Performance issue, very bad FPS and FPS drops
Hi, I have a problem with Need For Speed Rivals : I get some serious FPS drops, it is unplayable, why is it unplayable when I could play BF3 on Max settings and BF4 on Medium/High ? Also, there's no...
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I think it's time to take to the EA facebook page and Twiter and start puting some real pressure on EA to get them to address the issues with this game. At the very least it will warn others not to buy until these problems are resolved.
@jjrcng wrote:I think it's time to take to the EA facebook page and Twiter and start puting some real pressure on EA to get them to address the issues with this game. At the very least it will warn others not to buy until these problems are resolved.
I agree, if the product isn't great, and not worth the amount that is being charged, people have a right to know!
I also had the frame drop problems. In some areas the frames drop to 10 and the game is unplayable. I found out that my CPU is causing the problems. I have a Q6600 (2,4 GHz stock), HIS Radeon HD6950 IceQ X 2GB (stock), 6 GB RAM and installed Windows 8.1. For testing I put the HDD and the graphics card in a system with a Core i7 4770K. To my surprise the game runs smoother than ever now with a stable 30 fps all settings set to Ultra. On the Q6600 I have not even a normal gameplay at the minimum settings in a window by using the lowest possible resolution.
I also measured the performance with GPU-Z, CoreTemp and the Resource Monitor on Windows 8.1. This shows clearly that my CPU is at 80 to 90% load during the game all the time. If the load increases up to 90% the frames drop dramatically. The temperatures of the CPU are very low due to a custom cooler. I think if you have frame drops on the lowest graphics settings it is most probably a CPU bottleneck problem.
Btw. do you remember that the PS4 has 8 Cores instead of the 4 of my Q6600? Maybe this is simply a really bad console port! I also wonder why EA never does any statement at all. People like me experiment for days with different graphics drivers and OS reinstallations without any success. EA should pay the time I spend fixing their crappy games!
Thanks EA for doing another great job!
@joetheeel: Yes, this is called unoptimized. Throwing most powerfull components possible to keep it stable on 30fps is a costly and not really a desired solution.
I have an athlon 640, it is somewhere as your Q6600 (but with 3ghz on stock). It should be playable, BF4 beta was - however I'm not getting yet this game, since a friend (different setup) and people on forums with same cpu, have same problematic drops, as you described.
Will see if a patch fixes this, but I'm not getting my hopes up. NFS run was never properly fixed (open-mic races, controls being reset, etc...).
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