danb4026 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 I just upgraded my main workstation to the 2600K, MSI P67A MB and compatible Corsair Ram (12GB). This is the same setup I just recently upgraded my renderslave to, which works great. My problem is that I am seeing a lot of hesitation when moving windows around, clicking drop down menus, etc. This machine also completes the Cinebench CPU test quite a bit slower than my renderslave. What could be causing this type of problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 (edited) Since you have an identical computer, i would just try swapping out the easy to swap parts to see if you can find the culprit. If it is a MB or PSU issue then identifying the problem will be more difficult. I had lag issues on my i7 920 right after I built it and traced it back to a BIOS issue. Flashed an updated BIOS and the problem magicallly went away...although I would recommend that as the next-to-last resort since flashing an updated BIOS carries some heavy risks if things go wrong. If the revision notes from the MB manufacturer don't mention any updates that sound like they would be causing the problem then I wouldn't sweat it because of that risk. EDIT: Somtimes even just swapping around the RAM into different slots can make a difference. If you aren't filling all of the available RAM slots, it does matter which slots you use. Edited May 23, 2011 by beestee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 Thanks Benjamin. I am only seeing the slow down within Max itself.....hesitation when moving the frame buffer window or render dialog box etc, as well as the drop down menus as mentioned earlier. All else seems to be ok with other applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I am going to guess that your render slave does not have a beefy video card in it whereas the workstation does? If that is the case then it probably isolates the issue to the video card or PSU. -Calculate your power requirements to make sure that your PSU is sufficient. -Double check that all the power connectors that the video card requires are all connected. -Try out some different video drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 Thanks for that link. You are correct about the render slaves video card...it is a Nvidia Quadro FX 1700. I have a 750w PSU, which is apparently more than sufficient. Theres's only one power connection to the Quadro FX 4600 that I can see and the video driver is set to "Nitrous (Direct3D 9.0 - NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600)". If I download the latest driver from Nvidia, what will it do to the "Nitrous" part of that equation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I believe Nitrous is dependant on DirectX only. Did you install a special driver to get the 'Nitrous' option in the first place? AFAIK, the max performance drivers for the quadro cards only address openGL performance...but I could be mistaken. The fact that nitrous works, and works well on geforce 'gaming' cards tells me that the generic drivers from NVIDIA might actually work better for nitrous than the drivers that are specific to openGL enhancements. Make a note of your current driver version, hunt down the installer for it to make sure you can revert if necessary, then use the 'driver sweeper' utility from guru3d to uninstall your current video driver and try installing the current official driver for your card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 I did not need to install a special driver for the 'Nitrous'. I installed the most up to date Nvidia driver for my card. The "driver sweeper" doesnt seem to be downloadable anymore. Not sure what I should do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 (edited) Try this one. NVM, the link is circles back on itself...let me see... Edited May 24, 2011 by beestee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 I get this message : Attention - Guru3D Driver Sweeper has been discontinued as such you will not find any download links here any longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 (edited) It looks like it had some ad-ware embedded so they stopped making it available...so I don't think we want to find it even if we could. Your best bet then is going to be to uninstall the driver from device manager, then install the new one. EDIT: Seems that the guy that was developing it was having issues getting out of contract with guru3d so he uploaded a version with ad-ware to terminate the agreement. He now makes it available on his own (ad-ware free I assume ): http://phyxion.net/item/driver-sweeper.html I will probably still trust it because I have used it in the past...but I will leave that decision up to you Edited May 24, 2011 by beestee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 Thanks Benjamin, that is what I am going to do. I appreciate the advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 No problem Daniel, I hope it gets you sorted! Go back and check my edit if you do run into problems getting the driver uninstalled. When you uninstall, you should see 'standard VGA adapter' or something similar. I would reboot after this, and then install the new driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 I downloaded drive sweeper, but I have no idea what I am looking at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Check out this page: http://phyxion.net/item/analysing-and-removing-drivers.html The gist of it is that you will check 'NVIDIA Display' and then click 'Analyse' and then click 'Clean.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 I see, so basically it is a full uninstall tool. I assume it does a more thorough job than windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Yes. Generally if the uninstaller doesn't finish it's job, this would finish it for it. Video drivers are notoriously bad about leaving remnants and then subsequently not being able to overwrite those remnants when needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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