New Hardware - need help

Wump

Hey Guys,

first: sorry for bad english, no native speaker

@topic:
I'm having horrible fps while playing eso. No matter if in town, open world, dungeon or pvp, fps is at 30 at best. Tried literally every option in grafic settings, lowered resolution, turned off v-sync, aa, all these things. Never got better than 30fps. As i'm running eso on a pretty low system, i'd like to know where to start upgrading my computer. Current system:

Intel Core i3-2120, 3,30GHz, 6GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT 530

I guess the GT 530 is the main problem?

thx in advance - love this game, i'm willing to spent some money

Wump

shameless up no responses?

Armitas

I would wait until new drivers come out in respect to ESO before spending any money.

I get the same amount of frames but I'm fine with the game visually. So if the game looks good to you I would ignore the "fps number" and save your money. After a point "fps" is irrelevant to actually playing the game and more of a personal stat.

Armitas

Double post.

Saerydoth

The 530 is a VERY low end card that is designed for things like email and Facebook, not gaming. You should not expect to be able to play ESO on anything but low settings, and even that will probably give pretty poor performance.

The i3-2120 isn't that bad...it's on the low end side of Intel processors, but the main disadvantage it has is that it has 2 cores instead of 4. The 2 cores that it does have are decent and should be able to handle ESO fairly well. That said, you would definitely see some gains by moving up to a quad-core i5. But the immediate problem is the video card and you would see huge gains by getting a better card.

Publius_Scipio

The video card and also the CPU aren't really the strongest given today's standards. Maybe it is worth it to build or buy a new computer?

arondight

Nice try, zenimax server admin, nice try...

Wump

Thx for your answers!

I really don't have a clue in terms of building a good computer (guess you already recognized that fact ) So do you have any idea which video card (doesn't have to be the super-uber high end card) would provide a significant update? Or do you recommend to buy a new pc because of the cpu as well?

thank you all!

Menetheran

Yeah, I think you're seeing the result of some pretty low end hardware running a graphically advanced game. I had a older system that I upgraded last week. I bought the following which I think is a pretty solid core system for the money:

Core i7 4770k (Haswell) (~300)
ASUS ROG MB (~180)
ASUS GTX760 vid card (~250)
DDR3 1600 (2x4) (~75)

In each category you can definitely spend more money but there's no need to or you can spend less, but you can't really spend a lot less on any individual component without seeing a drop in performance. (You could get a higher end i5 and spend about $100 less on the CPU which is probably the easiest savings).

I used my old case, PSU, keyboard, mouse and HD and I can run the game on all ultra with great FPS. Cost was around $900US after taxes shipped from Amazon. Nearly the same price from Newegg just slower shipping than prime.

Belrim

Menetheran wrote: »

I bought the following which I think is a pretty solid core system for the money:

Core i7 4770k (Haswell) (~300)
ASUS ROG MB (~180)
ASUS GTX760 vid card (~250)
DDR3 1600 (2x4) (~75)

In each category you can definitely spend more money but there's no need to or you can spend less, but you can't really spend a lot less on any individual component without seeing a drop in performance. (You could get a higher end i5 and spend about $100 less on the CPU which is probably the easiest savings).

Could definately spend less on the mobo too, and put the saves to faster gpu.

mcox3178b14_ESO

I'm running ESO with an I3-2120 and a Radeon HD7950 and getting ~60FPS in dungeons and 35-40FPS in cities on high settings. 80FPS in solo dungeons. Upgrade your Video card and you should be fine.

BTW my processor never goes above 65% usage. That's with multiple pages open on my 2nd monitor while gaming. If it is at all bottlenecking my GPU I certainly cannot tell.

faalin

try rolling back your drivers for your card. I was using the newest ones and even the beta drivers for my 580 and only getting 40 fps. Dropped back to 320.18 from may 23, 2013 and am no doing 100fps on ultra setting. I'd give that a try before buying anything. Ive had nothing but issues with NVidia's new drivers for 500 series cards.


If that doesn't work then look into buying a new video card.

my system specs
i5 2500k stock settings
mushkin 2x4gb 1600mhz cas 7
msi 580 stock settings
win 7 on ssd game on second ssd
getting 100fps checked by msi afterburn. I think the game is capped at 100 from what I read on the forums.