Why the low fps?

Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:22 pm

So I just spent roughly 260 dollars on a 750w power supply and an XFX Radeon HD5750 1GB graphics card, but even with this very decent card and a power supply that easily supports it I'm dropping anywhere from 26 - 30 fps just in the tutorial dungeon on ultra settings WITHOUT forcing AA through control panel. Anyone know why?
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Sammi Jones
 
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:21 pm

What CPU is in there? You are dropping 30FPS from what total?
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Hannah Barnard
 
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 1:42 am

What CPU is in there? You are dropping 30FPS from what total?


Well we are buying a new CPU soon since something happened to our current one (its not completely busted obviously, but we know it'll give out sooner or later). But I noticed anywhere from 60 - 80 fps when I was just walkin through with no heavy combat going on (like being ambushed by 4+ agents and all those animations goin on)


EDIT: this is our current processor (that's the CPU right?) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz

that was read directly off the dxdiag program
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:16 pm

Well 60-80FPS is certainly plenty of room for the drop. If you were getting a total of 30FPS and then seeing the 20+FPS drop I would be worried. The game is very CPU intensive. And the more enemies that appear onscreen make the CPU work harder. But really with that CPU I would expect the drop in FPS with several enemies around. The game is completely playable with anything above 20FPS. Its not a first person shooter game where you are needing to have 150FPS plus to get perfect headshots.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:01 pm

Well 60-80FPS is certainly plenty of room for the drop. If you were getting a total of 30FPS and then seeing the 20+FPS drop I would be worried. The game is very CPU intensive. And the more enemies that appear onscreen make the CPU work harder. But really with that CPU I would expect the drop in FPS with several enemies around. The game is completely playable with anything above 20FPS. Its not a first person shooter game where you are needing to have 150FPS plus to get perfect headshots.


Yea, I wasn't worried about playability, I was just curious as to why it would drop by over half. Thanks for clearing things up.

Edit: hey also, just something I noticed, I have the same PSU thats shown in your computer in your sig :D
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 1:43 pm

Yea, I wasn't worried about playability, I was just curious as to why it would drop by over half. Thanks for clearing things up.

No problem, every machine will always see a FPS drop when playing with multiple NPCs on screen. (Mine with game installed on a 10,000RPM drive and with my CPU still drops to about 35FPS in the market sometimes).
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