2-5fps in trials with GTX 970

Cadelay · December 2015

System Specs:

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card
Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.5GHz processor
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 motherboard
6gb RAM
Windows 10 recent install (1-2 months old)
SET LuaMemoryLimitMB "2048" in usersettings.txt

Yesterday I was running four small addons in Sanctum Ophidia (Papacrown, DressingRoom, Weapon Charge alert, Votan's Adapted settings), had restarted my client before the run, and had set my graphics to medium.

On certain fights, including the last boss, my fps dropped to 2-5. I should not be experiencing this low of fps with my system. It's not the addons. I don't know what to do anymore, it is so disheartening. The adaptive settings addon did not do anything to help even when it lowered my graphics more.

My PC temperatures are consistently good, no overheating at all. I monitor them actively.

This happened with my previous operating system, Windows 8.1 as well, on the same system build.

Help? Any suggestions? Do I really have to play on minimum settings with my higher end system?

Draxys · December 2015

How recent was your windows 10 update? My computer performance overall was incredibly bad for a couple days after updating but otherwise, eso just like runs like crap unfortunately. It's so poorly optimized.

Cadelay · December 2015

Draxys wrote: »

How recent was your windows 10 update? My computer performance overall was incredibly bad for a couple days after updating but otherwise, eso just like runs like crap unfortunately. It's so poorly optimized.

It was actually like a month or two ago, so not that recent. I know the game is poorly optimized. But it seems like I am the only one having such severe fps issues

Draxys · December 2015

Cadelay wrote: »

Draxys wrote: »

How recent was your windows 10 update? My computer performance overall was incredibly bad for a couple days after updating but otherwise, eso just like runs like crap unfortunately. It's so poorly optimized.

It was actually like a month or two ago, so not that recent. I know the game is poorly optimized. But it seems like I am the only one having such severe fps issues

You're definitely not. Plenty of people with machines that should run the game smoothly have reported having fps issues.

Septimus_Magna · December 2015

Open user settings in Wordpad > normal_maps=0 (disabling bump mapping) > save the file > start the game.
This reduces the bump details which greatly improves performance.

Note, some armor styles will look very flat (Dunmer heavy chest for example).

Edit: reducing the view distance to 30-40 also greatly reduces fps drops.

Cadelay · December 2015

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

Open user settings in Wordpad > normal_maps=0 (disabling bump mapping) > save the file > start the game.
This reduces the bump details which greatly improves performance.

Note, some armor styles will look very flat (Dunmer heavy chest for example).

Edit: reducing the view distance to 30-40 also greatly reduces fps drops.

I reduced the view distance to the lowest it could be at one point. Didn't make a difference...

I don't know about reducing more settings. I feel like this problem is too intense to be something like that. My GTX 970 shouldn't have to have flat armor.

Septimus_Magna · December 2015

Cadelay wrote: »

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

Open user settings in Wordpad > normal_maps=0 (disabling bump mapping) > save the file > start the game.
This reduces the bump details which greatly improves performance.

Note, some armor styles will look very flat (Dunmer heavy chest for example).

Edit: reducing the view distance to 30-40 also greatly reduces fps drops.

I reduced the view distance to the lowest it could be at one point. Didn't make a difference...

I don't know about reducing more settings. I feel like this problem is too intense to be something like that. My GTX 970 shouldn't have to have flat armor.

I feel you, even with GTX 970, 16GB RAM and 4,0GHz CPU I still had fps drops.

The point is that you cant play trails or large pvp battles when your fps drops to 2-5.

I have tried a lot and the best way to reduce these game breaking fps drops is to turn off bump mapping.

Most armor styles look fine btw, here's are couple screenshots with bump mapping turned off.

Tavore1138 · December 2015

980ti, 64gb ram, i7-5930 = 5-8 fps at times but 80-90 fps others... this has only been a problem for me and my guildies since about 3 minor patches ago. We all reported it then, we have tested turning our add-ons off 1 by 1 with no change.

Short version - some muppet may well have made a change that accidentally screwed up FPS, go check the detailed change record to see what it could be and reverse it.

If you don't have a proper change record after all this time than I volunteer my services to ride herd on your development function and introduce a proper approach to release and testing processes.

Shogunami · January 2016

Any of you peeps have any updates on this?

I have the same issue as described in this thread.

Such a shame, really. Just started doing trials with my guild and thought it'd be something fun to do every week. But it's not fun when it can't be done/enjoyed because of these absolutely ridiculous fps drops

Asmodean · January 2016

These issues are likely CPU-related. You should download GPU-Z, and run it in the background during your fps problems. Then tab out and check the reported gpu usage. You can also do the same with another application on the CPU side of things.

First rule of thumb when testing GPU performance issues: if reducing the graphical-heavy options doesn't have a positive affect on fps. Then it's likely CPU-related. Also if the main setting that affects your fps is view distance related, it's also fairly likely that it's CPU related. Depending on the situation.

I actually just made another post somewhat related here: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2607225/#Comment_2607225.

Try disabling addons.

Edit: also - not that's directly related. But I see absolutely no reason for your LuaMemoryLimitMB to be set to 2 GB. That's completely ridiculous lol.

Cadelay · January 2016

I forgot to update. I found what was doing this for ME specifically: It was an addon called AUI. I wasn't even running the minimap portion of it, but I disabled it and suddenly, no horrendous and unplayable fps drops. I have traded the addon for LUI and no such issues.

I still have fps drops but they're the expected ones, not the extreme ones.