Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling CAUTION!!!!

[The Detective]

There have been a number of posts here lately about how enabling this makes the game run better. This may be the case for some systems, but I can confirm after experimenting that having this enabled makes ALL of my games run much worse. On my system it causes the games to freeze for a split second every so many frames. Disabling it corrects the issue. I'm using an i7 4790 and a GTX 1650 with the latest version of Windows 10 and 16 GB ram. It may work for some systems but it absolutely does not help mine. The game actual runs pretty decently on high settings on this system by the way, but definitely stutters when entering areas where a lot of new assets need to load.

[kdash2008]

Doesn't explode my PC ? Ouch.. I came here for nothing.

[The Detective]

Originally posted by kdash2008:

Doesn't explode my PC ? Ouch.. I came here for nothing.

HAHA. Yeah the Caution thing might be a little over dramatic.

[Razielo]

It depends of the game, and still is a pretty new feature, probably it will be mandatory after some w10 update.

[Mad-Evil-Beavis]

So I´ve tested this, because I have the same CPU like the detective and he is right. For me the game runs better without Hardware GPU Sheduling Function. Other games like control running faster too. My loading times are much faster without the function. If your game runs good before without the HAGS function, you should look if your performance drop or frame glitches comes from this new windows feature. This is my own experience.

I have four frames more in the benchmark with my settings.

Meridian with HAGS 71 without 75

[FUN_STACK]

Originally posted by The Detective:

There have been a number of posts here lately about how enabling this makes the game run better. This may be the case for some systems, but I can confirm after experimenting that having this enabled makes ALL of my games run much worse. On my system it causes the games to freeze for a split second every so many frames. Disabling it corrects the issue. I'm using an i7 4790 and a GTX 1650 with the latest version of Windows 10 and 16 GB ram. It may work for some systems but it absolutely does not help mine. The game actual runs pretty decently on high settings on this system by the way, but definitely stutters when entering areas where a lot of new assets need to load.

Yeah, I've been cautioning the same around here too. It seems that people have run with the marketing AMD and Nvidia did with their recent driver update to "support" this OS feature. I usually just refer them to the video done by Gamers Nexus on this feature. It's a basically a feature that's yet to be officially developed/optimized for in games, it's there for future games (DX12 Ultimate) and future cards with DX12 Ultimate architecture in mind. Current ones will either be a luck based on system configuration with a 1% gain (basically a negligible difference), or the game is so badly optimized (early implementation of DX12/Vulkan) that it might just work, but in some cases it'll degrade performance or even CTD the game.

[Victoria Raverna]

Most games hide the cost of the GPU scheduling function so enabling this will not help and can harm those games. With Horizon, I think for people with PC and/or graphic settings that are CPU bounded and crashing because of that. HAGS help by moving the task to GPU.

[Mad-Evil-Beavis]

control and odyssey works badly with the new feature. That was the reason for me to change it back. You must not recompile the shaders again ;)

[FUN_STACK]

Originally posted by Victoria Raverna:

Most games hide the cost of the GPU scheduling function so enabling this will not help and can harm those games. With Horizon, I think for people with PC and/or graphic settings that are CPU bounded and crashing because of that. HAGS help by moving the task to GPU.

That's basically how games are currently coded for. This new feature however is a new way for the GPU resources to be managed, and that's (not to sound like a broken record here) for future games with advance graphical features/demands (ie. DX12 Ultimate/Advance Ray Tracing features).

[Mad-Evil-Beavis]

yes it is the future like ray tracing.

[Mononymouse]

ATTENTION!

Nice post, well done, thanks for the WARNING!

[Bad Cat]

Must I disable on Gtx 1650 ?

[Eye of Newt]

Originally posted by Bad Cat:

Must I disable on Gtx 1650 ?

If you find HAGS negatively affects your game stability, disable it.

[Zuffy]

Originally posted by The Detective:

HAHA. Yeah the Caution thing might be a little over dramatic.

Nah, "caution" is perfectly suited to what you said.

[Shalltear]

Thanks a lot OP, found it already strange that my cpu blowed up to 90-95 degrees. Turned it off, back to 65-75 degrees. Don't have a lot of Steam points but take my award champ!