Terrible FPS and Performance on GTX 660 TI

[Hewlett]

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Problem 'slightly' solved:

Originally posted by Nicon:

(My last comment on this thread) Hey, I tested the game again after messing around with the settings of the game. I lowered the shadow down to low, and the shader to high. The game's performance is still pretty bad during a heavy rain gameplay, even when I turned off the rain down to low.

As for the memory testing, I still get the same result. There was not any leaking, it stays under 2 GB, unless I am playing a mod.

Thanks to everybody who replied and helped me on this, I hope others would notice this post and also help them. <3

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FPS goes down to 3 from time to time, and the game is really slow. I played the non-steam version before I switched to this one, and I have finished that one with no lag at all.

EDIT: The lag is mainly in campaign. I tried lowering the settings and even the resolution down to 800 x 600, but it's still the same.

Systems specs:

Phenom II 965 BE @ 4.0 GHz
10 GB DDR3 Memory
MSI GTX 660 TI Twin Frozr

[Moonunit42]

I have a similar set up but worse and it runs just fine for me.

specs:
Phenom II 965 BE @ 3.7 GHz
8 GB DDR3 Memory
Geforce GTX 560 TI

[Hewlett]

:(

[MarkJohnson]

If lowering all of your graphics settings are not fixing lag, it may be your router. You need to open port 6112 UDP to your computer.

But any Ultra graphics setting will cause issues that you are describing.

Here's a thread by Crazy Joe on fixing/troubleshooting most CoH issues.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=175370459

-=Mark=-

[Miiiiiiiiiiiiike]

Maybe increase the settings!

try some of those fixes above.

[Hewlett]

Originally posted by rmjohnson144:

If lowering all of your graphics settings are not fixing lag, it may be your router. You need to open port 6112 UDP to your computer.

But any Ultra graphics setting will cause issues that you are describing.

Here's a thread by Crazy Joe on fixing/troubleshooting most CoH issues.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=175370459

-=Mark=-

Hi thank you for replying. I should have made it a lot clearer - it was not a multiplayer lag, but a campaign and single player. I'm really sorry for confusing you, but it's more like performance lag and game slowing down.

:Peace: :)

[MarkJohnson]

I know the game can lag on Ultra graphics settings. Just take off all Ultra graphics settings and try again.

Ultra = DX10 graphics. High and lower are for dx9.

Hope that does it, as nothing else I know would cause it unless your PC is infected or something.

[MarkJohnson]

nm, I see you problem now.

Reset your overclock settings making sure to save them or write them down.

as soon as you do that, I'm sure the problem goes away.

Overclocks degrade over time causing wierd issues like this. used to hapen to me all of the time. I eventually gave up on OCs as modern PC are usually fast enough to handle games.

You graphics card is where it's at anyways. CPU OC don't give hardly any fps increases if any at all.

[Hadji]

I have played this with both CPU (i5 3570K) and GPU (MSI GTX 680 Lightning) overclocks without any issues. I did notice memory leaks (or something similar) that caused performance drops similar to lag. When I upgraded my rig to 16GB RAM (I needed it for Digital Combat Simulator) all the CoH issues disappeared. Not saying it will help you, but it did help me (and a buddy of mine).

[Hewlett]

Originally posted by rmjohnson144:

nm, I see you problem now.

Reset your overclock settings making sure to save them or write them down.

as soon as you do that, I'm sure the problem goes away.

Overclocks degrade over time causing wierd issues like this. used to hapen to me all of the time. I eventually gave up on OCs as modern PC are usually fast enough to handle games.

You graphics card is where it's at anyways. CPU OC don't give hardly any fps increases if any at all.

Hi,

I did reset my CPU back to its default but it's still the same. Also the heat should not be a problem since my CPU uses water cooler. :(

I also tried decreasing all my settings to the lowests, and changes everything in Nvidia Control Panel to performance instead of quality for the game Company of Heroes. I gained some FPS, but not much. Even at the lowest setting it is still very jerky and the game feel really slow.

Thank you for replying. :)

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I played other games like COH 2 before, and the game run smoothly in ultra.

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Originally posted by El Hadji:

I have played this with both CPU (i5 3570K) and GPU (MSI GTX 680 Lightning) overclocks without any issues. I did notice memory leaks (or something similar) that caused performance drops similar to lag. When I upgraded my rig to 16GB RAM (I needed it for Digital Combat Simulator) all the CoH issues disappeared. Not saying it will help you, but it did help me (and a buddy of mine).

Hi,

You just gave me an idea, thanks. I might check my memory later on when running the game. At the moment I have 10 GB of RipJaw Memory.

Thanks. :)

[MarkJohnson]

I wasn't referring to heat on your overclocks. I was refering to stressing the system. Thowing it our of spec. It can cause weaker components to go out of sync and the stress can degrade your cpu and other parts as well.

Remember, every game stress the PC slightly differently. One game may not have issue, but the next will cause it to crash because it stresses the pc differently.

If you have 10gb ram, you should have issues. It takes a long time to build up a memoryleak big enough to cripple the game. You should be able to use up to 4gb ram for the game. It is coded to use no more than 2gb. so using up the other 2gb takes a lot time.

If you have a spare hard drive, try installing it and windows over on a fresh copy and see if the problem continues. I assume you are using 64-bit windows?

Make sure you ram is set to factory defaults as well. Match the numbers manually as auto may not do it properly, especially if the ram is designed for intel. amd likes things differently.

[Hadji]

Originally posted by rmjohnson144:

You should be able to use up to 4gb ram for the game. It is coded to use no more than 2gb. so using up the other 2gb takes a lot time.

When me and my buddy monitored our rigs (custom built gaming PC's) we found that there where spikes in RAM usage after about 10-15 minutes of gameplay on certain maps (we played comp stomp games). At the time I had 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 memory installed. When the spikes hit there was NO FREE RAM available at all.

[MarkJohnson]

That's strange. A 32-bit program like this can only address 4 gb at one time. When most lag/crashes happen is when they swap files for more memory and it leaks memory and swaps over 2gb when it then sometimes goes past the 4gb barrier and crashes from no more address space left.

Maybe it is leaking somehow outside of the program or you may have other programs/malware causing issues? I suppose it could get to 6gb, with 4gb in use and a 2gb swap happening and then 2gb for windows for 8 gb. but 10gb should put the OP out of that range.

[Hadji]

Thing is that you could almost set a clock to when the spikes hit. It happend on exactly the same spot on the affected maps. And it never happend before the New Steam Version arrived. That makes me pretty sure it is/was game related and not PC related. I'm also sure that I had no malware, viruses, bloatware and/or other software running in the background that caused the issues. The problems were also identical for my buddy who use slightly different hardware.

[Hewlett]

Both of you have been really helpful, thank you very much. :)

Originally posted by rmjohnson144:

I wasn't referring to heat on your overclocks. I was refering to stressing the system. Thowing it our of spec. It can cause weaker components to go out of sync and the stress can degrade your cpu and other parts as well.

Remember, every game stress the PC slightly differently. One game may not have issue, but the next will cause it to crash because it stresses the pc differently.

If you have 10gb ram, you should have issues. It takes a long time to build up a memoryleak big enough to cripple the game. You should be able to use up to 4gb ram for the game. It is coded to use no more than 2gb. so using up the other 2gb takes a lot time.

If you have a spare hard drive, try installing it and windows over on a fresh copy and see if the problem continues. I assume you are using 64-bit windows?

Make sure you ram is set to factory defaults as well. Match the numbers manually as auto may not do it properly, especially if the ram is designed for intel. amd likes things differently.

I will try and put my memory back to factory default too - this never comes to mind.
Also as an IT student, I learned something new today, thank you. :)

Originally posted by El Hadji:

Thing is that you could almost set a clock to when the spikes hit. It happend on exactly the same spot on the affected maps. And it never happend before the New Steam Version arrived. That makes me pretty sure it is/was game related and not PC related. I'm also sure that I had no malware, viruses, bloatware and/or other software running in the background that caused the issues. The problems were also identical for my buddy who use slightly different hardware.

El Hadji, the same here. I only start experiencing this problem upon playing the new steam version.

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This computer is mainly used offline most of the time. I only use it to play games; my work files, windows files, and games are separated and stored in different HDD and SSD.

[Hewlett]

I just tested my game 10 times and here's what I got most of the time.

Memory : 900 MB is the minimum usage of COH, and its maximum usage for me is 1.5K MB. I played for an hour for each test, and during this I haven't noticed any memory leak.

CPU: When I run the game the CPU usage goes up to a stable 34%.

Disk usage: This goes up to a stable 8% during gameplay. But up to 50% during the loading screen.

GPU Temp: During gameplay the temperature goes up to 45c; the maximum temperature I got is 50c. This is normally idle at a stable 35c. I uses MSI Afterburner to find this out.