Lower performance than expected

Kamil KamKiller

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So although I myself am not super tech wise, I have a friend who can help me understand so if your giving help you can be as wordy as possible, all suggestions and replies are appreciated.

I have a gaming rig that is quite outdated yes I understand you don't have to mention so, but I'm really looking for advice as to why since I cant figure it out. I have updated and restored the system about 4 times to see if it makes any difference and none. And yes I updated the drivers all four times. The game I'm specifically looking at is DOOM (2016) I get around 40 fps idle on a mix of Medium to Low settings and like 20 if I'm moving around shooting baddies where as I can see benchmarks on YouTube of people with a really similar rig playing on Ultra (With shadows turned down or something) and getting in between 50 - 70 fps while playing.

Not sure what it is, any advice other than restoring and updating drivers would be much appreciated, again I see benchmarks and people getting significantly better than me.

My operating system is Windows 8.1 (Garbage I know)
AMD - FX 6300
8 gigs of DDR3 Corsair Memory
MSI Radeon R9 270X with 2048MB of virtual memory
And using a 1TB Seagate HDD
 
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Ok, there's no way your GPU with 2 GB VRAM can handle that resolution. If you drop it down somewhat you should get noticeably better framerates. At that point you can try running Vulkan again, I believe it's pretty sensitive to VRAM.
What resolution are you running at? Doom is more sensitive to size than settings. Your 2 GB of VRAM will also be limiting there. Also, are you able to use Vulkan? I believe it ran better especially with AMD GPU's. Finally, is Win 8.1 fully patched? There's a lot of instances of Windows Update chewing through processor cycles in the background. Check Task Manager to see CPU usage at idle, should be near 0% once Windows finishes loading.
 

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Hey there when I use Vulkan then I just get 12 fps on menus, and I just checked and my Windows 8.1 is fully updated, I play on 2560 x 1080
 
Ok, there's no way your GPU with 2 GB VRAM can handle that resolution. If you drop it down somewhat you should get noticeably better framerates. At that point you can try running Vulkan again, I believe it's pretty sensitive to VRAM.
 
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