Metro 2033 extreme lag...

[cyborg132]

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me out here. For some reason I can max out all the graphical options for Metro 2033 with barely any lag, however the second I switch antialiasing to MSAA 4x I get extreme lag. My drivers are all updated and I believe my system should be able to handle the game maxed out with a decent frame rate, however I may be wrong.

Here are my specs:

Processor - Intel i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz
Video Card - MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC
Ram - 8gb Kingston

Running on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

 

[renz496]

what is your gaming resolution? metro 2033 is well known to eat even the fastest gpu available today for breakfast when you crank up the setting such as MSAA

 

[cyborg132]

what is your gaming resolution?

1920x1080

 

[renz496]

you can look here for reference in metro performance:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_560_Twin_Frozr_II/16.html

 

[gcatalin]

though the gtx560ti is a powerfull card...that resolution and with AA turned in metro 2033 is too much for it...

 

[cyborg132]

you can look here for reference in metro performance:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_560_Twin_Frozr_II/16.html

Thanks I'll check it out, but ye it feels almost like the FPS drops to 10 or less. Maybe I should overclock it, perhaps that could help in making the game run smoother?

 

[renz496]

no doubt GTX560 Ti is a good card but metro is a few games out there that are meant to punish your card (other than the original crysis and crysis 2 with all it's enhancement). you can overclock but don't expect massive performance boost from it. in general you can only expect 5% to 10% boost from overclocking.

 

[4745454b]

A different review.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/04/25/msi_n560gtxti_hawk_video_card_review/7

1080 with AA it just to much for the GTX560. It might be a memory issue, but I think its probably just to much.

 

[0ozee]

Disable physx, DoF and MSAAx4

Should run 50+ fps then

 

[celpas]

I lol at u trying to play Metro with a 560Ti and trying to run 4*MSAA at the same time,

also check if u have enabled PhysX, cause that will suck even more GPU power

Honestly I don't find physx to be demanding at all.I own a gtx 275 and i7 870 nad I run metro 2033 at high settings WITH physx on (running on my CPU) and I get all those special effects without even a slight drop in fps

 

[cyborg132]

True, well thanks for all the help. I gotta say I'm kinda surprised that Metro 2033 requires more out of your system then Crysis 2 (even with all the latest patches).

 

[bystander]

True, well thanks for all the help. I gotta say I'm kinda surprised that Metro 2033 requires more out of your system then Crysis 2 (even with all the latest patches).

I don't believe Metro 2033 really does, unless you turn on PhysX along with DoF. Crysis 2 doesn't have PhysX and Metro 2033 doesn't need it. Have you tried to see a difference with and without GPU accelerated PhysX turned on? I have and I can't see a difference.

 

[cyborg132]

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