Something's not quite right

(shibbyuk) #1

Having just setup my new PC today, I’m having some major performance issues with Dirty Bomb. It’s performing worse than my laptop I normally play on.

Spec:

  • i7-6700k
  • GTX 970
  • GA-Z170X-Gaming 5
  • 16gb DDR4 3000mhz

So, I fired up DB with the default settings and first of all, the UI is incredibly slow and laggy. It’s unresponsive and some elements like loadouts are slow to appear.

In-game is simply awful; the FPS seem to mostly be in the 50-60 fps region (the odd drop lower, sometimes higher but around 50 in any action). The game is pretty much unplayable! I tried lowering many of the video settings with in-game menus but this seemed to have little effect.

With the thought that maybe the default settings are just setup to give a terrible experience to any new player, even with decent hardware, I pulled in my config files from my laptop - low settings. These get me closer to the 120fps I was able to get on my laptop, but not reaching it and with lots of FPS drops. The configs have made no difference to the awful UI experience.

I ran a 3D Mark benchmark and the result seemed to come out as expected (just above “Oculus rift ready PC”). I’ll try another game soon to confirm whether it’s a DB issue, but the 3Dmark results suggest so.

Any ideas??

(fubar) #2

Welcome to Dirty Bomb. Enjoy your max 30 fps and awful servers.

Seriously though, there’s no fixing it. It’s the game. The engine, the horrendous “optimization”, whatever you want to call it. It’s been an on-going issue for years.

(shibbyuk) #3

Hmm, no I think something fishy could be going on. Just tried CS:GO and getting 60-70fps with defaults. That can’t be normal with this hardware, right?

(poiuasd) #4

Nope that’s not normal. Maybe you’re accidentally using the integrated GPU within your CPU instead of the dedicated one.

(Nail) #5

I get better with Q8200, sumpin else is poopy

(Kl3ppy) #6

Something changed since the maintenance. It feels so bad right now …

(shibbyuk) #7

Definitely using the GTX 970; I’ve disabled the on-board graphics completely (as the BIOS kept initialising the wrong one first, regardless of which the monitor was plugged in to!).

Mind if I ask which graphics card do you have? And what kind of benchmark you get with 3d mark?

I’m beginning to wonder if I was just expecting too much… Feels like a lot of wasted money at the moment, I should have stuck with the laptop (it’s a good one but this setup should be better).

(shibbyuk) #8

A couple of clues to the poor DB performance maybe…? I’ve reduced lots of Nvidea graphics settings and with the custom config I can get the game to reach 120fps, but with FPS drops. I’ve noticed the following:

  • Every time I respawn the FPS drops to ~75
  • When someone calls a vote the FPS drops to ~50! (returns to normal the moment the vote disappears)
  • When the end-game UI comes up, the fps drops to ~60.
(alphabeta) #9

Check that Thread Sync is not enabled. Both in-game and when in lobby. Every update seems to reset this, and usually costs me about 100 FPS (and I’m not kidding!!).

(shibbyuk) #10

I literally can’t believe this. I opened up my case to find that the video card wasn’t quite embedded in the PCIe port fully. Amazingly I pushed it in properly and suddenly it’s delivering awesome performance! I found the little red clip had popped off, presumably because the screws had been over-tightened putting pressure on it.

I just fired up DB and was able to lock it to a silky-smooth 144fps without any drops whatsoever, it’s like a totally different machine. I’m stunned that the card functioned at all - what, with 1/2 the power? How does that work? The clock speed readings etc before I pushed it in all looked normal as far as I could tell. Weird!

(LCTR) #11

[QUOTE=shibbyuk;547838]I literally can’t believe this. I opened up my case to find that the video card wasn’t quite embedded in the PCIe port fully. Amazingly I pushed it in properly and suddenly it’s delivering awesome performance! I found the little red clip had popped off, presumably because the screws had been over-tightened putting pressure on it.

I just fired up DB and was able to lock it to a silky-smooth 144fps without any drops whatsoever, it’s like a totally different machine. I’m stunned that the card functioned at all - what, with 1/2 the power? How does that work? The clock speed readings etc before I pushed it in all looked normal as far as I could tell. Weird![/QUOTE]

Glad u found the issue :slight_smile:
If it wasn’t seated correctly I’m surprised it was registering with the system at all tbh

(shibbyuk) #12

Same here. Imagine if I had just carried with it like the for ever more!