Intel Quad Core 6600
2Gb RAM
XFX nForce 680i motherboard
Everything is fine, but when I came to try Spring, it's being a bit odd. Performance (and by that I mean FPS) is way down on what it used to be, but, very occasionally (usually after a reset) it will work really well for one game. Then, subsequent games will again perform poorly.
Pressing TAB highlights the issue, even on an empty map: the frame rate drops massively as the camera pulls back to reveal the whole map.
I know this probably sounds more like a computer/GPU issue than a Spring issue, but I'm pretty mystified as to what could be causing it. Has anyone else encountered anything like this?
I'm using the latest nVidia drivers.
EDIT: One thing that does make me suspect Spring is that Doom 3 (also an OpenGL game, I believe) runs smooth as silk at 1280x1024.
Another EDIT:I just did the following.
1) Reinstalled the lastest nVidia drivers.
2) Ran the game at 1024x768: very poor performance as before.
3) Ran the game at 1280x1024: excellent, super-smooth performance.
4) Tried it again, changing nothing: same excellent performance.
5) Tried it once again, changing nothing: cruddy performance again.
Does this ring any bells with anyone? I'm stumped.
Yet Another Edit: Something else just happened: the framerate improved suddenly during the game, back to how it should be. I can't reproduce it, so I don't think it was something I was doing at the time.
Final edit:
Got it!
That's right, I didn't read the FAQ closely enough, did I?
Restricting Spring to a single core did the trick.Thanks for your help, Disco Justice.
No problem.