Some performance observations + graphics settings that have an effect

[Sucidaldeathtar]

I don't gain any fps on my 7970x2 in crossfire. So windowed mode runs better for me. Teleporting some times fps drop to 1 and game crash out. Been happening more. Not cooling since everything is watercooled. Amd needs tweak the driver more cause benchmark And real game are way different.

[Remember]

Oddly enough I get higher frames when holding down the camera button (Right Click), I wish I knew why...

[Urobulusff]

Keep in mind also that they still need to optimize the game (no it's not fully optimized yet) and that better drivers need to be released from both nVidia and ATi for this game.

i7 3770k OC'ed @ 5.0GHz
SLI x2 EVGA GTX 780 ACX Superclocked @ 1200MHz / 6800MHz (custom OCTI vBios)
Ripjaws 16 gigs of RAM @ 1866
Samsung SSD 840 Pro
Everything watercooled.

I clearly have something that is goddamn overkill for this game, and should run it at 60 FPS locked at all time on Maximum Presets (doing it most of the time), but when I get in cities and some parts of the world it can drop as low as 30-35 FPS.

So yeah wait for better drivers, our rigss are not the culprits and we don't have bottlenecks, we just need better drivers / optimization.

[Kittra]

I find this all very interesting. I myself have a very nice computer for playing the game and am extremely pleased with the results. Even in extremely crowded areas I'm always at 60fps (Although there is this one wall in Ul'dah that will grind me down to 10fps if I look at it...)

I'm honestly surprised by some of the comments from people with PCs that would eat mine alive, and to find out they actually have problems o_o

My choice in PC setups is:
i7 3770k (Overclocked to 4.6ghz)
24gb of Kingston HyperX Blu Memory @ 1600mhz
Samsung 830 SSD 250gb
ASUS GTX 670 4GB (at stock speeds)

I found just the opposite of the OP really. Running the game at Max settings my GPU is always reporting 99-100% usage, while my CPU is reporting 15-27% usage.
I can also run FRAPS at max resolution and still maintain 60fps in game.

For people having FPS problems but still wanting to run at "mostly" Max settings, I found on my older PCs that turning off other people's shadows and disabling the rendering of objects outside my line of sight gave me a pretty big boost to fps (about 15-20).

*EDIT*

I forgot to mention I'm running the latest beta drivers which seem to have had a HUGE impact on my performance.

[Tovonto]

Keep in mind also that they still need to optimize the game (no it's not fully optimized yet) and that better drivers need to be released from both nVidia and ATi for this game.

i7 3770k OC'ed @ 5.0GHz
SLI x2 EVGA GTX 780 ACX Superclocked @ 1200MHz / 6800MHz (custom OCTI vBios)
Ripjaws 16 gigs of RAM @ 1866
Samsung SSD 840 Pro
Everything watercooled.

I clearly have something that is goddamn overkill for this game, and should run it at 60 FPS locked at all time on Maximum Presets (doing it most of the time), but when I get in cities and some parts of the world it can drop as low as 30-35 FPS.

So yeah wait for better drivers, our rigss are not the culprits and we don't have bottlenecks, we just need better drivers / optimization.

I have pretty much the same set up and I'm also experiencing those weird drops in FPS, on the geforce forums people with 780 have reported this problem also, so maybe soon we'll get new drivers

[Wiggles]

I would like to see better scaling of SLI. I have latest Nvidia beta drivers, and 3 way GTX 480's in SLI. I can max out Crysis 3 constant 60 fps, but I get frame drops in this game. I understand having tons of players in cities is simply demanding no matter the hardware, but with SLI off and on I dont see enough of a difference. Im waiting for some good benchmarks for the game to come.

[Craniux]

anyone know if a q6700 OCed to 3.33 with load temps at 60C would bottleneck my msi gtx560ti hawk?

i play on everything high...and get around 30-60fps on some places and 20 fps in cities.

[Kittra]

anyone know if a q6700 OCed to 3.33 with load temps at 60C would bottleneck my msi gtx560ti hawk?

i play on everything high...and get around 30-60fps on some places and 20 fps in cities.

Wow, that's an old CPU these days.

The answer is yes I'm afraid. I have a PC with a Q9300 at 2.5ghz and when I upgraded my GT 9800 to a GTX 570 I was always wondering why it seemed to give me the same performance as before the upgrade.
Turns out the GPU could only ever use a max of 50-60% of it's power because of the CPU. I eventually built a PC with a AMD Phenom II X6 CPU and the GTX 570 had a chance to show it's true potential.

[Diraco]

The culling option can cause visible objects to be culled as well if the camera position moves such that the camera is looking from the inside of a backface-culled object to something on its outside. Happens when panning around with tree branches nearby.

It sure would be swell if they added a supersampling antialising option -- all FXAA does is make the jagged edges blurry!

EDIT: I tried the culling option again, since I turned it off when I noticed the problem in open beta. It now seems to be working fine after a short test.

[Sweeet]

I have:

i7-3820 @ 4.3GHz
32GB Quad channel RAM @ 1600MHz
2 480's in SLi running duel monitors @ 1080p
256GB SSD

I run at max settings boarder-less windowed and it never drops below 45 FPS in city's but in most places it's always running at 90+. I have a 120Hz monitor I use as my gaming screen to stop any tearing and the game looks absolutely amazing. I run the game from RAM too which barely makes a difference on load times but it is noticeable. FATE's don't give me an issue either even if there are hundreds of people around spamming their abilities.

Going on what other people are saying it sounds like I'm pretty lucky and have a very stable system. I've been running the game from RAM since the get go though, so maybe that's helping. I'll have to do some testing when I'm next online to see if running off the SSD causes FPS drops like others with similar setups are describing.

*edit* forgot to mention I run at max settings boarder-less windowed.