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As the title says, I'm trying to squeeze some more performance out of my system. Though it's a high-end system, It seems to be a bit laggy playing Amnesia with high SSAO enabled for some reason. SSAO is apparently a CPU-intense feature.
Oddly enough, it's fairly okay at High with only 4 SSAO samples, or I could play it at a fine FPS rate on Medium SSAO resolution with as high as 128 SSAO samples.
Anyway, I figured I'd ask the question not only for this game's sake, but games I play in the future as well. Some games seem better optimized than others, and games like CoD seem to run fine at high settings all the while games like Planetside 2 seem to suck up resources for graphics that aren't even as good.
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Alright, so to the point, I'm looking for other ways to improve my system performance.
The system is already running on pretty high-end hardware for a laptop, and I'm a good user who keeps it running on minimal programs in the background and keep absolutely everything down to the Ethernet and SSD drivers up to date. This system is well maintained.
Most "game-boosting" software seems only useful to users who aren't really tech-savvy. By what I can tell, all they really do is close background programs or modifying (lowering) the graphics quality of your games by editing their graphics settings. They don't seem to actually do anything especially impressive, nothing that an advanced user can't do on their own.
But I haven't checked into the subject in years. I have been running on the belief that a well taken care-of system like mine can only be improved by further overclocking (dangerous) or installing better hardware (I don't have the money for that). But maybe there's been developments in game optimization software? Maybe there's changes I can make that would improve it? I don't know, I haven't looked into it a long time.
Let me know if there's any optimizations I can make. Oh, and I've already selected all the most optimal settings in the Nvidia CP, except Ambient Occlusion which I've left at "Quality".
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System Specs:
Model: Origin EoN 17S (laptop) (late 2011) (Origin Chassis' and motherboard are from Clevo)
CPU: Overclocked Intel i7 Extreme 2920XM up to 4.8Ghz in turbo-boost.
GPU: Nvidia 580m Overclocked with EVGA Precision to 650Mhz / 1500Mhz (I tried bigger boosts and they often work, but occasional BSODs {IRQL Not Less or Equal} will happen so I stopped)
Memory: 16GB of Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 @ 1600Mhz
Storage: 256GB OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS (OS), 750GB Seagate HDD (Storage)
Motherboard: Clevo P170HMx
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro x64
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Thanks!
- Alex
PS: I just threw this into CPU since it's such a general question. I also considered "Systems" and "Graphics & Displays". Move it to wherever you want. I honestly think it'd be great if a "Gaming" or maybe "Optimization" sections were added. But considering the seniority of this website, I'm sure it's already been considered and there's probably reasons there aren't any.
Oddly enough, it's fairly okay at High with only 4 SSAO samples, or I could play it at a fine FPS rate on Medium SSAO resolution with as high as 128 SSAO samples.
Anyway, I figured I'd ask the question not only for this game's sake, but games I play in the future as well. Some games seem better optimized than others, and games like CoD seem to run fine at high settings all the while games like Planetside 2 seem to suck up resources for graphics that aren't even as good.
-----
Alright, so to the point, I'm looking for other ways to improve my system performance.
The system is already running on pretty high-end hardware for a laptop, and I'm a good user who keeps it running on minimal programs in the background and keep absolutely everything down to the Ethernet and SSD drivers up to date. This system is well maintained.
Most "game-boosting" software seems only useful to users who aren't really tech-savvy. By what I can tell, all they really do is close background programs or modifying (lowering) the graphics quality of your games by editing their graphics settings. They don't seem to actually do anything especially impressive, nothing that an advanced user can't do on their own.
But I haven't checked into the subject in years. I have been running on the belief that a well taken care-of system like mine can only be improved by further overclocking (dangerous) or installing better hardware (I don't have the money for that). But maybe there's been developments in game optimization software? Maybe there's changes I can make that would improve it? I don't know, I haven't looked into it a long time.
Let me know if there's any optimizations I can make. Oh, and I've already selected all the most optimal settings in the Nvidia CP, except Ambient Occlusion which I've left at "Quality".
--------
System Specs:
Model: Origin EoN 17S (laptop) (late 2011) (Origin Chassis' and motherboard are from Clevo)
CPU: Overclocked Intel i7 Extreme 2920XM up to 4.8Ghz in turbo-boost.
GPU: Nvidia 580m Overclocked with EVGA Precision to 650Mhz / 1500Mhz (I tried bigger boosts and they often work, but occasional BSODs {IRQL Not Less or Equal} will happen so I stopped)
Memory: 16GB of Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 @ 1600Mhz
Storage: 256GB OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS (OS), 750GB Seagate HDD (Storage)
Motherboard: Clevo P170HMx
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro x64
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Thanks!
- Alex
PS: I just threw this into CPU since it's such a general question. I also considered "Systems" and "Graphics & Displays". Move it to wherever you want. I honestly think it'd be great if a "Gaming" or maybe "Optimization" sections were added. But considering the seniority of this website, I'm sure it's already been considered and there's probably reasons there aren't any.
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