04-11-2014, 09:23 AM
Things I would try:
* Disable one video card. Try the game without SLI and see if that improves things. If it does, then maybe there's some investigation to be done regarding SLI.
* Run a CPU monitor. See if any cores are pegging 100% during slow times. I imagine there's a good GPU (video card) monitor out there for this too.
* If you see any cores pegging 100% you might run the task manager and see what's doing it. The game? An anti-virus program that keeps firing up? (If you are running more than 1 anti-virus program, uninstall all but one of them. Anti-virus programs do not stack well.)
* If you're not running 64-bit Windows, you need to be in order to use all that RAM.
Actually another thing you might look at is sound. If you're using an audio card, try switching it to your motherboard's on-board sound and look into what that is and make sure you have the updated drivers for it. Don't rely on Windows Update for the latest drivers because Microsoft basically keeps a set of "known good" drivers, not necessarily "newest". Same thing for the video cards -- get the nVidia software that keeps your driver up to date rather than relying on Windows Update.
Basically I think with that CPU and and a single nVidia 670 you shouldn't be having these issues. Maybe there's some general AMD problem that's behind it but I feel like it must be something else. SLI, audio drivers, something like that.
* Disable one video card. Try the game without SLI and see if that improves things. If it does, then maybe there's some investigation to be done regarding SLI.
* Run a CPU monitor. See if any cores are pegging 100% during slow times. I imagine there's a good GPU (video card) monitor out there for this too.
* If you see any cores pegging 100% you might run the task manager and see what's doing it. The game? An anti-virus program that keeps firing up? (If you are running more than 1 anti-virus program, uninstall all but one of them. Anti-virus programs do not stack well.)
* If you're not running 64-bit Windows, you need to be in order to use all that RAM.
Actually another thing you might look at is sound. If you're using an audio card, try switching it to your motherboard's on-board sound and look into what that is and make sure you have the updated drivers for it. Don't rely on Windows Update for the latest drivers because Microsoft basically keeps a set of "known good" drivers, not necessarily "newest". Same thing for the video cards -- get the nVidia software that keeps your driver up to date rather than relying on Windows Update.
Basically I think with that CPU and and a single nVidia 670 you shouldn't be having these issues. Maybe there's some general AMD problem that's behind it but I feel like it must be something else. SLI, audio drivers, something like that.