GTX680 Performance Optimization

newbie1992

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Hey guys,

I never had a problem with my GTX680 running games until the TitanFall Beta.

It seems that I could not run the game at all High Settings and get a stable 60FPS, I often see my FPS dip a lot in certain areas of the game. For example, outdoor fights usually do not lag, but once I enter buildings and closed areas, my frames just drop off a cliff, I'm seeing 20ish FPS.

So I decided to turn down my settings to all medium, but the same thing happens... I get massive FPS drops indoors. I even had anti-aliasing turned off with anistropic filtering down to 8x from 16x.

My little brother runs a gtx 580 and runs on all high settings smoothly and above 60FPS at all times, I am just distressed my GTX 680 can't replicate the same performance a GTX580 can.

I've tried MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision, but I don't understand how to boost the card correctly. I set the power to 132%, clock boost to +150 mhz and shader clock to +150mhz, any higher and the game crashes... (No idea why... my max GPU temperature is always around 65C which is pretty low so why is my overclock headroom so low?

note: I am running 334.89 for my drivers, and in nVidia control panel, i have defaults on with image setting set to "let 3d application decide"

Any contribution would be much appreciated! Thanks again for reading/replying.
 

Jonathan Cave

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Hi newbie1992,

Looking at your Spec in the signature, there's no natural or obvious bottleneck.

have you considered it could be you NIC/WIFI card?

i had an issue recently with a game and i found that the software/drivers for the onboard nic were causing the game to drop FPS.

It's also a Beta for a reason, there may be some optimisation needed for certain drivers ?
 

newbie1992

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I do not have a WIFI card, and yes I do not see an obvious bottle neck either. I have a feeling it's the boost feature causing choppy framerates.. but who knows..