Be careful what you wish for
- Thread starter Jigster
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Care to elaborate on what have you done pretty please?
My game is smooth except planet / RES approach where it turns into an onionhead-fuelled Powerpoint presentation...
time to downgrade!
I too am intrigued by your tweaks
First my hardware spec I guess.
Corsair 750W PSU
GIGABYTE Z97X-UD3H Motherboard
Intel Core 4770K i7 CPU (Socket 1150 Haswell, 4th Generation Intel Core)
Micron Original 16GB kit (8GBx2) DDR3 PC3-12800 Unbuffered NON-ECC 1.35V
4G ASUS GTX 970 OC Gfx
Crucial 240GB SSD (Boot drive and profiles)
2x2TB RAID-1 Drives (My Docs, My Pics, Steam Library etc.)
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit
All firmware and drivers to latest
Tweaks - at your own risk !! ;-)
Core parking disabled
BIOS settings all default/auto except for:
Intel Turbo Boost, C3, C6/7 and other power save settings disabled
Hyper-threading disabled
Virtualisation support disabled
Super IO disabled
Onboard GFX disabled
Anything else I don't use disabled
Elite Gfx settings to Ultra 1920x1080p and x1.5 oversampling.
Corsair 750W PSU
GIGABYTE Z97X-UD3H Motherboard
Intel Core 4770K i7 CPU (Socket 1150 Haswell, 4th Generation Intel Core)
Micron Original 16GB kit (8GBx2) DDR3 PC3-12800 Unbuffered NON-ECC 1.35V
4G ASUS GTX 970 OC Gfx
Crucial 240GB SSD (Boot drive and profiles)
2x2TB RAID-1 Drives (My Docs, My Pics, Steam Library etc.)
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit
All firmware and drivers to latest
Tweaks - at your own risk !! ;-)
Core parking disabled
BIOS settings all default/auto except for:
Intel Turbo Boost, C3, C6/7 and other power save settings disabled
Hyper-threading disabled
Virtualisation support disabled
Super IO disabled
Onboard GFX disabled
Anything else I don't use disabled
Elite Gfx settings to Ultra 1920x1080p and x1.5 oversampling.
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From what I've seen in other games these are probably the settings which are helping you out
So you haven't totally eliminated it?
Hm. Intriguing. I use the same CPU. Thanks!
How does one go about doing these? Is there an easy online guide?
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Google search the manual for your make/model motherboard; it's mobo options that control how the CPU is used.
Or, you can interrupt your boot by pressing DEL or F1 or whatever it says at boot time, then search around the BIOS menus until you find it. Depending on the board it may be under processor options, overclock options, or cpu options. Keep notes what you chance (and what it was before the change) and only change one thing at a time. If you change multiple things at once then you're stuck going: "I know I improved it, but I don't know what improved it."
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disabling HT is a bios/UEFI option
unparking cores is a windows registry setting... http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility is a helpful utility to do it for you
Although bare in mind that doing the above is basically turning your i7 into an i5!
unparking cores is a windows registry setting... http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility is a helpful utility to do it for you
Although bare in mind that doing the above is basically turning your i7 into an i5!
For me I think it's my 1.5Mbps connection that is giving me fits in Open. My hardware is quite sufficient to peg the fps at 60 (frame sync enabled) in pretty much any scene.
However, the more Cmdr's I get in my instance the lower the fps gets. I have been going into open every day at different times to see if my ISP is getting heavy use at the time I play Elite.
To date it appears that no matter when I go online, once I have 3+ Cmdr's showing on my screen the fps tanks down to 10 fps.
I will however try some of the bios settings you mentioned in the off chance they would help.
Additional info: Cmdr = "live player" or "hollow square"
However, the more Cmdr's I get in my instance the lower the fps gets. I have been going into open every day at different times to see if my ISP is getting heavy use at the time I play Elite.
To date it appears that no matter when I go online, once I have 3+ Cmdr's showing on my screen the fps tanks down to 10 fps.
I will however try some of the bios settings you mentioned in the off chance they would help.
Additional info: Cmdr = "live player" or "hollow square"
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I was in a similar boat, micro stutters all over the place but was skepical of the tweaks would make a diff but tried them out. Now a solid smooth 60fps everywhere apart from hyperspace, so colour me surprised it works brilliantly disabling HT and core parking.
Not saying it's going to fix anyone's problems but here are a few things people can try if they want.
I would suggest only changing one thing at a time (and making that the OFFLOAD option first to try).
Known issues with network connections are caused by LARGE SEND OFFLOAD
This should be set to disabled in the network adapter settings.
Note: LARGE SEND OFFLOAD V2 is meant to be ok and as such some don't even have the non V2 setting showing, just the newer one.
There are other settings people might want to switch off too (on by default usually).
Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing
Interrupt Moderation
Flow Control
Energy Efficient Ethernet
And lastly Receive Side Scaling can also interfere with the Windows network stack detrimentally (contrary to popular belief).
Having a good throughput and saturating a connection for large downloads is completely different to what ED (and most games) requires and as such is no measure of whether your connection will be good for games or not.
I would suggest only changing one thing at a time (and making that the OFFLOAD option first to try).
Known issues with network connections are caused by LARGE SEND OFFLOAD
This should be set to disabled in the network adapter settings.
Note: LARGE SEND OFFLOAD V2 is meant to be ok and as such some don't even have the non V2 setting showing, just the newer one.
There are other settings people might want to switch off too (on by default usually).
Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing
Interrupt Moderation
Flow Control
Energy Efficient Ethernet
And lastly Receive Side Scaling can also interfere with the Windows network stack detrimentally (contrary to popular belief).
Having a good throughput and saturating a connection for large downloads is completely different to what ED (and most games) requires and as such is no measure of whether your connection will be good for games or not.
While I can see this as providing some performance boosts, I cant see it as eliminating the stutter given that all of the facts surrounding the stuttering point to a problem in the engine. Possibly in how the engine is interacting with each system.
There is a clear distinction between stuttering and poor performance or low FPS, people are confusing the two and it is only complicating the issue.
There is a clear distinction between stuttering and poor performance or low FPS, people are confusing the two and it is only complicating the issue.