Performance Issues on new build

AaronW · Apr 21, 2014

Hi all

I recently upgraded my computer and i'm not quite getting the performance I was expecting. I understand that not all games will be able to run maxed out but the one I am mostly playing at the moment is Diablo 3 :RoS and it dips below 60fps (v-sync on) and I don't think it should.

Specs:
Intel i7-3820 @ 3.6GHz
Asus P9X79 WS
16GB G.Skills Sniper RAM
120GB SSD for OS
500GB HDD with a 64GB SSD for caching
Asus NVIDIA GTX-780Ti
Windows 8.1
1920x1080

Is there anything I can tweak to increase performance without over clocking (if that would even help)?

Darth Rache · Apr 21, 2014

With V-Sync on if you monitor has a refresh rate of 60 Hertz you cannot have a frame rate higher than that. So you cannot have a higher frame rate than the refresh rate of your monitor.

AaronW · Apr 21, 2014

Correct, it's not so much that it doesn't go higher than 60 (im limiting it at 60 with v-sync) but that it dips below 60. When I turn off v-sync I get anywhere from 160 to 200 FPS max but it still dips below 60.

Darth Rache · Apr 21, 2014

That will happen at times man, I have two 780s and mine dips at times, I run Battlefield at an average of 120 with a low of 75. So it can and will dip. It's just the nature of games, the more that is going on the lower the frame rate.

AaronW · Apr 29, 2014

I also found out that Diablo 3 is only using 1 core on a CPU. I don't know if that's 100% accurate but that's what the majority of people are saying. Thanks for the responses.

Darth Rache · Apr 29, 2014

That's strange...it's a newer game i would have thought it would have been optimized for at least two cores.

AaronW · Apr 29, 2014

Same here, but I guess it's Blizzard doing their "low spec" thing so anyone can play their game.

tiny voices · Apr 29, 2014

Diablo 3 is VERY simple and easy to run. It can be sun easily on integrated graphics. You system is total overkill for the game, but this is not the problem.

The question I have, is do you have it installed on the SSD or the HDD.

AaronW · Apr 29, 2014

Kinda...I use SSD caching. The way I understand it is the HDD stores the data long term but when the data is in use it moves it to the SSD until you're done then moves it back to the HDD. I have installed it to the SSD directly and have not seen a difference. Agreed it is overkill for D3, I do play other stuff but this seems to be the game that is taking up most of my time.

tiny voices · Apr 29, 2014

Diablo 3 benefits greatly from being installed directly to an SSD.

Also, your Cached rives doesn't do much of anything anything if your OS is installed to the other SSD. I would ditch that cache drive completely. It could actually be slowing performance down a bit by moving things from the SSD to the Cache drive.

And no it does not move data at all. It only moves application caches so programs you use alot can be launched faster, That is all it is really good for.

AaronW · Apr 29, 2014

I will give it a try. I'll un-cache the SSD and just use it as more storage. I'll let you know the results but that wont be for several hours...paychecks are nice but work gets in the way of the stuff I want to do.

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