Hi guys,
I've had a blast playing ED with my DK2. I've experimented with just about every possible combination of HUD colors, NVidia CP settings, in-game settings, SweetFX settings, etc. I've overclocked my CPU and GPU, done things like assign high priority to the .exe in Task Manager and use third-party utilities to turn off Aero in Win 7 and shut down unecessary programs. Finally, I think I've found a sweet spot, but....
My system: i7 870 (base 2.93, OC to 3.56), GTX 970 (OC to 980 levels through MSI Afterburner) 12g of RAM, Win 7 64. I have followed almost every step in the optimization thread in this forum, so my HUD is green and I have SweetFX with contrast and some color changes. Through the NVCP, I turned on Adaptive VSync and use the NV DSR to run the game at 4K, with half of the Oculus detail sliders set in the game graphics options. My in-game graphics options are all high except for AA, Bloom, and Ambient Occlusion, which are Off.
So what happens is this. When I first implemented these settings, I got acceptable performance in stations, which means a little judder and a bit of lag in station when I whipped my head around too fast, but, overall, the results were very playable. Outside of stations, the game looked fantastic and generally very smooth. There was some micro-stutter the first few times I FSDed around suns but then the game seemed to "settle" and this didn't happen again.
Happy with the results, I shut down the game and rebooted my computer, just to make sure it wasn't a fluke. Well, when I started it again, with the exact same settings, there was much, much more judder and lag, making it almost unplayable. Why would this be ? Is it a case of the comp having to load up textures for the first few minutes of play ? Does rebooting do something to performance that I'm not aware of ? Sorry if these questions sound general and/or noobish but I can't understand why the game is almost perfect in one session, and goes to almost unplayable when I restart it. I'm sure I could get it smooth again by scaling down resolution to 2.5k, so it's not that I can't play it, but I'm wondering if there's a step or two that I can take to ensure that I get my original settings to be smooth every time. Any comments or suggestions would be tremendously appreciated. Thanks !
I've had a blast playing ED with my DK2. I've experimented with just about every possible combination of HUD colors, NVidia CP settings, in-game settings, SweetFX settings, etc. I've overclocked my CPU and GPU, done things like assign high priority to the .exe in Task Manager and use third-party utilities to turn off Aero in Win 7 and shut down unecessary programs. Finally, I think I've found a sweet spot, but....
My system: i7 870 (base 2.93, OC to 3.56), GTX 970 (OC to 980 levels through MSI Afterburner) 12g of RAM, Win 7 64. I have followed almost every step in the optimization thread in this forum, so my HUD is green and I have SweetFX with contrast and some color changes. Through the NVCP, I turned on Adaptive VSync and use the NV DSR to run the game at 4K, with half of the Oculus detail sliders set in the game graphics options. My in-game graphics options are all high except for AA, Bloom, and Ambient Occlusion, which are Off.
So what happens is this. When I first implemented these settings, I got acceptable performance in stations, which means a little judder and a bit of lag in station when I whipped my head around too fast, but, overall, the results were very playable. Outside of stations, the game looked fantastic and generally very smooth. There was some micro-stutter the first few times I FSDed around suns but then the game seemed to "settle" and this didn't happen again.
Happy with the results, I shut down the game and rebooted my computer, just to make sure it wasn't a fluke. Well, when I started it again, with the exact same settings, there was much, much more judder and lag, making it almost unplayable. Why would this be ? Is it a case of the comp having to load up textures for the first few minutes of play ? Does rebooting do something to performance that I'm not aware of ? Sorry if these questions sound general and/or noobish but I can't understand why the game is almost perfect in one session, and goes to almost unplayable when I restart it. I'm sure I could get it smooth again by scaling down resolution to 2.5k, so it's not that I can't play it, but I'm wondering if there's a step or two that I can take to ensure that I get my original settings to be smooth every time. Any comments or suggestions would be tremendously appreciated. Thanks !
