Requesting EDO VR Performance Advice

[Drannon]

Greetings, CMDRs!

My Specs:
i5-4670K (4 CPUs) OC'd at 3.4GHz
16GB RAM
EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB running stock
SSDs for both OS and gaming storage

I know I'm asking for a lot from a rig that's just under recommended specs but I've tried just about everything I can think of to squeeze as much FPS as possible outta the game, specifically at stations, concourses and settlements. Space is fine at a steady 72 FPS as there isn't much to render out there. Horizons everything runs smooth as butter with the settings jacked up but EDO with everything at low or off still limps. I've tweaked every Windows and Nvidia option I know toward performance over quality. When monitoring my PC's overall performance my memory and GPU stay pretty stable at 50% and keep cool while the CPU hits the high 90th percentile and basically caps out.

My mobo can support up to a Haswell i7-4770 and I'm wondering if there's really any benefit to that as my i5 is hitting all the same performance marks, minus the i7's hyper-threading. There's also the potential for certain i7 K chips to "turbo" or OC at 4.X GHz. I know the best solution is to upgrade to a newer mobo that supports more recent builds but unfortunately that's not in the budget right now and I'm hoping there's something I missed. I've done a lot of experimentation with the Nvidia Control Panel with little success.

Do I need to upgrade my memory to 32Gb? Running 16GB with accompanying 16,384MB of virtual memory, and EDO only bumps my PC's demand roughly up to 9Gb which is probly the highest ive ever seen it sustained as I like to keep redundant services and the usual Windows shovelware running in the background to a minimum. But I've read that i5s and up can also utilize integrated memory so is that something I need to consider as an an advantage or would that not apply to my current situation?

Thank you all and take care.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

goto arrakis and search for water youll have better luck...………. gpu ok for vr mobo/cpu letting you down and not worth going i74770 either imo for just a slight inprovement

 

[Drannon]

Alright, I appreciate the feedback. Here's hoping FDev is able to pull off an optimization miracle in the mean time. I'm still enjoying EDO in spite of my rig's shortcomings.

 

[Morbad]

Greetings, CMDRs!

My Specs:
i5-4670K (4 CPUs) OC'd at 3.4GHz
16GB RAM
EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB running stock
SSDs for both OS and gaming storage

I know I'm asking for a lot from a rig that's just under recommended specs but I've tried just about everything I can think of to squeeze as much FPS as possible outta the game, specifically at stations, concourses and settlements. Space is fine at a steady 72 FPS as there isn't much to render out there. Horizons everything runs smooth as butter with the settings jacked up but EDO with everything at low or off still limps. I've tweaked every Windows and Nvidia option I know toward performance over quality. When monitoring my PC's overall performance my memory and GPU stay pretty stable at 50% and keep cool while the CPU hits the high 90th percentile and basically caps out.

My mobo can support up to a Haswell i7-4770 and I'm wondering if there's really any benefit to that as my i5 is hitting all the same performance marks, minus the i7's hyper-threading. There's also the potential for certain i7 K chips to "turbo" or OC at 4.X GHz. I know the best solution is to upgrade to a newer mobo that supports more recent builds but unfortunately that's not in the budget right now and I'm hoping there's something I missed. I've done a lot of experimentation with the Nvidia Control Panel with little success.

As you've noted, you're heavily CPU limited in Odyssey.

The extra logical cores from an LGA-1150 i7 would help, but only to a certain degree. You'd still be CPU limited. That said, a used 4770K can be had pretty cheap and may be a worthwhile stop-gap.

In the meantime, you might try reducing "NumWorkerThreads" to "4" in AppConfig.xml and seeing if forcing Threaded Optimization OFF for the game in the NVIDIA Control Panel settings, helps at all.

Do I need to upgrade my memory to 32Gb?

No. 16GiB of system memory is plenty for EDO. 8GiB would have issues at times, 12GiB would be borderline if anything else was running, but you'd have to be doing fairly heavy multitasking for 16GiB to be an issue.

And don't let anyone tell you to disable the page file. Doing so is not faster. Memory won't actually be paged out to any meaningful degree, unless it needs to be, and Windows just knowing it's there makes management of physical memory addresses more efficient.

 

[Drannon]

Thank you very much, I'll give your suggestions a go.