The AMD Driver Thread

[LtMatt]

Yes, I had done the mipmap tweak already.

Okay I did the changes you suggested to afterburner, tried another run, and then made the fog change, and tried another run.
I am still seeing the same thing. Here's the graph from the end of that last run.

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It seems like the GPU usage settles to around 49-52% for short stretches, then starts rising up to mid 90s and for a while fluctuates massively before settling back to 50%-ish for a short while and then starting over.

Right, this works smooth as a babies bottom locked at 60 FPS with 2x290X 8GB running underclocked at 1000/1250, stock is 1010/1375Mhz for these cards.

Copy my settings and see how it works for you. Run your gpu's at stock for now as i see you've overclocked.

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[BradleyW]

@AMDMatt

Anything else you can add in regards to my latest post on my Dying Light situation?

OK, let me clear up some confusion on my Dying Light issues.

My fps drops significantly whenever I move my mouse, regardless of forced or disabled Crossfire. Example, I was in an area overlooking a portion of the city. My fps was sat at 88 (CFX disabled). I moved the mouse left to right and witnessed the fps dropping to around 48. I don't have this issue in any other game at all. Lowering all game settings did not help. See my post on page 92 for original details.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

I'm not overclocked - the clocks I'm using are standard for the card I'm using (its a 1050 version).
The only change I notice offhand is I have triple buffering off - i thought that was best in crossfire setups?

I'll copy your settings exactly soon.

 

[VincentHanna]

@AMDMatt

Anything else you can add in regards to my latest post on my Dying Light situation?

In a previous post you said you were using "Max settings"

Firstly, don't use using maximum view distance because it's killing the FPS. I have mine on about 75% and even that is quite high compared to some people.

What cards do you have? I saw you tried using a Tombraider crossfire profile in one of your previous posts.

And you are using the official steam release of the game patched to 1.5?

 

[LtMatt]

@AMDMatt

Anything else you can add in regards to my latest post on my Dying Light situation?

Sorry Bradley not sure. If i had to guess I'd say that was perhaps an engine limitation with the game as there seems to be many similar reports online of people experiencing similar issues.

I'm not overclocked - the clocks I'm using are standard for the card I'm using (its a 1050 version).
The only change I notice offhand is I have triple buffering off - i thought that was best in crossfire setups?

I'll copy your settings exactly soon.

The stock memory speed is 1500? What gpu do you have?

It seems to smooth out performance in this game. Funnily enough it helps single gpu users too.

 

[BradleyW]

In a previous post you said you were using "Max settings"

Firstly, don't use using maximum view distance because it's killing the FPS. I have mine on about 75% and even that is quite high compared to some people.

What cards do you have? I saw you tried using a Tombraider crossfire profile in one of your previous posts.

And you are using the official steam release of the game patched to 1.5?

In previous posts I stated that I tried lowering all settings. This included the view distance. It significantly boosted fps, but it does not resolve the significant fps drop from mouse movement. Currently on Patch 1.5v. CFX is not the issue as I get the same problem with CFX OFF.

Sorry Bradley not sure. If i had to guess I'd say that was perhaps an engine limitation with the game as there seems to be many similar reports online of people experiencing similar issues.



The stock memory speed is 1500? What gpu do you have?

It seems to smooth out performance in this game. Funnily enough it helps single gpu users too.

What was your experience and at what settings?

People reported similar issues, do you have any links of such reports for further reading?

Thank you.

 

[VincentHanna]

In previous posts I stated that I tried lowering all settings. This included the view distance. It significantly boosted fps, but it does not resolve the significant fps drop from mouse movement. Currently on Patch 1.5v. CFX is not the issue as I get the same problem with CFX OFF.



What was your experience and at what settings?

People reported similar issues, do you have any links of such reports for further reading?

Thank you.

Do you have an Xbox 360 controller? Try using that and see if the same thing happens.

 

[BradleyW]

Do you have an Xbox 360 controller? Try using that and see if the same thing happens.

Good point, I will test it.

Edit: Still get the fps drops.

 

[LtMatt]

What resolution are you using Bradley?

I get no drops at 1440P with the following settings, 60 FPS locked.

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At the following 4K settings i get drops to 48-55 every now and again, but mostly it's at 60fps locked.

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Those drops disappear to 58-60 FPS with draw distance at 0.

At 1080P-1440P it's plain sailing.

This is using 2x290X under clocked and a custom profile of 1x1 Optimize.

 

[BradleyW]

@AMDMatt

Are you running a 5960X?

Thanks so much for the kind support so far.

 

[LtMatt]

@AMDMatt

Are you running a 5960X?

Thanks so much for the kind support so far.

Yes but that won't make any difference. This engine uses one thread, pure cpu Ghz speed will make a difference more than extra cores/threads. Currently my 5960X is at 3.5Ghz.

 

[VincentHanna]

It's decently multi-threaded with the most recent patches actually.

 

[LtMatt]

It's decently multi-threaded with the most recent patches actually.

Oh, fair enough I've not bothered to check cpu usage to see if it's balanced recently.

 

[BradleyW]

Oh, fair enough I've not bothered to check cpu usage to see if it's balanced recently.

I think the 3930K might be starting to hold me back in terms of single core performance.

 

[LtMatt]

I think the 3930K might be starting to hold me back in terms of single core performance.

I doubt that.

 

[eddyr]

Guys/guyettes/vincent, the Nvidia slide states 10X interconnect speed (NVlink) which wont be for desktop consumer. They also state *very rough estimates, aka "we just wanted some kinda plausible but mainly nice sounding numbers for public consumption and salivation".

Anyway 4X fp16 will = 2X fp32 with their mixed compute design not unexpected or impressive with a process jump.


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Oh lord, its not even that
see here for CEO maths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb7ZYSTYHbw

 

[BradleyW]

I doubt that.

Just tried the same settings as you. I get 90+ fps until I move my mouse left to right. Drops as low as 50.

 

[LtMatt]

Just tried the same settings as you. I get 90+ fps until I move my mouse left to right. Drops as low as 50.

What resolution? Lowering draw distance seems to help i found. I play with vsync on and can barely notice the drop, i think it's just the game.

 

[Orangey]

I was going by this graph, though I know it's not particularly accurate.

The start of the box for Pascal appears to be prior to 2016, though often they release the mobile gpu's first, as was the case with Maxwell.

They do that every time. Notice how the other GPUs are perfectly centered over years? Grasping at straws there...

Anyway, just trust me. Or read up on it.

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...m-finfet-tapeout-of-big-little-cortex-a57-soc
http://www.kitguru.net/components/a...duction-using-16nm-finfet-process-to-q3-2015/

It takes a long time to go from tape out to shop shelves.

 

[BradleyW]

What resolution? Lowering draw distance seems to help i found. I play with vsync on and can barely notice the drop, i think it's just the game.

I use 1080p and 1440p.

As a programmer, it's safe to say this game does not use the CPU efficient, that's why your fps is higher overall on a 5960X thanks to it's much stronger single core performance. Hence my 3930K is holding me back in games which suffer from poor CPU optimization or high CPU overhead.