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New Rig - Runs like a cow - please help

15fps is horrid for Rift, have you definitely installed the Nvidia drivers?
That rig should easily be over 60fps always in Rift
Do you have afterburner installed?, what do your gpu and cpu usage look like when this is going on.
 
it should not be 15 fps. i played Rift for almost a year, pretty sure my cpu is not as good as a stock 4670k. I had it ran at 3.5Ghz back then. Plenty of fps and no slowdowns unless 30+ people on the screen and it's still plenty playable.

And i doubt it's vsync either. something is wrong software or hardware.
 
It sounds like you might have adaptive v-sync on at "Half refresh rate". Sounds stupid, but that would explain 30fps max and 15ps on min. And changing between those. Otherwise you'd see at least 30fps/60fps. Assuming you have a 120hz or 60hz screen or course.

Check nvidia control panel.. and disable vsync totally to see your "true" max fps.. then compair it to the laptop.
 
pretty sure a 680 takes a dump on a 760 performance-wise.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/772?vs=854

also 3.4 GHz per core is not that impressive for gaming, you ideally want at least 4 GHz per core on an i5 quad, and they can go much, much faster than that, even just on air cooling.

still, don't see why you are only getting 15fps, something fishy going on there.

try opening up ur nvidia control panel, go to 3-D settings -> adjust image settings with preview -> use my preference -> performance.

this turns off most of the flashy options.

try turning down shadows / AA settings in game too, and see if it makes a difference.

run as many monitoring programs as you can, cpu-z, gpu-z, afterburner, even task manager etc.
you need to try and find out whether it is your CPU / GPU / RAM which is holding you back.
 
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i know this might be a stupid question bbut have you checked that all drivers and windows are up to date, you should not need to go out of your way at all to overclock that cpu to get higher then 15 frames..it should be way higher then that with your rig mate :)
 
ShakeNBake said:
pretty sure a 680 takes a dump on a 760 performance-wise.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/772?vs=854

also 3.4 GHz per core is not that impressive for gaming, you ideally want at least 4 GHz per core on an i5 quad, and they can go much, much faster than that, even just on air cooling.

still, don't see why you are only getting 15fps, something fishy going on there.

try opening up ur nvidia control panel, go to 3-D settings -> adjust image settings with preview -> use my preference -> performance.

this turns off most of the flashy options.

try turning down shadows / AA settings in game too, and see if it makes a difference.

run as many monitoring programs as you can, cpu-z, gpu-z, afterburner, even task manager etc.
you need to try and find out whether it is your CPU / GPU / RAM which is holding you back.
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Though remember it is a laptop 680M not a desktop 680, a 680M is a fairly heavily downclocked 670 so a 760 is actually faster than a 680M.
 
Cows charge fast bro, title needs correcting.

Try stress testing it with heaven and intel burn test to check its not thermal throttling and its achieving results like its brethren do.
 
Only time rift would take a dump on fps was during the massive open "rift" events, but that was more a case of the game rather than your setup, but I'd try pushing your CPU higher and have a look at your graphical settings, because even in raids in the dungeons your fps should not be that low.
 
Guys - thanks so much for all your support and advice. I didn't get back from work till real late last night so only had time to run through a few tests. My findings so far.

- biggest one is that I couldnt run 3dmark. It went blue screen after the first under water video. I think it was video 2 (aztec something) and it went belly up 3 times out of 3. Something aint right as I ran the same version on the laptop to be sure and it completed and gave me a results. So I think another clean instal worth doing - have just kicked that off now.

- tried vsync inside Rift. No fps changes. Will try over-ride on the nvidia control panel.

- the laptop runs 1920 x 1080 native and the game rig is set to 1920 x 1600 native support for panel. It know it's not completely like for like but I assumed similar enough for a comparison

- igpu was set to auto and so i've made it hard set to pcie. no difference

- the card is in slot one and it's pcie gen 3 x 16. as is slot 2 (SLI)

- i'll try afterburner and see what gpu bottlenecks may come up on a fresh install. As i mentioned before it looked like the cpu was hardly under stress.


That's what I've got so far. More information when I do the new install. God, I really hope this fixes it and it's some kind of os/direct-x kind of problem. Fingers crossed and thanks again for all the help.
 
give us temps and gpu/cpu use whilst the problem is occurring.
Have you installed the nvidia drivers?

also to check you say you're running '1920x1600' is that 1920x1200 or 2560x1600?
 
latest nvidia drivers on there and its 1920 x 1200. That's the native res of the lcd monitor I have. Nearly done with install now so figures coming shortly.
 
You can try things like ... a little more voltage on the GFX core and memory (if possible), and setting the pci-e bus to version 2 instead of 3.

Good luck, and I hope you don't need to do that.
 
The fact that 3D mark is crashing on you says a lot, it sounds the GPU is having to throttle itself or it's remaining in a low power state when a 3D application starts. Download MSI afterburner and enable the ingame overlay and monitor your cards clock speeds and see if it's ramping up to the advertised clocks once your in a game.
 
BSOD is normally because of the CPU or even memory problems. Maybe the CPU is getting too hot or the memory is faulty. For 3DMark to crash, something is broken.

Run HWinfo and report back on temps. If they look ok, run memtest86+ and see if that brings up errors. It is a slow test and takes ages but it is thorough.
 
Gregster said:
BSOD is normally because of the CPU or even memory problems. Maybe the CPU is getting too hot or the memory is faulty. For 3DMark to crash, something is broken.

Run HWinfo and report back on temps. If they look ok, run memtest86+ and see if that brings up errors. It is a slow test and takes ages but it is thorough.
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I got BSOD when running any 3D app with my borked 7950 in crossfire.
 
BSOD all the time now. Whole system looks completely unstable. CPU temps have gone erratic too. Just installing software makes it go 33c -> 48c. And it never finishes as it blue screens shortly after. Wish I had just bought a made up machine.
 
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