[HELP] Low FPS on 2 980SLI, 32GB of Ram, and 6 core i7 3.3ghz

Draconerus · February 2017

On this game alone I cannot seem to get my frames above 60FPS. Normally I am around 40FPS if I am lucky. My setup can handle any other game on Ultra. I have customized the settings of ESO for shadows, particles and other settings to medium or low and still have this issue. My hardware doesn't seem to make a difference. I am running the 64bit client on DX11 with 2 980SLI, 32GB of Ram and 6 core i7 3.3ghz not overclocked yet.

Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated as I am at a loss as to why my frames are not higher.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · February 2017

Overclock the CPU. The game is really CPU bound.

xSkullfox · February 2017

HDD or SSD ?
After switching to SSD, game runs now with 90-100 fps, before with crappy 30-40.

JasonSilverSpring · February 2017

Try reducing draw distance to 50 and see if that helps. Draw distance seems to really hammer the CPU.

Draconerus · February 2017

I am pretty sure I already lowered the draw distance, but will make sure when I get home. I can also overclock the CPU, but I would think my hardware alone should be able to get above 60fps and more. I am also running on SSD's.

Zakor · February 2017

Have you ever tweaked your UserSettings.ini? Maybe that can help you.

alitheso.com/index.php/forum/General-Help/63582-guide-tweaking-eso-performance-graphics-stutter

Draconerus · February 2017

Yes, I have tried that as well.

Draconerus · February 2017

Changed draw distance to 50, no luck. Still getting around 40FPS. Anyway to force the game to run on more cores?

JasonSilverSpring · February 2017

What resolution? I cannot confirm but I have heard that SLI might not work with 64 but client. I play a 4K with i7 5930k at 4.5 with a Titan X Pascal and had to reduce draw distance to keep mostly at 60 fps.

I don't believe there is any way to improve multi-core performance. What model i7 do you have?

SirAndy · February 2017

Draconerus wrote: »

On this game alone I cannot seem to get my frames above 60FPS. Normally I am around 40FPS if I am lucky. My setup can handle any other game on Ultra. I have customized the settings of ESO for shadows, particles and other settings to medium or low and still have this issue. My hardware doesn't seem to make a difference. I am running the 64bit client on DX11 with 2 980SLI, 32GB of Ram and 6 core i7 3.3ghz not overclocked yet.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated as I am at a loss as to why my frames are not higher.

Do a search here on the forums. The lag and low FPS have nothing to do with your hardware ...

Mojmir · February 2017

Draconerus wrote: »

Changed draw distance to 50, no luck. Still getting around 40FPS. Anyway to force the game to run on more cores?

That won't matter,eso only burdens one core

Draconerus · February 2017

I am running on 1080p at 144hz. Gonna try overclocking my CPU and board to squeeze out a couple extra FPS but sounds like it is an issue with the game being poorly optimized.

Angkhar · February 2017

i had smoothy fps untill this homestead update, everything was working well but now its unplayable with low fps even in minimum settings o.O'

JasonSilverSpring · February 2017

Angkhar wrote: »

i had smoothy fps untill this homestead update, everything was working well but now its unplayable with low fps even in minimum settings o.O'

I think your issue is probably different. Some have reported with Homestead that the subsampling setting is not working properly and forced on a higher setting. That is likely your issue.

Edit: Here is a link: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/319445/fix-graphics-locked-settings-can-no-longer-play-due-to-it

Stillian · February 2017

Draconerus wrote: »

On this game alone I cannot seem to get my frames above 60FPS. Normally I am around 40FPS if I am lucky. My setup can handle any other game on Ultra. I have customized the settings of ESO for shadows, particles and other settings to medium or low and still have this issue. My hardware doesn't seem to make a difference. I am running the 64bit client on DX11 with 2 980SLI, 32GB of Ram and 6 core i7 3.3ghz not overclocked yet.

Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated as I am at a loss as to why my frames are not higher.

I recently upgraded my PC from really-bad to somewhat mediocre and i also did some overclocking with tests in ESO. Try to overclock your memory controller and memory frequency. It seems to be bottlenecked there since nothing else gave me at least one frame per second. Changing graphic card from old 650Ti to actually-not-bad-atm 970 gave a total boost of zero point zero fps. Overclocking CPU cores also seem to give me nothing but increased fan speed and noise from PC. You also can notice that changing most of settings doesnt affect your FPS.

Draconerus · February 2017

Yeah, super disappointing

RinaldoGandolphi · February 2017

The game is poorly optimized, and SLI/CrossfireX scaling is really bad for multi-GPU.

Sorry, thats a nice rig you got though. It should run other games like a dream.

Zetsumei_Ikari · February 2017

i have a similar setup but my CPU is a i5 @ 4 GHz getting 100 - 40 fps. it seems to drop below 60 fps after a loading screen, unless changing map. I've read that there is an issue with DX12 on windows 10 and that rolling back to 7 or 8.1 makes a big difference.

CPU, GPU utilization is very low, CPU hovering around 40 - 60 % and GPU down to 40%

Dr_Rektar · February 2017

Using windows 10. Running eso64.exe with "win7 compatability option " increased fps a bit

Draconerus · February 2017

I will try that as well. Thanks.

Wolfborn · February 2017

I know how your feeling OP and its so frustrating. its like the game hates high end systems. My specs below.

CPU Intel Core I7 – 5930K 3.5Ghz
Mainboard ASRock Fatal1ty X99X-Killer
Case Corsair Obsidian 900d
PSU 1300w Antec HCP Platinum Cert PSU
HDD 1 Corsair 480gb Neutron GTX Sata 3 SSD
HDD 2 Corsair 480gb Neutron GTX Sata 3 SSD
HHD 3 Corsair 480gb Neutron Gtx Sata 3 SSD
HDD 4 Western Digital Caviar Black 3tb SATA III
Optical Asus BC-12D2HT Blu-ray / DVD Burner Combo Drive
Memory Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 32GB Quad Channel 2666Mhz CL15
Software Windows 10 prof 64bit
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Zx
GFX 1 Card 1 Asus Titan X 12gig card
GFX 2 Card 1 Asus Titan X 12gig card
Cooling Corsair Hydro Series H105 CPU Liquid Cooler With Radiator

The game runs like a dog on ultra, i am lucky to get a stable 50 fps in 4k. What seems also have made it worse was this homestead patch has caused random major fps loss that last a second but causes the game to freeze and then be ok once the fps return to normal.

Have tried everything but no luck.

Draconerus · February 2017

Well, here is hoping to better optimizations as time goes on I suppose.

Daidrion · February 2017

From my experience mmorpgs are poorly optimized in general. So I have my doubts.

Wolfborn · February 2017

Draconerus wrote: »

Well, here is hoping to better optimizations as time goes on I suppose.

Mate i assume you are using W10 ?

I again was trouble shooting and noticed via task manager while playing ESO my memory was at 99%, that explains the hitching I was experiencing. It was actually windows defender sucking all my memory. So after about an hour trying to find a reason why now, when playing ESO that my defender would get to work, i realised with this patch they must have added something or a mod has added something ( I use mods) that is conflicting with it.

So I just disabled defender, re started the client and all my issues went away. I still get awful fps considering my rig with ultra and 4k but its playable. It is now again a stable 60-70fps even when doing trials or vet dungeons. I just remember to turn defender back on when i log out of the game.

JasonSilverSpring · February 2017

@Wolfborn, I have similar specs to you but I have my 5930K overclocked to 4.5 GHz and I have one Titan X Pascal (not sure if you have the original Titan X or the new one). I dropped my view distance down to 70 and that made the biggest improvement in fps in busy areas like popular towns. If I drop the view distance to 50 it is even better but I settled on 70. Everything else is at max and I am using 4K.

I have W10 but have not had the Defender problem you mention. Maybe it is some addon, not sure. Have you tried dropping view distance a little bit and see if that helps? I believe the view distance impacts the CPU more than GPU.

Also, I cannot confirm it because I have only one GPU, but some have posted that the 64-bit ESO does not support SLI. Are you using Afterburner or something similar to monitor? Are both GPUs being used?

Wolfborn · February 2017

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

@Wolfborn, I have similar specs to you but I have my 5930K overclocked to 4.5 GHz and I have one Titan X Pascal (not sure if you have the original Titan X or the new one). I dropped my view distance down to 70 and that made the biggest improvement in fps in busy areas like popular towns. If I drop the view distance to 50 it is even better but I settled on 70. Everything else is at max and I am using 4K.

I have W10 but have not had the Defender problem you mention. Maybe it is some addon, not sure. Have you tried dropping view distance a little bit and see if that helps? I believe the view distance impacts the CPU more than GPU.

Also, I cannot confirm it because I have only one GPU, but some have posted that the 64-bit ESO does not support SLI. Are you using Afterburner or something similar to monitor? Are both GPUs being used?

Hey bud,

I should have mentioned my processor was oc to 4.5 as well. As to SLI being used or not, i actually have not checked to be honest. I'll do so tonight. I normally just turn off afterburner as nothing touches my rig, so felt there was no need to use it. I'll be on tonight and leave afterburner running and have a look.

My two titans are also Paskal and I have OC them myself, so easy to do as the card is so bloody robust. Its the reason I know this game has serious engine issues as I can run BF1, hell any game one everything maxed with a stable 90 plus fps in the heaviest of gpu situations.

Like I mentioned on my reply above. After I found what was hoging all my memory the problem is reduced now. I do have view distance set to 100,so ill reduce it to 70 and see how it goes. I just like seeing the nodes before anyone else

Draconerus · February 2017

Keep me updated

Darkstorne · February 2017

Sadly lots of cores with lower clocks is a bad choice for most games, and an awful choice for ESO. Very few games on PC make use of cores efficiently, and ESO only really uses one. Off the top of my head I can't think of any game that would benefit more from six slower cores rather than four faster cores. It's usually for video editing that people get good use out of six or more cores. i7 CPUs are usually a good choice thanks to hyperthreading: most games will only use the main four cores (or less) but any game designed well enough to make use of all threads can also utilize the extra four that hyperthreading provides.

Draconerus · February 2017

I frequently do video/3D editing and work along those lines. Will OC my processor to above 4.0GHZ and see if that helps, but other games are usually all above 80FPS most of the time.

Darkstorne · February 2017

Draconerus wrote: »

I frequently do video/3D editing and work along those lines. Will OC my processor to above 4.0GHZ and see if that helps, but other games are usually all above 80FPS most of the time.

That's good to hear

I was worried you'd bought it specifically for gaming. And yep, it's a great CPU so will still do great in most games that use multiple cores, but a faster 4 core will almost always provide better performance in games than a slower 6 core. If you video edit as well, then a 6 core was definitely the right choice though.

Dreyfron · February 2017

xSkullfox wrote: »

HDD or SSD ?
After switching to SSD, game runs now with 90-100 fps, before with crappy 30-40.

That is pretty cool!