Alright. I know you said not to compare, but still, out of the dozen games I ran well (including Tera, another mmo at full settings), this is the only one that’s giving me problems. So what I understand form this is that the game is taking some sort of issue with my card or drivers.
Is there anything that you can think of that might be causing this bottleneck? Is it likely a hardware or software problem from what I told you so far? Or any things I can try for a solution?
I am not entirely clear on what I’m looking for in the readings so I’ll post a screenshot hopefully giving you the needed info.
I have actually just noticed the GPU usage at 99%…. It was at 67% last time I checked. That can’t be good. I just tried it with Dishonored, and it peaked at 66%.
I was getting an average of 40 fps in open world. Sometimes getting down to 30’s and slightly below in events, and up to 45 in other open areas. 30 and under in WvW. That is with native sampling. Supersample absolutely killed me.
Yes, I am currently getting 10-15 (well, I did on CCC 12.8, it’s around 12-18 now on 12.9) in wide open areas. I tried several locations, land, water, jumped from one end of map to another to check if it’s that particular area or not, you name it.
EDIT: Didn’t check the clock, about to do that.
EDIT 2: Checked it. Clock increasing as normal.
Yes, I see that most DX9 games have taken 2-5 fps beating on average.
My situation is a bit different though. I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that I dropped about 30 fps without being able to influence my fps at all by tweaking settings. There’s no way this game was meant to run at 10 fps on my current card with everything set to low.
Just didn’t get around to oc’ing. Didn’t feel a pressing need. Should probably get on that considering I just got a new cooler.
The 4870 started experiencing overheating issues. I got the 6770 extremely cheap.
I didn’t expect a large performance increase at all, I thought it would be more or less the same, with some improvements here and there. However I managed to bump up nearly all my settings for several games, and even installed the HD texture replacements for Skyrim without any drop in performance. The HD texture pack absolutely killed my 4870.
I could run the game consistently with 40+ fps with the 4870 with native sampling. I can’t get out of 10-15 fps with the 6770 on the lowest possible settings, and fps remains the same no matter what settings I change, while I run other games (Skyrim, Dishonored) at nearly all max settings.
Not trying to hijack the thread, but just wanted to throw this out there. I recently removed a HD4870 and installed a HD7850 with no noticeable increase in performance (across multiple games), and just today tried out a HD7770, again with no real increase in performance.
I’m wondering if this “core issue” might be applicable to this machine?
Interesting. You are not the first person who says there is no change in performance across GPUs. Though for me the problem is a bit different in the sense that I experienced an unreasonable drop in performance with seemingly no way to influence it through graphics settings.
I have also heard people experiencing this fps drop out of nowhere, without making changed to hardware or software, but the problem resolved itself in a day or two. Not for me though.
It is not a step up. The only way it is better is it has more vram. Check the link.
If you claim that it is the ONLY thing better about it, you obviously haven’t researched this properly. Memory bandwidth isn’t the only thing that affects a GPU’s performance. I traded off some speed for a load of new features. Is it a theoretical step down? If you don’t consider the features and go by memory bandwidth alone, yes. Is it a step down in practice? Not for me.
Even if we say you are right, and it’s a huge step down, 10-15 fps on the lowest possible settings for this card? No. Just no.
@Nyx, thanks for the suggestions my friend, but none of that helped either.
For the record, I tried various versions of CCC. 12.8. with CAP 3, and just tried out 12.9 beta with CAP1. While 12.9 seems to have given me a boost of about 3 frames, the core problem still remains.
@Swordbreaker: I did my research. For various reasons the 6770 is a step up for me, and the performance on my games is saying the same. GW2 being the only exception to this so far.
@Nyx: Yes, I did. I did a clean uninstall of ATI drivers before installing the new ones. There’s not a trace of ATI drivers left on my system.
Hi. I’ve been having a strange problem for several days now and I looked everywhere with no luck.
I have changed my graphics card from a ATI radeon HD 4870, to an AMD radeon HD 6770. I could run this game beautifully on the 4870, but after switching, I am having terrible frame rates on the 6770, always stuck around 10-15 fps. Nothing I do changes it. No matter what settings I choose, no matter what I do in CCC, I’m still stuck with an awful fps. Is this a known issues with AMD drivers? Any ideas on how to fix this?
P.S. Some people on another board tried arguing that my new GPU is a step down from my old one, and that it’s the cause of my problems. I can run Skyrim, Dishonored, and other games on the highest settings with 30-50 fps (for the most part), so my card’s performance definitely isn’t the issue.
EDIT: I am aware there are many other low fps topics, but I didn’t find anything that helped me with the problem.
