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Boolerex
10 years ago
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Mini-freeze and less then ideal performance.

I probably should have posted in here way earlier but better late then never. Currently the game didn't run really well,I'm not even sure if my computer even get past the minimal requirement at th...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    What resolution do you use?  In game settings?

    Reducing those should help performance but it comes at the cost (especially resolution) of how pleasing it looks to the eye.

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    nVidia 3D Settings can be adjusted around.

    I'd start by Defaulting them so you know where you are starting.

    Make sure to force the 660M as default again as this would be reset too.

    Things you can look at:  Power Mode = Max, Quality/Performance sliders moved towards Performance, Disabling things like AA/VSync, Pre-Rendered Frames # (play with it, probably lower), Single Display Performance Mode,  Texture filter options moved to Performance.

    That's all that coming to mind at the minute (not sitting in front of my nVidia rig).

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    Close all background programs.  As much as you can.  Including anti-virus (that's actually usually a pretty big hog).

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    Unparking CPU Cores  (I don't know if yours would do this or not, not all do)

    http://www.coderbag.com/programming-c/disable-cpu-core-parking-utility

    I prefer the software method as opposed to making it permanent with a registry key.

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    a user.cfg file is used by many people in Battlefield 3/4.  This game is running on the same engine (with differences obviously).

    Most of these settings actually do NOTHING I'm pretty sure but some do.  The bolded ones I'm nearly sure do have an effect.

    If you cannot hit 60fps stable, you can lower it to like 45 or 30.  That may help smooth it out overall at the cost of having it a bit more stuttery.

    The DX11 options at best won't do anything and at worst cause it to not launch, so delete them if it causes problems (don't think it will tho, it'll just ignore them).

    DrawFps just shows the FPS, it wouldn't actually help performance.

    Open Notepad.
    Copy and Paste this:

    RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1
    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 Extensions of Known File Types" from Folder Options in Control Panel

    Put it in your PvZ directory
    \\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
10 years ago

What resolution do you use?  In game settings?

Reducing those should help performance but it comes at the cost (especially resolution) of how pleasing it looks to the eye.

-----

nVidia 3D Settings can be adjusted around.

I'd start by Defaulting them so you know where you are starting.

Make sure to force the 660M as default again as this would be reset too.

Things you can look at:  Power Mode = Max, Quality/Performance sliders moved towards Performance, Disabling things like AA/VSync, Pre-Rendered Frames # (play with it, probably lower), Single Display Performance Mode,  Texture filter options moved to Performance.

That's all that coming to mind at the minute (not sitting in front of my nVidia rig).

-----

Close all background programs.  As much as you can.  Including anti-virus (that's actually usually a pretty big hog).

----

Unparking CPU Cores  (I don't know if yours would do this or not, not all do)

http://www.coderbag.com/programming-c/disable-cpu-core-parking-utility

I prefer the software method as opposed to making it permanent with a registry key.

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a user.cfg file is used by many people in Battlefield 3/4.  This game is running on the same engine (with differences obviously).

Most of these settings actually do NOTHING I'm pretty sure but some do.  The bolded ones I'm nearly sure do have an effect.

If you cannot hit 60fps stable, you can lower it to like 45 or 30.  That may help smooth it out overall at the cost of having it a bit more stuttery.

The DX11 options at best won't do anything and at worst cause it to not launch, so delete them if it causes problems (don't think it will tho, it'll just ignore them).

DrawFps just shows the FPS, it wouldn't actually help performance.

Open Notepad.
Copy and Paste this:

RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1
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 Extensions of Known File Types" from Folder Options in Control Panel

Put it in your PvZ directory
\\Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2

  • Boolerex's avatar
    Boolerex
    10 years ago

    Thank for those,I changed a bit mah NVIDIA setting and put that user.cfg and I'm already getting better performance. I'll try to check about unpacking CPU core afterward.

    For info put the resolution at 1280x720 with everything in low (+ texture filtering at off).

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