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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My friend came to me and lend his Origin account. We installed NFS Rivals on my machine:
- athlon 640 (3Ghz, quad core)
- Nvidia 650 Ti
- 12GB ram
Game on ANY resolution in barely keeping up to 30 fps. Mostly is working good, but on certain areas become a complete slideshow. GPU is barely used, CPU usage is maxed out.
The other rig:
- i7 870
- radeon HD6850
- 8GB ram
Game is working smoothly even in mentioned problematic areas. Seems like for now the game minimum requiremen IS an i7.
I expect a patch to come out, but I really doubt it will make the game playable at official minimum recommendations, optimization is something you have to think at stage of the desing process. It would be a huge leap to make it work on my quad core.
UPDATE:
I've installed window7 x64 to do some more testing.
FPS increase is windows7 is significant, makes the game playable - it also feels more fluid trough whole area.
I'm trying to boot into windows 8.1 to confirm this issue to be windows specific - since in 8.1 there is a process dwm.exe consuming ~30% of cpu when this game is running. Not sure why, but could be the cullprit.
I have legitimate copy of win 8.1 with latest updates. I haven't installed updates to 7 installation, it would take too long just for a test.
I will investigate this issue further, when I get 8.1 to boot again - seems like it has some issues with windows 7 boot loader...
Thats interesting! Would be cool if someone else can try this. I also hav 8.1 64 Bit installed.
I just tried the Windows 7 compatibility mode. That changed nothing. And I also don't think that the dwm.exe is the problem. It doesn't use much of my CPU and even if I play rivals I have about 2/3 of my CPU unused.
Edit: I tweeted again to the EA Support. They are still ignoring it...
Edit 2: Wow! They are answering...lets see what they say!
I was running the game on Win 7 x64 with all updates and I was having the same low fps and frame drops as others have reported. It might be worse on Win 8.1 but I still found the game unplayable on Win 7 because as soon as you started an event fps dropped even further (between 8 to 10) and trying to use pursuit tech made it even worse.
Than was my experience.
No, compat mode would not change anything here too.
Perhaps, do you see dwm.exe process spiking up during gameplay too?
I have task manager and a process widget open on second monitor and there is no dwm.exe spike in windows 7.
I'm fighting now with windows 8 bootloader, trying to boot it (do not attempt to install win 7 after win 8 like I did).
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