Low-end computers

(discreetPiece) #21

Guys thanks for all your efforts. For now the config is helping me a lot and atleast I can play. My only wonder is that maybe this is not an user-friendly way to help people like me. I mean… they could make an option for it and it would be a lot better for everyone instead of editing .ini files.
@Mrlong2 I don’t know if it possible. Playing on 800x600 right now
@gg2ez I will make it in the future but right now it is impossible for me to afford a new pc. I have to wait till I find a job and in my country it’s really difficult. Thanks anyways for your help. I appreciate it :slight_smile:

(Jostabeere) #22

Why not simply getting some money together and buy a 400-500$ rig?

(gg2ez) #23

[quote=“discreetPiece;88997”]Guys thanks for all your efforts. For now the config is helping me a lot and atleast I can play. My only wonder is that maybe this is not an user-friendly way to help people like me. I mean… they could make an option for it and it would be a lot better for everyone instead of editing .ini files.
@Mrlong2 I don’t know if it possible. Playing on 800x600 right now
@gg2ez I will make it in the future but right now it is impossible for me to afford a new pc. I have to wait till I find a job and in my country it’s really difficult. Thanks anyways for your help. I appreciate it :)[/quote]

No problem, but feel free to ask for advice if you plan to build or buy!

(Black) #24

[quote=“Amerika;88782”]I tested my 2011 model Sandy Bridge mobile i7 with a terrible Nvidia 550m and I run 90-125FPS consistent in DB @ 1080p. I switched it to use the Intel integrated video and I ran in between 70-95 at all times. Oh, and Windows 10.

So a 5 year old laptop that was only middle of the road at the time can run DB fairly well. I was using my FPS config though.[/quote]

Wait really? A intel integrated video card ran at 70-95 fps with 1080p?
That’s impressive.

(Amerika) #25

[quote=“BlackFro;89100”][quote=“Amerika;88782”]I tested my 2011 model Sandy Bridge mobile i7 with a terrible Nvidia 550m and I run 90-125FPS consistent in DB @ 1080p. I switched it to use the Intel integrated video and I ran in between 70-95 at all times. Oh, and Windows 10.

So a 5 year old laptop that was only middle of the road at the time can run DB fairly well. I was using my FPS config though.[/quote]

Wait really? A intel integrated video card ran at 70-95 fps with 1080p?
That’s impressive.[/quote]

I seriously couldn’t believe it myself. I even went and rebooted to make sure that the setting to switch the card actually did switch it and it certainly did. My performance was always lower than with the 550m enabled but not significantly. I was thinking I would need to set it to 720p if I wanted decent framerates.

(Jan S.) #26

Maybe…read a little?

right now it is impossible for me to afford a new pc. I have to wait till I find a job and in my country it’s really difficult.

edit: Lenovo g50-45 (411$) isn’t enough to play the game on the lowest settings above 25fps.
Through, my PC with i5 and gtx 770 runs DB on 90-150 fps.

(srswizard) #27

Yup, still waiting for super low settings, or something like that.
Sadly it won’t help you a lot, if your CPU is the thing that’s bottlenecking you.
They would actually have to provide options for disabling ragdolls and other such things that put load on your CPU (correct me if I’m talking BS here).
Then there’s the issue with NGS, or whatever else may be causing it, that gives you momentary FPS freezes.
Losing gunfights because of these badly timed freezes, completely takes the enjoyment out of the game for me.

Right now the only ways to improve your game’s performance, that I know of, are to:

A) use a performance config (not too big of an impact, but it’s something)
B) shell out money for PC part upgrades, and hope that you chose something that’s well compatible with DB

edit. I fell for the smiley trap again

(Amerika) #28

I’ve not had any of those freezes you’ve mentioned before. I did for a while a long time ago and I updated my system bios, of all things, and all of my stuttering went away. My game is and has been smooth as butter ever since that first performance tweak patch. The only thing the bios update messed with that was performance related had to do how it handled ram.

(srswizard) #29

twitch dot tv/srswizard/v/18362549 57:50 shows what I’m talking about.
I never had this issue, before the patch that introduced NGS.
I’m just putting 1 + 1 together here, but I can’t say for certain whether or not NGS is causing this.

(Amerika) #30

Yeah, and what sucks is that there isn’t a solid way to know for certain. I might try and see if process monitor can catch events without impacting performance by itself which could be a way to troubleshoot what’s actually going on.

(TheDoctorHax) #31

…or you can buy a 2nd gen core i5 and enjoy Zen performance today! :slight_smile:

@discreetPiece - what’s in your rig?[/quote]

LOL SHOTS FIRED BOOOOOM! Nice one there…

(Jostabeere) #32

I mean, do a Kickstarter lol. People fund for way too many dumb things these days. You gonna get money for sure.

(Dwu) #33

[quote=“Amerika;88782”]I tested my 2011 model Sandy Bridge mobile i7 with a terrible Nvidia 550m and I run 90-125FPS consistent in DB @ 1080p. I switched it to use the Intel integrated video and I ran in between 70-95 at all times. Oh, and Windows 10.

So a 5 year old laptop that was only middle of the road at the time can run DB fairly well. I was using my FPS config though.[/quote]

With one-frame-lag option yeah. Thing is, you shouldn’t need such shite chewing gum fix in the first place to get playable framerates. inb4howdoesitaffectanything and I’m not gonna even bother explaining.

(B_Montiel) #34

Don’t forget that DB, like all UE3 games, is a massive cpu resource eater. UE3 was introduced in 2006-2007 where multi-core cpus were becoming mandatory in everyone’s personal computers. The bottleneck component at this time on all rig, no matter you were going top or low end was the gpu, even if you still had a single core processor. Not to mention that UE3 engine is also heavily built for the console market of that day (ps3 and xbox 360). I remember myself running UT3 on a A64 3200+ mono core pretty well back in the days.

In this respect, UE3 devs logically favoured cpu work than gpu. And I won’t be surprised if someone running a current high end cpu with total crap graphic tied with says that he can get pretty good performance on this game.

I’d also add that, from our player standpoint, and probably from the dev one, it is incredibly hard to counter-balance that cpu/gpu usage. The only thing I found very recently is the numstreamedmips tweak that will somehow load more in the gpu memory, but that’s all.

(Amerika) #35

[quote=“Dwu;89348”][quote=“Amerika;88782”]I tested my 2011 model Sandy Bridge mobile i7 with a terrible Nvidia 550m and I run 90-125FPS consistent in DB @ 1080p. I switched it to use the Intel integrated video and I ran in between 70-95 at all times. Oh, and Windows 10.

So a 5 year old laptop that was only middle of the road at the time can run DB fairly well. I was using my FPS config though.[/quote]

With one-frame-lag option yeah. Thing is, you shouldn’t need such shite chewing gum fix in the first place to get playable framerates. inb4howdoesitaffectanything and I’m not gonna even bother explaining.[/quote]

It’s a UE3 thing that is pretty well known and 1 frame isn’t a huge deal to give up even if you’re running a 60hz monitor (let alone 120/144hz). And this is coming from a guy who plays competitive fighting games (well, competitive USF4…I’m a fraud in anything else) and knows way too much about input lag, their sources and how to remove as much as possible.

Not running with that option checked means you’re pretty much going to end up getting frame drops on most setups and the input lag that comes with it. So you trade 1 frame because the engine pretty much requires it for smooth play or you keep that frame and then probably get intermittent spikes and input lag. I am confident in my choice.

I wouldn’t mind hearing your explanation that you don’t want to bother to explain though.

(watsyurdeal) #36

How you can stand sf4 I will never know.

(Amerika) #37

I can’t stand to play it online. But offline competition is ridiculously good. Also, I built my own fightstick which I will be adding in proper PS4 support for this weekend finally.

(brazenMob) #38

This game is very poorly optimized at the moment, and it keeps getting worse with every patch. It doesn’t matter if you have a low-end computer or a high-end one, if you have certain combinations of hardware, the game won’t run right. That’s why a lot of pro teams are waiting for Overwatch. The devs took a game with great gameplay and competitive potential, choose to add new mercs and features instead of addressing gameplay and performance issues, and ruined the experience for the people they needed the most.