Low FPS on High Spec PC (regardless of settings)

[Adam]

I'm getting approx 20fps on DirectX11, 15 on DirectX9 and 25 on DirectX12.

The graphics settings do not affect this at all - same FPS on all max setting, same FPS on all min settings with lowered resolution. I've tried setting the Vsync off in Nividia control panel, as well as setting it to "Maximum performance". It's recognising the GPU under system information and is not running on Integrated Graphics. Tried the "fps.limit -1" console command which had no effect.

Also doesn't seem network related, same FPS on remote server and on local server.

Rust Benchmark Results: http://api.facepunch.com/#/2/benchmark/report/f81c11ed894c4ee89ae2e7203ab392fb

PC Specs:
i7 6700k @ Stock 4.0GHz
Nvidia GTX 1080 SC
16GB DDR4 3.0GHz
Windows 10 x64 build 1607
(Installed on SSD, other specs probably irrelevant)

Other games are running fine, it's definitely an issue localised to Rust (build number 1087.63 - 2nd December).

Any ideas?
Thanks

[Rise]

check if windows power mode is set to high performance

[Adam]

Yes - it is thanks.

Also, Rust is build number 1087.63 (2nd December).

[Drome]

Try changing the maximum pre-rendered frames to 1 in nv control panel. This worked for me.

[Adam]

Good idea, it works in the menu screens only I'm afraid - whilst in the main menu about 700fps (irrelevant, I know) and when in game in the esc menu it gets to about 50. In game is still 20~ though.

Thanks,

[Drome]

Hmm, check that CUDA- GPU's is set to your card and not onboard in nv panel. Then go into your device manager, find the onboard graphics if you have one. Then right click properties. And disable it fully.

[Adam]

I don't think I actually have any drivers installed for the Intel onboard graphics - CUDA is showing as "All" then when I click it shows "GTX 1080" as ticked. Also it's not showing up in the device manager so I reckon (hope) onboard graphics isn't kicking in at all. Thanks.

[Drome]

I think your right, its doubtful thats the case if you've never used the onboard before. I really wish I could help more but I need more information. Do you have any resource monitoring programs installed? My best advice is to download MSI-Afterburner, run Rust and see what the GPU clock and core speed is. And check the CPU usage for all cores. This to me sounds like a CPU core or thread issue, as rust is CPU heavy.

If you can get back to me with that the CPU and GPU are doing I can hopefully help some more.

[baxon]

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[Adam]

Thanks for the advice - just to clear this up I had only just installed the game. I came back a day later, tried again, and clearly (of all things...) a restart had cleared this up. I don't think I'll ever find what pending update or whatever it was that was causing the odd behaviour.

Sorry for the wholly unsatisfying solution!