Gaming on MVF

I am struggling since I built my rig, both BF3 and BFBC2 are running really stuttery. I have changed GFX card, monitor, tried onboard sound and my creative sound card so the only thing left is the motherboard or my broadband connection. My frames per second never drop below 80, I have a ping of 5 but the game is like in slow motion. I have tried the ethernet drivers off the supplied dvd and the latest from the Asus website. I can't figure it out, my last rog motherboard was fantastic with the marvell ethernet drivers but I have seen a lot of people who are struggling with the intel 82579V. I have tried everything on ultra, and Low settings and it makes no difference.

Is there anything I am overlooking with chipset drivers, ethernet drivers, special settings, because I bought the motherboard for the ROG but at the moment I can't play anything.

MVF, i7 3770k, N580 GTX lightning, 2 x 8 gig corsair vengeance, benq XL2411T.

Thanks for reading.

Did you try the Games First thing, that´s on the disk?

I had a quick look at it, but as soon as I saw it was made by a third party I didn't bother with it. When I am gaming, there is nobody else using the bandwidth, and I have no other programs running in the background, so I thought I wouldn't need it as my gaming was fine with my Rampage Formula and that had no gaming first software.

What settings did you change in your bios?

And list the drivers you have installed.

When you did this build did you do a clean install of Windows?

Original BIOS 402, flashed to 1604, reverted back to 804, all with USB stick and EZ flash.

Tweaker page :
AI O/C tuner to XMP,
Ratio Sync to enabled
Core ratio to 42
mem frequency to 1600
Spi booster to enabled
CPU manual volt to 1.100
DRAM volt to 1.50000
CPU spread spectrum to disabled

Advanced page
Primary display to PCIE
render standby to disabled
iGPU multi monitor to disabled.

PCIEX_1 tried Auto, Gen 2 and Gen 3

HD audio disabled
Blue tooth disabled
WI-FI disabled
Asmedia USB 3.0 controller disabled.

Chip set drivers tried the latest from the ASUS website, and the drivers off the disk, with a format and clean install in between
LAN drivers, tried the latest from the ASUS website, and the drivers off the disk, with a format and clean install in between
IME firmware, with and without.

When I first built it I did a format and clean install, in the 4 or 5 weeks since I built it I have formatted and clean installed windows 4 times to try the drivers off the disk and the latest form the ASUS website. I have tried the latest LAN drivers from the ASUS website, from the intel website and now am using the drivers off the supplied disk. Also did the NVM update before installing the latest LAN drivers as per ASUS website.

Tomorrow I am going to revert back to the 402 BIOS, format, clean windows install and use the ASUS supplied CD to install all the drivers and see how I go with it set up without all the newer drivers and chip sets.

What really sticks out on your list i these things.

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CPU manual volt to 1.100
Core ratio to 42

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How stable is it with those low cpu volts? As it would seem you would need a bit more to even be stable. What stress test are you using to test it for being stable? Need a bit more information. What are your 100% load temps on the cpu and gpu?

I havent done any stress tests KILLER_K, I just play BF3 and ARMA 2 to test if it is stable. Load temps with real temp running BF3 are between 58 and 60 degrees, and idle temps range from 21 to 27. ON air with a artic freezer pro 7.

GPU load temps are around 56 degrees @ 99% with BF3. 772 core stock @ 870. 2004 mem stock, running @ 2200.

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Originally Posted by Preacher

I havent done any stress tests KILLER_K, I just play BF3 and ARMA 2 to test if it is stable. Load temps with real temp running BF3 are between 58 and 60 degrees, and idle temps range from 21 to 27. ON air with a artic freezer pro 7.

GPU load temps are around 56 degrees @ 99% with BF3. 772 core stock @ 870. 2004 mem stock, running @ 2200.

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you mean, you are running an overclock that was NEVER checked per stability with any stress tester and you are wondering why games are running bad? sorry, but that is a contradiction right there.

can you download CInebench 11.5 x64 from here (download link at bottom):
http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html

unpack it, run it (no need to install anything), run the CPU test, see if it survives (doesn't mean it's stable yet!) then go to Windows Event Viewer and look for WHEA warnings (if you can't see such a thing in there, then it's all good), if those are present then you need to raise vcore (same as when you crash the test).

good luck.

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Originally Posted by Preacher

My frames per second never drop below 80, I have a ping of 5 but the game is like in slow motion..

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is that all the time or it's only intermitant, I ask because some BF3 servers lag like hell. With frame over 80 and ping at 5 ms, it should not lag unless it's the server that lag imself. But for sure I will reset the BIOS at default.

Right thank you for the information.

Could you please do the following download bios versin 1408

Unpack to a fat formatted usb stick.

Use the EZflash2 utility found in tools menu of the bios to flash your board.

Then one the entire flash has completed and any firmware update has run its course and you are back in bios.

Shut down and clear CMOS

Now at stock - defaults nothing changed at all except for your RAID mode for SATA if needed.

Post to OS and play your game.

Tell me something the slow mo toggle, what is that set to. Use your user manual if you are not sure where or what the settings are.


I will check back later.

Thanks for all your feedback and advice,

I have upgraded BIOS to 1408 with EZ flash 2, cleared CMOS and done a clean windows install. All BIOS settings are optimised defaults, game still seems stuttery. I ended up testing with Prime95 feniks, 30 minutes @ 3900, core voltage went up to 1.24 and temps were 68,70,71,72. All clear with no errors.

I have looked for the slow mo toggle HiVizMan but I can't see it anywhere.

I use the ingame render.drawfps 1 to see the frames per second Area66 and I have never seen it drop below 80 FPS,

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Inte...specifications

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ROG Extreme OC kit :
- Slow Mode
- LN2 Mode
- EZ Plug

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Check out your user manual to see where it is located on your board. What might be, is that it is enabled and that slows down performance. Try in both positions and see what works best.

keep all BIOS settings at stock for now. check the slow mode button position as HiVizMan suggested, it should be in top right corner of the board, at least that's where it is on my MVE,

other than that ... which GPU drivers are you using? was the issue persistent on all of them? what brand and model of the GPU? does it always pass graphical stress test or benchmarks like Heaven 4.0 or 3dmark11 ?

Sorry HiVizMan, I didn't read your post properly about the slow mo toggle. I have just checked and it is set to the far left / on.

feniks, I have a MSI 580 lightning, tried 4 sets of drivers, the 2 latest ones, and 2 previous ones. I have only used Kombustor for testing and my overclock was stable.

Shutdown your system. Turn if off. Then power on and see if the problem is solved.

if GPU is OK and issue persists across different drivers then the last thing left seems to be that Slow Mode switch (used with initial phase of LN2 benching), toggle it to OFF position and you should be fine. finding it is half of the success ;)

Simple way of working this out.

Do the same benchmark with the toggle to the left, then do the benchmark with the toggle to the right.

See if there is a difference.

Thanks everyone, I am now cooking with gas, I am now running stable at 4.4 @1.18v 58 to 64 degrees running BF3, 72 degrees max running P95, CPU fixed frequency to 350, CPU current capability to 120%. Whole computer seems more responsive and gaming is 100% better, my movement and shooting is now smooth as silk, last 10 minutes of a map, 25 kills for 2 deaths and 36 for 12 on the next map.
I will probably buy a corsair H80 next week to replace my artic freezer pro 7 and get the temps down a bit.

Thanks again.

That is very good news indeed. Please do keep us informed as to how things go.

I remember when setting up my build reading about the slow mo toggle, but when I read it was set to off by default I guess I never gave it a second thought.

This is the most helpful mature forum I have been on with a great bunch of people who help rather than give thinly vieled insults.

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Originally Posted by Preacher

I remember when setting up my build reading about the slow mo toggle, but when I read it was set to off by default I guess I never gave it a second thought.

This is the most helpful mature forum I have been on with a great bunch of people who help rather than give thinly vieled insults.

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I think that I speak for most of the members when I say that we here at ROG work hard at keeping it that way. We try to respect each persons point of view and even if we disagree (and trust me we do) we still respect their view point. And defend their right to express and have different view points. You see it is not about being right here on ROG it is about fixing the users issue as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

I think the key thing here on ROG is that we are all in this together. And as lame as it may sound we are a ROG family.