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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I got nvidia and only 8 gb ram, no overclocking.
I run the game on max settings and its smooth.
I had huge issues with nvidia in the start when I got this game, but I found the sollution with correct settings ingane and including a setup in nvidia control center. Now its perfect.
Edit to above:
Appologise, shadows and tesselation is on high and i dont use feytouched texture setting, only ultra. feytouched takes twice the resources with close to zero difference in appearance.
update finished 🙂
unless the nvidia control panel has some tricks up its sleeve, I don't see how changing settings in game will make any difference. I tried setting them all to low and there was still poor performance. I've never heard of feytouched texture settings. Could you describe what you do in control panel maybe and in game more specifically?
I can try, altho I can ofcourse not garantie that it will work for you. This is what I have done, tho:
1. Make a "user.cfg" -notepad in your DA:I launcher-folder. Write in:
WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOEnable 0This will disable motionblur ingame wich is stealing resources and made me lag. And quite frankly, I hate that setting in all games and would have removed it regardless. (And many share my opinion on that...)
2. The "fey-touched"-setting you asked:
In your graphic-options you have the one called "Texture quality". You can put that all the way up to high - ultra- then the highest = fey touched. As far as I remember, thats the only one that goes above Ultra. Feytouched setting steals a lot off ram and resources and has very little difference in apperance. I would say you would need a hell of a pc to have use for fey touched setting. I can run it on mine without much issues, but I prefer that extra little fps instead ^_-
3. Further Ingame Graphic-settings.
This is written freshly from the settings I have at this writing moment:
All my settings are on ultra, exept the following:
- Tesselation quality (affects mostly what you see on the ground, like rocks) - thats one of the most cost-heavy, I have that on medium atm since I like that appearance just fine. I can run it on high, but meh... as I said: that extra little fps.
- Shadow quality - in my experience shadows are always heavy for the pc. I have this on high. Not much difference from ultra anyway.
- Post-process quality - high
- Ambient Occlution - SSAO instead of HBAO. Reason: To me it looks smoother and cleaner, and a bonus: lighter on resources, removed lag for me.
- Effects quality: High. Affect spells, fog ect... can often be hard on the pc so I put that on high. Not much difference anyway.
- Post-prosess antialising - high
- mulitsample antialising - 2x MSAA (can run with 4x, but can at times cause a bit stuttering, i choose 2x wich is just fine)
- shader - high. On ultra this cause drop in fps for me personally.
To put in a little tip: under - Options -> Controls - mouse smoothing - I did this: click the slider 3 times to the right from the Default posision. This has helped a lot of ppl with micro-lags when moving the mouse. Helped me too. 3 times, not 2, not 4, but 3 ! 🙂
4. Nvidia control panel:
This was the thing that fixed my strange and broken "nvidia-graphic in DA.I"
I had strange "waves" on my screen when I moved the camera, after changing some settings I had weird "lines" - it was always something. But after I set my control panel to this, my screen went back to lovely again and havent had issues since, also got a stable fps.
I used imgur to get some screenshots of my control panel instead of typing it all down. It had to be 2 screenshots to get it all. I dont see any "preview post" options on this forum (I might be blind, not a low possibility of that 🙂 - ), so all I can do is hope that I used the right link and make a link instead of a huge picture here, we will see 🙂
Now, this is what worked for ME. Tho, I am quite sure that there is some tec-freaks that have something to say about this but...no point, it works for ME and im perfectly happy in my DA:I world! This post is just a hope that I can help another Nvidia-user to get a good gaming-experience.
Honestly, I am not a tec-freak at all, what I know is what I have researched, im a stubborn girl with "wanna fix mahself! -issue :P
I just found - after weeks of trying - the thing that worked for me. I also got a lot of good tips from other DA:I - gamers (with more pc-knowledge than me) that has helped me on the way. This is what I ended up with.
You can give it a try, if it dont work, let me know, and I can give you some other tips and links to some research I have done that might help you out.
As a fyi: I have Nvidia gForce GTX 760, 8gb ram (wich has been sufficant to play all the games I want so far. (with a note on So Far, its a daily evolving in the pc-world 🙂
Good luck
- Vicky
Links to screenshots of nvidia control panel:
