Low FPS on decent machine

[mozart116]

Low FPS on decent machine

My FPS dips really low in outside areas, when I look at the sky it gets much smoother. It's playable but annoying choppy, feels like 25 fps.

My specs:

AMD Phenom II X3 740 BE @ 3.6ghz
4GB ram
ATI Radeon 5770

 

[volsung]

Make sure you're not running intrusive 3rd party software in the background, and make sure Ubersampling is disabled in the graphical settings. I would try using mostly High settings and not Ultra, too.

 

[mozart116]

Make sure you're not running intrusive 3rd party software in the background, and make sure Ubersampling is disabled in the graphical settings. I would try using mostly High settings and not Ultra, too.

This is the only game I'm having this fps issue so it's not any background programs. And I'm talking about the Witcher 1, even on lowest settings the fps isn't that great

 

[mozart116]

Ok, never mind. Somewhat solved now. I installed fraps to check the real numbers instead of guessing. On highest possible settings it dips into the low 40s. When the visibility range is on lowest my fps is always above 60 now. On medium visibility range it still dips to 50s. I'm guessing you need a killer CPU to run it at 60 fps, now I have to deal with the fog

 

[Licaon_Kter]

Make sure you're not running intrusive 3rd party software in the background, and make sure Ubersampling is disabled in the graphical settings. I would try using mostly High settings and not Ultra, too.

he talks about Witcher 1!?

TW1 uses the Aurora engine used back in 2001-2002 for Neverwinter Nights 1, so only one core is used and little video card resources too ( 60% on a GTS250/HD4850, 30% on a GTX460/HD5830 going up to 60% on 3D Stereo for GTX460), so a better _per core_ CPU would yield better framerates

 

[volsung]

I played TW1 back in my old Athlon 64 X2 3.01 GHz, with a GeForce 8800 GT and 2 Gb RAM, and apart from a little stutter in big areas like Vizima's Trade Quarter, everything ran smoothly in the highest settings.

In a computer like his it should run better. Weird.

 

[GuyNwah]

he talks about Witcher 1!?

TW1 uses the Aurora engine used back in 2001-2002 for Neverwinter Nights 1, so only one core is used and little video card resources too ( 60% on a GTS250/HD4850, 30% on a GTX460/HD5830 going up to 60% on 3D Stereo for GTX460), so a better _per core_ CPU would yield better framerates

The Phenom II 740's nearly as ideal as an AMD CPU gets for this game; since the game runs on just one core, it might as well be a Phenom II core. I get better performance than the OP's with a 720, too.

Something else slowing the system down is my guess. The fact that other games do not appear to underperform is not convincing to me. Those other games don't demand 100% of one core. Any kind of interference will hit TW1 hard.

 

[mozart116]

The Phenom II 740's nearly as ideal as an AMD CPU gets for this game; since the game runs on just one core, it might as well be a Phenom II core. I get better performance than the OP's with a 720, too.

Something else slowing the system down is my guess. The fact that other games do not appear to underperform is not convincing to me. Those other games don't demand 100% of one core. Any kind of interference will hit TW1 hard.

I can assure you I have no background apps running when I'm gaming, other than Steam it's self