ESO SLI 4K performence

leipatemeibbaa

Hey,

I have been playing ESO on my 4K monitor with GTX1080 SLI build. Even through ZOS officially confirmed that ESO is SLI supported since Craglorn patch, but I am still not happy with the result of the gaming performence.

With one GTX1080 running on 4K, my GPU is always at 100% load and FPS around 50 in the major city, and 90 ~ 100 inside the dungoen. The FPS will drop dramatically to 25 ~ 30 FPS while running 12 people trial.

Now with two GTX1080s running on 4K, my frist GPU is at 50%, and second GPU at 50%. I don't see much FPS improvement (maybe 5~10) the most. Especially during the trials the FPS still drop down to around 25.

Anybody using SLI have similar issue? Any idea whether or not I have some setting incorrect to cause that? Please if u can. ( I have Multi -GPU setting in the Nvidia control panel set to render 2 already)

Thank you!!

leipatemeibbaa

ESO is not SLI friendly

Paulington

ESO is perfectly SLI friendly, it is not however CPU friendly.

I have the exact setup you do (1080 SLI) and you will note that most of the time the game is locked on to one processor core and in graphically intensive situations the CPU will bottleneck far before the GPUs get utilised. The solution is a better single-thread performance CPU (or overclocking your existing one), not more GPU power.

My setup is done right and gets the same FPS you do (around 100-140 FPS if I am in a small zone doing nothing and alone then about 45-55 FPS in cities) assuming maximum settings. It's a CPU-bound game, nothing to be done.

leipatemeibbaa

Paulington wrote: »

ESO is perfectly SLI friendly, it is not however CPU friendly.

I have the exact setup you do (1080 SLI) and you will note that most of the time the game is locked on to one processor core and in graphically intensive situations the CPU will bottleneck far before the GPUs get utilised. The solution is a better single-thread performance CPU (or overclocking your existing one), not more GPU power.

My setup is done right and gets the same FPS you do (around 100-140 FPS if I am in a small zone doing nothing and alone then about 45-55 FPS in cities) assuming maximum settings. It's a CPU-bound game, nothing to be done.

My CPU is I7 4930K overcloced at 4.5Ghz. I am using 64 bit client. Isn't 64 bit client supposed to use multi core?

Paulington

leipatemeibbaa wrote: »

Paulington wrote: »

ESO is perfectly SLI friendly, it is not however CPU friendly.

I have the exact setup you do (1080 SLI) and you will note that most of the time the game is locked on to one processor core and in graphically intensive situations the CPU will bottleneck far before the GPUs get utilised. The solution is a better single-thread performance CPU (or overclocking your existing one), not more GPU power.

My setup is done right and gets the same FPS you do (around 100-140 FPS if I am in a small zone doing nothing and alone then about 45-55 FPS in cities) assuming maximum settings. It's a CPU-bound game, nothing to be done.

My CPU is I7 4930K overcloced at 4.5Ghz. I am using 64 bit client. Isn't 64 bit client supposed to use multi core?

I also have an i7-4930k @ 4.5GHz (sometimes 4.4, depends). The 64-bit client is apparently multi-core but I think it uses parallel threads to do different things, for example on thread may do the graphic content such as armour and another may do particle effects but I honestly have no idea and ZOS would be better chiming in here.

The performance you are getting is what I also get, maybe you can squeeze a frame or two more per second but that's how it is currently.

Honestly I am not too bothered. During Trials I just drop AA/Shadows a bit and my FPS is far better. Sucks that I have to drop it at all but the sacrifice is worth making, the game looks beautiful at 4K regardless.

Niastissa

leipatemeibbaa wrote: »

Hey,

I have been playing ESO on my 4K monitor with GTX1080 SLI build. Even through ZOS officially confirmed that ESO is SLI supported since Craglorn patch, but I am still not happy with the result of the gaming performence.

With one GTX1080 running on 4K, my GPU is always at 100% load and FPS around 50 in the major city, and 90 ~ 100 inside the dungoen. The FPS will drop dramatically to 25 ~ 30 FPS while running 12 people trial.

Now with two GTX1080s running on 4K, my frist GPU is at 50%, and second GPU at 50%. I don't see much FPS improvement (maybe 5~10) the most. Especially during the trials the FPS still drop down to around 25.

Anybody using SLI have similar issue? Any idea whether or not I have some setting incorrect to cause that? Please if u can. ( I have Multi -GPU setting in the Nvidia control panel set to render 2 already)

Thank you!!

What is the rest of your system build?

CPU
RAM
SLI Bridge

I have video uploading where I had my machine running at absolute max settings at 4K and for the most part I was at 60FPS.

Also at 4K you need the new bridge. My results are with the old ribbon bridge so I expect a slight performance increase when my new bridge arrives.

Paulington

Niastissa wrote: »

leipatemeibbaa wrote: »

Hey,

I have been playing ESO on my 4K monitor with GTX1080 SLI build. Even through ZOS officially confirmed that ESO is SLI supported since Craglorn patch, but I am still not happy with the result of the gaming performence.

With one GTX1080 running on 4K, my GPU is always at 100% load and FPS around 50 in the major city, and 90 ~ 100 inside the dungoen. The FPS will drop dramatically to 25 ~ 30 FPS while running 12 people trial.

Now with two GTX1080s running on 4K, my frist GPU is at 50%, and second GPU at 50%. I don't see much FPS improvement (maybe 5~10) the most. Especially during the trials the FPS still drop down to around 25.

Anybody using SLI have similar issue? Any idea whether or not I have some setting incorrect to cause that? Please if u can. ( I have Multi -GPU setting in the Nvidia control panel set to render 2 already)

Thank you!!

What is the rest of your system build?

CPU
RAM
SLI Bridge

I have video uploading where I had my machine running at absolute max settings at 4K and for the most part I was at 60FPS.

Also at 4K you need the new bridge. My results are with the old ribbon bridge so I expect a slight performance increase when my new bridge arrives.

Actually you don't need the new bridge at 4K, a standard LED bridge will do.



I can average 60 FPS on max settings over a gameplay session no problem because even 4K@max I get around 45-55 FPS in towns and 120+ FPS out in the world, it's only in Trials where my FPS dips below 30 every now and again when there is a ton of stuff on the screen.

Niastissa

Paulington wrote: »

Niastissa wrote: »

leipatemeibbaa wrote: »

Hey,

I have been playing ESO on my 4K monitor with GTX1080 SLI build. Even through ZOS officially confirmed that ESO is SLI supported since Craglorn patch, but I am still not happy with the result of the gaming performence.

With one GTX1080 running on 4K, my GPU is always at 100% load and FPS around 50 in the major city, and 90 ~ 100 inside the dungoen. The FPS will drop dramatically to 25 ~ 30 FPS while running 12 people trial.

Now with two GTX1080s running on 4K, my frist GPU is at 50%, and second GPU at 50%. I don't see much FPS improvement (maybe 5~10) the most. Especially during the trials the FPS still drop down to around 25.

Anybody using SLI have similar issue? Any idea whether or not I have some setting incorrect to cause that? Please if u can. ( I have Multi -GPU setting in the Nvidia control panel set to render 2 already)

Thank you!!

What is the rest of your system build?

CPU
RAM
SLI Bridge

I have video uploading where I had my machine running at absolute max settings at 4K and for the most part I was at 60FPS.

Also at 4K you need the new bridge. My results are with the old ribbon bridge so I expect a slight performance increase when my new bridge arrives.

Actually you don't need the new bridge at 4K, a standard LED bridge will do.



I can average 60 FPS on max settings over a gameplay session no problem because even 4K@max I get around 45-55 FPS in towns and 120+ FPS out in the world, it's only in Trials where my FPS dips below 30 every now and again when there is a ton of stuff on the screen.

Why buy the LED bridge now? They cost just about the same. Might as well just get the other bridge. Down the road when the 1080TI cards come out maybe I might want a ultra wide with the same vertical resolution as the 4K monitor in a curved form factor. Preferably bigger then 27" this time.

leipatemeibbaa

Niastissa wrote: »

leipatemeibbaa wrote: »

Hey,

I have been playing ESO on my 4K monitor with GTX1080 SLI build. Even through ZOS officially confirmed that ESO is SLI supported since Craglorn patch, but I am still not happy with the result of the gaming performence.

With one GTX1080 running on 4K, my GPU is always at 100% load and FPS around 50 in the major city, and 90 ~ 100 inside the dungoen. The FPS will drop dramatically to 25 ~ 30 FPS while running 12 people trial.

Now with two GTX1080s running on 4K, my frist GPU is at 50%, and second GPU at 50%. I don't see much FPS improvement (maybe 5~10) the most. Especially during the trials the FPS still drop down to around 25.

Anybody using SLI have similar issue? Any idea whether or not I have some setting incorrect to cause that? Please if u can. ( I have Multi -GPU setting in the Nvidia control panel set to render 2 already)

Thank you!!

What is the rest of your system build?

CPU
RAM
SLI Bridge

I have video uploading where I had my machine running at absolute max settings at 4K and for the most part I was at 60FPS.

Also at 4K you need the new bridge. My results are with the old ribbon bridge so I expect a slight performance increase when my new bridge arrives.

CPU is I74930K OC @ 4.5GHz, 32G RAM @2333, I am using Nvidia HB bridge ( cost $39.99 )

Milvan

(just disgressing)

Me reading this tread:



I should read more about computer stuff, because I google half of the words that you guys used.

SirAndy

leipatemeibbaa wrote: »

Any idea ?

Your problem is that you're assuming your lack of FPS has something to do with your hardware.

leipatemeibbaa

SirAndy wrote: »

leipatemeibbaa wrote: »

Any idea ?

Your problem is that you're assuming your lack of FPS has something to do with your hardware.

I feel better that this is about the game itself

leipatemeibbaa

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Any suggestion on how to not let CPU bottle neck GPU SLI?