good sir? i think the bare minimum was around 2 gigs, and if your running it on a pc im sure that the framerate/lagging could be helped alot with adding a couple/few more gigs of ram. if its more of a software thing then maybe perhaps make sure nothing is running in the background and defrag everything? it can help smooth it out.

do NOT take my opinion without a few shakes of salt though, as like i said, am not a tech guru

I'm running XP and it doesn't recognize more than 3 gigs of RAM, in actuality I have somewhere of 20+ gigs of RAM

wait wait wait...your on xp, and your on 32 bit..but you have 20+ gigs of ram!?!?!?1

dude. UPGRADEEE TO WINDOWS 7 64 BIT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hashime]

It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much.

The problem probably isn't the GPU (which is a 1 generation old gaming GPU) but the fact that all the rest of the rig's guts use workstation/server gear - mobo, CPU, RAM, the lot.

That is debatable, though without looking at the hardware I would say it is a distinct possibility. I wouldn't worry too much though because from the sounds of it it must have major bulk data processing abilities, which means larger bandwidth possibly at the cost of speed.

 

[Hashime]

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

HD 4000 series aren't workstation cards. It's also not one of the cards that the machine ships with, which are all FireGL or Quadro workstation cards.

The 4870 is the HD4000 series's version of the HD 5000 series' 5870 - a high level enthusiast card.

I assumed the bios of the card was changed to make it a workstation card, you could be right though.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Exactly,
I can boot up Crysis right now and run it on it's highest setting without so much of a hiccup, but if I boot up New Vegas or Oblivion, my computer falls apart.

Also the fact that you only have 3Gb of RAM available says your HD 4870 is a 1Gb model. Oh... yeah, did you install all the DX versions from the disc/install? Apparently FONV needs those specific versions, and give the drivers a nice update, too.

Don't forget the swearing. It's the most important part of any technical work.

 

[Hashime]

What GPU are you using?

ATI 4870
If that's what you mean.

Integrated or dedicated?

Dedicated
Raidon 48 HD card

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

Alright, thanks.

And if your OS isn't 64-bit upgrade that too (if it supports that). I'd hate to see such monster hardware go to waste.

How much do ATI 5570's go for?

150, but another poster brought up a good point. I assumed you had the workstation version of the card (reflashed bios), but it might well be the gaming version.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I assumed the bios of the cars was changed to make it a workstation card, you could be right though.

Nah, that was the high end HD 2000 and 3000 series cards that could be reflashed to become FireGL cards.

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

Exactly,
I can boot up Crysis right now and run it on it's highest setting without so much of a hiccup, but if I boot up New Vegas or Oblivion, my computer falls apart.

Also the fact that you only have 3Gb of RAM available says your HD 4870 is a 1Gb model. Oh... yeah, did you install all the DX versions from the disc/install? Apparently FONV needs those specific versions, and give the drivers a nice update, too.

Don't forget the swearing. It's the most important part of any technical work.

Plenty of swearing going on,
Yeah I have the latest DX running, I guess I'll upgrade to Windows 7 in the morning.

 

[Hashime]

I assumed the bios of the cars was changed to make it a workstation card, you could be right though.

Nah, that was the high end HD 2000 and 3000 series cards that could be reflashed to become FireGL cards.

It can be done to a 4870. My cousin uses one on a workstation he built for his client (my grandfather).

 

[Zackary Yakumo]

im not much of a tech guru, but perhaps more RAM good sir? i think the bare minimum was around 2 gigs, and if your running it on a pc im sure that the framerate/lagging could be helped alot with adding a couple/few more gigs of ram. if its more of a software thing then maybe perhaps make sure nothing is running in the background and defrag everything? it can help smooth it out.

do NOT take my opinion without a few shakes of salt though, as like i said, am not a tech guru

I'm running XP and it doesn't recognize more than 3 gigs of RAM, in actuality I have somewhere of 20+ gigs of RAM

20GB of RAM?

Dear god.

Skynet called - they want their baby back.

^
I loled. hard. but seriously 20 gigs of ram? what do you need that much for?

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

im not much of a tech guru, but perhaps more RAM good sir? i think the bare minimum was around 2 gigs, and if your running it on a pc im sure that the framerate/lagging could be helped alot with adding a couple/few more gigs of ram. if its more of a software thing then maybe perhaps make sure nothing is running in the background and defrag everything? it can help smooth it out.

do NOT take my opinion without a few shakes of salt though, as like i said, am not a tech guru

I'm running XP and it doesn't recognize more than 3 gigs of RAM, in actuality I have somewhere of 20+ gigs of RAM

20GB of RAM?

Dear god.

Skynet called - they want their baby back.

^
I loled. hard. but seriously 20 gigs of ram? what do you need that much for?

I dunno, I guess the company I "borrowed" this from likes to download "Cake".

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Nah, that was the high end HD 2000 and 3000 series cards that could be reflashed to become FireGL cards.

It can be done to a 4870. My cousin uses one on a workstation he built for his client (my grandfather).

Hmmm... Yeah, I can see how it would be possible... but that's more of a frankenstein job than what you can do with the 2000 and 3000 series cards (which is just flash-in the equivalent FireGL card bios and you're golden)