[FS Markinho]

w4rth0g, on 27 January 2014 - 08:21 PM, said:

Howdy,

OS: Windows Vista 64bit
CPU: AMD Quad Core Phenom(?)
GPU: AMD R9 -290X 2gb DDR5
RAM: 8gb DDR3
HD: 640gb & 1tb
UrT: 4.2.018
FTR,
w4rty

Phenom and 290x? It's one of the most unbalanced rigs possible

[Muffie]

Markinho, on 27 January 2014 - 08:51 PM, said:

Phenom and 290x? It's one of the most unbalanced rigs possible

How do you figure? Modern games benefit from more and faster ram and a better gpu then a cpu.

[w4rth0g]

Howdy,

Markinho, on 27 January 2014 - 08:51 PM, said:

Phenom and 290x? It's one of the most unbalanced rigs possible

Yea okay, now that I have stopped chuckling..
Care to elaborate on what a "balanced" rig is?
Thx,

w4rty

[KarlMariaSeeberg]

w4rth0g, on 28 January 2014 - 03:56 AM, said:

Howdy,



Yea okay, now that I have stopped chuckling..
Care to elaborate on what a "balanced" rig is?
Thx,

w4rty

any mac (sorry for the disturbance .. but i had to)

This post has been edited by KarlMariaSeeberg: 28 January 2014 - 04:13 AM

[FS Frankie V]

I've been doing a bit of detective work to see if I can back track the problem as being a common problem in general by referencing as many different and popular games as I could to see if they had similar or identical problem with random FPS drops as well as stuttering.

There seems to be a pattern starting with the release of Windows 7 (July 22,2009) and the release of the GeForce 500 series video cards (November 8,2010) and the tendency of video card manufactures overclocking 500+ series at the factory and selling them as game rated performance cards in late 2011.

For sure we are not the only game with these matching set of problems, easy enough to check, but it is a known issue that seems to be getting progressively worst and the suggested fix based on the similar problem with other games is to try down clocking your video card as well roll back to older video card drivers. (one the other or both)

This seems to jive with the problems I was having when I was forced to update my much older computer when it gave up the ghost and died and my new box was showing similar problems with game crashing tossed in to boot.

If you are adventurous and have the know how please give this a try as doing these two things that one should not have to do solved my problems completely. You might have to roll back your drivers a fair bit as I had to do to find one that works.

[FS Markinho]

w4rth0g, on 28 January 2014 - 03:56 AM, said:

Howdy,



Yea okay, now that I have stopped chuckling..
Care to elaborate on what a "balanced" rig is?
Thx,

w4rty

Sure, the Phenom family came out in 2007 and it's not very performing, while the 290x is the newest and most powerful amd gpu (hell of a bottleneck you got there) and would be better with an Intel i5/i7 or a high end FX
It's barely used by urban terror which is cpu bound, it probably stays in idle mode @300mhz all the time

If you play any other (modern) game it's highly recommended to get a newer processor

[w4rth0g]

Howdy,
aside from the balance thing, Markinho got me a'thinkin.
I did mistype the card should be R9-270X, sorry.
So with UrT up and running and me speccing a player, the GPU was at 300mhz(idle),GPU memory was at 150mhz(idle)
and my cpus(all 4) were at about ~22%. I will be testing again today by setting up a custom 3d application in the CCC to see
if the GPU will throttle up.
I would agree with the bottleneck comment IF the GPU was pumping up, which it was not.
Will report back with my findings.
My instincts are leaning towards a 64bit issue, but its still early.

w4rty

[KarlMariaSeeberg]

so i have spent a few hours with .018.. and sadly i got severe fps drops once again .. uptown with 8 player was horrible... frames drop from 125 to 80 ..

OS: Mac
CPU: Intel Intel Core i7 2,93 GHz
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5750 VRAM 1024 MB (i have learned recently that's actually a mobility 5850)
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
HD: 1 TB

[Muffie]

have you guys figured anything out for the fps drops? going from 125 to 60fps on maps is really annoying!

[p5yc0runn3r]

Still figuring out what the problem is. Could you try using r00t's binary and see if you get the same FPS drops please?