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Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-29 05:15:46
July 29 2010 04:18 GMT
#1
I've been killing myself trying to figure out why I wasn't getting uber performance. Since my 470 GTX should be fine, I've been blaming my core i5.. playing with overclocks and such..

Anyway, going into my Nvidia control-panel, opening up Starcraft II and selecting "Prefer maximum performance" for power management mode made my performance INFINITELY better.

I guess for some reason Nvidia software thinks Starcraft II isn't important and runs the card slowly. Ugh.

ymmv.


Edit: Ah seems like CPU is still screwing me over. Core-i5 doesnt have enough performance on 2 of its cores for SC II. Lowering effects and physics quality gives me a big performance boost under lots of action.

Please up your multicore Blizzard.

Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
July 29 2010 04:24 GMT
#2
I'm guessing this is only relevant to the geforce400 series? I have a gtx285, and sc2 is already running everything max and smooth, and i don't see any performance preference setting in my nvidia control panel.
Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
July 29 2010 04:34 GMT
#3
On July 29 2010 13:24 Glider wrote:
I'm guessing this is only relevant to the geforce400 series? I have a gtx285, and sc2 is already running everything max and smooth, and i don't see any performance preference setting in my nvidia control panel.


Game is very CPU-intensive... and obnoxiously only dual-threaded.

Been dropping as low as 30 FPS in some of the larger singleplayer games.

And yeah below 60 is garbage for me in a competitive game, trying to figure out how to get that nice and stable.

(and yeah I get 150 FPS at the start of games looking at probes if my frameratecap is off )
deth
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia1757 Posts
July 29 2010 06:34 GMT
#4
Yeah the multithreading is absolute garbage in starcraft II so far, hopefully they will improve it in the future. Effects/3d portraits/Physics are all things to turn down if you like having good performance.
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