Framerate lag/drop...?

....Ok then. :c

I'm sure you've listed your specs before but can you do it again.. I don't want to dig through your post history :P

SLI/Crossfire?

Driver Versions?

Any user.cfg file your using?

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@WootCandy wrote:

I'm sure you've listed your specs before but can you do it again.. I don't want to dig through your post history :P

SLI/Crossfire?

Driver Versions?

Any user.cfg file your using?

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I think I just gave my card, but my PC was basically upgraded for this game. xD

OS: Win 7 - 64bit

CPU: Quad-Core - 3.80GHz

RAM: 8GB

Graphics: GeForce GTX 750 (drivers updated)

And not that I know of...

But yeah before the big update the game ran smoothly.

Try resetting nVidia Control Panel's 3D Properties to defaults.  If you added PvZ.exe to Program Settings make sure it's all defaulted back too.

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I'm sure you know but no overlay software (RiviaTuner, Fraps, TS overlay, etc).  There are some work arounds to make it work with Origin in Game though too.

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Try disabling Origin in Game for a test, just to see.

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Check your processes... perhaps something is eating your CPU up?

Clean Boot even to test

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

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I like playing with this config file... even though we probably shouldn't throw another variable in... here it is:

Open Notepad.
Copy and Paste this:

RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1     ///(You can try changing this form 0 to 3-ish... I think it goes up to 8 but nah)
PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 0
PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1
PostProcess.DofMethod 0
PostProcess.BlurMethod 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOEnable 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOMethod 0
Render.VSyncFlashTestEnable 0
WorldRender.TransparencyShadowmapsEnable 0
WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0
WorldRender.MotionForceOn 0
WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapEnable 0
WorldRender.SpotlightShadowmapResolution 256
WorldRender.LightTileCsPathEnable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1RuntimeEnable 0
RenderDevice.VSyncEnable 0
RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0
GameTime.MaxVariableFps 60

Save it as "user.cfg"

You cannot have user.cfg.txt
enable "View Extentions of Known File Types" from Folder Options in Control Panel

Put it in your PvZ directory
\\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare

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I understand that it's only after the patch... but I don't want to get hung up on that.

Guess I'll try the config thing later today then. Since everything else (3D settings, overlay stuff) aren't it. Not sure about Origin, though...doesn't that need to be up in order for the game to work?

OiG is used for Joining friends games from Shift+f1 and the coin store.

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@WootCandy wrote:

OiG is used for Joining friends games from Shift+f1 and the coin store.

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Oh, misunderstood you then, thought you meant Origin itself. lol

Well anyways I'm not going to play it at the moment, but did reset the 3D settings in Nvidia's control panel, haven't messed with it there before though.

Doesn't look like anything is helping...I'm starting to think it has something to do with the mouse controls. I mean my mouse functions just fine, but aiming seems a bit choppy. There was another thread saying that the new update is causing the graphic cards to become major CPU hogs, you think that has anything to do with this?

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I think I might remember one other thread saying something about the new update making something worse for them but I can't remember exactly the name or issue.

I always use a second monitor to display temp/usage of gpu/cpu cores/ram.  Directly after the patch I tested 337 and 340 nVidia drivers, SLI on and off.  I did not notice any unusual spikes to the CPU or anything like that.  SLI didn't work similar to how it acted pre-patch.  I'm about to fire it up to play a round, I'll watch my CPU usage like a hawk, if it's odd I'll report back.

i7 920 @ 4ghz 

480 GTX  (using stock clocks instead of my usual stupid high clocks, still works with those though too)

If you think it might have something to do with the CPU and other software hogging it up isn't the issue you might try this, it's been used in BF4 with some success in improving performance I believe.

http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

You may also try renaming/deleting the PROF_SAVE_profile file... maybe something got monkied up?

I'll look into it next time I play then, just got off for the day after recording another long game. lol

Yeah I'm not sure what it is, I just know it happened after the update. xD