Bad Performance In Arkham Origins

halogamer2145 · Oct 27, 2013

I am getting around 38-48fps average in Arkham Origins. The problem is mostly when I grapple in the city. There is a major frame drop whenever I do that or look at a new area. My guess is that it's having problems writing textures. Another possibility could be my CPU. The usage goes up to 90% while playing.

I feel like I should be getting much better performance. Right now I have the newest AMD beta driver installed. I have also tried to disable crossfire to test, but have the same issue. Even if I put everything on low settings, the game still gets frame drops while moving around.

My specs:
2 Radeon HD 7870s 2GB Crossfire
AMD Phemom II 910 Quad Core Processor OCd at 3.6GHz
8GB Ram
80GB SSD

Razor88 · Oct 27, 2013

What are your AA settings? If it's high, try toning it down. I don't know about Arkham Origins, but in games like Crysis 3 AA is a system killer.

halogamer2145 · Oct 27, 2013

I've tried no AA at all and still get the frame drops. Do you think it could just be my CPU? I set every single setting at max(except physx) and it performs the same as when I have everything on minimum. The max my CPU goes to is 90% otherwise its usually around 70%. I'm not sure what the problem is. It's very frustrating.

Razor88 · Oct 27, 2013

Hmmm is PhysX on by any chance? If it is, definitely switch it off.

halogamer2145 · Oct 27, 2013

It's definitely off. Is there any way I can capture a video with a CPU/GPU/FPS usage overlay so that I can show it to you?

Razor88 · Oct 27, 2013

I don't think it's worth the effort, I'm not an expert by any means, just relying on the problems I've experienced/ heard about.

Razor88 · Oct 27, 2013

One more thing, have you tried disabling the Dx 11 features?

halogamer2145 · Oct 27, 2013

After monitoring the CPU with every single setting on the lowest (including no directx), I think the problem is that my CPU is just too underpowered. It was reaching 100% usage very quickly. I wish I had just gone with Intel

Right now I'm looking at this CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284
Does anyone know if this will be sufficient to run all future games like BF4?

Razor88 · Oct 28, 2013

I kinda find that hard to believe, since the minimum requirements state an Athlon X2 is needed. Your chip is far stronger than that.

But you could be right, maybe they just messed up the optimization :/.

So if you set on upgrading, the FX-8350 is a great chip. It will definitely run BF4 really well (It's more powerful than their recommended chip) I myself have an FX-8320(A slightly slower 8350) at stock clock speed, and I had no problem with Crysis 3 (with AA turned down a bit). Crysis 3 is probably gonna be the most demanding game to come out in a while so you are pretty safe I reckon.

Don't worry about not going Intel ^^. At this age, AMD will almost always give you better bang for your buck (just look at how many forum members recommend the FX range to anybody on any sort of reasonable budget)

nokiddingboss · Oct 28, 2013

you'd probably need to install the new beta 13.11v2/v6 drivers. http://www.hardwarepal.com/batman-arkham-origins-benchmark/8/
i don't know if can indeed trust this benchies here but it seems that even a single 7970 can average around 57fps without physx and with cpu physx enabled, its still 48fps and that is with a single card. if you do have the latest beta drivers then maybe there is no xfire support for this game yet. in terms of your cpu, i don't think that arkham origins is a cpu intensive game by any means especially if you turn off the cpu physx. heck the minimum specs are still 2 cores.

halogamer2145 · Oct 28, 2013

Thanks for the replies, guys. That's really weird. I definitely want to avoid buying a new CPU if I don't have to, but I can't figure out why this isn't working correctly. The reason I thought it was the CPU was because I tried the BF4 beta and wasn't able to get decent FPS due to my CPU being maxed out. My guess is that it's a driver/optimization issue. I don't know what more I can try at this point. I guess I won't be playing this game for a while

edit: Actually I was just looking at the recommended specs and it says: AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz

I'm back to guessing that it's my CPU, but I'm still don't know for sure because Batman isn't CPU intensive.

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