Framerate problems with GTX 760 GPU
CFZero
Houston Join Date: 2014-01-04 Member: 191964Members
Houston Join Date: 2014-01-04 Member: 191964Members
I just bought the game, and have sank in about two hours and have thoroughly enjoyed it, love the concept and how the game works and feels. However, the constant frame rate drops are ruining everything. I have a Super Clocked EVGA GTX 760 GPU and an i5 4670k (Not OC'd) with 8 Gigs of ram. I get 60 FPS in menus, however whenever I am standing next 6-8 other players, the framerate dips from 60 to somewhere between 30-45 FPS. A couple of times they have dropped to 20 FPS but that is a rare occurrence. How do I tweak the setting so I atleast get 60 FPS? I have everything on low and resolution at 720p and I still cant get a constant 60 FPS, frame rate moves between 45 - 60 FPS, almost never steady. What gives?
I accidentally posted this on New Players Forum. Sorry about that.
I accidentally posted this on New Players Forum. Sorry about that.
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http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/131384/how-to-make-a-good-tech-support-post
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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8kgxx7ti57kk06p/JXU8X1Lxur?n=102975578
If it is saying "Waiting for GPU" it means your GPU is too slow compared to your i5.
Looking at your options file, you've not got a lot of things set to minimal, in fact you have most things on highest settings.
If you're going for pure FPS speed, change your options to the following:
<anisotropic-filtering> OFF
<atmospherics> OFF
<shadows> OFF
<anti-aliasing> OFF
<particles> LOW
<reflections> OFF
You should see a marked improvement in your framerate.
May be your GPU is overheating? Or CPU? Coz if overheting they both turn off lots of their powers to make heat smaller and just to stay stable... Or may be it in your mother board. If you run overclock your system may be problem with motherboard. North or South bridge can overheat too... I dont know. Sure - update drivers. And make qooling system better.)
Your CPU is strong enough to run the game at a much better frame rate. So, there is something else going on.
This means that you have a a range of possible options here.
Is something else using a stupid amount of RAM or CPU resources?
I would try running something like process explorer in another window while you run the game, and see if there is something that is ramping up while you are playing ns2
Are you using CPU PhysX?
There should be a setting about it in the options menu.
You can try to play with the CPU affinities as well. It could help as well.
* go to task manager
* go to performance
* loadup performance monitor
* go to cpu tab, keep it open.
* loadup ns2, go play.
* tab quickly back to performance monitor after experiencing your problem. If all is well you SHOULD see the history line of the frequenty almost nonstop on 100%.
- if not, heat issue.
"Intel® Turbo Boost Technologie monitor 2.6" will do a similar job but will show you HOW MUCH it underclocks if that is indeed the case. Even a bigger indicator, but needs far faster tabbing as it has no history.
I have 8Gb's of 1600 MHZ single channel ram. I will test DC's method and post my findings
Anyway I've got a very similar system now except I'm using a 770 instead of a 760, same amount of 1600 ram, exact same CPU. I'm getting framerates in excess of 90 fps in game, up to 200 in the ready room and the very lowest I've seen so far (in a hive room completely full of everything) was about 55fps. That's with everything maxed out (except infestation, I prefer simple for gameplay reasons) and 1920x1200 resolution.
I say this just to point out how much you SHOULD be getting out of your system, the 770 is only about 20% faster than the 760.
If you aren't getting any framerates ABOVE 60fps you probably have vsync enabled. That would keep you between 30 and 60 but it wouldn't really explain the drops to 20. If it's not that and it's not drivers and it's not heat then all I can guess is that you have a faulty component that isn't running how it should.
You should be using GPU physX. The only way I can see CPU affinities helping anything is if one of your cores is bad, otherwise anything you do there would likely reduce performance even more.
Single channel is very slow my friend. at 1600 MHz you have 12,8 GB/s of memory bandwidth available to you, half of what you'd get if you put each stick on each channel. Haswell also benefits greatly from high speed memory, this is from personal experience, I run mine at 2200 MHz and this thing flies, so consider buying a higher end memory kit eventually.
I wouldn't try to max this game on a GTX 760 too, it's improved plenty since the previous catastrophic builds that made me register here (stuff like it leaking 6 GB worth of video memory) but I still get dips to ~70 fps sometimes even on a 1.2 GHz GTX Titan with the memory clocked at 7466MHz. I would tell you to turn shadows and reflections off and use medium quality ambient occlusion.
Oh, and stick to D3D9 mode for now, OGL and D3D11 got better but they're not quite as stable as good ol' DX9 yet, and this game doesn't seem to make use of any advanced DX11 features anyway as it ran on my old GTX 275's in D3D11 just fine.