[SOLVED] New GTX 1070 - Game No Longer Playable?
SkyeRangerDelta
Rorikstead, Skyrim Join Date: 2017-02-12 Member: 227851Members
Rorikstead, Skyrim Join Date: 2017-02-12 Member: 227851Members
Hi everyone,
I've tried the Steam forums already, but I figured that posting here might help significantly. I recently bought a new Asus STRIX 1070 (loving this beast too), which runs GTA V in ultra at 60 fps. When I booted up Subnautica (been waiting to as well, integrated graphics are so bad), I couldn't change my water quality setting. It's stuck on Medium. I can change the overall quality of the game and the other settings, but I can't change the water settings. And when I go in-game, I get sudden and unexpected frame drops. I run it as 60fps, and then BOOM, 1 or maybe even 2 fps. It's hardly playable.
My new system that I built ran my dad's 650Ti (2GB Vram) for a little while (like a week or so) before I bought the 1070 and it ran it on ultra at about 40fps, why did it run so well on the 650Ti and it's running like garbage on my new 1070? Is the game not optimized for this hardware?
Please help, this is one of my favorite games.
I've tried the Steam forums already, but I figured that posting here might help significantly. I recently bought a new Asus STRIX 1070 (loving this beast too), which runs GTA V in ultra at 60 fps. When I booted up Subnautica (been waiting to as well, integrated graphics are so bad), I couldn't change my water quality setting. It's stuck on Medium. I can change the overall quality of the game and the other settings, but I can't change the water settings. And when I go in-game, I get sudden and unexpected frame drops. I run it as 60fps, and then BOOM, 1 or maybe even 2 fps. It's hardly playable.
My new system that I built ran my dad's 650Ti (2GB Vram) for a little while (like a week or so) before I bought the 1070 and it ran it on ultra at about 40fps, why did it run so well on the 650Ti and it's running like garbage on my new 1070? Is the game not optimized for this hardware?
Please help, this is one of my favorite games.
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Just think of it as a good V-Sync without bufferlag. Freesync is the FREE alternative, but NVIDIA refuses to use that.
Could it be your card is overheating? I ask this mostly because you can play for a while and then suddenly get the extreme FPS issue.
Also, I'm not sure what the power requirements are on this card. But if you simply upgraded your card in an older systems, it could be that the power supply unit is not cutting it for this card, causing it to clock down perhaps...
What brand?
The PSU is an Antec 850W Bronze (black and yellow like a bumblebee)
I hope we can resolve this issue quickly, I wont have access to the internet after 9pm EST
Did you uninstall your old graphics card drivers? Some need to completely remove them with Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU), which completely removes all traces of drivers. Download the latest nVidia driver installer, download DDU, run DDU to purge old drivers, then install the latest nVidia drivers. I'm on the Subnautica Discord server if you want to hop on for live chat. username jr2 / 0x6A7232 #7451
and then I updated them back up to the latest driver. I'll run these steps as you say to see if it works. (added on discord)
I don't have much input for advice, but I wanted to chime in: my Dell Vostro 230 also runs on the nVidia GTX 650Ti, and Subnautica runs like a dream... well, outside of the PC being limited to 4GB of memory. After the last update in January, Subnautica runs so much better now even when running on the Recommended graphics setting. The Highest graphics effects look *stellar* but the FPS takes a serious hit if I move around too quickly in the world. High Water Quality effects also look beautiful and runs fine, but I keep it on Medium also since 90% of the time you're below water and can't see the effect directly. (I'm assuming High Water Quality uses more resources even if the game is not actively rendering the water surface.)
One thing I'd like to point out, and maybe it's how the Unity engine works... I can load Subnautica fresh and change the Graphics and Water Quality settings all day long without any performance hitches. But if I attempt to change it at any time while playing the game (say if I want to improve or decrease the visuals), the game hangs and stops responding. I'll then have to crash the game and relaunch it, where I can once again change the video quality before loading the save file. Why is it I have no problem changing the visuals before launch but I can't do it while *actually* playing the game?
I've never had a crash before in Subnautica...ever. Even when changing settings in-game.
Run Windows Update. Seriously. DirectX 9 was installed and making weird things happen, ran Windows Update and installed DirectX 11 and it works like a charm now.