EPTSeemingly sourceless performance issues - Page 2
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Melancholia
United States717 Posts
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arb
Noobville17921 Posts
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jaj22
United Kingdom1376 Posts
On August 15 2010 06:42 Melancholia wrote: Except it still runs badly on low. Not as badly, but not as well as it does when the game is functioning normally on medium/high settings. Perfomance varies somewhat based on maps, but not drastically, and there is certainly no spectacular drop off at any point. The performance hit is omnipresent. What's confusing me is that you're conflating the texture quality and graphics quality settings in every post. Texture quality is largely dependent on VRAM size, while graphics quality is dependent on GPU speed. You should be testing the effects of these two settings separately. | ||
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Melancholia
United States717 Posts
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Melancholia
United States717 Posts
Texture/Graphics: FPS Low/Ultra: 14 Ultra/Low: 57 Ultra/Medium: 27 High/Medium: 30 High/High: 19 I also ran some tests earlier, though it's all with uniform graphics/texture settings. These were run on the final mission with a maxed out enemy army fighting my god mode SCVs. Camera centered on action/Camera centered on fog of war Low: 6/8 Medium: 5/8 High: 6/8 Ultra: 4/7 | ||
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Melancholia
United States717 Posts
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IDIDITIDIDITIDIDITIDIDIT I MOTHERFUCKING DID IT! Intel Speedstep was, for reasons unknown to me, dropping my CPU performance when I needed it most. I disabled it and now I can run at HIGH on the last mission at a playable level! The framerate still drops to 8 FPS in the largest battles, but it's not debilitating like it once was. On Medium I don't notice much lag at all! The last freaking cutscene was running at 117 FPS! FUCK. YES. | ||
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R04R
United States1631 Posts
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Raveler
Belgium27 Posts
Melancholia, you're the man. Spread the word!  | ||
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grobo
Japan6199 Posts
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
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Twitches
Canada365 Posts
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Raveler
Belgium27 Posts
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vek
Australia936 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/80amM.png) Also speed step and any kind of CPU throttling feature is the devil | ||
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Melancholia
United States717 Posts
On August 17 2010 05:23 vek wrote: You can also take a look at the "Power Plan" advanced settings and make sure they are set to use 100% all the time. Remember, the environment comes second when it comes to computer performance. + Show Spoiler + Also speed step and any kind of CPU throttling feature is the devil Even set to 100% there SpeedStep will still throttle the CPU, apparently changing what counts as 100% for those settings. It's possible, perhaps probable, that the minimum processor state is what's defaulted to when SpeedStep is disabled, but without disabling there will be an issue no matter what those settings are. | ||
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vek
Australia936 Posts
On August 17 2010 08:42 Melancholia wrote: Even set to 100% there SpeedStep will still throttle the CPU, apparently changing what counts as 100% for those settings. It's possible, perhaps probable, that the minimum processor state is what's defaulted to when SpeedStep is disabled, but without disabling there will be an issue no matter what those settings are. Yeah I know, it's just another thing to remember for people still having issues | ||
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Melancholia
United States717 Posts
Edit: You can get above the default maximum by right clicking on the Performance box and unlocking FID/VID. My guess, and this is very much an uneducated one, is that for some reason SC2 is loading the CPU in some strange way so that SpeedStep would underclock the CPU, and that disabling it would set it to a minimum value that is higher than what it could be underclocked to, but is still significantly lower than you should be getting. | ||
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