bottleneck performance?

[BunnyChain]

I created a video because it's easiest to show where I can position myself to observe the worst performance. I manage to get frame rate in Mor Dhona as low as 29 fps. Limsa Lominsa as low as 26fps. GPU is underutilized everywhere except facing zone entrance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2X66ctGJr8

Settings: Maximum, 1440p, i7 3930k@4.6Ghz, HT off, and GTX Titan X.

@OP: This is important btw, did your friends stand in the same spot and were looking at the same area as you?
If you look at my screenshots, I'm having the worst performance when going up to the Ixal related crafting NPCs and looking back at the aetheryte.

Another one just in case.

I'd like to see you set your Graphics to maximum. There's also another option related to amount of character displayed in "other" settings, iirc - which also has a big impact on the performance in MD, at least for me. And then walk to the entrance of the NPC house, the direction your camera is facing, turn around and look at the aetheryte.

[LunaSnowfield]

@OP: This is important btw, did your friends stand in the same spot and were looking at the same area as you?
If you look at my screenshots, I'm having the worst performance when going up to the Ixal related crafting NPCs and looking back at the aetheryte.



I'd like to see you set your Graphics to maximum. There's also another option related to amount of character displayed in "other" settings, iirc - which also has a big impact on the performance in MD, at least for me. And then walk to the entrance of the NPC house, the direction your camera is facing, turn around and look at the aetheryte.

sigh

[einzele]

@bunnychain: nice findings. Its funny though my fps doesnt get affected much by changing the resolution. From 2560x1080 to 3440x1440 there is no fps loss.
@lunasnowfield: first, nice fps. Second, did u set the character and object quantity to maximum? Its in the others tab of system configuration. Because the first screenshot u posted shows there is no one near aetherlyte, which is unlikely at mor dhona. If by any chance yours is set at minimum, then its normal to have 60fps flat even at S rank. That 4790k is tempting though
@ooshima: my board doesnt support SLi, can i put my vga there?

[Itseotle]

I think it's an API (DirectX 9.0) issue as some people have been saying.

That's what I'm putting my money on.

That 4790k is tempting though

Indeed, a sweet processor, but see above comment. I'm personally waiting for 3.0 and see what happens before I go rushing to the nearest hardware store.

[UltimateAoe2]

That's what I'm putting my money on.



Indeed, a sweet processor, but see above comment. I'm personally waiting for 3.0 and see what happens before I go rushing to the nearest hardware store.

Yep! To be honest I think I went overkill when I purchased my i7 4790k. I'll let you know how it is if you want when HW hits .

[Fenseven]

@ooshima: my board doesnt support SLi, can i put my vga there?

Doesn't support SLI eh? what board do you have and have you ever told us how many sticks of ram you have?

[Ooshima]

@ooshima: my board doesnt support SLi, can i put my vga there?

Does not need to support SLI. As long as your mobo have at least a 2nd PCI-E 3.0 slot that supports at least x8 speed then you can plug there and try.

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.

The thing is -E series chips aren't primarily for gaming. In fact the i5-4690K is very sufficient. Most games are on single core performance rather than multi-core performance and thus -E chips won't be able to beat Devil's Canyon in terms of single core speed. Haswell-E in generally can't be clocked as high as the i7-4790K.

As a matter of fact, my i7-4790K is a golden chip and was able to clock at 4.8GHz @ 1.24V stable. On the other hand, I didn't get lucky at all with my i7-5820K (which I use for content creation purposes) which I have to settle for 4.2GHz @ 1.24V too.

[einzele]

Doesn't support SLI eh? what board do you have and have you ever told us how many sticks of ram you have?

it has 2 pcie slot, but doesnt support SLi. i have 24gb ram

Does not need to support SLI. As long as your mobo have at least a 2nd PCI-E 3.0 slot that supports at least x8 speed then you can plug there and try.

okay i'll go try it later.

[KarstenS]

Does not need to support SLI. As long as your mobo have at least a 2nd PCI-E 3.0 slot that supports at least x8 speed then you can plug there and try.

From my research, before exchanging my mobo, only SLI boards do have 2nd PCI-E x16 slot connected with 8 lanes.

On boards without SLI (also that ones supporting Crossfire) do only have 4 lanes at the second slot.

There is a way to modify the driver to activate SLI. But the 4 lanes connection of the second card is very noticeable.

[Freyar]

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I did play with some settings myself and while I've been trying to identify a cause for bored-CPU/bored-GPU results, I can't find any, really. Occlusion Culling doesn't really do anything (though causes pop-in around corners) for performance for me.

XIV is running on the 840 EVO, the rest of the hardware is visible. This is on WIN8.1x64.