Graphics Card Trouble, Need Insight!

[Tam3n]

I have a 7850 crossfire, and i7 3820 @ 4,46 GHz... It's running pretty smooth, mostly 60 fps. Sometimes my fps dips randomly down to ~45 fps. That's usually in crowded areas, although other times it stays at 60 fps even if there's a ton of ppl. I haven't yet done much test with crossfire vs. single card performance to see whether it's GPU or CPU bottleneck. Future drivers probably improve performance a little.

One thing that can nicely boost fps (if it's your gpu) in crowded areas is to disable "other NPCs" shadowing, though that'll sacrifice the visuals a bit.

*Also if your fsp dips in random places even if there's not much other characters visible, try enabling occlusion culling.