[PC]Performance issues ?

(RobertJSullivan) #1

Hey guys,
first of all I’m from EU so I can’t play the game right now.
I saw a lot of people complain about performance issues, it didn’t really bother me but I noticed that people who are running the game flawlessly are Nvidia users, no exeption. I didn’t see anyone at all who told that he was running the game well with an ATI, and that’s my concern ‘cause usually editors and devs try to favorize a constructor in particular (well, business is business), but not seeing a single person that runs the game well with an ATI bothers me a bit, got an HD 4770 here with a not-so bad processor (E5200 @ 2.50Ghz) so just wonderin’.
Can someone who runs with an ATI give some feedback about in-game performance ?

Thank you.

(SeedyROM) #2

There are some users with ATI that have the game running flawlessly but they are much less vocal. Better to think of it like ATI users are just having more issues (currently) than NVidia users. The game is new and does have lots of issues for both chipsets but the 4XXX users are having gridding problems and various ATI users have sub-standard framerate issues, at least in my research.

I was able to fix my personal issues by choosing the “Defaults” button under 3D Game Preferences (11.5 drivers) and even with higher settings than I had before it runs like glass, but that doesn’t work for everyone. Also, some of us ATI people are setting r_shadows 0 in console as a temporary workaround (just turns off shadows, boosting 20-30fps). This is also handy for people with sub-standard computers but this is by no means a “fix”.

Hopefully we’ll get a patch or two in the next week to help button up some of the memory/texture/performance issues.

(SeedyROM) #3

It’s a shame these keep being moved so rapidly to the Tech forum where far less people see them. I understand why in principle but this isn’t a specific Tech issue but more of a concern from a user waiting to get the game.

That said, I’m glad the mods are around and quick to act :smiley:

(RobertJSullivan) #4

Thank you for your quick answer, will test that asap when I get the game ;).
And I’m sorry for posting this here my thread was moved and I wasn’t aware that a Tech Forum was added (my last visit was before the game came out), so I did get to see the ****load of ATI related thread only after making mine xD.

(Squeesher) #5

Yeah, you’ll find exceptions. I’m running fine on max settings with an HD5850 and Core 2 Quad Q9650. This is a thread you’ll want to check probably as lots of ATI users with framerate issues find that following the steps to turn off shadows in the console gives a good performance increase.

That processor is ok, but it’s just above the minimum specs so you’ll probably be setting everything as low as possible, and then seeing which settings you can raise a bit without it becoming unplayable. I would also stay away from the 11.5a hotfix driver for now at least, it seems to hinder more than it helps. I’m running it just on the 11.5 drivers. Not much more I can summarize here without you getting a specific issue but hopefully by the time you get to play it there’s some form of patch that takes care of the performance issues that are getting reported. Cheers and Good Luck to you!

(Warruz) #6

Running on 11.5a with a 4870 with phenom 9950 (o.C to 3.2)

Got that whole grid thing going on and lag