Quick Tip to Better Game Performance...

(PixelTwitch) #1

Now when I say performance I am not actually talking about FPS numbers I am talking more about fps stability. Help get rid of some of that Microstutter and all that Jazz…

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[li]Start the game
[/li][li]Alt + Ctrl + Delete to bring up Task Manager
[/li][li]Go to the “Details” panel (you may have to click to see advanced options first)
[/li][li]Find “Explorer.exe” and end task.
[/li][li]Go to the “Processes” tab and double click Shooter.exe to go back to the game.
[/li][li]Play
[/li][li]Once finished alt+tab+delete to task manager
[/li][li]click “File” and then “Run New Task”
[/li][li]In the text box type “Explorer” and press enter
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It is important that the game has already loaded or is starting to load before you do this otherwise its a pain to launch. I noticed much smoother gameplay and stable framerates on windows 8.1 64bit.

Please leave any feedback to if this worked for you or not below and what you felt the differences where.
Thanks and good luck.

(Glottis-3D) #2

i cannot say for sure. wish DB had a performance demo with FPS count.
i did have a better feeling, but i played on a SW server instead of OBJ (and another map), not clean experiment.

(xdc) #3

why not just end task for everything that you dont need? and windows idling surprising will have alot.
also task manager is more oriented towards ram usage than cpu usage, if you need to end tasks you need a ram upgrade

(stealth6) #4

This is the same fix that’s required to play the old AoE2 on a lot of computers. :smiley:

(PixelTwitch) #5

[QUOTE=xdc;515736]why not just end task for everything that you dont need? and windows idling surprising will have alot.
also task manager is more oriented towards ram usage than cpu usage, if you need to end tasks you need a ram upgrade[/QUOTE]

I have 64gb of ram…

I am just saying what works for me, get people to try it to see if it works for them. We can look into the hows and whys when we get peoples testing results :slight_smile:

(stealth6) #6

Well now I know what I want in my next pc :smiley: 32-64gb ram and then ram disk … Bye bye load times.

(PixelTwitch) #7

I tested a ram disk with Dirty Bomb, load times where exactly the same because you are waiting for the server to load and xigncode more than you are actually doing locally. Waste of time.

(Rex) #8

A ram disk wouldn’t make no sense for daily used programs. Better buy a fast SSD, but if you expect DB to load faster then you are wrong as pixel already explained.

(stealth6) #9

Well I don’t only play DB and I know at least for PoE it will decrease loading times which is advantageous for racing. What about CS:GO, BF and other games?

On other forums they say RAM disk is faster than SSD is that right?

(Rex) #10

[QUOTE=stealth6;515773]Well I don’t only play DB and I know at least for PoE it will decrease loading times which is advantageous for racing. What about CS:GO, BF and other games?

On other forums they say RAM disk is faster than SSD is that right?[/QUOTE]

Of course that’s right. RAM is beside the CPU cache the fastest storage you have in your PC, but the problem is that you can’t hold the data you saved on your RAM disk. You lose your stored data when your PC is shut-down. That means you have to set it up every time again. :wink:

(PixelTwitch) #11

Actually this is not true on most motherboards. You will only lose the data on the RAM disk after a powercut or you unplug for anything longer then 10 - 20 min. Howerver, that said it is very frustrating when it does get lost cause you need to copy it over again and your dealing with backups. Games like BF do load much faster with it but you still need to wait for everyone else to ready up so kinda pointless. On LoL you will always load in first unless some other guy has got it on a Ram Disk also.

Where I like using a ram disk (and I have in the past) is games like Farcry, Skyrim and MMOs. Games where you are constantly streaming from the HDD and not that you lose loading times but you lose that sutter as you walk into a new zone. Makes the game feel so much smoother. However, I have heard rumors that we could be seeing some seriously competitive PCI SDDs coming soon with upwards of a TB for storage. When these hit the Market, I will be strongly considering using one for my games drive.

(stealth6) #12

[QUOTE=PixelTwitch;515776]Actually this is not true on most motherboards. You will only lose the data on the RAM disk after a powercut or you unplug for anything longer then 10 - 20 min. Howerver, that said it is very frustrating when it does get lost cause you need to copy it over again and your dealing with backups. Games like BF do load much faster with it but you still need to wait for everyone else to ready up so kinda pointless. On LoL you will always load in first unless some other guy has got it on a Ram Disk also.

Where I like using a ram disk (and I have in the past) is games like Farcry, Skyrim and MMOs. Games where you are constantly streaming from the HDD and not that you lose loading times but you lose that sutter as you walk into a new zone. Makes the game feel so much smoother. However, I have heard rumors that we could be seeing some seriously competitive PCI SDDs coming soon with upwards of a TB for storage. When these hit the Market, I will be strongly considering using one for my games drive.[/QUOTE]

PCI-e SSDs already exist? My friend’s had one for a couple years now, downside is that boot speed isn’t as fast as a normal SSD.

(PixelTwitch) #13

yea they have been around for a long time but we are getting some that actually have 4x250gb ssd in raid 0 on them so 2000mb/s ish… compared to the standard SSD speed of around 500

(Nail) #14

nobody got ULLtraDIMM ssd ?

(Mustang) #15

Thinking my next storage device will be a SATA-Express VNAND SSD.

(ToonBE) #16

how much £/$/€ did you guys spend on your PC? realy curious

(fzl) #17

A ram disk wouldn’t make no sense for daily used programs. Better buy a fast SSD, but if you expect DB to load faster then you are wrong as pixel already explained.

Rex Did It…

A SSD boost your system extremely… i switched from sata3 to SSD …and my overall Speed explodes…

(ToonBE) #18

PC-Builder (Hyper212 Evo Active CPU cooler, GTX 970 Gaming 4G graphic card, Windows 8.1 Pro OEM, Intel Core™ i5-4670K 3,4 GHz (3,8 GHz Turbo Boost) 1150 processor CX750M, 750 Watt power, Antec Three Hundred case, Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD-burner, Adata Premier Pro SP900 ASP900S3-128GM-C 128 GB SSD, MSI Z97 GAMING 5 mother board socket 1150, Barracuda 7200.14 1 TB hard disk, 2x 8 GB (4x2) DDR3-1600 Kit RAM)

price including taxes = 1468,02 euro (my max price would be 1500 euro)

Would this be any good price/quality? oppinions?

(PixelTwitch) #19

overall the system looks very good mate just a little expensive.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/scan-3xs-gamer-16i-intel-i5-4690k-haswell-refresh-8gb-corsair-vengeance-evga-gtx-970-sc-240gb-crucia

(fzl) #20

only the i5 … is a little bit to slow… over 4 ghz would be better or not?

and you dont need 750 w power … i use a enermax 500w …and all its fine…think 600w is maximum

and plz use more than 8gb ram

my specs atm:

Athlon FX Quad Core 4.8 GHZ OC (with Corsair Watercooling System) cost the half of a intel cpu…!!!

Gigabyte Mainboard GA78LMT - USB 3

16 GB DDR 3 Ram G-Skill 1600

GTX 770 Windforce 3 (Watercooled)

2 SSD Adata a`256GB

2 Sata 3 WDC a` 1TB

Enermax Power 500W

Exodus Gaming Keyboard

Logitech Mouse G400s (with Logi Mousepad)

Windows 7 64Bit Ultimate