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A question for SLI users
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amanfr01✭rophez_ESO wrote: »
I'm wondering how you manage to get those FPS. I'm running two 970's on a 1080p (and have tried disabling SLI) and still manage to dip in major cities. I have tried so many alternatives and solutions and nothing seems to change it.
The game is CPU Bound, it does not matter how many pixel shaders you throw at it, the CPU is what limits the performance in towns.
But with an i7-3770k OC'd to 4.5, I don't see how my CPU would be the issue.
Nor do I. Can you elaborate - how much do they dip? I literally NEVER went below 50 FPS when I was running my 670s in SLI. I've only had the 980 a few days, but, like I said - I'm between 60-100 in all the areas I've visited thus far. That's at 1440p.
It's 95% of the time 60fps (locked to v-sync), but towns and stuff it will stutter/dip to around 50-55 briefly, then go back when things are done loading. This happens in largely condensed towns.
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rophez_ESO✭✭✭✭✭rophez_ESO wrote: »
I'm wondering how you manage to get those FPS. I'm running two 970's on a 1080p (and have tried disabling SLI) and still manage to dip in major cities. I have tried so many alternatives and solutions and nothing seems to change it.
The game is CPU Bound, it does not matter how many pixel shaders you throw at it, the CPU is what limits the performance in towns.
But with an i7-3770k OC'd to 4.5, I don't see how my CPU would be the issue.
Nor do I. Can you elaborate - how much do they dip? I literally NEVER went below 50 FPS when I was running my 670s in SLI. I've only had the 980 a few days, but, like I said - I'm between 60-100 in all the areas I've visited thus far. That's at 1440p.
It's 95% of the time 60fps (locked to v-sync), but towns and stuff it will stutter/dip to around 50-55 briefly, then go back when things are done loading. This happens in largely condensed towns.
If it's usually pegged to your vsync (monitor refresh) it's probably capable of more. If you turn vsync off, I bet your FPS numbers will go up (not that you'll notice a difference in performance.) Try that - if you just stutter down to 55 or so now and then to load textures, I don't think that's your cards having a problem. Could be a bottleneck on your SLI bridge a disk limitation, or any number of other things. Bottom line - if it only happens for a few seconds when you hit a town, I wouldn't sweat it.
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But with an i7-3770k OC'd to 4.5, I don't see how my CPU would be the issue.
32 bit game running on probably two cores......75% of your CPU is just along for the ride.
Its not how fast your machine can chew the code, it's how fast the game can feed the code to your machine to chew on.
Or, it could be background apps too. Have you tried the game with a clean boot? No Antivirus apps, no ims, no media players, no other programs running, and nothing else, like the Launcher for this game, accessing the internet?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
Edited by Nestor on October 24, 2014 9:53PMEnjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
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LilChihuahua✭✭✭khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »I am currently building a new rig for 1440p gaming and Im considering going with either 2 x GTX970 cards in SLI or a single GTX980 card. How's ESO's performance on SLI machines? I remeber reading some bad opinions about it right after launch. How is it nowadays?
For ESO there will be like no difference between those two card set ups. No matter how good your rig is you won't get constant 30+ FPS during massive zerg battles in PvP due to poor optimization. My GTX 770SLI desktop get about the same FPS as my GTX870m laptop, it's about 21-27 FPS. PvE always 60+ and interiors solid 100.0 -
Sav72✭✭✭✭✭khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »
3Sli I am getting avg 80fps, I seen it peek to 99/100FPS. Soloing doing quests etc..
When raiding or PvP avg of 62 to 72.. I can notice major lag when FPS falls to 17.
Single card its at 55FPS on avg, peeks to 72. In raids/pvp 42 to 46 when sieging.
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RSram✭✭✭✭✭I believe the ESO graphics system is based on 5 year old tech, so any mid to high range video card with 2 to 4 gigabytes of video memory should work fine at 2560 X 1440 provided that you are using a current generation i5 to I7 Intel processor and have 4 GB of ram installed. ESO doesn't use more then 4 GBs of motherboard memory.
For comparison purposes, my gaming rig was built in 2010 and contains a second generation I7 6 core extreme processor with a newer GeForce GTX 680 and 24 GB Asus motherboard.
So far my rig has played every game at the video resolution of 2560 X 1440 with every setting turned up to max. ESO is the only game that I had to reduce the settings on to maintain a consistent 60FPS; the settings that I had to reduce are the shadows to medium, and water reflections to medium. All other settings are at the max. I do get FPS drops around Riften for some reason, but that could be due to bad culling data on the level design.
Go with the dual card SLI, but don't base your specifications on the ESO game engine, its out of date as are most games by the time they are published. Don't buy an Evga card, stick with Gigabyte or Asus, they have better customer support.
You always get a better performance/cost ratio using two cheaper single GPU cards in SLI, then one card with two GPU's on it. Another benefit, is if one card fails, you still have the other card to run your computer until the second card is replace.
Here's a link to Tom's Hardware that can help you choose the GU that is right for your budget:
Tom's hardware video card link
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