Stutter 1-2 hours into a game

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The title says it all. I get some made stuttering/fps drops when I get that far into a game of Rebellion. I don't quite understand why, as i believe my hardware should be sufficient to handle it. Regardless here is a list

 

CPU: Q6600 - OC'd to 3.0 GHz
GPU: GTX 560 Ti
Mobo: Nforce 780i
RAM: 4 Gbyte DDR2
HD: Western Digital Velociraptor - 600 Gbyte Storage - 10k RPM
OS: Windows 7 64 bite

 

Changing graphic setting does nothing to improve it. I feel a bit ripped off on this purchase to be honest, but do let me know if theres something obviously wrong with my setup or if there is something I can do to improve this problem.

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I'm getting the same thing but only while playing online (ICO) with friends. 

 

For reference... 

i7-2600k @ 4.3ghz 

8gigs 1866 DDR3

GTX 570 

Intel & Corsair SSD's 

 

Any ideas on the lag? I'm not sure that it's CPU related, at least on the ICO end. Now if I play lan games it runs great, even on SB based pentiums. 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

A little more ram perhaps ?

And close all background programs....

Defrag....

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Maybe more RAM. I've found that OC'ing my CPU actually slows things down, so that might be part of it too.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I am having a similar issue. Don't think i ever experienced this with the original game. Currently i am in playing on a large map where 3 AI players and myself have the largest fleet possible. But the game has become unplayable due to a 8 sec freeze of the game every 20 seconds or so. The game is very intense since all AI's are fighting me, so there are usually 1 or 2 big battles going on on my screen at a time. It's most a pitty since this is the most intense game I played in a long while but at this point it's unplayable. It seems like there is a bottleneck somewhere which is odd since I have a fairly up-to-date PC.

 

Intel i7 860 @ 2.8GHz

8Gb RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

 

I am quite sure the RAM isn't the bottleneck since the game doesn't use more than 1 Gb.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Strieko, reply 6
It seems like there is a bottleneck somewhere which is odd since I have a fairly up-to-date PC.
End of Strieko's quote

The bottleneck is the 32-bit @ gig limit plus the use of only one CPU core (or an even split of the cores to equal just one core 50/50 33/33/33 25/25/25/25 etc).

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

It's mostly CPU, not RAM that is the issue now.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Same here on my Desktop I run a AMD fx-8150 no problems there but on my LAPTOP with 8GB RAM and i7 I am having the same issue CPU was at 98% for long periods of time now its happening.