My experience so far
Daftmonkey
Join Date: 2011-10-13 Member: 127185Members
Join Date: 2011-10-13 Member: 127185Members
<div class="IPBDescription">it's not a great one 4 hours in</div>I used to play NS back when it was a F2P mod for HL and i very much enjoyed the experience playing on the good ol' gamearena servers in Aus, wanting to revisit this nostalgia i discovered NS2 after watching the youtube promos i sold that this was a solid game, unfortunately after purchasing and gaining access to the beta after 4 hours of messing around I'm left kinda feeling like I should have just given this a miss.
my main issue with the game is the performance issues, first I'll go into the specs of my system
i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Sli x 2 (2815 MB)
8GB ram
Game running off a SSD
with a system like this I was confident I wasn't going to run into any performance issues but sadly the game seems to want to only run at a measly 15-30 fps
I've tried inputting all commands such as
r_shadows 0/false
r_bloom 0/false
turning off SLI
and a few others that I've seen on the forums but don't see much of a performance boost.
I haven't been able to enjoy the gameplay due to crazy performance issues and I'm just wondering is this the experience all round? is it just me? what have a missed? should i just wait for the beta is over before I return? I'd love to recommend my friends into purchasing NS2 but in its current state it's easier for me to not.
my main issue with the game is the performance issues, first I'll go into the specs of my system
i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Sli x 2 (2815 MB)
8GB ram
Game running off a SSD
with a system like this I was confident I wasn't going to run into any performance issues but sadly the game seems to want to only run at a measly 15-30 fps
I've tried inputting all commands such as
r_shadows 0/false
r_bloom 0/false
turning off SLI
and a few others that I've seen on the forums but don't see much of a performance boost.
I haven't been able to enjoy the gameplay due to crazy performance issues and I'm just wondering is this the experience all round? is it just me? what have a missed? should i just wait for the beta is over before I return? I'd love to recommend my friends into purchasing NS2 but in its current state it's easier for me to not.
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17 950 @ 3.5GHz
1x 570GT
8GB RAM
Win7
Is there an easy way to disable the second graphics card?
Take it out of the system? :P
but NS2 IIRC does not support direct x 11, so if ur using that, then set launch options to make it run @ dx 10 or 9
for direct-x 10 try -dxlevel 100
-edit-
Try 9 first because NS2 was built on directx 9 i believe....
my main issue with the game is the performance issues, first I'll go into the specs of my system
i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Sli x 2 (2815 MB)
8GB ram
Game running off a SSD
with a system like this I was confident I wasn't going to run into any performance issues but sadly the game seems to want to only run at a measly 15-30 fps
I've tried inputting all commands such as
r_shadows 0/false
r_bloom 0/false
turning off SLI
and a few others that I've seen on the forums but don't see much of a performance boost.
I haven't been able to enjoy the gameplay due to crazy performance issues and I'm just wondering is this the experience all round? is it just me? what have a missed? should i just wait for the beta is over before I return? I'd love to recommend my friends into purchasing NS2 but in its current state it's easier for me to not.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have almost the same specs. Just with HD5870 and a WD HDD.
But i got and average of 70 FPS in 187 (with 4.7gh oc). You should oc you 2600k (thats why you bought the k so you can oc it) and deactivate sli for NS2.
Also look in your bios if your RAMs have a XMP profile that runs it at higher specs tested by the manufactor.
I also force NS2 run on all 8 cores with high priority it also runs on another HD than windows and avirus.
The game doesnt support SLI, so basically your running a single 570 atm, what ress are you playing on?
I have the same problem with SLI, but with a GTX290, its basically running as a single 260 for me.
Otherwise my system is somewhat similar but an older generation, i7 920 @ 3,33 with 6gb of ram.
I dont know your ress but you could try lowering your ress ingame a bit, i did this 1 step, from 1920*1200 to 1680*1050 and this got me about a 10fps boost, not ideal but as the game doesnt have AA yet anyway the difference is minimal.
You could also try disabling 1 of the GPU's in NS2, you should be able to do this in the NVIDIA control panel under manage 3d settings -> program settings if im not mistaking, depending on your driver version you might have to look a bit, for some odd reason nvidia keeps ###### with the settings, limiting them, moving them and what not.
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Troll some more.
+1
NS2 is still pretty server intensive so fps that low on a decent rig might have to do with the server you were playing on?
i lowered my res by half and it gave me a fps boost to 120 - 40 and drops to 20- 10 as soon as i see anyone and in certain areas of summit , disabled SLI and it didn't really do much of a difference and only recently I'm getting an "out of video memory " error in areas when my fps drops.
as for OC'ing my rig, i don't see a need for it atm and i haven't gotten off my ass to source an after market cooling solution so i won't bother till then, my bios -should- be running ram at the highest settings, i haven't checked as I was sure the bios for this motherboard works that stuff out for itself (probably should check on my next boot).
edit: also need to mention it's crashing a lot.
any other theories and or tips on how to up the performances is welcome, i will try anything/everything till I deem it a no hoper.
For various reasons we decided to release the early beta to you guys waaay before most companies would think about doing so. We wanted your feedback, involvement and financial support (who am I kidding - we NEEDED it). We've always been tight with our community, that's just how we roll. So it makes sense to us to get our game in front of you as early as possible, so there's time to take your feedback. We think it really helps and speeds our development too.
So the game is still getting up to speed and that's going to continue for a long time. It's not for everyone at this stage, but we hope it's enough for some of you.
I look forward to 60+ FPS days, when the game will truly shine. <3
Yes.
No it won't, since ns2 uses dx 9 and nothing else, no point in forcing it.
But it would be interesting to find out why people with similar configuration have different fps.
Try turning off Skype, web browsers, msn, videos etc etc etc and you can get quiet a sizable fps boost.
Anyone have any good suggestions for computers. Specifically custom built computers.
What's the good deal?
These seem ok? <a href="http://www.ibuypower.com/IbpPages/WeeklySpecial.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.ibuypower.com/IbpPages/WeeklySpecial.aspx</a>
I know there are 1 million different companies for this. What do you guys do?
-B1ackSmoke
Fact of the matter is, to put it simply
BF3/COD(or any other title by EA/Activision/etc) = Glorified Demo, not BETA.
NS2 = Closed Beta, still need's work.
Alot of people seem to have forgotten what a beta is, but, I don't blame them, seeing as how its been twisted and manipulated to s**t by publishers to make money with the excuse "oh its a beta it will be fixed in the final release", yet its still a glorified demo because they want to convince people the crap they are actually playing is going to get better when its time to release, and 98% of the time the game on release sucks *cough* BFBC2 *cough*.
The problems you have are common for all of us, don't forget that Max is the only one man (and now Andrew works with Max now, I'm assuming not 100% sure), and cant make a fully running and working engine in a few day's it takes a long, long time and seeing as how the Spark Engine is new its bound to have tons of issue's but in the long run once the Spark engine is where it needs to be, it will (hopefully) pay off for UWE in the long run.
If your having issues with performance Id wait for a couple of build's and try again.