Are there any solutions to low frame rate on a high end PC?

tobymcdaidb16_ESO

I love ESO, but the optimisation problems are ruining it for me. With an i7 4790k I'm constantly getting 30% utilisation, as well as about 40-50% utilisation on each of my two GTX 970's. I know the game doesn't exactly support SLI, but are there any solutions that actually work for bringing up the frame rate?

I'm running a 1440p display at 110Hz, and constantly hovering around 50-60fps, the only time I get decent fps is when I'm out of city zones and in low density areas. I've tried everything from unparking cores, reducing settings, altering notepad files, removing addons, etc, nothing works.

Rylana

You do realize the human brain can only register FPS at 60, and thats assuming perfect vision.

So trying to go higher has no purpose.

JasonSilverSpring

Reducing draw distance seems to be the best option to raise frame rates in CPU limited areas. For me 75 is a good compromise. With my i7 980x I get about 45-50 fps.

tobymcdaidb16_ESO

Rylana wrote: »

You do realize the human brain can only register FPS at 60, and thats assuming perfect vision.

So trying to go higher has no purpose.

I'm sorry, but that's the stupidest thing I've ever read. There's a clear difference between 60Hz and 110Hz, so much so that playing at 60fps feels the same as you trying to play at 30fps. It amazes me that in 2015 people still believe this 'humans can only see 60fps' hogwash.

tobymcdaidb16_ESO

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

Reducing draw distance seems to be the best option to raise frame rates in CPU limited areas. For me 75 is a good compromise. With my i7 980x I get about 45-50 fps.

Yeah that setting does seem to give the best fps, it kind of sucks having to reduce the view distance so much though, you can't see what's going on nearer the horizon

Onebitsoul

People are complaining about 60 FPS, meanwhile I get 20-60 depending on location. I'm playing on a laptop, though.

Mr.Turtlesworth

I wish I can get that much fps lol
I'm at 15-22 fps all the time.

pecheckler

Rylana wrote: »

You do realize the human brain can only register FPS at 60, and thats assuming perfect vision.

So trying to go higher has no purpose.

You are technically incorrect, and also it is a complicated topic. The fact is there is an increase in video quality the higher the framerate. The human eye can register and process up to 1,000 frames per second, but most content is static and only registers at about 30 FPS. Noticeably changing dynamic scenes cause the brain to process over 100 frames, such as those found in action movie scenes, sports, racing games, many first person shooters, and plenty of other items that could fit in this category. Elder Scrolls Online contains nothing that would benefit from an FPS render higher than 60, and that is basically limited to someone focusing while sprinting on a maxed speed mount.

Elder_III

The game is CPU bound, anytime you have large numbers of players and/or architecture (Towns and PvP fights) your FPS will plummet like a dead bird in the sky. The scenarios with 100+ players I understand that FPS drops in a CPU bound game, but the architecture issues is poor coding or world design imo (perhaps collision, perhaps shortcuts with textures or 3d model implementation, can't say for sure without getting a true mod kit for it).

Hayuru

Disable water reflection. That is an FPS killer.

Epiphany

I had a similar problem on my single GTX 970 and, in my case, launching the game (eso.exe) directly or closing the launcher after the game started brought my FPS back up to a solid 90-100 on in most areas of the game. If the launcher is running then my FPS goes back down to the 60-ish range.