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thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:12

My average fps after 30 mins was apparently 133. Hmmm...

humbug · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:16

thefogo said:
My average fps after 30 mins was apparently 133. Hmmm...

I'm currently working on a mini review.

Test made so far.

BF4 Shanghai; empty server @ Ultra Preset 1080P

D3D: Min-48, Max-97, Avg-65.158

Mantle: Min-68, Max-116, Avg-94.082

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:19

Yeah that seems about right for one card.

humbug · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:23

Are you running in Mantle or DirectX?

Matt is our CF Guru, 113 seems low for CF 290's

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:23

Mantle.
Yeah it does. My GPU Usage was all over the place though.

humbug · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:25

Wait for Matt to see this.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:26

My CPU hit 70C, damn. These cards heat my case up quite a bit

Yeah I'm only getting ~60-70% gpu usage. Still bottlenecked even with Mantle?

humbug · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:36

thefogo said:
My CPU hit 70C, damn. These cards heat my case up quite a bit
Yeah I'm only getting ~60-70% gpu usage. Still bottlenecked even with Mantle?

Its quite possible, if you CPU is hitting 70c it sure is working for it.

What is your case? edit... i see it in your sig, lol.

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:37

thefogo said:
Mantle.
Yeah it does. My GPU Usage was all over the place though.

Which map? I can do a comparison. What frame pacing method are you using?

Are you using beta 19 of afterburner and have you ticked enable unified gpu usage monitoring?

I was using method 2 in the screenshot below. As you can see my gpu usage was low, at 1440P. Because im sacrificing fps for frame variance consistency by using method 2. Still getting around 115fps at 1440P though.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:41

It was Nansha Strike. I'm just using whatever is default for frame pacing.

With the unified GPU usage:

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:43

thefogo said:
It was Nansha Strike. I'm just using whatever is default for frame pacing.

Should've used my config i posted for you.

(default in that was method 1)

Default is frame pacing method 2. Bordering on insane frame time consistency, whilst sacrificing fps. Use method 1 for frame pacing without the fps hit or method 0 for all guns blazing. I normally use method 1, but i can't tell the difference between 0, 1 and 2.

I'm using 2 at the moment just because well, its still more fps than i need so may as well make it anally consistent.

thefogo said:

Called it above. Frame pacing method 2, like im using currently.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:48

Ah

I didn't see you mention it.

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:49

thefogo said:
Ah I didn't see you mention it.

True i didn't mention it. I may have meant someone else.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:52

Where do I put this config file?

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:55

thefogo said:
Where do I put this config file?

Open up the user.cfg with notepad and you can edit the frame pacing method, save and try out the differences.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 18:56

Ah

I was looking for one to replace it with.
Gonna give it a try now.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:43

Just played a 45 minute game and my average fps was 133 again

It's showing that I'm using 4 job threads, is that correct?

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:48

thefogo said:
Just played a 45 minute game and my average fps was 133 again

It's showing that I'm using 4 job threads, is that correct?

That's correct. What method was that using in the config? Did you double check? Maybe i had it set as 2 by mistake.

That looks like method 2 to me, as your gpu usage is not at 99% I assume no frame limiters or vsync is in play.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:49

Yeah it was 2 but I changed it to 1.
I guess I need a 3930K :eek:

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:51

thefogo said:
Yeah it was 2 but I changed it to 1.
I guess I need a 3930K

Doesn't seem right to me. Try running with it off completely. You have an i7 haswell don't you?