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AhMunRa · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:15 am Post subject: Need a CPU Monitor

I got a new video card, evga 560 Ti, I'm impressed with the card except when it comes to COD Black Ops. It appears to stutter, have done the standard, latest driver, beta drivers, one driver version earlier, etc. Tried changing settings in game, lowering lighting, turning off shading, disabling vsync, etc. Nothing I change has affected the fps.

I am not seeing the fps I should with this card. The performance is exactly the same as my old 9800 GTX.

I'm currently running
Duo Core E8600 @ 3.8 GHz
4 gigs Mushkin Blackline DD2 PC2-8500 (another 4 gigs will arrive next day or two)
Quad WD 1 TB SATA drives @ 7200 RPM (not in raid)
750w PSU (manufacturer escapes me atm)

I realize the game is best run on quad core CPU, but even still I should have seen an fps improvement with this card. Since upgrading, I can run L4D2 with full eye candy and it's flawless, especially when in the middle of a horde, old card would bog down and jitter at those times. Other games have shown drastic improvement Metro 2033, Fallout NV, Prototype, Singularity.

Having done some research I found out that the 560 is doing this stutter on other games as well and it seems it may be driver related to the 2xx series of drivers, and doesn't seem isolated to one specific manufacturer.

What I would like to do before dropping the cash on an $800 upgrade for CPU, motherboard and ram, is to play and monitor my CPU usage to see if I am indeed CPU bound. I am looking for suggestions on a good monitor program, must log results, and must also have the ability to log graph the results. Would also like it if it could monitor other hardware as well. Does not have to be free or shareware, will pay for the right tool.

kls85 · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:30 am Post subject:

I've seen some review sites and they use Windows performance monitor to record their activity during game play. You can try it out and see how that works.

wizard

AhMunRa · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:37 am Post subject:

Looks promising. Will toy around with it tonight.

Update:

Resmon will not do, it doesn't log the output and it doesn't monitor all my CPU's cores which is a feature I am looking for. I did use it tonight and found out I am not CPU bound. Black Ops is only using 53% of my CPU.