Unreasonably Poor Performance

[ChromiumL]

I was so psyched about playing Civilization V on my recently tricked out PC, but when I loaded it up today, the intro cinematic was wonky and choppy, and the frames per second(fps) in-game was obnoxious; but only when the camera was in motion.

My relevant specs are:

Intel i7 920
6GB of DDR3 RAM
2x Ati HD5870s Crossfire'd

and I'm playing this currently through HDMI on my TV at 1360x768. When the camera is in motion(scrolling and/or zooming out) the game slows down to about 3fps. When it is still it seems perfectly fine, aside from some texture glitches that seem to pop up and flicker. The leader view is always silky smooth as it about everything else. I haven't seen anyone else reporting a problem like this, so I have no idea what it is.

Lately, I HAVE noticed that when I load the game and scroll to a new part of the map for the first time, the texture of the landscape is bland and gradually pops/loads into place. Also, the intro video has been crashing on me shortly after the ancient men begin talking(fortunately it crashes to the main menu!).

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I got my latest ati drivers, tried running everything on low/minimal/off with only a minor performance boost, and rebooted Windows with nothing running in the background.

 

[Baleur]

Same here.
I finally caved in and turned Terrain Tesselation to Medium, made a big difference.
Now i can actually zoom out and not get a headache from the stuttering

 

[ChromiumL]

Well that's a start. I dont understand why we folks who paid good cash in order to avoid graphical hassles still have to deal with it though.

 

[enchanter100]

Have you tried with crossfire turned off? I have a single 5870 and it's smooth as butter with everything turned on high..

Catalyst 10.9 and newest latest directx?

 

[civ_king]

I was so psyched about playing Civilization V on my recently tricked out PC, but when I loaded it up today, the intro cinematic was wonky and choppy, and the frames per second(fps) in-game was obnoxious; but only when the camera was in motion.

My relevant specs are:

Intel i7 920
6GB of DDR3 RAM
2x Ati HD5870s Crossfire'd

and I'm playing this currently through HDMI on my TV at 1360x768. When the camera is in motion(scrolling and/or zooming out) the game slows down to about 3fps. When it is still it seems perfectly fine, aside from some texture glitches that seem to pop up and flicker. The leader view is always silky smooth as it about everything else. I haven't seen anyone else reporting a problem like this, so I have no idea what it is.

Lately, I HAVE noticed that when I load the game and scroll to a new part of the map for the first time, the texture of the landscape is bland and gradually pops/loads into place. Also, the intro video has been crashing on me shortly after the ancient men begin talking(fortunately it crashes to the main menu!).

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I got my latest ati drivers, tried running everything on low/minimal/off with only a minor performance boost, and rebooted Windows with nothing running in the background.

Make sure you have the latest drivers and if that doesn't solve it disable crossfire

 

[ChromiumL]

Well I've had some trials today, but I finally figured out that MY problem was GPU overheating. My PC began randomly turning off today so I did some things(blew out dust, plugged and unplugged, turned my PC on its side so the heat naturally dissipated through the side vents) and now its working perfectly. Very strange though, never thought I'd have to treat my computer like a used Nintendo cartridge. *shrug*

Thanks to all those who tried to help!

 

[civ_king]

Well I've had some trials today, but I finally figured out that MY problem was GPU overheating. My PC began randomly turning off today so I did some things(blew out dust, plugged and unplugged, turned my PC on its side so the heat naturally dissipated through the side vents) and now its working perfectly. Very strange though, never thought I'd have to treat my computer like a used Nintendo cartridge. *shrug*

Thanks to all those who tried to help!

yeah, computers suck in a lot of air to cool themselves and naturally dust gets in and accumulates the more you use it