Sluggish Games

[Nabobalis]

So I was playing Supreme Commander, when it crashed. No idea why. It didn't just crash, it froze my computer, so I restarted. When I gotback to my desktop and loaded Firefox it acted a bit slow. Then I loaded up CSS/PF+FB+AEP/ME2:TW and they all perform crap all of a sudden. So I'm at a loss.

I seem to have the same problem as neptuneuk & mastag.

I assume its hardware, maybe a damaged graphics card. I went to check my graphic card settings and found that my card had a memory frequency of 2 GHz. It's a 6600gt, I'm sure that shouldn't be like that. Can you damage a graphics card by having a too high clock frequency?

 

[Gunner]

You know... Supreme Commander is still in beta right? The game crashed and now your other games are sluggish. It's possible that the crash changed some settings and underclocked your gfx card.

 

[Nabobalis]

You know... Supreme Commander is still in beta right? The game crashed and now your other games are sluggish. It's possible that the crash changed some settings and underclocked your gfx card.

I was thinking something like that, but my cpu is still the same speed and so is my graphics card according to RivaTuner.

 

[Gunner]

It's really odd, I don't know what it is but you can try a simple uninstall/reinstall of the nvidia drivers to see what happens. If that doesn't bring back the juice, you could also try checking your bios settings to see if anything is out of place. Also what comes up in the task manager, is anything eating memory there? Ahh I just thought of something else, when you installed Supreme Commander, did it also install a version of DirectX? if so you could also try reinstalling directx.

 

[Nabobalis]

It's really odd, I don't know what it is but you can try a simple uninstall/reinstall of the nvidia drivers to see what happens. If that doesn't bring back the juice, you could also try checking your bios settings to see if anything is out of place. Also what comes up in the task manager, is anything eating memory there? Ahh I just thought of something else, when you installed Supreme Commander, did it also install a version of DirectX? if so you could also try reinstalling directx.

I reinstalled my video driver and that seemed to sort out the problem.