Bad FPS. Where is the bottleneck?

CheepsNSalsa · July 2017

Radeon R9 390 8gb vram GPU
AMD FX-6300 CPU
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GBx2 DDR3 ram

I've always had poor performance in ESO on med-high settings. Sometimes my fps dips to 10-15 in 4 man dungeons. Usually about 25-30 fps in the open world. I'm not super knowledgeable about this kind of stuff so maybe someone can tell me for sure what the issue is. I'm guessing CPU but can't be sure. Anyone have a better idea?

Doctordarkspawn · July 2017

The problem is well doccumented to be in the CPU.

The game tends to utilize core 0 above all others. Almost exclusively, in fact. Meaning your performance with ESO is entirely dependant on your single core performance.

Which is why AMD CPU's tend to have more issues and lower performance with this game. Having played on two builds, one with a AMD CPU, I tell you that it is much better on an intel processor.

Even if your AMD CPU is really really good (And most are known for their multithread performance, not pure core power) it comes down to how much you can get out of your motherboard combo, which sometimes throttles it for power reasons.

My advice? If your performance is in the ground it wont get better, this has been an issue since the thieves guild update, possibly before. Pick up stakes and leave.

@CheepsNSalsa

Septimus_Magna · July 2017

I adjusted some settings and it worked miracles for me. It takes a while to read and implement but its really worth it. Also be sure to install and run the Unpark CPU program.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/3jjoql/are_you_having_fps_issues_wih_eso_on_a_pc_well/

Denyiir · July 2017

SSD or HDD? I gained 30-40(!) fps by ditching my old disk and buying ssd some time a go. Apparently it matters in MMOs. Also strong cpu is a must like other said.

PsychoROFLit · July 2017

wait for Update 15, they wanted to make optimization, but im not sure ;/

Septimus_Magna · July 2017

PsychoROFLit wrote: »

wait for Update 15, they wanted to make optimization, but im not sure ;/

They will reduce the active friendly effects on screen I think, should help with fps quite a bit.

Jurand80 · July 2017

i went from sdd back to hdd coz the game keeps growing and growing but i don't miss the sdd. loading times are long af on both. no difference in fps between them.

Wreuntzylla · July 2017

PsychoROFLit wrote: »

wait for Update 15, they wanted to make optimization, but im not sure ;/

ZoS actually went through their code to spread the processing out among cores a while back and send a bit more to the video cards. It helped a bit, but really, they can't milk much out of that without rewriting from the ground up.