Improving your frame rates

[Sighman]

1. Don't watch Netflix or whatever on a second monitor. If you must, switch to 720p.
I'm serious. Check your frame rate in Odyssey when you pause/unpause a 1080p video. Mine goes from 50 to 30. If you look in task manage while running a video you can see how much GPU it's eating up. 720p uses around 1/4 the amount 1080p does.

2. Toy with the driver settings in the Nvidia control panel.
I set Low Latency to ON, Texture Filtering to High Performance, Threaded Optimisation to On, Max Frame Rate to 60 (adjust as applicable)
I have Power Management to Adaptive, but Max Performance might help

In Odyssey itself, I use High settings but change a few things (texture size, terrain, shadows) to medium.

GTX 1660Ti, I7-6700k

 

[Just]

Hmmm...
Your post gave me an idea - I made a shortcut to start web browser with GPU acceleration disabled, will use it when I am playing games and browsing web on 2nd monitor.
My CPU integrated graphic chip is unfortunately disabled.

 

[Sighman]

You can turn off gpu acceleration for viewing web/store pages in Steam as well.

 

[Sighman]

Hmmm...
Your post gave me an idea - I made a shortcut to start web browser with GPU acceleration disabled, will use it when I am playing games and browsing web on 2nd monitor.
My CPU integrated graphic chip is unfortunately disabled.

Good point. Odyssey is only using half my CPU cores anyway.

 

[Just]

You can turn off gpu acceleration for viewing web/store pages in Steam as well.

Yes, I keep Steam (and other similar background tasks) as resouce-restrained as it goes

 

[Sighman]

Steam is using 2.5% of my GPU just idling. Gimme back my frames!

 

[{SAS}Stalker]

It's not your hardware it's the software, there's a thread on here linking to an explanation as to what's going on. The game is rendering everything, sometimes more than once, regardless of if you can see it or not.

 

[Sighman]

It's not your hardware it's the software, there's a thread on here linking to an explanation as to what's going on. The game is rendering everything, sometimes more than once, regardless of if you can see it or not.

I know, I shared that video on the steam forums about a month ago.

But it's still worth improving what we have.

 

[Just]

It's not your hardware it's the software, there's a thread on here linking to an explanation as to what's going on. The game is rendering everything, sometimes more than once, regardless of if you can see it or not.

Well, bad "in-game" optimization makes limiting GPU usage OUTSIDE of game even more important.

 

[{SAS}Stalker]

Well, bad "in-game" optimization makes limiting GPU usage OUTSIDE of game even more important.

Maybe but you're never going to overpower the software issues by shutting a browser down. It might bring a 20% increase in FPS but when it's running at 20fps from the start, the extra 4 FPS isn't making any difference. For many the FPS portion of the game is unplayable.

I'll not hide the fact my pc is long in the tooth but it gets 100+ fps in horizons, I get between 20-30 in odyssey.

 

[Just]

when it's running at 20fps from the start, the extra 4 FPS isn't making any difference.

True.
But (after a lot of settings tuning) I am lucky to have stable 60fps most of the time, with some minor fps drops to 50-55 occasionally.
This is why fighting for those "extra few %" of GPU makes sense in my case.