Experiencing 10-30fps on a Strong PC on Minimum Setttings
Dax
Join Date: 2013-03-23 Member: 184270Members
Join Date: 2013-03-23 Member: 184270Members
Hey guys,
Post-gorgeous I've been starting games with 60fps droping to 10-30fps once the game gets going consistently on all servers in all areas of every map I've recently played. I'm running on a Intel Core i5 CPU 3.33GHz with 4 GB of RAM on Windows 7 64 bit and all of my in game settings are at minimum. I've tried running the game executable set to high priority but got no boost in performance. My default resolution is 1920x1080 but even dropping the resolution does not boost performance. My nVidia graphics driver is up to date. I'm attaching my dxdiag which I think I did correctly. I'll try and attach a log I made of a match in which this was occurring- log starts at about 25% through a game to the end of the game lobby, however its 33mb and I'm not sure the forum will allow me to attach it.
Any help you guys can give would be very much appreciated, I won't be able to play until I get this resolved. Thanks!
Post-gorgeous I've been starting games with 60fps droping to 10-30fps once the game gets going consistently on all servers in all areas of every map I've recently played. I'm running on a Intel Core i5 CPU 3.33GHz with 4 GB of RAM on Windows 7 64 bit and all of my in game settings are at minimum. I've tried running the game executable set to high priority but got no boost in performance. My default resolution is 1920x1080 but even dropping the resolution does not boost performance. My nVidia graphics driver is up to date. I'm attaching my dxdiag which I think I did correctly. I'll try and attach a log I made of a match in which this was occurring- log starts at about 25% through a game to the end of the game lobby, however its 33mb and I'm not sure the forum will allow me to attach it.
Any help you guys can give would be very much appreciated, I won't be able to play until I get this resolved. Thanks!
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I hope to heck that I didn't just open up my computer to massive security breaches. The things we do for gaming.
Are you using/running any mods?
Also, it'd be useful if you made another plog and uploaded both it and your normal client log (in the AppData/natural selection2/ folder).
Edit: If you can, also turn on r_stats and net_stats and take a few screenshots during the same match your doing the plog.
Double Edit: I'd also try closing any other open program that you can when running NS2 to see if that solves the problem.
Triple Edit: Do you have multicore rendering on or off?
Looking like an i5 661 and GTX 260. They are a bit older, but should be sufficient for running NS2.
I'll try and get those screenies and a fresh plog as soon as I can.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zamiwrhuje8vp4t/client-0323-214707.plog
First screenie from beginning of match, no issues, all the rest have the problem.
I appreciate your help by the way.
It actually gradually declines from 80-100 fps when the match starts, slowly decreasing until I'm down to 10-30 fps consistently. If I restart the client I start back up at 80 fps again.
Also, this PC you call strong is not even entry level. It's probably a strong office computer, but entry level these days is a quad core 3.x+ ghz with at least a 6750 or 7750 GPU containing 400 or more streamprocessors or cuda cores on it. And that's the very very bottom of entry level, your computer is about half that.
Although I agree with @Rich_ saying that what you consider a "Strong PC" is actually a low end of the mid range computer. The graphics card is low end by today's standards, still decent, but definitely no longer strong.
I will put my gtx 295 in single gpu mode into my computer and run a couple tests, as I heard it was equivalent to two underclocked 260s in sli. I can't guarantee when I'll do that, probably next weekend (7+ days).
@Ironsoul Thanks man, I look forward to hearing your results.
Perhaps I'll grab some canned air and go to town on this thing in case its a cooling issue. I assume none of the logs cover CPU temp?
@Dax the only other thing I can think of at the moment is that you have some sort of program running in the background causing issues. Is there a chance you can open up task manager in the middle of a NS2 and post a screenshot of the processes and performance tab.
Looks like a CPU issue, in my opinion.
After your FPS decreases (over the course of a match), restart the NS2 client, reconnect (to the same server) and join a fire fight, is your FPS near 80? If so, maybe your CPU getting too hot, during the match.
@dax your 260 should be 'okay' to run any game with a few exceptions where details must be turned all the way down, ns2 being one of those games. Your CPU is the problem. It's bottlenecking that 260, that i5 661 is going to have trouble letting a 256bit 128 cuda core GTS 250 run to it's full potential, much less a 480 bit 192 cuda core GTX 260.
The sad but true answer here, is that you are way way way overdue for a CPU upgrade. Gonna need a new motherboard, and go with an AMD 8350 or an Intel 3570k. All together it'll run about 250 dollars if you shop smart. In the mean time some extra ram couldnt hurt.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5+661+@+3.33GHz
You're way way way down near the bottom. In the "athlon" territory. So you really wont see any improvements till you change that.