Plz help with Odyssey performance.

Extreme Entropy

Extreme Entropy
Hi, I recently bought Odyssey, I play Horizons perfectly at ultra quality smoothly, but Odyssey... I had to set everything to low and, beside looking like garbage, stills drops to single digits frames when approaching a planet. It's not only unplayable, it's outrageous that I can play with such beautiful graphics Horizons and I have to play Odyssey like a 90's voodoo graphics video game.
If someone knows whats the problem, please help me.
My computer specs (that are well above what the requirements on the steam store page recommends) are:

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz (12 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 16GB RAM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 16GB RAM
Default Screen Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz) (It's an Alienware laptop)
Thanks in advance.
 

Ryox

Ryox
You should run the game with your hardware performance monitor open and first check if your CPU and/or GPU are at 100% load. So you can narrow better the cause of the issue.
If you post the results here, people might be able to give you more advices.
 

Ryox

Ryox
Also, you should check this post:

Huge drop in fps and poor quality.

On the old Gtx 1080TI it ran perfectly over 60 fps in 4K, but now it is not justifiable even on a 3090, it must not be the hardware that has to compensate for engine code errors, especially on an old engine almost devoid of visual effects.
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londonx said:
Some performance tweaks and quality checks that were useful for me (Nvidia user) on a GTX 1080:
  • Latest Nvidia Driver, a clean driver install is optimal e.g. using the free "Display Driver Uninstaller" (DDU) app (Latest AMD Drivers have a bug that crashes the game on planets so check out the official forum post about it)
  • Clear out all the graphics settings files in C:\Users[USER]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\ folder. These files just get recreated to default settings when you relaunch the game, there is a common issue with older Horizons settings causing performance drop after upgrading so best to start from clean sheet.
  • Upon game relaunch Double-check that the screen refresh rate under Options > Display is set to your monitors optimal refresh rate setting.
  • Options > Graphics > Gamma, Check the gamma slider is correct for your monitor situation (Odyssey (Codebase 4.0?) has a different scale to 3.8)
  • Options > Graphics > Quality > Upscaling... set it to "Normal" unless you are running at 4K and desperately need the extra FPS then AMD FSR set to "Quality" or above is a good quality compromise.
  • Options > Graphics > Quality > Terrain Checkerboard Rendering, ON = fps improvement on planet surfaces when surface is in view, OFF = better planet surface texture quality
  • I found the Nividia GeForce Experience optimisation settings for Odyssey pretty spot on, at 1440p resolution most settings were high or ultra, but Bloom was turned off and Shadows set to medium. I was able to increase Terrain Texture Detail to Ultra+ and max draw distance without any noticable performance drop.
  • Turn on Windows 10 "Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling" under Windows Settings System > Display.
  • Turn off V Sync in game and use Nvidia Control Panel to run V Sync set to "Fast Sync" for the game (can configure per game or system-wide).
  • Clear out your shader cache (fresh start, removes any corrupted files etc) and make sure it has a large enough capacity as if it is too small this will cause cached shaders to be removed frequently thus spoiling the benefit of it especially if play lots of other 3D games. Nividia shader cache dir is C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\DXCache and the size can be adjusted in the NVidia control panel (I have mine set to unlimited). Obviously you will only benefit performance wise from the cache once it starts containing relevant game shaders after playing the game a couple of times.
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Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
Also don't look at the overall CPU usage; look for individual cores that are at full load. Average CPU usage lies to you and is of no use if you are looking for CPU limiting.
 

Northpin

Northpin
JuanDomingo said:
Hi, I recently bought Odyssey, I play Horizons perfectly at ultra quality smoothly, but Odyssey... I had to set everything to low and, beside looking like garbage, stills drops to single digits frames when approaching a planet. It's not only unplayable, it's outrageous that I can play with such beautiful graphics Horizons and I have to play Odyssey like a 90's voodoo graphics video game.
If someone knows whats the problem, please help me.
My computer specs (that are well above what the requirements on the steam store page recommends) are:

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz (12 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 16GB RAM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 16GB RAM
Default Screen Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz) (It's an Alienware laptop)
Thanks in advance.
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That config should be good enough to play Odyssey.

However, make sure you set the general GFX quality to High, then expand the settings and set Bloom to Off and shadows to medium
Then make sure you disable AMD FSR and set supersampling to normal, 1.0x
Make sure you disable Checkerboard

Then try again.
If you still get single digits FPS, and that Alienware being a laptop, you may want to check how dusted your fans are and generally speaking how efficient cooling is after all this years you're using that laptop.

Odyssey is much much more graphic intensive than Horizons 3.8 and will put a lot of strain on your laptop.
And as i said, if the cooling of your laptop is not good enough (due to accumulated dust over the years), your laptop will overheat and throttle down significantly affecting the performance
 

Extreme Entropy

Extreme Entropy
Mrc_NorthEast said:
1070 desktop cards were 8gb. 1070 in a laptop? Does it share system ram or have it's own dedicated ram?
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Northpin said:
IIRC some Alienware laptops featured SLI Nvidia Cards

Edit: and if this is the case for OP, they should really disable SLI for Odyssey because apparently it lowers the performance instead of improving it.
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I think it's 8gb on board and 8gb shared memory, is that what you call SLI (I thought SLI was having 2 boards in tandem)? the 8gb shared? Sorry for my ignorance... do you know where I disable it?
 
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Extreme Entropy

Extreme Entropy
I think it's probably what
Bravo17 said:
That will likely vary depending on which exact model of laptop you have. if you can post that someone will be more able to help - we can also see if you actually have SLI to start with.
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No, it's not SLI, it's only one card with 8gb dedicated on board ram and 8gb shared with the system ram.
 

Extreme Entropy

Extreme Entropy
It might be a cooling problem as Northpin said, because fans go crazy when I run Odyssey and not with Horizon. I will dismantle the laptop this weekend and clean it thoroughly. I'll get back to you if that doesn't help.
 

Morbad

Morbad
4.0 will load the CPU much more heavily than 3.8 and will also load the GPU more heavily at any given frame rate. Keeping the laptop's cooling clean is always wise, but thermal issues could easily persist.
 
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