GTX 980 TI - help to make best use of new gpu

thane

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I just installed my new 980 TI - getting ready for Rift.

Until them I'm running on a 1440 pls monitor that refreshes at 60.

Questions:

Should I enable DSR and then up resolution in ED - will that make a difference given my monitor?

Are people using Geforce FPS counter or some other product to monitor FPS when you experiment? I can't seem to get Geforce FPS counter to show up in ED - just the status button. Alt F12 doesn't seem to turn on the FPS Counter for me. What dumb thing am I missing?

Feeling "duhhhhh"

(Sorry if this is in the wrong place in the forum.)
 

Commander Debic

Commander Debic
thane said:
I just installed my new 980 TI - getting ready for Rift.

Until them I'm running on a 1440 pls monitor that refreshes at 60.

Questions:

Should I enable DSR and then up resolution in ED - will that make a difference given my monitor?

Are people using Geforce FPS counter or some other product to monitor FPS when you experiment? I can't seem to get Geforce FPS counter to show up in ED - just the status button. Alt F12 doesn't seem to turn on the FPS Counter for me. What dumb thing am I missing?

Feeling "duhhhhh"

(Sorry if this is in the wrong place in the forum.)
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Its alt F, the letter.
 

Jon flint

Jon flint
If your card can manage it then yes DSR will give you the best available image quality, seems to work much better than the games built in supersampling, really smooths out those orbital lines.

Of course you will need to be able to run at upwards of double your monitor's native resolution to use DSR. No problem on a 1080p display. But if you're using a 4k display, even your very powerful card probably won't cope at much above a DSR of 1.5x.

Edit, on your 1440p monitor, I'd say try running with DSR and 4k resolution. The 980ti should be fine with that.
 
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lysan

lysan
It also has something to do with the engine, SLI is not working very well, and even if you run it with 980TI in SLI it will not be optimized. I tried but I see no huge advantages in doing so. Actually the game runs smoother with just one card ATM. Just stick with 1440 and you can crank up all the features you want.
 
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V3teran

V3teran
Download MSI Afterburner along with Rivatuner and this will give you lots of options for creating custom 1:1 profiles as well as a custom FPS counter and other features.
I suggest you lock fps to 59 within Rivatuner to eliminate input lag if your running at 60hz.
Also your gpu core power will take a massive hit when running at 4k, your fps will be drastically reduced when in stations.
I use SS 1x5 with everything else fully maxxed out at 1440p 100hz/99fps for 24/7 use.
Also download Nvidia Inspector also forget Nvidia control panel as it has less features than inspector and not all the features work anyhow from control panel. Nvidia Inspector settings override the control panel settings.
 
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veelckoo

veelckoo
thane said:
I just installed my new 980 TI - getting ready for Rift.

Until them I'm running on a 1440 pls monitor that refreshes at 60.

Questions:

Should I enable DSR and then up resolution in ED - will that make a difference given my monitor?

Are people using Geforce FPS counter or some other product to monitor FPS when you experiment? I can't seem to get Geforce FPS counter to show up in ED - just the status button. Alt F12 doesn't seem to turn on the FPS Counter for me. What dumb thing am I missing?

Feeling "duhhhhh"

(Sorry if this is in the wrong place in the forum.)
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Wouldn't it be better to spend 15 seconds to turn on DSR and judge it for yourself?
 

Laste

Laste
thane said:
I just installed my new 980 TI - getting ready for Rift.

Until them I'm running on a 1440 pls monitor that refreshes at 60.

Questions:

Should I enable DSR and then up resolution in ED - will that make a difference given my monitor?

Are people using Geforce FPS counter or some other product to monitor FPS when you experiment? I can't seem to get Geforce FPS counter to show up in ED - just the status button. Alt F12 doesn't seem to turn on the FPS Counter for me. What dumb thing am I missing?

Feeling "duhhhhh"

(Sorry if this is in the wrong place in the forum.)
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My gtx 980 works fine for dsr.
 

thane

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So I was experimenting per the advice above:

At 3840 x 2160 I get a little jerky when entering for docking (using the training session) - I lose the "jerk" when I went to 3620 x 2036.

Any way to eliminate the "jerk" without lowering the rez? (I am getting my 60 fps at the higher rez.)

Should I turn of AA? I read that somewhere.

Should I limit fps to 60 within the game, given my monitor is 1440 at 60? Please explain why that matters.

Thanks!
 

Jon flint

Jon flint
thane said:
So I was experimenting per the advice above:

At 3840 x 2160 I get a little jerky when entering for docking (using the training session) - I lose the "jerk" when I went to 3620 x 2036.

Any way to eliminate the "jerk" without lowering the rez? (I am getting my 60 fps at the higher rez.)

Should I turn of AA? I read that somewhere.

Should I limit fps to 60 within the game, given my monitor is 1440 at 60? Please explain why that matters.

Thanks!
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If your monitor is only 60hz then limiting the fps to 60 is a good idea, no point having your card do extra work to render frames that your monitor won't display.

And yes at very high resolutions you can turn off AA if you wish, since any jagged edges should be too small to see anyway.
 

thane

T
V3teran said:
Download MSI Afterburner along with Rivatuner and this will give you lots of options for creating custom 1:1 profiles as well as a custom FPS counter and other features.
I suggest you lock fps to 59 within Rivatuner to eliminate input lag if your running at 60hz.
Also your gpu core power will take a massive hit when running at 4k, your fps will be drastically reduced when in stations.
I use SS 1x5 with everything else fully maxxed out at 1440p 100hz/99fps for 24/7 use.
Also download Nvidia Inspector also forget Nvidia control panel as it has less features than inspector and not all the features work anyhow from control panel. Nvidia Inspector settings override the control panel settings.
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Please forgive nubie request for clarification, i.e. "SS 1x5" - clueless on the abbreviatiion of SS.
 

CMDR Harmless

CMDR Harmless
Having played ED on a single GTX 980 with my Rift, I will warn you... you probably wont want to do anything too fancy.

With the Rift, the most important thing is going to be the framerate. The pixelation is going to ruin any epic fancy sweet FX you implement, and those are going to almost always hurt your framerate.

A single 980 with the rift was honestly not enough to be silky smooth. 2 980s in SLI seems to fit the bill just right. The TI version of a single 980 may be enough... but really... you're not looking for the answers most people are going to give. You want to simplify graphics as much as possible in the name of framerate, not juice them up.
 

thane

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Thanks - just playing around with my new ti pending the consumer rift. Trying to understand down sampling - see what I can get out of the ti with my 1440 monitor while I wait.

But I do appreciate the caution - when I finally get Rift I'll simplify. I won't be getting another ti for some time - the wife would rebel.

:)
 

thane

T
So, after experimenting, I find I can hold 60 fps with 1.5 super sampling and resolution set at 2804 1577 (my native resolution 2840 by 1460) - AA off, fps limit 60 to match monitor. If I go higher resolution I drop down to 30 fps.

I haven't tried overclocking the gpu.

Two questions:

1) Can someone explain super sampling compare to resolution. I'm a little confused between the two settings. I can hold 60 fps at higher resolutions if I have super sampling off. Why am I increaseing both resolution and super sampling? Sounds redundant.

2) Does this sound like I'm in the ballpark for what I should get from a single 980 ti?

Thanks!
 
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Dozer.k.a.o.

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Why are you using DSR and Supersampling? they are just two ways of doing the same, if you are using both you are making a strange mix and getting closer to 4K or even go over it.


Supersampling: game render in higher resolution and then downscales to fit your screen resolution
DSR: exactly the same but through the Nvidia options.

Choose one of both, and see wich performance / quality is better for you, there is no magic answer here, it depends on your preferences and other specs of your rig.


i have the 980ti, actually running 2x supersampling & FXAA (since SMAA is not working in 1.4.) over a full HD monitor, 60hz stable even inside stations. The DSR works nice but it's very blurry for me, even with the Antialiasing deactivated
 
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