[Improving my specs to make game smooth on Ultra]

4 hours ago, pakjs said:

@Racingwind

You no grandpa of mine! The video helped considerably, at Mushins Tower and Jadestone Village i sometimes drop to low 50s for short moments, but mostly it's above 60 in those areas. GPU usage 45-55%, vram usage a bit bellow 2 gB at max settings 1440p. So 3 gB of vram isn't limiting BnS, i was wrong about that.

Have you tried in a full party raid? Which was my focal point, which I didn't specify, doh! Performance drops in raid from what I can tell. When I'm not in a raid, even on my dinky little 1060 I can do around 65~75 fps. But in raids, like VT hive queen for example, it goes down to like 25~35, making me a very sad panda. Something about being in a raid really chunks it out, but it seems to be ok on those weekly raids / msp. As to why, I have no clue. The optimization is all over the place.

 

But I am curious as to what numbers you got, it's interesting to see maths. I can get some numbers for ya after I get back tonight, I have a VT raid so I can get some hive queen numbers too.

 

And I don't wanna be a grandpa.. I'm old, but not that old. 

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1 hour ago, pakjs said:

Will try the link after work. And if the GPU usage will get anywhere close to 100%, i'll apologise for calling BS on your statement and call you even my grandpa!

 Aside from that, judging from my own experience, GPU wise you should be able to max out BnS with 1070, worst case 1080. 1060 should do very well, in your case the problem should 3 gB of vram, the 6 gB vram version does a lot better in games. 

My only beef was 1080 ti/2080 for high/ultra. I see no issue with the rest of your statements.

Actually, I just realized that we didn't define what resolution we're talking about, because that's important! 1080p res, 1070 ti should get decent frames, around 65 or so, depending on your cpu. To get higher than that in raids will need 1080 ti (no point for a 1080 cuz 1070 ti OC is about that grade). 1080p is probably what you are thinking of. I on the other hand, forgot that I run 1440p monitor, so my requirements on gpu will be higher, doh!

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The gpu can get pegged when you've properly configured it like the video that was linked. And when I said people are playing on high / ultra with over 60 fps, I mean exactly that. I don't mean they lower their settings, they have everything maxed, it's possible, you need to configure things properly though, and hardware wise needs to have everything lined up properly in terms of cpu / gpu combination.

 

Oh and also I said that my gpu, which is only a 1060, gets pegged, doesn't mean a 1080 ti gets pegged out. But you do need that caliber of gpu to get decent fps at max settings.

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13 minutes ago, pakjs said:

BS.

I7-8700k

2080 ti

32 gB ram

Win 10 64 bit

SSDs only.

 

On max settings GPU usage max 50%. In raids and heavily populated areas fps 20-40. BnS has pis poor optimization and your hardware won't change that.

You can improve your performance but there is a limit to it as the game simply doesn't even bother to fully utilize the resources available.

There are people who can get higher than that with a gtx 1080 ti. So don't know what's happening with your system.

 

Not sure what the BS is for, like my gtx 1060 pegged out? or me getting 30 fps on medium during raid? Or that I said you can play at high / ultra with reasonable fps?

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9 minutes ago, Deadly Intent said:

Cpu heavy game.  Even if you don't touch your gpu, if you overclock your cpu even just a bit it makes a large difference.  Ebay is your friend when it comes to inexpensive cpu's.  Throw a xeon in there and oc the thing to 4+ GHz.  You'll see a huge difference.

Why xeon? You want fast single core performance, Xeons are slower per core compared to core i series. Unreal engine 3 doesn't use more than 2 cores (threads). one for physics, one for everything else.

 

And GPU does make a difference, his gtx 1050 is choking to even run the game at medium. It doesn't make sense to have a monster CPU and a dinky old GPU, You are just changing where the bottle neck is.

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2 minutes ago, Junamaki said:

Upgrade the cpu and aim for 16 gb ram. If you can then also push for a gtx 1060 but the main priority is to upgrade the cpu. As far as loading times, get an ssd.

I have a gtx 1060 3gb and it's pegged out when the graphics setting at medium at 30 fps in raids. You need not just a beast of a cpu, you also need something like a gtx 1080 ti or a rtx 2080 for high / ultra.