Sudden Performance Drop: SWToR
Hey, On 1 October 2015 I resubbed to Star Wars The Old Republic. I played up to and including Tuesday 6 October 2015 with more than adequate frame rate (fps); the game ran really smooth. I logged ...
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Yeah, 50 degrees is largely acceptable for both CPU and GPU. Beyond 90 is worrysome and may cause downclocking.
I have an odd feeling your game is somehow running on the HD 4600, which gives 5-10 fps on medium settings. Heck, it's even a slideshow on Low settings.
I'm not sure I know how to disable the on-board via the BIOS; as a rule I stay out of there because I generally stuff something up regardless of what I do. So I'll just clean off the drivers I currently have for the Nvidia and do a fresh install.
Normally, NVidia Optimus will deal with the activation of the NVidia card, but for some odd reason sometimes the Intel driver doesn't let it do that. Doing a complete cleanup and reinstall of both drivers should fix the issue.
I've found that half of the nvidia side programs, like the GeForce Experience, doesn't do much because my card isn't supported apparently; any reason to think Optimus would be?
BAYoung wrote:
Hey,
Latest test shows that the game starts off at 60+ fps and after 3-5 minutes of sitting idle (not even fighting or doing anything) fps drops to 20 and below; the highest I noted at this stage was 16 fps and the lowest was 5 fps.
The Intel card is disabled according to the diag so shouldn't be an issue
Can you pull the side of the case off and blow a fan directly in
See if this affects the actual time before performance drop occurs
Have a check all the system fans are working
Just because the temps reported appear ok doesn't always equate this still isn't heat related
Worth looking at in my opinion
Just to go a different tact your system only has 4GB Ram, will benefit going to 8GB
Shut down as much of the background programs as possible before playing, does the HDD appear to always be doing something ?
Look for Disk Thrashing this could affect performance if the page file is in heavy use
If only getting more memory was that simple; for various reasons it's not an option at this time.
There's a lot of read activity; star wars being the most of it while it's active. After a while, when idle, everything drops to below 50k B/sec with star wars swtor_main_bnk_streamed_a_1.tor and swtor_main_bnk_streamed_a_1.tor going to the high 100k B/sec.
The paging file does seem to be in heavy use though I have no idea if that's normal or not; we're kind of going beyond anything I've ever looked into before; it's reading often but the highest I saw it at was around 40k B/sec.
I would know if any of this is really high or what to do about it if it is.
I did do a clean installation of my graphics drivers but that just seems to have made it worse; upon login today the game started at around 20 fps and it hasn't gone higher since at lowest graphic settings and in combat it drops to below 10.
Also Windows Aero is off and I had nothing on in the background that shouldn't have been there. All of which is kind of moot because I had loads in the background between the 1st and the 6th of October and the game still ran perfectly.
Given the 4GB Ram , to get the best use I would recommend ditching the bitraider streaming version and switch to the non streaming
now this is a new game download initially but it is worth it , to remove bitraider running in the background.
once switched , you can use directions here to do a clean boot and free up as much as possible in order to get used by the game and stop pagefiling as often.
Another option is if you have a fast usb drive setup readyboost , it isn't a miracle cure to more memory but It may help a little.
See the post here how to disable bitraider if you want to give it a go.
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