Poor FPS with R9 390 and Black ops 2

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Hey Guys,

I have a Intel 2600k OC'd to 4700mghz, and 8gigs ram, (soon to be 16gigs for Black ops 3).

I recently upgraded to a R9 390 graphics card that I've overclocked about 15% with no trouble. I went with the R9 390 recently in order to get this PC to play Black Ops 3 better, and to be able to crank up more of the eye candy on BO-3 vs my old card.
The R9 390 worked out great on BO-3. I was able to max out most of the graphic settings on BO-3 and easily pull 60fps at 1980x1200 setting. So I'm loving it on BO-3!

My old graphic card was a Radeon 7850 that played Black Ops 2 with no trouble with all the graphics settings completely maxed out at also 1980x1200. Never skipped a beat and never dropped below 60fps on BO-2 with the 7850 card and the 2600k processor.
But now with the R9 390 installed, BO-2 is struggling when all the graphics are maxed. I had to de-tune a couple of setting in BO-2 in order to comfortably sustain 60fps. I never dreamed the r9 390 would bog down on the older BO-2 game when it plays BO-3 maxed out with no trouble at all.
As far as I can tell, I've got everything up to date with the MOBO, Windows-7, and the Radeon drivers and etc. I'm out of options and have a strong feeling something got over looked in the graphics drivers or etc.

Thanks in advance.
 
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I'm gonna just keep an eye for driver updates for the graphics card and see if maybe in time it'll get fixed, or maybe some how BO-2 will get an update or patch, it seems to update something in the game every now and then when steam fires up the BO-2 game.
For now I do have the latest graphics drivers, but I'm not sure if I want to dig around and risk trying older drivers and experimenting with it.
It bums me out because to me and some of my friends, we think Black Ops-2 has a pretty good shelf life left in it. Even though I play a lot of BO-3. I still play BO-2 a lot more at this point. So it really kinda crushed me to go to a much more advance graphics card which really paid off in BO-3, but not so good in BO-2.

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I've used OpenHardwareMonitor to watch all the temps and they do not seem to be a problem.

And I'm sorry but I don't know what PSU is?

 
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The Processor temps never got over 150f , (liquid cooled) and the graphics temps I believe also never got over 130-150f, but I have to say, I've not monitored the temps in a couple of weeks.

And the PSU is I believe a 650watt unit, but I've not looked at it in a couple of years, so I apologize for not being more specific on that, I'll have to wait till I get home to check it out and be more specific about that.

I'm just thinking that Black Ops 3 is far more demanding then Black Ops 2 (because its a newer game), so how can it play so great and maxed out on BO-3, and yet so poorly on BO-2? I've not looked into a Bios update on the R9 390 if even possible?

Thanks again.

 
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That does sound like its related to black ops 2 only. You should play with the anti-aliasing and Ambient Occlusion settings. Try 4xMXAA and Ambient Occlusion off.
Did you monitor your CPU utilization while having this issue? I'm asking because black ops 2 is pretty heavy on the CPU side so just something to check on as you may have created a bottleneck.
 
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Like I said; with the old 7850 card I used to be able to have all the graphic settings maxed out. including the ambient occlusion, and I gotta check if I had the 4xMXAA on or off or where it was set. But in order to make the R9 390 card play BO-2 good, I had to definitely turn off Ambient Occlusion and tone down shadows and a couple of other things too. It still looks acceptable, but it was nice having it all cranked up with the old card and disappointing to see it have to be tweaked back down with the new card.

Last time I checked processor utilization on BO-2 it was less then 60% on all four cores with BO-2, and also under 70% with BO-3 as well. I thought my 2600k and where I have it OC'd was the last of my worries. Same with the RAM too for now at 8 gigs.

 
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Very odd stuff especially since you are saying Black Ops 3 plays fine. I'm wondering if there was an odd driver regression in the newest drivers that is causing performance issues in Black Ops 2. You might try to see if a newer version of drivers has came out since you updated or revert back to a prior driver. It should not be a throttling issue as that should be occurring on Black Ops 3 and apparently its not. Most the symptoms point to a AMD Driver issue or a game issue that needs a patch.
 
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I'm gonna just keep an eye for driver updates for the graphics card and see if maybe in time it'll get fixed, or maybe some how BO-2 will get an update or patch, it seems to update something in the game every now and then when steam fires up the BO-2 game.
For now I do have the latest graphics drivers, but I'm not sure if I want to dig around and risk trying older drivers and experimenting with it.
It bums me out because to me and some of my friends, we think Black Ops-2 has a pretty good shelf life left in it. Even though I play a lot of BO-3. I still play BO-2 a lot more at this point. So it really kinda crushed me to go to a much more advance graphics card which really paid off in BO-3, but not so good in BO-2.

Thanks for the reply's so far.
 
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