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High scores, low fps?

WoW also has SSAA now, which is even more demanding. You can drastically improve performance by dropping a few key settings a notch or two. Drop shadows to High, SSAO to Low, liquid detail to High and AA to CMAA and you should see a drastic improvement. You can also drop some other settings like sunshafts, depth effects and view distance a notch without any real visual impact to help performance a bit more.

I ran it on a GTX 570 for a while last year whilst between cards, which is around the same performance as a GTX 660, and got a pretty steady 60fps with those settings. Even in Trashran.
 
Aretak said:
WoW also has SSAA now, which is even more demanding. You can drastically improve performance by dropping a few key settings a notch or two. Drop shadows to High, SSAO to Low, liquid detail to High and AA to CMAA and you should see a drastic improvement. You can also drop some other settings like sunshafts, depth effects and view distance a notch without any real visual impact to help performance a bit more.

I ran it on a GTX 570 for a while last year whilst between cards, which is around the same performance as a GTX 660, and got a pretty steady 60fps with those settings. Even in Trashran.
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I have pretty low settings already, tried it with mainly low settings and I can barely keep 60 in combat alone, but when I go inside etc it raises to like 400 fps... Same with cs, can be at 250+ normally, but as soon as there is a lot of shooting/frags, it can drop to sub 50, and I have the lowest settings on 1280x960
 
MMO's are heavily cpu bound not gpu! I play Guild Wars 2 trust me its the amount of players on screen that kill fps and it is not relative to your video card at all.

I am/was overclocked to 4.8ghz on a 3770k and a gtx 980 and in big zerg fights my fps will just drop down just as you mentioned
 
Uaon said:
MMO's are heavily cpu bound not gpu! I play Guild Wars 2 trust me its the amount of players on screen that kill fps and it is not relative to your video card at all.

I am/was overclocked to 4.8ghz on a 3770k and a gtx 980 and in big zerg fights my fps will just drop down just as you mentioned
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I know that, but the problem is that I have a problem keeping 60fps in normal 1v1 combat on lowest settings!
 
roxkyp said:
I know that, but the problem is that I have a problem keeping 60fps in normal 1v1 combat on lowest settings!
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Sounds like a game issue then. Have you tried clearing your WTF folder and removing some addons?

All lowering the graphics settings is going to do is make the game rely on your CPU even more compared to GPU.

I know for a fact that Recount is an FPS killer, so much so for Mythic raids the entire guild swapped to Details.
 
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Sounds like a game issue then. Have you tried clearing your WTF folder and removing some addons?

All lowering the graphics settings is going to do is make the game rely on your CPU even more compared to GPU.

I know for a fact that Recount is an FPS killer, so much so for Mythic raids the entire guild swapped to Details.
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I have, I get a similar issue in cs go where the fps drops below 60 when in heavy firefights at lowest settings
 
For cs go you can try the following:

Open your steam library.
Right-click on Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Properties
General
Set launch options...
Copy and paste the following in and replace X in -CpuCount=X with how many cores you have on your CPU.
-processheap -high -novid -CpuCount=8
Press OK
Close

So for your i5 it would be:


-processheap -high -novid -CpuCount=4
 
I don't think it's specific to the game, I can't even get past 50 frames on FC3 with lowest settings on 1920x1080.. The thing is that I get high scores with the card in Futuremark though..
 
roxkyp said:
I don't think it's specific to the game, I can't even get past 50 frames on FC3 with lowest settings on 1920x1080.. The thing is that I get high scores with the card in Futuremark though..
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There was a bug with an nvida driver I had last year that no matter what I was locked at 60 fps with vsync disabled in game and nvidia cp, the only way I fixed it was to run Display Driver Uninstaller in safe mode and install my driver fresh. Not exactly related but still I would try to do that anyway to rule out a driver issue. It can be found here
 
He installed a fresh copy of windows. but it might be worth trying an older driver instead of the latest to see if it is a bug in the driver. it might also be worth trying the card in another pc.
 
If it has OK temps, and works OK in benches, then it has to be a software issue, some setting in the control panel, or something like that.

OK GTX660 isn't the best card but it's still pretty decent and should blitz those games at 1080p. Frame drops in CS GO with that setup should definitely not be happening.

45-55 under load is quite low actually, can you check the cards clocks while gaming? And gpu utilization?
 
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