Graphics Card Trouble, Need Insight!

[Itseotle]

Could be possible cpu bottleneck, ARR actively uses 4 cores/threads.

Try turning on occlusion culling or try using the "high" preset settings.

-poster above-
There's no such thing as motherboard bottleneck unless he's using PCIe 1.1 on the video card or using an IDE HDD. very unlikely.

That's exactly what i was getting at. Unlikely but when troubleshooting you rule out the simple issue first. And ignore my double post. There sends to be a few kinks with mobile site

[Shura]

I seem to be getting 27-30fps again I updated my drivers to most recent and I am now wondering if my card is not using it's full potential or if there is something I am missing?

If anyone could please give me some insight or advice on what I can do to increase playability performance I would greatly appreciate it, thank you!

Would help to know the rest of your PC spec; also make sure that in-game you don't have your FPS limited to 30.

[Galione]

what CPU do you have? If you have intel I know that you can go into your 3d settings and change to use multiple cores to help the physx load on the GPU that's what I did with my nvidia card and I am getting an average of 5-8 FPS more in nearly every game I play.

[PEANUT]

what CPU do you have? If you have intel I know that you can go into your 3d settings and change to use multiple cores to help the physx load on the GPU that's what I did with my nvidia card and I am getting an average of 5-8 FPS more in nearly every game I play.

How do I go about doing this? Also if I do, will it put any more unnecessary strain on my CPU?

[SecondNature]

How do I go about doing this? Also if I do, will it put any more unnecessary strain on my CPU?

You cannot do this on an AMD card, well, not as easily, nor is it worth it, since you are being CPU bound anyway.

You are simply being limited by your CPU, It is normal in this type of game, in busy area's. Only a very small percentage of players get better performance in congested situations.

There is nothing wrong with your card or CPU. Your frame rates seem completely normal for those situations.

Using an SSD would also help (with OS + game installed on it). However, will not increase frames but it will make things around you load smoother and not lag or take a long time to appear.

*I custom build gaming PC's for a living, and i can tell you it is a common complaint from nearly everyone expecting 'high fps' in all MMO situations, it just does not happen without heavily overclocking the best CPU's and only happens on HEAVILY optimized MMO graphics engines, it also depends on the MMO's servers (yep, lots of people dont know this).

[PEANUT]

You cannot do this on an AMD card, well, not as easily, nor is it worth it, since you are being CPU bound anyway.

You are simply being limited by your CPU, It is normal in this type of game, in busy area's. Only a very small percentage of players get better performance in congested situations.

There is nothing wrong with your card or CPU. Your frame rates seem completely normal for those situations.

Using an SSD would also help (with OS + game installed on it). However, will not increase frames but it will make things around you load smoother and not lag or take a long time to appear.

That's not what I wanted to hear, but it's definitely what I needed to hear. Thanks for your advice and everyone else as well!

[PEANUT]

Hi everyone, I'm really sorry I took so long to reply, these daily limit posts are BRUTAL lol! I am using an Intel Core i7 870 2.93GHz processor everyone, also I should have added this initially - my computer before updating the GPU and PSU is about 2.5 years old. I have tons of hard drive space over 500gb worth and 8gb memory ram. Thanks for all your time and feedback btw! I really really appreciate it

[TessaJalloh]

pulling 30fps in a completely packed city is actually pretty decent. even with my monster system, cities drag me back from 80+ to 40.

for a smoother experience you can also limit yourself to 60fps, that way you won't notice quite as much of a difference.

[PEANUT]

pulling 30fps in a completely packed city is actually pretty decent. even with my monster system, cities drag me back from 80+ to 40.

for a smoother experience you can also limit yourself to 60fps, that way you won't notice quite as much of a difference.

It sucks, but thanks for your feedback, it's good to know this is normal, that's what I was worried about, that my card was performing up to it's standards. But I am happy with how much the quality and smoothness increased since I upgraded!

[Displace]

You can run also at a slightly lower screen resolution. My old 5870 gets ran at 1600x900 with everything on max settings with an i7-930. It runs about a third better at this resolution then 1080 and the CPU maxes out at about 45% usage. It's also easier on my eyes... damn I'm getting old.