GTX 980 / GTX 760 .. DX9 vs DX11 score on Heavensward Benchmark problem

[Neifirst]

DX9 is stuck with your cpu.

Regards
Neifirst

[Elysium]

DX9 is stuck with your cpu.

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Neifirst

I don't understand your answer.. can you explain please?

[KisaiTenshi]

#1) No matter what your GPU VRAM size, it will always report 3GB if you have more than 3GB. This is not broken.
#2) When you aren't seeing much of a difference this is what's known as "plateau"'ing, or in otherwords there is no additional performance your configuration can achieve, even if you had better hardware. You could try cranking the settings up and see what happens.

Do note, you have to set the settings independantly for DX9 and DX11. Simply switching the dropdown is not enough.

Also compare the DX11 client (DX9 settings) mode with the actual DX9 client.

The DX11 client is x64 only and can address more memory on the system than the DX9 client can, that doesn't mean it uses it.

[Laraul]

I'm not swaping cards again just to show the bench.. but the game on DX9 was running better with my older card.. I believe is normal that I expect to get a much better score with the 980

Well then we'll never know will we, cuz I don't see how you could get such a high score (12k) w/ max settings using DX9 on a 760. I have a 680 and I get 8~9K or so w/ the DX9 client on max settings. It's not important anyhow, just play on w/ the 980 and be glad you can. Not all of us are so lucky.

[MiniTofu]

If you run DX11 MODE with Max DX9 setting, your DX11 score will be higher than DX9 at the same Maximum settings.



If you run DX11 MODE with Max (not Max DX9) your score will be lower BECAUSE DX11 unlock new feature capability, tessellation, parallax, new shader, new shadows.
Enabling DX11 exclusive graphical features come at a cost but luckly most Kepler, Maxwell card are able to handle those features will little tax on the performance FPS.


edit: same driver, you're saying running both DX9 level. your old card is higher?

[KayoZ]

Pssshh... at least you can get DX11 to work. I have a 760 myself and it keeps giving me an error every time. Updated drivers, installed/updated DX... nothing. Not that id play DX11 anyway, doubt itll be playable on my card.

As for the odd scores its a new card IIRC. Sounds like just driver bugs they need to work out.

[KisaiTenshi]

Pssshh... at least you can get DX11 to work. I have a 760 myself and it keeps giving me an error every time. Updated drivers, installed/updated DX... nothing. Not that id play DX11 anyway, doubt itll be playable on my card.

As for the odd scores its a new card IIRC. Sounds like just driver bugs they need to work out.

I have a 760 and it works fine. Be more specific about the error, or start another thread about it.

The more typical thing about not being able to get certain configurations to work is that there is usually something specific to the configuration that is making it not work stable, so it appears "that mode" doesn't work when it's really "your hardware would self destruct if we let it"