Performance Issues. Please Help.

[Dexascore]

Can anyone help me with this and please don't tell me my graphics card is old. If I can play Witcher 3 on high settings with 60 fps, I should be able to play BLOPS 3 on medium at least.

The problem is I can't get a stable 60 fps even with everything off and on low. It dips into the 30s unless I set the resolution to 80%. If I set it to 80% I can run it smoothly at 60 fps with everything on high. It's like the game just doesn't want to stay at 60. My system specs are below.

Intel® Core™ i7-3770 Quad Core 3.40 GHz 8MB Cache LGA1155 + HD Graphics
2TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64M Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive
16GB (4x4GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory (Kingston HyperX Blu w/Heat Spreader)
Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 Chipset
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB
Windows 7 Home Edition 64 Bit

Performance is the same no matter what I'm doing. Even Arkham Knight runs on medium without many issues on this pc. I can't seem to get this thing working.

Can somebody help me get this game running at a stable 60 without resorting to blurriness.

[Arekusandora]

Use the latest nvidia drivers and use the geforce experince to optimize the game. Should help a bit at least but more than that you'd have to wait until they release some patches.

[Dakkon]

I gained a ridiculous amount of fps just but lowering my field of view back down to 80.

[Dexascore]

Field of view is 80 by default, haven't changed it and I've updated the drivers. I even went back to Windows 7 since Windows 10 has been annoying me with its constant hanging when it updates. Btw

Also field of vision is 80 by default. Haven't changed it. I've even tried playing a lower resolution 1600 x 1200, it has the same performance hiccups as 1080p. But apparently its fps is really stable when lowered to 80% in the menu to 1512 by whatever.

The fps never goes below 30 in the campaign. But is that really what I have to live with, especially in multiplayer???

[Scigheras]

i think your gpu just isn't good enough for this game, u have 2gb vram which is only enough for low. for medium u need at least 3gb

[Dexascore]

Except I can't get 60 even with low settings and everything turned off. It keeps dipping to 30.

[Shock]

lower shadow quailty, turn off motion blur, turn off ambient occlusion, turn off volumetric lighting, turn off order transparency, turn off anti alisaing. medium for texture mesh and filtering. run native resolution.

[s1nglr]

Lol I love it when kids come here and insist that there GPU is not old and proceed to compare two totally different game engines, and use some sort of chain logic to justify themselves.

Mate, your card is almost 4 years old.

[Wyrdward]

Originally posted by Scigheras:

i think your gpu just isn't good enough for this game, u have 2gb vram which is only enough for low. for medium u need at least 3gb

That's impossible. I have a GTX 770 and can run every game I own on ultra with maximum anti-aliasing. It has 2 gigs of VRAM.

[ElyD]

Originally posted by Sam I Am:

Originally posted by Scigheras:

i think your gpu just isn't good enough for this game, u have 2gb vram which is only enough for low. for medium u need at least 3gb

That's impossible. I have a GTX 770 and can run every game I own on ultra with maximum anti-aliasing. It has 2 gigs of VRAM.

It is quite the opposite. The game uses between 3.5 and 4 GB of VRAM Maxed out @ 1080p. It never really drops below 2GB in usage even on low @1080p

[Dexascore]

Originally posted by babushka:

Lol I love it when kids come here and insist that there GPU is not old and proceed to compare two totally different game engines, and use some sort of chain logic to justify themselves.

Mate, your card is almost 4 years old.

Yes I'm comparing an open world game (Witcher 3) that is consistently considered to be one of the most beautiful games of 2015 which was optimized to an unoptimized piece of FPS crap that looks average for a 2015 game and has had performance issues since launch even on a 980TI and no proper SLI support.

I'm not an idiot, I'm not expecting everything to be on high. Just consistent performance at some level. It's not even giving 60 fps with everything turned off and on low.

Two different engines? Kiss my ass newbie. If I can run SW Battlefront at 60 on med-high settings, I should be able to run this. Asking for help doesn't make me a kid, it means I know my limitations and I appreciate people who help other people. Learn some respect for other people and stop acting like a 10 year old. Or do you really need to troll to feel good about yourself.

[Dante]

My brother runs this game with a GTX 660 Ti 2 Gb VRAM @ 720p with medium everything and pulls over 150 FPS. It drops to 90 on some maps but is still playable.

I'll share what he did (actually, it was me that set it up for him):

In your nVidia control panel, turn Texture Filtering - Quality to "High Performance"; turn Threaded Optimisation "On"; turn Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimisation "On"; turn Power Management to "Prefer Maximum Performance".

In the game video settings, set resolution to 720p with renderer resolution set to 100%.

In Advanced Video Settings, turn everything to "medium" - including Shadow Map Quality - and set Anti-Aliasing to "SMAA x2".

You also need to run the game with the executable priority set to "High". You need a program to do this, because manually setting it will result in it being automatically set back to "normal". So, as Process Hacker will result in a kick from the BO3 servers (with the "not authorised 5" error), use Process Lasso, which is free to download:

https://bitsum.com/processlasso/

Use Process Lasso to always run the game with the BO3 executable set to "high" and your hit registration will be much sharper. THIS IS A MUST when using lower grade GPUs.

Another thing he uses is Nvidia Inspector to overclock his GTX 660 Ti but it isn't really vital. But BO3 requires you to play MP with high frame rates in order to beat the other guy to the punch. So, every little bit helps.

And last but not least, set these settings in your config.ini file:

//Number of frames the driver is allowed to enqueue, a lower value improves input latency but may decrease performance. Set it to 0 to use the system default, usually 3.
MaxFrameLatency = "3" // 0 to 4

//0 use two threads, one thread update frame N while the second render N-1. 1 concatenate update and render. 2 concatenate update render and frame presentation.
// 0 is the default for the best performance, 1 and 2 improve latency but require a powerful CPU.
SerializeRender = "2" // 0 to 2

This sharpens up hit registration more than GPU performance. But it helps when your frames drop on some maps - it helps to keep the hit detection and your mouse input consistent.

[Dexascore]

I figured out the issue. Apparently for some reason turning Vsync On makes the game intentionally dip the framerate to 30 everytime a lot is going on. I turned it off and am now managing 50-60 fps in campaign and above 60 in multiplayer without issues.

Also graphics card hasn't been overclocked so I hope this helps someone else with similar machince specs.

Texture detail is set to medium
Texture filtering set to High
Subsurface scattering on, shadows to medium with dynamics on
ambient occlusion low
FXAA anti aliasing (Not much difference from SMAA)
Resolution: 1920 X 1080

Never encountered such aggressive vsync before.

[Happy.Cerberus]

There is an official guide from Nvidia: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/call-of-duty-black-ops-3-graphics-and-performance-guide

[DETERMINOLOGY]

Originally posted by Happy.Cerberus:

There is an official guide from Nvidia: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/call-of-duty-black-ops-3-graphics-and-performance-guide

Nv cant do nothing even with me playing at 60fps theres still a few rough spots..Game needs to be patched a bit more