Man, FC4 must either be very cpu intensive or badly optomised....680 to 970

[vonbleak]

I have had this game for a while now and while i really like it, however performance was not that great on my PC. I have an i7 2600 @ 3.4 cpu, which is a few years old but up to now has not let me down. For nearly the past 2 years i have been using a GTX 680 and thats been great...but with FC4 i noticed that my system was starting to struggle, and with games like Witcher 3 and GTAV coming i thought it would be a good time to upgrade my gpu.

So just this very fine day i picked up an evga 970 ftw edition and the first few games i tested i was very impressed with the boost in frames and performance in general. Then i loaded FC4 and was quite surprised that the performance gain was very little indeed, only maybe 5-10 frames on average. Now i was not expecting 20-30 frames more or anything like that, but only 5-10 from going from a 680 to 970 seems a little low.

So now my thoughts are, either this game is actually a cpu eater and its my cpu that is holding back the 970 (ie its become a bottleneck for this game) - or the game itself needs some serious optomisation. Like i said before most games i have tested have shown a pretty decent impovement, just not FC4...?

[-=SOF=-WID99]

here is a good read about video cards and setting for the game

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/01/07/far_cry_4_video_card_performance_review#.VLDU1yvF_XQ

[Nite69]

your system is about equal to mine, I7 2600K @ 4.2Ghz, 16GB ram, 4GB GTX 770, with 30 - 70fps at Ultra detail, 1080p SMAA

it's not great but it is playable.

[Tev]

Originally posted by Kotaku:

Go to "My Documents," open up your "My Games" folder and find the Far Cry 4 folder. In there, you'll find your profile.xml file. (For me, my profile was located in another subfolder within the Far Cry 4 folder.) Then, make two changes: Change DisableLoadingMip0="0" to DisableLoadingMip0="1" and change GPUMaxBufferedFrames="0" to GPUMaxBufferedFrames="1".

This one helped me a lot.

Now I'm getting Higher FPS on Very High (partially Ultra) than I got on High before.

[vonbleak]

Originally posted by Teutep:

Originally posted by Kotaku:

Go to "My Documents," open up your "My Games" folder and find the Far Cry 4 folder. In there, you'll find your profile.xml file. (For me, my profile was located in another subfolder within the Far Cry 4 folder.) Then, make two changes: Change DisableLoadingMip0="0" to DisableLoadingMip0="1" and change GPUMaxBufferedFrames="0" to GPUMaxBufferedFrames="1".

This one helped me a lot.

Now I'm getting Higher FPS on Very High (partially Ultra) than I got on High before.

What do these tweeks actually do? I have heard some tweaks actualy lower the visual quality, which would kind of defeat the purpose....if not however, then i will give them a go for sure...

[Tev]

Originally posted by vonbleak:

Originally posted by Teutep:

This one helped me a lot.

Now I'm getting Higher FPS on Very High (partially Ultra) than I got on High before.

What do these tweeks actually do? I have heard some tweaks actualy lower the visual quality, which would kind of defeat the purpose....if not however, then i will give them a go for sure...

Personally I haven't seen much of a difference in quality when I compare my screenshots with some on the hub.


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=372287903
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=372008523

The performance is a lot better now though.

Edit:
LoadingMip0 = It involves how textures are loaded at a distance. I think with it set to 1, there's no smooth transition between texture detail levels.
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Originally posted by Reddit:

I know this is a bit late to answer, but anyways. Mip0 refers to the highest resolution mipmap (it goes from 0 to whatever the texture has, halving res each time) I don't have the game yet to test but maybe that is actually lowering the resolution of textures overall, or, if no one noticed a drop in quality, makes it only use mip0 in close distance.

[Monarch]

Badly optimized.

[Seberenth]

Originally posted by vonbleak:

Originally posted by Teutep:

This one helped me a lot.

Now I'm getting Higher FPS on Very High (partially Ultra) than I got on High before.

What do these tweeks actually do? I have heard some tweaks actualy lower the visual quality, which would kind of defeat the purpose....if not however, then i will give them a go for sure...

i find changing DisableLoadingMip0 ends up effecting the texture quality, i found changing max pre rendered frames to 3 pretty handy

[tfa]

I have a GTX 680 with an I7 960 and on Ultra at 720p with no godrays or ambient occlusion I get 60+ fps. This shows you don't need a powerhouse cpu. Resolution, godrays and ao are entirely gpu dependent.

980 with an i3 3220 gets 76 fps in this bench. http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page5.html

[Brian Damegd]

720p gaming.. what is this the 90´s?