COD2 problems! sometimes plays good... most of the time plays crappy

[JDM]

Randomly sometimes i load up the game and it RUNS GREAT with high FPS. and then most of the time the game runs AWFUL! (iam thinking its a driver issue with graphics card or something)

i have the most up-todate drivers for my Video card and Chipset from Nvidia.
Iam using:
1. Nforce Ultra 400 Chipset

2. with a Athlon 2800 Barton processor PRIME STABLED at 2.4Ghz so its running 3550 ish performance according to Sandra benchmarking. or almost FX-53 performance rather.

3. gig of ram. 2-2-2-11 timings its PC-2700 but theres massive volts. and its been prime stabled.

and the Video Card is Nvidia 7800 GS OC. so its stock at 400/1250 (capible of being OCed much higher but it doesn't make to much of a difference.. only a few FPS difference and the game is unplayable still.... so i uninstalled it and reinstalled with a fresh driver from Nvidia)

Its so weird.. i was giving faith in COD2 untill i turned it on today just for some laughs to see how bad it the FPS is... (usualy under 10's) but today it was cranking HUGE stages at 30+ FPS (for me i never seen COD2 on my rig doing so well)... and the game was complelely smooth with Optimal video settings (which is set almost at max as default, but even when i turn down the details.. it still runs crappy...) I basicaly played for about.... 4 hours.. i was so happy and thought that it was normal again.... And then after exited the game to grab something to eat and returned... the game was back to its normal self with under 10 FPS usualy.. and the game was back to being unplayable....

I hope someone can fix this for me... its ONLY this game that is causing me problems. i play Source at full graphics all the time and the FPS is great.... but this thing is really giving me trubbles.. at first i thought it was just my hardware was too slow.. but on occasion the Graphics will be back to normal and the FPS would be REALLY great for the time i leave the game opened with out exiting it. so... it looks like my rig is fully capible of handling it.. iam hoping its just a driver problem.. but i completely uninstall the drivers and reinstalled it several times.. and still no go....

[liftedcj7on44s]

you may want to try lowering your overclock some, just cuz its prime stable doesnt mean that certain games will find it to be unstable! CSS for me is not very cpu dependent, i can run stock and get 140fps in stress test or overclock too 2700mhz and still get 140fps.

[chevro1et]

Ensure that you have all available patches for the game as well.

[JDM]

Ensure that you have all available patches for the game as well.

yep this thing is all patched up...

[Centercore]

Maybe put it on direct-x 8 mode.

[JDM]

Maybe put it on direct-x 8 mode.

I THINK IT IS! how do i switch it?

because i switched it down to Dirext X 7 and it ran SMOOTHLY. but on direct x 9 it runs like crap... but my card is defintily compaitable with Dirext X9... and i run Steam Source like its butter... iam not sure whats the deal with Call of Duty 2.

see.. it HAS ran it in direct x 9 before.. and it ran wounderfully with good FPS's...... but for some reason it only does it sometimes..... i really do think its a driver problem... because i have seen it run in dirext x 9 before with no problems.

[chevro1et]

Maybe try uninstall/ re-install of your vid drivers and/ or the game? :shrug:

[JDM]

Maybe try uninstall/ re-install of your vid drivers and/ or the game? :shrug:


done.. and i even reinstalled windows to ensure everything was fresh.... iam still having the same problem, the game is still playing occasionaly with perfect details and FPS's.. and then other times during a different load up of the game the game plays like complete crap... its so random... do you guys think its my videocard? i just bought it from newegg.. BFG 7800 GS OC supposely its supposed to support DX9... but it looks like it only does occasionaly.

[JDM]

FIXED IT! FINALLY! you guys won't beleive it.

it looks like the problem was the powersupply... iam using a 480w Thermaltake Xaser III which equals = the crap.

haha, i turn down some of the fans before game load up and it works perfectly! and then after the game loads up i can turn up the fans to max... i know you guys might not beleive me.. but hell i did serveral test.. and each time i want it to run crappy i turn on ALL THE VANTEC TORNADOS i have.....

But its not to bad. i use my fan controller and i turn all the vantec tornados on low speeds and turn 1 completely off and it ALWAYS turns on the game at full performance. Its so weird.. ya ya ya ya ya you guys probly won't beleive it... and i didn't really beleive it at first either... so it took me like 2 weeks to figure out and made me reinstall windows (when it didn't really need to be reinstalled) but now its complelty fixed and i can play COD2 and Oblivion on FULL GRAPHICS WITH KICK ASS FPS. thanks for everyone who attempted to help. i really appreciate it.

[kbtat2]

You can play Oblivion with full settings on that system?!?!
Thats amazing since my system will only get around 15 fps with all high settings.