Thanks for the info. I did not know that but then, I tend to let things be as long as they work and so far my old GPU is still working.
GL HF Commander
Low GPU utilization
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Thanks for the info. I did not know that but then, I tend to let things be as long as they work and so far my old GPU is still working.
GL HF Commander
Whatever Frontier broke with regard to exhaust trails causes them to stall rendering; CPU and GPU utilization fall at the same time as the frame rate does. Disabling these exhaust trails removes them as a rendering bottleneck, allowing frame rate and GPU utilization to return to normal (high and essentially pegged at ~100%, if one's CPU is fast enough).
This is an acknowledged bug that will hopefully be fixed within the next few days.
I can't recall Frontier ever rolling back a patch, even ones buggier than this. Get used to it.
Thousand CMDRs have likely held the same opinion, right before losing their vessel to the effects of a powerplant malfunction.
The framerate drops aren't caused by the GPU having too much to do, they are caused by whatever is being done with exhaust trails preempting other stuff.
The GPU has to sit mostly idle, waiting for whatever the engine is asking it to do with the trails, to be resolved.
Elite Dangerous is normally quite demanding and will pull more power at the same clock speeds and voltages than most any actual game I've seen. Only a few benchmarks and stress tests utilize the GPU more thoroughly than ED.
That's why this exhaust trail issue is so glaring.
Plenty of people experiencing these issues have considerably more capable hardware than what's in your laptop.
You can't brute force your way around a problem like this and suggesting that one can, or that it would be worthwhile to spend money on hardware to do so when it's not a hardware issue, has an acceptable workaround, and is likely to be fixed in short order, is just silly.
Same here, 1080Ti Founders Edition (bought in Founder's World..duh)
That was a really underpowered shop you shopped at ;-)
Nvidia 2070 RTX in desktop (Ryzen 2600x) and laptop (i7 8750H) .
Laptop is actually the higher clocked video card - there is certainly something going on - as I am see-ing temporary slight drops to the mid 70's fps wise in busy stations in open (2560 x 1440 - everything as high as it can go) - elswhere I'd say I'm maybe running 10-15 or so fps less than what it was previous to patch - but , it does look "nicer" and it's still in the 150 plus range.
I get the impresion that RTX cards (any model) are suffering less of a hit - wonder if there was some early attempt at supporting RTX features maybe that made it into the patch ?
Be very interested to see what anyone with a Radeon 7 was see-ing - it has that monster 16gb of memory to play with.
I should have some quadro RTX cards in the next week or so, plus an i7 8705g (with vega on board) that I might try benching against to see if anything of inetrest pops up.
Laptop is actually the higher clocked video card - there is certainly something going on - as I am see-ing temporary slight drops to the mid 70's fps wise in busy stations in open (2560 x 1440 - everything as high as it can go) - elswhere I'd say I'm maybe running 10-15 or so fps less than what it was previous to patch - but , it does look "nicer" and it's still in the 150 plus range.
I get the impresion that RTX cards (any model) are suffering less of a hit - wonder if there was some early attempt at supporting RTX features maybe that made it into the patch ?
Be very interested to see what anyone with a Radeon 7 was see-ing - it has that monster 16gb of memory to play with.
I should have some quadro RTX cards in the next week or so, plus an i7 8705g (with vega on board) that I might try benching against to see if anything of inetrest pops up.
Damn, you're right! o7
It adds to the immersion of sitting in a spaceship
Here's my post on a similar thread. I noticed the same issue with the clock speeds that a couple people have already mentioned here.
forums.frontier.co.uk
Update: How do we know this isn't just some sneaky way to get us outside or to take a break from ED after the DW2 trip?
What the hell has just happened to the performance??? Halved framerate from April Update?
haven't played for a few months until today, my FPs is very jittery around stations.. complete game changer in performance loss.. whats is going on? i7-8700k 16gbram gtx1080 (5ghz mem 2ghz clock) (1080p 1.50 upscale settings and mainly ultra)
Update: How do we know this isn't just some sneaky way to get us outside or to take a break from ED after the DW2 trip?