bottleneck performance?

[Pseudopsia]

My old computer was a I7 950 3.0 (stock speed) with a GTX 760 and in 1080p i was getting around 15-30fps in cities (specially mordhona). a few months ago i got a i7 4790k with the same GTX 760 and then my fps improved from 15-30 to 45-55.

This game doesnt need a extreme powerful card.

Bloomfield was quite weak and didn't overclock that well. I'm using a 6 core sandy bridge that I have clock at 4.6Ghz, which was quite a jump from previous generation. Newer generations CPUs only had around 10% increments in performance and didn't overclock any better.

I plan to upgrade to Skylake in the fall.

[Ooshima]

Bloomfield was quite weak and didn't overclock that well. I'm using a 6 core sandy bridge that I have clock at 4.6Ghz, which was quite a jump from previous generation. Newer generations CPUs only had around 10% increments in performance and didn't overclock any better.

I plan to upgrade to Skylake in the fall.

Skylake doesn't even provide that much difference from 4790K. Unless you are referring to Skylake-E (since you are on Sandy Bridge-E), maybe that's worth it.

[Pseudopsia]

Skylake doesn't even provide that much difference from 4790K. Unless you are referring to Skylake-E (since you are on Sandy Bridge-E), maybe that's worth it.

Ya... I see leaked benchmarks any where from 4-8% or 15% IPC gain from haswell. I'm a little mixed on continuing with -E platform because I haven't seen increase gaming performance switching between 4 to 6 cores, it's expensive to upgrade frequently and it's nearly a year behind latest architecture. DX12 games may take advantage of the extra cores. Depending on further benchmarks I see with DX12 and skylake if I'm not impressed I may wait it out till Skylake-E, which will probably be around 2nd half of 2016.

[MiniTofu]

What I really want is FFXIV at least implement DX12 support for the load-balancing on CPU. Right now the game runs at 100% one of my 12 threads. Which is not efficient at all.

Most DX11 GPU should be able to support DX12 as said by many articles and reports.

[Ayuhra]

I have an i7 4790s and a GTX 970 and get around 50-60 fps in Mor Dhona. On Gilgamesh.

I haven't checked during peak hours, though.

Normally my game runs around 150 fps so Mor Dhona DOES cause a slow down. For everyone.

What is your framerate outside the game's most densely populated area?

Also, do you have NVidia Geforce Experience? If not you can download it. It will set the game to optimal settings (which will probably be maxed out or close to it, this game is nothing for a 970)

[einzele]

GTX TITAN (old vanilla) modded BIOS OC from 876Mhz to 1200Mhz > GTX970 ~1400mhz (not really slightly better).

I just checked Luna spot same area same setting. I am getting 55-57FPS at 3930k 3.8Ghz stock clock. 4.6Ghz is 60-65FPS.

Luna and I game performs normally. Not sure about you.


ps. also fps maybe be dropped 3-5fps overall due I have Shadowplay on the entire time.

mordhona at peak hour 20fps is the lowest i could get with 2560x1080 resolution. thats the lowest on record, not that it stays that way all the time.
you with oced titan and 3930k get 32fps, so i guess it performs normal for me too then.

I have an i7 4790s and a GTX 970 and get around 50-60 fps in Mor Dhona. On Gilgamesh.

I haven't checked during peak hours, though.

Normally my game runs around 150 fps so Mor Dhona DOES cause a slow down. For everyone.
What is your framerate outside the game's most densely populated area?

Also, do you have NVidia Geforce Experience? If not you can download it. It will set the game to optimal settings (which will probably be maxed out or close to it, this game is nothing for a 970)

yes i have geforce experience, i dont use it though
outside dense area is capped at 60, not sure why now even if i remove the frame rate limit it still stays 60, it was ok some time ago, could get 100 plus depending on location.

i want to remind u guys again this is not a topic about fps race or why im getting low fps. this is about why im getting low fps with my gpu load at 40%, hence the title. does somewhere in my system bottleneck my gpu or not. some people shared their system load snapshot also show this low gpu load. so i guess thats normal? im not sure anymore since people now throw 60fps at md on my face xD
my only relief is this only happens in ff, other games are fine.

[Pseudopsia]

yes i have geforce experience, i dont use it though
outside dense area is capped at 60, not sure why now even if i remove the frame rate limit it still stays 60, it was ok some time ago, could get 100 plus depending on location.

Sounds like you have V-Sync forced on, possibly in Nvidia control panel. With a 60hz monitor it won't go above 60. If you drop below it will probably cap at 30, if you drop below 30 it will cap at 20.

[einzele]

hahaha i knew its the i7! see both luna and ultiaoe both use 4790k. but as someone said i'd be nuts to buy an i7 just for mor dhona
as far as i know ff doesnt utilize hyperthread? if so a 51% utilization i7 in task manager means the 4 main thread are very well utilized (90-100%) while the other 4 are idle. it is because task manager totals all cpu % load then divide with the number of all threads then it just say 51%. this is true with my brother pc with amd 8350 8 cores, ff is not using all 8 cores and task manager shows less than 50% cpu load while some cores are at 100%.
thank you all for the time and trouble posting here, i really appreciate it!

Sounds like you have V-Sync forced on, possibly in Nvidia control panel. With a 60hz monitor it won't go above 60. If you drop below it will probably cap at 30, if you drop below 30 it will cap at 20.

will go check on that later..

[MiniTofu]

hahaha i knew its the i7! see both luna and ultiaoe both use 4790k. but as someone said i'd be nuts to buy an i7 just for mor dhona
as far as i know ff doesnt utilize hyperthread? if so a 51% utilization i7 in task manager means the 4 main thread are very well utilized (90-100%) while the other 4 are idle. it is because task manager totals all cpu % load then divide with the number of all threads then it just say 51%. this is true with my brother pc with amd 8350 8 cores, ff is not using all 8 cores and task manager shows less than 50% cpu load while some cores are at 100%.
thank you all for the time and trouble posting here, i really appreciate it!



will go check on that later..

It's because the current DX9. DX10.x and DX11.x is not utilizing the CPU in balance, most games you see one core runs at 99% and other cores are just idle to nothing.

Hyperthreading basically 1 core with 2 threads. So it still use under 1 core powering 2 threads.

[Judge_Xero]

lol - Hopefully it hasn't just been V-Sync. That's why one of the first questions I asked was if it changes between, Full/Windowed as I don't think V-Sync works in Windowed Mode.




Here's what I meant about the Ram slots. Although it's motherboard specific sometimes, for the most part this is how it works.

So if the Ram sticks are installed side-by-side which looks a lot nicer, they will each run in Single Channel, limiting the system Bandwidth.