GTX 780 running <20 fps at Revenant's Toll, normal?

Your processor is pretty sub par at 2.8ghz.

The 780 is a hungry card, it needs to be fed with an army of dump trucks and you have a pickup truck.

In other words, it sounds like your processor is bottlenecking and unable to load your GPU fast enough so your GPU is not running at full load. This would explain why you lag in toll by the crystal, there are a lot of people there and a lot of processing for your CPU to do, it's just not fast enough.

Get an I5-2500k and overclock it to 4.7 ghz and you should see a HUGGGGEEE boost.

Buying a great graphics card isn't always going to net you an increase in performance. Your computer is only as strong as it's weekest link. Your CPU needs to be capable of loading the 780 to max, and it's not. Also your hard drive needs to be fast enough to load textures and stuff into ram for your CPU to load them into the GPU and it might not be either.

An I5-2500k, a 760, and an SSD would have been a better upgrade. The 780 is a better card, but you need the CPU to go with it.

Unfortunately if you want to go i5-2500k your going to need a new MOBO because your CPU is 1st gen.

Mine doesn't drop below 60 FPS in Revenant's Toll Crystal during prime time at maximum settings 1920x1080 even with SweetFX on. Try benchmarking your hardware using Valley or 3DMark.

Specs:

Intel i7-3930K @5.0GHz
Asus Rampage IV Extreme
Crucial Ballistix Elite 32GB @1866MHz
2-way SLI EVGA GTX 680 SC @1300MHz

The rest: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...bkSL1SKqD9IZo0

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Originally Posted by KenzieLynch

I comment that the PS4 will be the best optimised and get comments from Hanemakikaze, Ispano, and Pseudopsia about power.

Pretty sure it'll be a waste of time discussing this further.

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Problem is you forget that the PS4 uses the same architecture as a PC.

Ps4 will be better than average PC's....

But for someone like me who builds them from scratch and has every component upgraded to it's max... It's not going to touch me. I had better all around specs than the PS4 before the PS4 was even announced.

i5-2500k 4.8ghz water cooled,
32GB Ram
2 * SSD in Raid 0 at 966 mbps on data transfer
1 * SSD for games
GTX 760's in SLI for main gaming monitor at 2560X1440
On board Video for 2nd and 3rd monitor

I run the game in a borderless window and get 60fps stable everywhere I go, even in toll and fates like Odin and Behemoth.
1000 Watt PSU

That is odd cause on my old computer i ran a fail AMD phenom II 1090T with just a 680 and got 45 in all crowded areas, i would say its your CPU so definately upgrade that or like others have suggested OC it, but i personally dont OC anything. Or in order to see a little bit of improvement, and i mean a little bit your not gonna see alot i would recommend rolling back your driver.

Better than Average? Eh, not so sure. The CPU is rather weak, even compared to normal Mid Range AMD CPUs, with Intel the gap is even higher. The GPU portion is pretty much a 7870, which is basically mid range now @ ~$150.

A 780 should not only give you great fps, but scratch your back and bake you cookies too.

So yeah, something else is the issue for sure.

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Originally Posted by ispano

Problem is you forget that the PS4 uses the same architecture as a PC.

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How can you fail to comprehend something so badly?

I'll edit your own quote so that maybe you will get a better understanding:

"Problem is you forget that the PS4 uses the same architecture as the PS4, and the same as the PS4, and also the same as the PS4". Clearer?

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Originally Posted by KenzieLynch

How can you fail to comprehend something so badly?

I'll edit your own quote so that maybe you will get a better understanding:

"Problem is you forget that the PS4 uses the same architecture as the PS4, and the same as the PS4, and also the same as the PS4". Clearer?

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I know what you're getting at, but the thing is, since the PS4 is roughly the same as a low spec gaming machine, they've already done many optimizations for such a system. Just because they know people using a PS4 will always have the same hardware, isn't necessarily going to make it more optimized than the PC version. Not to mention, being the same architecture, x86 in this case, means that many optimizations may just carry over.

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Originally Posted by ispano

I know what you're getting at, but the thing is, since the PS4 is roughly the same as a low spec gaming machine, they've already done many optimizations for such a system. Just because they know people using a PS4 will always have the same hardware, isn't necessarily going to make it more optimized than the PC version. Not to mention, being the same architecture, x86 in this case, means that many optimizations may just carry over.

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There is no guarantee of anything, but by nature of design the PC will never be able to achieve the level of optimisation that a console can. Not to mention you cannot undervalue the benefit of not having to run a full OS like Windows