Best settings for horrible CPU

[SØNNE]

I have a nividia GTX 1050ti but my CPU is awful, what settings should i turn down that affect my CPU the most?

[Null_User]

My general rule is to first drop everything to off. If there's no off option, set to low. Play the game and see how it runs. And when I say "play", I mean, go into a survival mission against your favorite faction and see if things still slow down. If they do slow down, don't touch anything because it means your computer won't be able to handle better visuals at the times most needed.

If they don't slow, start with small things. FXAA would be a good first. I don't remember the other simple to render things, but definitely don't try depth of field, shadows and dynamic lights, though those are more on the GPU's end and the 1050ti, while more or less a starter GPU, is not too shabby. STill, start slow, tick on a few things (or even one thing at a time) and see what mileage you get.

Oh, and yeah, mind saying which CPU it is?

[talkingmute]

Originally posted by Hanuke:

Oh, and yeah, mind saying which CPU it is?

My first thought.

[jonnin]

anything that is offloaded to your graphics card won't help, so you may have to trial and error as these days that can be unclear which is on the card.

[My Name is Mud]

As a player on a low end laptop, be very careful about turning down the Texture Memory setting. This is DIFFERENT from Texture Quality. Turning down Texture Memory actually puts *more* stress on the CPU and *less* on the GPU, and will significantly impact performance in a negative way on lower end systems. You should never turn this setting down below medium for any reason that I can think of. With a 1050 it's even possible you will see a perforamance bump by turning it to high, your mileage may vary. (For me there's very little difference between medium and high that I can find, but I have neither a good CPU or GPU.)

I honestly have no idea why this setting exists. It's almost impossible for me to think of a computer configuration where this setting would be helpful.

Generally beyond that, it's mostly standard fare. Turn down shadows, the enemy of all low-end systems. Turn down "always memory hog" settings like bloom. Disable particle effects (which has the added benefit that you can, get this, sometimes see what is going on during battle). Experiment until satisfied.

[MotherVicar]

Anti aliasing I would say

[Null_User]

Originally posted by Death From Above:

As a player on a low end laptop, be very careful about turning down the Texture Memory setting. This is DIFFERENT from Texture Quality. Turning down Texture Memory actually puts *more* stress on the CPU and *less* on the GPU, and will significantly impact performance in a negative way on lower end systems. You should never turn this setting down below medium for any reason that I can think of. With a 1050 it's even possible you will see a perforamance bump by turning it to high, your mileage may vary. (For me there's very little difference between medium and high that I can find, but I have neither a good CPU or GPU.)

I honestly have no idea why this setting exists. It's almost impossible for me to think of a computer configuration where this setting would be helpful.

Generally beyond that, it's mostly standard fare. Turn down shadows, the enemy of all low-end systems. Turn down "always memory hog" settings like bloom. Disable particle effects (which has the added benefit that you can, get this, sometimes see what is going on during battle). Experiment until satisfied.

And yeah. I always forget this setting exists since games should be managing GPU memory by themselves and using what the GPU can give them without player input. I guess I should remember this one a bit more. Thanks for the reminder indeed.

[Sceles]

Warframe does not have any particularly CPU heavy settings that you could adjust.

[[F8L] Mycrus]

Originally posted by EpicKingJames:

I have a nividia GTX 1050ti but my CPU is awful, what settings should i turn down that affect my CPU the most?

you actually do the opposite... max all settings until it becomes gpu bound instead of cpu bound... then slowly lower settings until you reach a playable fps