Timing of choreography too fast: My overclocked E6400 to blame

[DEATH eVADER]

I have just recently overclocked my CPU (E6400) to about 15% of its previous output, which puts it in the range of 2.44Ghz. The reason for this was that several games would play smoothly, and for a second would judder like mad (two culprits were Dreamfall and Oblivion). Since I overclocked, not only have I gotten rid of that little problem, but I have got a boost in performance on Oblivion.

But know I have another problem, HalfLife2. Before Overclocking choreography would be timed consistently. But now, when NPCs talk they sometimes overlap each other (Sometimes the same character will overlap themselves).

Its not really a performance issue more than it is a bug. I even put all graphical settings to high to see if it helps make CPU slow down a tad, but it hasn't helped. I was wondering if there is some sort of command that I can use to help resolve the problem of timed choreography

Incase somebody misinteprets what the problem is, it has nothing to do with stuttering

 

[Beerdude26]

Sorry, don't know any console commands for that. Here is a handy command, though: find

How to use: find WORD

It will then show any command that has WORD in the title or description.

 

[The Brick]

Ehm.. it works fine for me. I'm running my e6300 at 3430mhz. Does it go away when you go back to stock speeds? Tried reinstalling? Other games with the same problem?


edit: How did you overclock? Software or through the bios?

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Software that came with my Gigabyte Mobo. All I have changed is the frequency, haven't done anything with the FSB and voltage.

It could also be a patch that I downloaded from Intels website. I'm trying to find it now.

Here it is: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256

I thought it would increase performance, but I'm guessing it didn't, as SupCom also suffered a frame decrease.
Is there anyway of getting rid of it? Is it possible to rollback CPU settings or getting rid of the files?

 

[The Brick]

Ehm the frequency is the fsb x the multiplier, which in your case is 8. 8 x 266mhz = 2128mhz. Running at 2440mhz would be a fsb of 305.

The best way of overclocking is through the bios though. You can easily put the fsb on 333mhz without having to touch the voltages or anything else. Perhaps put the memory devider a tad lower if it can't keep up. Or loosen the timings a notch.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Found cause of problem; Gigabyte's EasyTune5

Setting the processor back to factory settings doesn't do much, but actually exitting the application from taskbar will help. All of my games are back to normal, and everybody talks normally.