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Malabism
10 years ago
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Low performance, FPS drops

Hello. I have performance issues, mostly FPS drops or generally low but stable FPS, depends on which areas of the game. It's important for me to note, that I can run other games on very / high graph...
  • Malabism's avatar
    Malabism
    10 years ago

    @proxos666

    Thank you for your reply. I realize now that this is a driver issue, and not something I could fix except roll back to previous version. Luckily, I don't have as severe problems as the guy with the 105C GPU temperature :P

    I have done something that seems unrelated, but somehow solved the problem partially. In the settings.ini I changed D3DFullScreen to false, then re-entered the game and put it on windowed exclusive. This increased my average FPS by about 10~, and the random drops aren't as steep as before. Gameplay FPS still isn't as high as I'd like, but it's enough so I could play with Shadow Map Cascades on medium; that would have to do until a new GPU driver version comes out, as I have no intention to go through the ordeal of rolling back at the moment.

    I really hope a new version of my GPU drivers would come out soon and fix that, as I've already dropped the game after the Shadow of Revan massive performance issues, and I try not to get attached to games that are badly optimized / perform poorly on my machine.

    I think overall, what worked mostly was turning off BitRaider and doing that weird switch in the settings ini.

    PS - Cutscene FPS is still horrible, haven't managed to fix that.

Belgorad's avatar
Belgorad
Hero (Retired)
10 years ago

Ah ok so your using version 15.12.  Good to know, I was waiting till they fixed the issue before upgrading but I guess it's till not resolved.  Let us know how the removal of bit raider goes for you.

Malabism's avatar
Malabism
10 years ago

Well, it's better. More stable. I can get 45 stable-ish FPS on the fleet, 60 even if there aren't many people around.

And turning my camera during combat didn't result in a drop to 10 FPS.

I'd hoped for better, but I can settle for this I guess. Is there anything else I don't know about that can improve the FPS ?

EDIT - I take it back, wandering in Rishi's main town area dropped me to 20. Exploring a bit more and I noticed the improvement wasn't as good as I'd hoped.

It made it a bit more "smooth", the FPS drops aren't as steep as before, but they are still there.

  • Belgorad's avatar
    Belgorad
    Hero (Retired)
    10 years ago

    I would go ahead and run pingplotter using the steps above and post your results by saving them as a JPG file and attaching directly or using a site like imgur to upload and then link the image.

    • Malabism's avatar
      Malabism
      10 years ago

      Here is the image. I hope that helps. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but it feels like it's not related to connection. I tried reducing graphic settings to very low, and had no performance issues whatsoever ☹️

      • Malabism's avatar
        Malabism
        10 years ago

        Can anyone please help me figure out why I get such low performance ?

        It doesn't make any sense. Is there anything I missed ? Some Windows 10 / GPU / Driver / Game configuration / tweak I missed ?

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