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I just got borderlands 2 and tried it out and noticed that i cannot get stable 60FPS on close to high settings which seems weird for my rig. I have a GTX 980 that i havent overclocked and a 4690K not overclocked. Im running on a 2560x1440 and even with some settings on medium in some fights scenes and seemingly out of nowhere i drop to around 40fps. Im looking at MSI Afterburner and it says the GPU usage is staying around 70 percent. whats the problem?
Vynavill
October 17, 2014 1:12:04 PM
I've recently discovered Nvidia Physx recently changed, and that old apps might require legacy drivers.
Get it here
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.1031-legacy-dri...
Get it here
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.1031-legacy-dri...
adampcpower
October 17, 2014 9:52:54 AM
Vynavill
October 15, 2014 11:46:45 PM
I'm assuming you already did this, but are drivers, as well as .NET frameworks, VC++ redistributables and DX libraries, all up to date?
GPU usage is fine, as nothing will fully load one except benchmarking applications (which are specifically made to push it to its limit).
It looks like it averages around 70%, as you said, and CPU is ok too.
EDIT: looking at the image more carefully, temps are constantly on the rise (that usage drop on the graph doesn't correspond to a significant decrease in temperature either); plus, fan speed is set to auto and detects it has to be set to 1%...
Temperature shouldn't be high enough to cause it, but are you sure you're not just experiencing thermal throttling?
Try setting up a user fan profile, starting from 20% at idle temp and up to 80%
GPU usage is fine, as nothing will fully load one except benchmarking applications (which are specifically made to push it to its limit).
It looks like it averages around 70%, as you said, and CPU is ok too.
EDIT: looking at the image more carefully, temps are constantly on the rise (that usage drop on the graph doesn't correspond to a significant decrease in temperature either); plus, fan speed is set to auto and detects it has to be set to 1%...
Temperature shouldn't be high enough to cause it, but are you sure you're not just experiencing thermal throttling?
Try setting up a user fan profile, starting from 20% at idle temp and up to 80%
adampcpower
October 15, 2014 2:30:57 PM
adampcpower
October 15, 2014 2:00:32 PM
Vynavill
October 15, 2014 1:56:37 PM
The game normally uses its own technologies for anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering and other things like that. The GPU's control panel can, however, override those settings with the driver's proprietary technologies.
Depending on the game's optimization, you can get a better or a worse performance.
Depending on the game's optimization, you can get a better or a worse performance.
adampcpower
October 15, 2014 1:42:01 PM
Vynavill
October 15, 2014 1:38:43 PM
adampcpower
October 15, 2014 12:17:11 PM
Ok so this is a screenshot of my GPU and cpu performance during a big fight in BL2 with fps droping to around 40. http://i.imgur.com/s4glpKk.png
I dont know why im dropping FPS whhen neither are maxing out. I have setting all to ultra at 1440x2560p except Anisotropic filtering is at x2 only. Also my FOV is at 100 and i have a second 1080p monitor hooked up via HDMI that has these applications on them to monitor
I dont know why im dropping FPS whhen neither are maxing out. I have setting all to ultra at 1440x2560p except Anisotropic filtering is at x2 only. Also my FOV is at 100 and i have a second 1080p monitor hooked up via HDMI that has these applications on them to monitor
Vynavill
October 15, 2014 10:05:26 AM
Unfortunately, no, but setting them to low is essentially the same thing as disabling them. Only base physics are covered at that level (like ragdolls, jumps and explosions) and no extra clutter is generated.
Used to run the game almost maxed out on a downclocked i5 2500 (TurboBoost disabled, down from 3.3 to 3.0 ghz) and a 1gb HD 6870, so I can pretty much confirm that.
Since we're still on topic, what are your specs, just in case? If you're having stutters with a decent hardware, the issue might be somewhere else.
My fault for not noticing the signature. Weird tho, the 660 should handle the game well enough. What resolution are you playing at?
Aaand I even fail at reading. Never had a multi-gpu system, so I don't know for sure. Is there any way for you to run the game in a single-gpu mode?
Used to run the game almost maxed out on a downclocked i5 2500 (TurboBoost disabled, down from 3.3 to 3.0 ghz) and a 1gb HD 6870, so I can pretty much confirm that.
Since we're still on topic, what are your specs, just in case? If you're having stutters with a decent hardware, the issue might be somewhere else.
My fault for not noticing the signature. Weird tho, the 660 should handle the game well enough. What resolution are you playing at?
Aaand I even fail at reading. Never had a multi-gpu system, so I don't know for sure. Is there any way for you to run the game in a single-gpu mode?
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