Poor performance on really good PC

[wizbomb]

Hello all, its been years since i've played PR and i'm glad to be back but i'm having some issues.

I recently upgraded to a new PC - Specs below:

Win 7 64 bit
ASUS X99 RAMPAGE V Mobo
Intel Core i7 5930K 4.0GHz Processor
16GB DDR4 2800MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM
2TB Western Digital - Black Edition HDD
2x SLI Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Overclocked Graphics cards
Creative Sound Blaster Z Soundcard (just throwing this in if its important)

Now i know that this game is old so I dont expect it to work well with SLI but I get terrible inconstant performance, ill be getting 60 FPS 1 second and the next im getting 30 to 40...now 40 is not bad in my book but its that it jumps so much, it takes me out of the game and can make playing it difficult. I seem to only have lag when i'm in the middle of fire fights and around alot of people, in base I get no lag.

I tried it with SLI disabled and it seemed to help some but not much, i also tried enabling V-sync and that may or may not have done anything its hard to tell.

Any help would be appreciated because me and my friends want to start playing this again.

[ComradeHX]

Which map?

Heavily urban maps like Fallujah will give you serious performance drops.


Have you tried to set the affinity to one, completely free, core?
Either do that manually or try Windows 8(or 10).

[Leopardi]

I have a 4790K doing 100fps minimum even in heavy urban maps... but I also have Win 8.1 which utilizes CPU better.

[Psyrus]

I have a 4790K doing 100fps minimum even in heavy urban maps... but I also have Win 8.1 which utilizes CPU better.

I would really love to see proof of that

[Leopardi]

I would really love to see proof of that

Yeah I'll take that back after a round on Gaza while closely monitoring the fps, I could get it down to 75 in a really heavy spot... still fulfilling the 75Hz of my monitor so I hadn't noticed any drops before.

But still most of the time it's hitting the 100 limiter, it was hard to believe coming from the minimum 20fps of a 1090T

[inb4banned]

Yeah I'll take that back after a round on Gaza while closely monitoring the fps, I could get it down to 75 in a really heavy spot... still fulfilling the 75Hz of my monitor so I hadn't noticed any drops before.

But still most of the time it's hitting the 100 limiter, it was hard to believe coming from the minimum 20fps of a 1090T

That's still amazing for PR, do you play at 1080p?

I have i5-4670k and always got drops to below 30.

[Psyrus]

That's still amazing for PR, do you play at 1080p?

I have i5-4670k and always got drops to below 30.

Well that's why I said I'd like to see proof, because the human mind is very easy to fool. Something like a 15 minute fraps "benchmark" session on a full fallujah server should suffice

I'd like to believe it's possible, but from reports from players with similar systems, I'm thinking that like everyone else, the FPS do drop down to below 50 and perhaps below 40

[Ason]

Well that's why I said I'd like to see proof, because the human mind is very easy to fool. Something like a 15 minute fraps "benchmark" session on a full fallujah server should suffice

I'd like to believe it's possible, but from reports from players with similar systems, I'm thinking that like everyone else, the FPS do drop down to below 50 and perhaps below 40

Do you know when this started happening? I know PR was pretty unstable even in 0.97 but I feel like after 100p it really went downhill, what do you think was the "heaviest" hit on performance after 1.0? Effects? 100p? Something else?

[PlaynCool]

Yea i'm getting some poor performance on my new GTX 960 as well, most of the time it is 60+ fps, but sometimes it can drop to 23-25 fps.

[ComradeHX]

Yea i'm getting some poor performance on my new GTX 960 as well, most of the time it is 60+ fps, but sometimes it can drop to 23-25 fps.

It's not the gpu in your case.

PR pushes the game far beyond what it was, but it still only runs on 1 cpu core.

If you don't have an overclocked intel cpu, you should expect unnatural drops in fps.

I have i5-4690k at 4.5ghz and I still get fps dips in fallujah.