Frame Rate Adjustment

gokhanuzmez

Greetings

I get 15-25 fps with High settings, and when I put things on medium, I get 30 fps on most of the areas which is pretty smooth.

Using i5, Ati 4670 M, 8 GB ram on a laptop
Ati settings are mid point between quality and performance.

Any settings tip for me to boost frame rate for PvP areas? without getting pixelated graphics ( thats what happens when you put LOW on everything, no human being shall play like that)

PvE is always smooth.

Thank You for help!

gokhanuzmez

expecting some advice!

Zyphix

Use a custom setting. Set the texture resolution to whatever you like and everything else to the lowest setting, then slowly improve the graphic features you like and watch what happens to the frame-rate.

In any case, leave ambient occlusion, distortion, water reflection, sun rays, and depth of field OFF. Those all eat your frame-rate!

Start with shadows off and slowly improve it to whatever works for you. Likewise, adjust the view distance to something that works for you.

Invincible

You're probably running out of vram. The more toons on the screen, the more your performance is going to suffer with that card. I'd take the previous posters advice and just dial back the settings for PvP.

Brittany_Joy

Disabling anti-aliasing and vertical-sync improves FPS by alot. For example; my asus k53ta can run ESO with 19fps on any settings with anti-aliasing/vertical-sync enabled but if I disable anti-aliasing/vertical-sync my FPS improves to 20-34 FPS, averaging at 30 on medium settings with all the details and sub-sampling at high. Also adjusting your gamma settings can help too. These are just my tips for improving performance without sacrificing too much detail.

gokhanuzmez

Brittany_Joy wrote: »

Disabling anti-aliasing and vertical-sync improves FPS by alot. For example; my asus k53ta can run ESO with 19fps on any settings with anti-aliasing/vertical-sync enabled but if I disable anti-aliasing/vertical-sync my FPS improves to 20-34 FPS, averaging at 30 on medium settings with all the details and sub-sampling at high. Also adjusting your gamma settings can help too. These are just my tips for improving performance without sacrificing too much detail.

Well the ATI settings says enabling Verticle Sync improves frame rate?

I am around 30 with high settings somehow which is good, should I mess with it ?

fatalslink

gokhanuzmez wrote: »

Well the ATI settings says enabling Verticle Sync improves frame rate?

I am around 30 with high settings somehow which is good, should I mess with it ?

vsync gives you the appearance of greater framerate, at the expense of (for me) gamebreaking input lag

:edit: http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2011/09/problem-of-vsync.html

Khazaad

reducing shadows to low gave me a huge FPS boost and IMO they don't look bad at all that way.

gokhanuzmez

Khazaad wrote: »

reducing shadows to low gave me a huge FPS boost and IMO they don't look bad at all that way.

mines are off, do you mean from off to low got you a boost?

Khazaad

gokhanuzmez wrote: »

Khazaad wrote: »

reducing shadows to low gave me a huge FPS boost and IMO they don't look bad at all that way.

mines are off, do you mean from off to low got you a boost?

No. I'm sorry. I meant turning them from high to low.

RastSekyd

Several ways to greatly improve your performance:

1) Lower the resolution. I enjoy 1400x1050. It's not bad, though not the best. Anything lower will start to look fuzzy. Stay away from 1024x768.

2) Set subsampling to medium. Low looks like crap outside of max resolution. Those heavily pixelated graphics you're referring to are the result of this. High will eat up your framerate. Medium is a nice compromise as long as you don't mind a slightly more dated appearance.

3) Turn shadows to low or off. Shadows KILL framerates on mobile GPUs.


Ambient occlusion can improve the overall look of the game without a huge framterate loss, but leaving it off will improve performance. Everything else should probably be off, except for grass - That has little to no effect on framerate and gives life to the world. Trust me, it's really dull with no grass.

Vsync can probably be off unless you're suffering from major tearing/artifact issues. Also, set the view distance down to around 50. Lower it as needed. Even at 0, you can still see far off enemies and resource nodes. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only important thing(eye candy aside) it effects is the visibility of skyshards.

As for anti-aliasing, it's probably best left off if you're using anything less than high subsampling. It just looks terrible otherwise, IMO.

Brittany_Joy

gokhanuzmez wrote: »

Brittany_Joy wrote: »

Disabling anti-aliasing and vertical-sync improves FPS by alot. For example; my asus k53ta can run ESO with 19fps on any settings with anti-aliasing/vertical-sync enabled but if I disable anti-aliasing/vertical-sync my FPS improves to 20-34 FPS, averaging at 30 on medium settings with all the details and sub-sampling at high. Also adjusting your gamma settings can help too. These are just my tips for improving performance without sacrificing too much detail.

Well the ATI settings says enabling Verticle Sync improves frame rate?

I am around 30 with high settings somehow which is good, should I mess with it ?

You're frame rate will increase if you turn off Vertical-Sync and Anti-Aliasing. All those do is make edges more smoother and eliminate tearing effects at the cost of performance, not really worth it. Reducing your view distance will help improve performance too.

If you're at 30FPS with high settings then that is playable and alot better than mine lol. Turning off VS and AA and reducing Resolution & view distance will definitely make it above 30FPS.

Khazaad

Choose a resolution according to YOUR screen's specs. not someone's suggestion about theirs.

vsync is correcting problems with tearing (part of the screen lags behind another parallel portion when quickly turning the camera left to right) if this is not a problem there is no reason to have it on.

gokhanuzmez

RastSekyd wrote: »

Several ways to greatly improve your performance:

1) Lower the resolution. I enjoy 1400x1050. It's not bad, though not the best. Anything lower will start to look fuzzy. Stay away from 1024x768.

2) Set subsampling to medium. Low looks like crap outside of max resolution. Those heavily pixelated graphics you're referring to are the result of this. High will eat up your framerate. Medium is a nice compromise as long as you don't mind a slightly more dated appearance.

3) Turn shadows to low or off. Shadows KILL framerates on mobile GPUs.


Ambient occlusion can improve the overall look of the game without a huge framterate loss, but leaving it off will improve performance. Everything else should probably be off, except for grass - That has little to no effect on framerate and gives life to the world. Trust me, it's really dull with no grass.

Vsync can probably be off unless you're suffering from major tearing/artifact issues. Also, set the view distance down to around 50. Lower it as needed. Even at 0, you can still see far off enemies and resource nodes. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only important thing(eye candy aside) it effects is the visibility of skyshards.

As for anti-aliasing, it's probably best left off if you're using anything less than high subsampling. It just looks terrible otherwise, IMO.

Yes I am following, my subsample is on High bur res is on 1280 x 720 which is actually pretty good graphics, fps stays around 30 on pve around the world

Problem starts in massive pvp, it slows down drastically obviously.

Thanks for the advices! I will check the sub sample medium and see if it gets too pixelated.

gokhanuzmez

I doubled the RAM and still Cyrodiil is not happening, as soon as 40+ ppl show up casting and fighting, fps drops to 5-15 range where I just see me dying. I thought range class would stay away and keep the fps in decent range, but NOPE!

So mainly only fps problem is Cyrodiil so far, and I lowered everything for that particularly ( almost gone blind, it was bad lol )

Bishop1983

Noob question here. How do you check your fps in this game? ive read somewhere that /fps works but nothing shows up. I am trying to find out if its my video card (gtx780) or net. My games stutters at times.

Frail_Old_Man

There is a LOT of hidden graphical options that are tied to the presets.
Set preset to minimum or low; Increase everything manually after that except the preset or atleast increase 'subsampling' to high. Disable water reflections.

PvP is a bit more CPU heavy.

I'm getting 40-60fps in large PvP fights when I roll with low preset(with almost everything turned high/on)

gokhanuzmez

Frail_Old_Man wrote: »

There is a LOT of hidden graphical options that are tied to the presets.
Set preset to minimum or low; Increase everything manually after that except the preset or atleast increase 'subsampling' to high. Disable water reflections.

PvP is a bit more CPU heavy.

I'm getting 40-60fps in large PvP fights when I roll with low preset(with almost everything turned high/on)

DUDE i think lot of ppl dont know this, that make sense, it feels like it dropped the Directx Quality and improved FPS drastically without looking at pixels !

Thanks so much

Khazaad

Frail_Old_Man wrote: »

There is a LOT of hidden graphical options that are tied to the presets.
Set preset to minimum or low; Increase everything manually after that except the preset or atleast increase 'subsampling' to high. Disable water reflections.

PvP is a bit more CPU heavy.

I'm getting 40-60fps in large PvP fights when I roll with low preset(with almost everything turned high/on)

@Frail_Old_Man‌ Ah ha! so that explains a lot. my settings got changed (forget why) from the norm and even though I put (or thought) every slider back to where they were, my graphics were comically stripped down. good call.

QuidamPhx

On laptops, also make sure you have sufficient cooling. Most will start to throttle or underclock after reaching temps in the 80s (Celsius). Manufacturers consider programming this in the BIOS a 'cooling feature'.

I had a laptop with a 540m and after putting it on a fan on my floor I was getting 40fps + compared to how it played while on a cooling mat. Almost unplayable before after ten mins.

Just a tip to get the most out of the hardware that's there, heat is always an issue with laptops

gokhanuzmez

QuidamPhx wrote: »

On laptops, also make sure you have sufficient cooling. Most will start to throttle or underclock after reaching temps in the 80s (Celsius). Manufacturers consider programming this in the BIOS a 'cooling feature'.

I had a laptop with a 540m and after putting it on a fan on my floor I was getting 40fps + compared to how it played while on a cooling mat. Almost unplayable before after ten mins.

Just a tip to get the most out of the hardware that's there, heat is always an issue with laptops

Yea that is true, I have a 45 degree aluminum fan that holds the laptop under A/C vent , and computer is hooked up to an external monitor, other wise I would not even able to play.