is it suppose to be like that?
and why do I get werid fps drops on vsync if my fps is so high on max fps?
for example I installed thaum craft and when I look at the portable hole my fps drops to 80~ from 120+ at max fps
and when looking at the portable hole with vsync - my fps drops from 60 to 40-30
and like I said before my gpu activity is 50% when my setting are on "max fps"
and my gpu activity is 99% when my setting are on "vsync"
and im talking about ingame not in the menu
Vsync limits your fps to whatever you monitor refresh rate is, that is what causes the drop. This is done to keep the top and bottom of the screen in sync so that you don't get tearing. It's not really working your computer that much harder, and as long as it's smooth with vsync there is no reason to change to maxfps. You wont be able to tell the difference between 60 fps and 360 fps anyway because your monitor can only display 60 frame per second.
For some reason Minecraft will not use my video card at all. This is dragging me down to about 40-50 fps on default minecraft, and if I try to run any graphical mods it drops down to the single digits. I also have VERY slow chunk loading (it takes around 2 minutes just to load up the visible chunks on far visibility), and my CPU gets very hot having to take all the load. I am running an AMD 6870 card, with 64 bit windows 7 and 64 bit java and extended memory for minecraft. Also running a Phenom II X4 965 BE OC'd to 4.2 GHZ (I need to have it OC'd just to play). All of my onboard graphics are disabled. I know of other people with the exact same setup pulling around 200 fps. Is there some way to force minecraft to use my video card or is there some kind of work around?
Edit: All my drivers are up to date. I tried the new lwjgl but it didn't change a thing. I know there's nothing wrong with the card itself as I can pull 80+ in skyrim on ultra and the card is showing about 80% load there.
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Vsync limits your fps to whatever you monitor refresh rate is, that is what causes the drop. This is done to keep the top and bottom of the screen in sync so that you don't get tearing. It's not really working your computer that much harder, and as long as it's smooth with vsync there is no reason to change to maxfps. You wont be able to tell the difference between 60 fps and 360 fps anyway because your monitor can only display 60 frame per second.
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I've tried that but I can't find where in the CCC I can associate programs :S
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Edit: All my drivers are up to date. I tried the new lwjgl but it didn't change a thing. I know there's nothing wrong with the card itself as I can pull 80+ in skyrim on ultra and the card is showing about 80% load there.