Poor performance with GTX 970 @ 1920x1080?

[SNLdreamcast]

So I'm running a Gigabyte GTX 970 3.5GB with an i5 4690k @ 3.5Ghz and I'm not able to run this game at anything above 40ish with "High" settings at 1920x1080. Not really sure if there's a problem with my hardware or the game, or my options. Anyone have any recommendations?

[DUSTY]

it's the game, 970 is not good enough. Reduce godrays to volumetric fog also shadows to soft. Rest should stay at high.

[upcoast]

http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page3.html

Maybe your gpu drivers are messed up DDU them and start fresh. My 280x doesn't go below 50 with a mix of high / very high settings.

[Category Theory]

It's not the game. (The game is a resource pig, but it's not so bad that you can't get 60 FPS on something like your system.) I maintain mostly over 60 with my GTX 970 and, while i've got an older i7 CPU, the performance graphs in task manager don't show it being pushed anywhere near its limit.

There are a few things that will really suck GPU power and disabling or turning those down will usually help. God rays are not the biggest one, but turning them off also apparently helps avoid crashes on some systems. The Nvidia fur stuff apparently gets you little for what you spend. And a really big one is MSAA: turning that down to 2x or even off can help a lot.

I run at Ultra with 2xMSAA and a few things like the above turned off.

[DUSTY]

Originally posted by Category Theory:

It's not the game. (The game is a resource pig, but it's not so bad that you can't get 60 FPS on something like your system.) I maintain mostly over 60 with my GTX 970 and, while i've got an older i7 CPU, the performance graphs in task manager don't show it being pushed anywhere near its limit.

There are a few things that will really suck GPU power and disabling or turning those down will usually help. God rays are not the biggest one, but turning them off also apparently helps avoid crashes on some systems. The Nvidia fur stuff apparently gets you little for what you spend. And a really big one is MSAA: turning that down to 2x or even off can help a lot.

I run at Ultra with 2xMSAA and a few things like the above turned off.

Won't agree, FC4 is well known as GPU demanding game. Instal afterburner to see what's yours bottleneck. If cpu slows down which means is waiting for gpu and other way around. Also bro turning msaa of is exactly what I've said - 970 can't run with game maxed out.

[-=SOF=-WID99]

also try installing an old version of Razer cortex ..i use version 7.0

and it does seem to help alot in this game with my Strix GTX 960

you can get it here

http://www.filehorse.com/download-game-booster/old-versions/

also do not use SOFT shadows set your shadows to ULTRA

soft shadows causes a huge FPS hit (ever since patch 1.8.0 )

oh forgot here are the settings i use .. usually never drops below 50 FPS .. hit highs in the 80's and yep i have seen it hit as high as 100 in some area's

i use Nvidia Driver version 359.06 (the last driver asus has posted for my card ..new Nvidia drivers i saw worse performance)
driver date on the asus web page says nVIDIA Display Driver 359.06WHQL
File Size 303.28 MBytes update 2016/09/20

also installed no bloat with my drivers

just

the driver
HDMI audio (in case i wanna watch a movie since my other screen = a HDTV )
PhysX

no geforce exp or 3d vision , since i dont own the Nvidia glasses or a 3d screen


my in Game settings are Custom with Win 10 Pro with an old Core 2 quad Q 9650 12 meg cache CPU

resolution 1920 X 1080
vsync - on

Quality settings
motion blur off - not a fan of it ..
Textures - Ultra
Shadows - High
Post FX -Ultra
Geometry - Very High
Vegetation- Ultra
Environment - High
Water - Ultra
Ambient Occusion setting is SSBC
Antialising settings is SMAA

God rays - off- not a fan of how it looks (can make the game unstable)
Fur - on
Trees relief -on

in Advanced settings
Triple buffering - off
Vsync mode - Normal

in Nvidia control panel, i made these changes
Anisotropic Filtering = 16 X
Max Pre Rendered Frames = 1
Set Power Management Mode = Adaptive

game looks fine to me and plays stutter free on my system with zero crashes


hope some of that helps ..good luck !

[Category Theory]

Originally posted by KRIS:

Won't agree, FC4 is well known as GPU demanding game.

It is, but if you disagree that you can get 60 FPS most of the time on fairly high settings on a 970, you're wrong.

Also bro turning msaa of is exactly what I've said - 970 can't run with game maxed out.

No, you did not say that. You said:

Originally posted by KRIS:

it's the game, 970 is not good enough. Reduce godrays to volumetric fog also shadows to soft. Rest should stay at high.

[SNLdreamcast]

Thanks for the replies, y'all. I figured out that the problem was that I actually had my GPU set to "power saver mode" instead of "high performance". Now I'm able to play on 1920x1080 pretty smoothly.

[Sweet C]

Originally posted by WoodFiredPizza:

Thanks for the replies, y'all. I figured out that the problem was that I actually had my GPU set to "power saver mode" instead of "high performance". Now I'm able to play on 1920x1080 pretty smoothly.

How did you manage that? In the control panel?

[Geru77]

Just turn the shadows down, can keep everything else cranked

[-=SOF=-WID99]

Originally posted by zombiebot:

Originally posted by WoodFiredPizza:

Thanks for the replies, y'all. I figured out that the problem was that I actually had my GPU set to "power saver mode" instead of "high performance". Now I'm able to play on 1920x1080 pretty smoothly.

How did you manage that? In the control panel?

yes there is a setting in your Nvidia control panel

look for power management mode , set it to Prefer maxium performance

[DUSTY]

geforce exp will limit your fps don't instal

[MooP]

Turn off all nvidia gameworks stuff

[MooP]

Originally posted by KRIS:

geforce exp will limit your fps don't instal

How so?

[DUSTY]

Run tests and you will see

[MooP]

Originally posted by KRIS:

Run tests and you will see

Nah, because it's pure bs you're talking anyways