Game drops to 45 fps near stations or NPC's

halofanatiks

halofanatiks
Hello, im experiencing some difficulties keeping a good framerate.

Ive had my Rift for about 3 weeks now and im loving Elite in VR!
But for some reason whenever i get close to a station my FPS drops to 45, which is HALF the usual FPS.

On a recommendation by my friend Hell Razor5543 i completely reinstalled windows so the drivers of my old graphics card would be gone.
Yet it still drops to 45 FPS!

Please help!

Setup:
Motherboard: Asus H87-PLUS
CPU: Intel Core i7-4771 @ 3.50 GHZ
MEM: 16 GB DDR4
Graphics card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming
Power Supply: FSP FSP600-50ARN
 

Imo

Imo
Especially the space stations deliver the most GPU demanding year 2000 graphics you can get in a computer game today. :O
 

Hell Razor5543

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I did also make a few other suggestions, including making sure the Quality (in the Graphics menu) was set to VR Ultra (it was and still is), and to see if Game bar and Game DVR were switched on (they weren't, and still are not). What makes it bemusing is that, when Halofanatiks dropped into a RES the FPS remained at 90FPS, and (IIRC) this also happened at a Conflict Zone.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Dooguk said:
The Rift's software is designed to do that to smooth things out when the framerate drops below 90fps.

Read about ATW and ASW on the Oculus developers blog here....https://developer.oculus.com/blog/asynchronous-spacewarp/
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This ^^^

The Oculus ASW software basically spots when your PC is not managing to generate a steady 90fps, throttles the game to 45fps and then generates the in-between frames to simulate 90fps. It's usually very good at this and you shouldn't need to worry unduly. That said, if you want to know your true FPS then you can turn ASW off by pressing Ctrl + NumPad 1 (or at least you could prior to Oculus 2.0 - there are rumours it that no longer works post 2.0). Once it's off you should see your actual framerate. If it's generally 90 and occasionally dipping down to 80 or so then I wouldn't worry but if it's generally much lower then you probably need to wind your graphics settings down a bit. What graphics card have you got? Also, if you use drkaii's excellent EDProfiler utility then could you screenshot it so I can see what graphics settings you're currently running with?
 

Dooguk

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If you cannot turn it off with Ctrl + NumPad 1, you can use the Oculus Debug tool to disable it. You can find it in C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-diagnostics.

Start this before Elite or Oculus Home and leave it running in the background while you play. Hope this helps.
 

TorTorden_VR

T
halofanatiks said:
no way to bypass it?
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There are num pad key commands for it like ctrl+1-ctrl+4.

But if you loose enough frames it will trigger, and quite honestly ASW engaged at 45fps is a lot better than 75fps.
But ASW is however a rather cpu intense affair.

The artefacting I had on my i7-4790k was much more noticeable than what I have on my i7 8700k.
 

=71st=RuSh

=71st=RuSh
I have the FPS drop only when open the Galaxy Map (not the System one). I never had this problem before, I think that was after the last update
 

TorTorden_VR

T
=71st=RuSh said:
I have the FPS drop only when open the Galaxy Map (not the System one). I never had this problem before, I think that was after the last update
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That could actually be network related, fair amount of server checking going on at that, and yes, networking delays interfere with fps in ED.
 
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