Nvidia gtx 970 SLI and poor performance
I purchased an additional gtx 970 to SLI mainly for the purpose of playing this game at a consistent 60 fps at 1440p using Nvidia's DSR feature. Before I get too far ahead of myself I would like to ...
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@mersukuski wrote:
16GB is standard. 32GB is high end.
For Photoshop and After Effect maybe, but for gaming, 8GB is still the current standard.
> For Photoshop and After Effect maybe, but for gaming, 8GB is still the current standard.
In gaming it may be the lowest common denominator but it's definitely not "the standard". You can saturate 8 gigs with almost any current game and a real world desktop situation in the background.
For example, with ONLY Firefox, Dragon Age Inquisition (and Steam and Origin and Battle.net and other background apps) running on my gaming machine, I'm already committed to almost 10GB of memory use. With my 32 gigs of RAM I will be using RAM when that commitment turns to usage. With 8 gigs you will be using the pagefile for 2 gigs, not necessarily the same 2 gigs of data, therefore you will be swapping and therefore you will be dropping frames.
> I still have never heard that a standard hard drive with platters makes any difference in the in game experience as far as framerates. I don't know if you have any sources to back that up
> the main thing by far that influences fps is the gpu followed distantly by the cpu and then ram and then not much of anything else that I can think of as far as hardware influencing frames in any way.
Consistent framerate is not the same thing as the fps number. Bottlenecks in content streaming cause dropped frames which is hard to measure but easy to experience.
- http://m.hardocp.com/article/2013/12/10/hdd_vs_ssd_real_world_gaming_performance/5
looks like Intel probably had some financial motives to peddle that idea I reinstalled to my ssd and there was no change. argh
@Poundofflesh1 wrote:I reinstalled to my ssd and there was no change. argh
I guarantee that your experience with the game will be better long-term. But you need to figure out that bottlenecking issue first.
plus, other open world games are playing at 1440p with a more steady frame rate. like Witcher 3. I get a constant 53 fps as I preset it to that so that the frame times don't drive me nuts. I play sleeping dogs maxed out at 1440p constant 60 fps. far cry 4 is never below about 63 when I preset it to 72 at 1440p. This game is just a mess for me. I refuse to play it at 1080p and have it dropping into the low 40's and 30's at times considering my rigs capabilities in other games. Its also stupid that you only get 24 hours to trouble shoot something as potentially complex as a pc game and framerate issues. It can take weeks to figure it out or longer. Perhaps after a patch. This is built on the BF4 engine but has nowhere remotely near the performance. Thanks for your input thought. does get me thinking.
