Choppy game issues

(i know its common)

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Owk so i have some major issues on my main PC. its the usual problem of the game grinding to a halt. after 1:30 hours of gaming it becomes unplayable. So ive read about it and thought oh well its a shame but nothing i can do about it right.

then i kinda got my friends hooked on it and we decided to start playing online and i explained about the issue this game had with late game. but they said when playing single player with 7 ai's they didnt have any problems at all. so i started wondering and installed sins on my laptop.

And guess what, i loaded a save from my computer 3:00 hours in game only getting 5 fps on my pc and 3 second research delay and so on. got full 60 fps (while running fraps, cause its an nvidea so i cant run ATT to get a fps reading). and everything was smooth.

i want to know if someone has discovered the same cause i want to pinpoint the problem with my PC. the only real difference between the 2 is that

my PC is a 2.20 Quad (amd phenom 9500) and my laptop is a 2.4 Duo (intel T8300)

and my PC has a ATI (radeon HD3870) card and my laptop a Nvidea (GF 9500m gs).

my pc is Win7 (x64) and my laptop is vista (x86).

well the list got longer as i thought about what might be it. but i want to see if anyone with those problems or not having any problems sees a simmilar setup. mb its a x64 - x68 problem or a ati problem. just to know.

if there are any other things that are known to help just post them here.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

maybe your pc overheats? have you checked out the temperatures while playing for a long time?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Ow yeah forgot to mention this but, both my GPU and CPU are bored when playing late game. as i said im running Ati Tray Tools. because i overclocked my GPU a bit and use the stock cooler, and ATT allows me to monitor everything.

late game my CPU usage is 25 - 35% and my GPU usage 3-5%. and the temperature of the GPU was 60 degrees. it doesnt read cpu temp but i didnt overclock it or everything and it isn't under full load so i think its owk.

ow just to mention it. a friend of mine has about the same setup only the processor is different i believe he has a intel quad (2.4Ghz) and he has the ATI hd 3870 X2. instead of the normal. so i think its something with the AMD Phenom 9500.

so anyone having this problem and a AMD, or mb even the same type of processor.

:Edit: is there a way to turn of Vsync. i want to know how much my laptop can really pull of with this game to rule out any form of poor performance of my pc cause if i can get more then say 100 Fps on my laptop then i know its something on my computer instead of the better proccessing power of my laptop (cause sisn only uses 2 cores so my laptop in this case has a superior setup).

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

and this only applies to sins? other game work normally when playing for a long time?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Yes the one better then the other (in the general sense). but they dont loose performance after playing for a long time.

i do have a unrelated issue with random Bsod's but they happen whenever my computer feels like it. i have tried to fix it but im still looking for answers. but it hasn't affected any games in performance, and the only annoyance is that every once in a while ur computer abruptly stops working (yes understatement).