What Performance SHOULD I be getting
WonderWaffles
Join Date: 2012-11-02 Member: 166137Members
Join Date: 2012-11-02 Member: 166137Members
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You can check your RAM usage in Taskmanager, or you can download a standalone and free program called CPUZ to check out the timings ans speeds of your memory/mobo/CPU and such
Min: 43 FPS
Avg: 86 FPS
Max: 128 FPS
This is with an i5-2500k @ 4.5GHz and a GTX 570.
This is a slight boost over what I was seeing before doing the .dll swap that is mentioned in this thread: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/127803/build-239-benchmarks-some-performance-tips#latest
The easiest way to get a huge FPS increase is to overclock, but without a K series chip you're going to have a harder time getting it stable. Your motherboard should be just fine though, although your Ivy bridge is wasted on a Z68 to be honest. Z77 would be better so you can get the PCI-E 3.
Well, there is no way to really upgrade your CPU if you can't overclock. The best CPUs available right now would give you maybe 5%-10 more performance in NS2, whereas overclocking would probably be more like 15-20%.
Intel does have some new CPUs (Haswell) coming out in 4 months, so if you are looking to upgrade your CPU I would wait to see what that brings. I honestly think your CPU is perfectly fine for NS2 though (even without overclocking). Sure you may not be able to max every setting and get 100FPS, but I'm not sure anyone can do that..
It all depends which CPU and which graphics card someone has. I have an i5-2500K @4.5ghz, and my GTX460 was dropping down to 15-20FPS even with all settings at their lowest. Last week I got a GTX660 and now I can run pretty smoothly even turning up a lot of settings.
Of course if someone has a GTX680 already, they should probably look at upgrading/overclocking their CPU.
What are your graphics options?
EDIT: I remember that I turned on the TPU switch on my motherboard. If you have that, why not try turning it on? It might give you a free performance boost.
What FPS are you getting, you've not actually said...
Then either I am getting really bad performance or you are getting really good performance.
I am running the same exact settings as you, basically the same CPU (same clock speed too) but with a 690 and getting 40 - 50 fps all late game around any type of infestation. Using the latest .96 beta drivers. I also use vsync which now that I think about it people said to turn off.
Either way I am using 2560x1440 but am getting less than 60 frames pretty much anytime infestation is around. Marine base I do ok.
1440p isn't that much harder to run than 1080p.
It is actually much harder. It's 33% more pixels to draw.
No lol. This is good hardware. The only way to get more out of NS2 atm is to overclock.
I'm getting around 40-70, with the 70 being in no infestation areas, and 40 being IN infestation areas
If you don't want to overclock then the only thing you can do is wait for some optimization patches.
Actually it is 78% more pixels
That's simply not true. The lowest I've seen since swapping the DX9 .dll from 42 to 43 is 43 in late game. That's with everything but infestation maxed out. I've since turned atmospherics off just because I find it easier to spot enemies and I imagine that min FPS number has gone up a few since then.
Indeed, 2560x1440 is a LOT harder work than 1920x1080!!
Gotta multiply up as you're comparing an area!
It really depends on what goes on late game. In most cases you usually get 40+ when you have a heavy overclock on an i5/i7. Of course I am talking about 24p servers. But it really depends on what goes on during the game. Usually the worst you see is 40-60. But sometimes depending on what the Kham/Com does it can go lower if they start making a lot of whips/Macs and other entities. I can change any settings I want late game to high or low and frames still will not budge from what they are.
But that is just performance for heavily OCed cpus which most people do not have. So you can already get a good guess of the performance everyone else gets.