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Could someone please check my benchmarks?

Goose

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I installed my 7970 today and after playing Shogun 2 i was left rather disappointed. The campaign map would regularly drop the FPS to low teens for brief moments and in battles i still get epic slowdown (like ~10 fps) when selecting 10+ units and during fast forward.

I'm playing on Ultra settings and the slowdowns seem just as bad as did on my GTX460 on High settings. To see if someone is wrong i ran Valley and Heaven Benchmarks and the results are below.

Heaven Settings

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Heaven Results

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Valley Settings

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Valley Results

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I have no idea if these results are good/bad/average.

My CPU is OC'd to 4.2ghz and my monitor is 1680x1050.


Thanks
 
old gamer said:
I dont think the 1680x1050 res is helping, could be chocking and proberly needs 1080p to stretch its legs a bit
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I would have thought a lower res would achieve higher results?

LtMatt said:
Possible cpu bottleneck. Overclock that cpu maybe?
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It's already OC'd to 4.2, i'll try 4.4.

What sort of results would you be expecting with my setup? I have no idea how far off the pace I am.
 
Is Shogun 2 one of those games that has dodgy cpu utilization or requires lots of cores/threads?

Given that your gameplay results were the same with a GTX460, I'm thinking cpu or game is the issue.
Would the lower res also stifle the GPU a little?
 
Goose said:
I installed my 7970 today and after playing Shogun 2 i was left rather disappointed. The campaign map would regularly drop the FPS to low teens for brief moments and in battles i still get epic slowdown (like ~10 fps) when selecting 10+ units and during fast forward.

I'm playing on Ultra settings and the slowdowns seem just as bad as did on my GTX460 on High settings. To see if someone is wrong i ran Valley and Heaven Benchmarks and the results are below.
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I don't play Shogun 2 but I do play some of the other Total War games. When you select fast forward in a battle this does put a lot of strain on your system and slowdowns are to be expected.
 
OC'd to 4.4 now. I also failed to notice that my Extreme run on Heaven was in Windowed mode. Here's the proper results from 1680x1050.

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LtMatt said:
I think he meant Heaven Kaap. That does seem to favour Nvidia cards a bit.
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Only if they Titan or GTX 780 in the name.:D

The HD 7970s do very well on Heaven 4.:)

Matt looking at the results goose has posted above, they do look a bit low and maybe should be about 10% higher could there be any setup problems.
 
I don't know Kaap, i can't see anything that sticks out. I think its likely a PEBKAC issue but those are always difficult to solve.

Is the card overclocked? Is the power limit at +20%?
 
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