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Started by eddystoner15 | | 8 answers
Need help trouble shooting metro last light fps
so i recently bought and installed my new asus r9 270x yesterday. so today i started playing last light but i am having trouble running it. when on medium settings i get 60fps, but then high settings i get 20fps. and when i set it to very high settings or ultra i only get 15-17fps. before suggesting i do have the nvidia physx turned off. and every time i start the game i get one of those first time install things steam does and its always "windows? install" if that helps. i am trying to play 1080p and every other game i play like far cry 3, sniper elite v2, bf3/bf4 all get ultra 1080p 50-60fps. on metro 2033 i am playing ultra 1080p at 45-50fps too. so i know its not the cards fault and every bench test i see i should be very easily able to play last light at ultra 1080p. i have the latest drivers (14.4) and the latest bios version. any help please?

system specs:
amd fx-6300 (no oc)
g. skill ripjaw series x 8gb 1600 Mhz
Asus r9 270x (no oc)
seagate barricuda 1tb
Windows 7 64 bit
corsair cx 600w
gigabyte ga-970a-ud3
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June 13, 2014 11:19:59 AM

eddystoner15 said:
oh i fixed it. it was the SSAA that was really doing it in. i can now play it at what i should be able too. everything as high as it can go except SSAA of course. thanks for your suggestions still!


Oh, yeah. SSAA can easily be a 20 fps drop, even for 4x, on my card. It's not even that big of a visual difference, at least not past 2x. I'm glad you got it figured out.
June 12, 2014 9:15:21 PM

eddystoner15 said:
oh i fixed it. it was the SSAA that was really doing it in. i can now play it at what i should be able too. everything as high as it can go except SSAA of course. thanks for your suggestions still!


Glad to hear you got it sorted out :) 

Best solution chosen by Dom_79

June 12, 2014 7:27:57 PM

oh i fixed it. it was the SSAA that was really doing it in. i can now play it at what i should be able too. everything as high as it can go except SSAA of course. thanks for your suggestions still!
June 11, 2014 7:36:59 PM

yea im not discounting him, i know my cpu is only mid range if that even. but i would imagine it would be better than what this is. i will re download and see what happens. thanks again.
June 11, 2014 6:59:01 PM

eddystoner15 said:
dom_79 i tried that and it didnt seem to work. i geuss ill try and re install it. is there a way to back up my game progress? because i think it will delete that too or am i fine?


I'm sorry I don't know where the save files are locates but I'm sure you can ask in the Metro : Last Light Steam forums and someone will tell you (or google it, might be faster) Once you know where they are just copy them to your sedktop or something and try.

I wouldn't discount what Rationale mentioned about the CPU needing to work harder to do the PhysX calculations. Metro: Last Light is known to rely heavily on PhysX and it may be straining your CPU (not putting your CPU down or anything). Keep in mind when you see benchmarks they are usually using top end CPUs in their test rig
June 11, 2014 6:26:48 PM

dom_79 i tried that and it didnt seem to work. i geuss ill try and re install it. is there a way to back up my game progress? because i think it will delete that too or am i fine?
June 11, 2014 5:43:33 PM

In short, AMD cards like the R9 270X can't run PhysX. Metro LL uses a ton of PhysX. Since your R9 270X isn't compatible, it puts the PhysX on the CPU, and the FX-6300 is too weak of a CPU to handle heavy physics on its own.
June 11, 2014 5:39:30 PM

Try verify your game file integrity (it's in the options when you right click the game in your library)

If that doesn't work try deleting Last light and re-installing (seems like something went sideways when initially installed)

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