Archived Post
08-30-2009, 09:07 AM
I'm just another gaming with a mid-range rig suffering from low FPS issues.
The essentials:
CPU - Intel Q9300
RAM - 4GB DDR2 800
GPU - NVIDIA 9800GTX 512MB
I have been gaming for a very long time, and always tweak my games visuals to my suiting.
I prefer to game in the 45-60 fps zone, and don't find the occasional dip to >25 fps. I always start my games maxes out in visual and work my way through all the options.
I was avgeraging ~20 fps, with dips into the single digits at first. PvE wise I was living with it, PvP it unaccecptable.
I started with tweaking my NVIDIA card in the NV Control Panel. I disabled multi-threading on the driver for Champions, forced a performance setting on AF.
Result: +5 fps
Then I started working through the in game settings.
Final Verdict:
Changing only the lighting quality to Low I gained +25 fps
Disabling UI with High Quality Lighting: +5 fps MAX
Disabling UI with Low Quality Lighting: +30 dps
Other then comic book outlines everything is maxed at 200% or turned on. The UI makes a huge difference when the lighting quality is changed otherwise not so much, but the lighting quality itself made a huge difference.
Final result:
I get around 50 fps with UI on, and see dips into mid 30s, while the visuals took a hit, the additional FPS was necessary for PvP.
Cheers
The essentials:
CPU - Intel Q9300
RAM - 4GB DDR2 800
GPU - NVIDIA 9800GTX 512MB
I have been gaming for a very long time, and always tweak my games visuals to my suiting.
I prefer to game in the 45-60 fps zone, and don't find the occasional dip to >25 fps. I always start my games maxes out in visual and work my way through all the options.
I was avgeraging ~20 fps, with dips into the single digits at first. PvE wise I was living with it, PvP it unaccecptable.
I started with tweaking my NVIDIA card in the NV Control Panel. I disabled multi-threading on the driver for Champions, forced a performance setting on AF.
Result: +5 fps
Then I started working through the in game settings.
Final Verdict:
Changing only the lighting quality to Low I gained +25 fps
Disabling UI with High Quality Lighting: +5 fps MAX
Disabling UI with Low Quality Lighting: +30 dps
Other then comic book outlines everything is maxed at 200% or turned on. The UI makes a huge difference when the lighting quality is changed otherwise not so much, but the lighting quality itself made a huge difference.
Final result:
I get around 50 fps with UI on, and see dips into mid 30s, while the visuals took a hit, the additional FPS was necessary for PvP.
Cheers