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SexuaIHealing's avatar
12 years ago

Frame rate dropping periodically.

I have a similar issue to some that have been posted but its not exactly the same. Even on the menus the game will run at around 100fps and then every so often will drop to around 2 or 4 or something low and stutter. This continues to happen in the actual game making it unplayable. My system isnt bad by any means and can run much more taxing games.

One thing I did see on here was something about the game using CPU instead of GPU but I cant find the settings on how to change this in the nVidia control panel at all. Changing the in game settings does nothing to stop the issues so I'm at a loss for what to do and don't want this purchase to have been a waste of money and time. Any help would be great.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I think your after this:


    http://imgur.com/a/6KJBH#87BGUaE
    (Replace BF:H with PvZ; it's the same thing)

    nVidia Control Panel -> 3D Settings -> Program Settings -> Add Program (PvZ) -> High Performance Processor

  • same here - turned graphis to low - framedrops almost there... can play bf4 without framedrops 2x amd radeon HD6950 with biosupdate to hd6970 2x 2gb gddr5

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    i had the same problem with my xcrossfired 7990's then i found a solution. in amd catalyst disable Xcrossfire and the video performance should level out. as it seems popcap or EA who ever developed the game didn't put in mind of Xcrossfire so for some reason it just buggs out.

  • I can't find how to add the High Performance Processor, its not on my Control Panel. And I only have one graphics card anyway, so unless it happens with only one then it can't be the same issue.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Normally, if you had such an item, you would KNOW it, because you must pay extra to get it.  3D games with game engines such as this one has cannot run on any ordinary, average Internet beater of a PC, sorry, that's why the game has well publicized System Requirements: 


        Required: Internet connection required to install and play
        DVD-ROM: N/A
        OS: Windows 7/8 64bit
        Video Card: NVIDIA 8800GT, AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5750
        Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.0 GHz
        Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c
        Compatible Memory: 4GB RAM
        DirectX: 10.0+
        Hard Drive: 15 GB
        Input: Keyboard, Mouse or Dual Analog Gamepad

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Here's the kicker with the fps problem: On direct3d I get terrible fps drops making it nearly unplayable, on Mantle I get awesome framerates with no drops but.... it crashes like once a round.  So do I run Direct 3d with bad framerates or do I run Mantle and expect to crash at any moment.....

    Running crossfire 7970 ghz gpu's.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Yeah, turning off crossfire makes the game just fine but my god is that disappointing....

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    @P1NGOR wrote:

    I can't find how to add the High Performance Processor, its not on my Control Panel. And I only have one graphics card anyway, so unless it happens with only one then it can't be the same issue.


    @SexuaIHealing 

    The other comments to this thread were, indeed, apparently misdirected.  Are you still having difficulties?  Let's see a DxDiag for the machine, shall we?  Refer to the topmost FAQ in the Titanfall forum, and follow through with that guide. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I was as confused by that as everyone else, until a day later, or when I was checking for any needed followups and finally caught on. 

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