Is Siege more CPU or GPU limited?

[Nick33BC]

I have had alot of problems with eye strain and i finally found out my eyes are super sensitive to the motion blur caused by digital monitors. So my choice was either get a CRT monitor or a 240HZ monitor with anti blur.

GPU: GTX 970 - CPU: I7 4790K - 16GB of Ram.
I am playing on the lowest settings with 1024x768 res, With the render scaling dropped even lower to 828x620 resolution.
I am using 917MB out of 3992MB VRAM.
But i still get frame rates between 130-210 when in game. I need to stay above 230fps for the anti blur to work properly.

Do you think i would be able to get a 100+ FPS increase from just a new GPU?(GTX1080+) Or would i get bottlenecked by the CPU?

[Shikikan]

GPU!!! I have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ AMD FX 6300 and I run the game at 100 fps

[Razin_Shah]

I have similar specs to you except I use a GTX 980.
You should upgrade your GPU and it should be fine.
This game does have CPU bottlenecks but right now, I think your GPU is what is holding your frame rate back.

[Nick33BC]

Originally posted by Tengku_Razin:

I think your GPU is what is holding your frame rate back.

Yeah it feels like it's the gpu limiting. But man this game is highly taxing on the gpu for a competitive game when it's on the lowest settings if it's true.

[Razin_Shah]

Originally posted by Nick33BC:

Originally posted by Tengku_Razin:

I think your GPU is what is holding your frame rate back.

Yeah it feels like it's the gpu limiting. But man this game is highly taxing on the gpu for a competitive game when it's on the lowest settings if it's true.

Well here's what you do.

Texture quality to medium
Shading quality to low
Shadow quality to medium
Reflection quality to medium
Ambient Occlusion to off
Lens effect to off
Zoom-in depth of field to off
Anti-Aliasing to T-AA
Render Scaling to 100 percent

Brightness set to 65

I use these settings with my GTX 980 and I play the game on a lock 75fps just fine. I don't know if getting rid of small amounts of motion blur on your monitor is worth playing at that low of a resolution for you. Mainly because playing at that low resolution makes the game look blurry anyway.

[JudasPhysicist]

Well I've seen people play at 240 FPS at higher resolutions.
But I'd say both your GPU and CPU are limiting factors if you are aiming for 200+ FPS.

[Nick33BC]

Originally posted by Tengku_Razin:

I use these settings with my GTX 980 and I play the game on a lock 75fps just fine.

Uhh, I think you read my post wrong. I already get 150-180fps averagely. I have eye sight problems and high persistence on monitors gives me really bad eye strain. https://www.blurbusters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/motion_blur_from_persistence.png My goal is to never drop below 240fps.

[Razin_Shah]

Originally posted by Nick33BC:

Originally posted by Tengku_Razin:

I use these settings with my GTX 980 and I play the game on a lock 75fps just fine.

Uhh, I think you read my post wrong. I already get 150-180fps averagely. I have eye sight problems and high persistence on monitors gives me really bad eye strain. https://www.blurbusters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/motion_blur_from_persistence.png My goal is to never drop below 240fps.

If you want 240fps and above, then your PC specs needs some serious upgrades.

[Nick33BC]

Originally posted by Tengku_Razin:

If you want 240fps and above, then your PC specs needs some serious upgrades.

This computer can run Black ops 2 at 2560x1440Res on high settings and get 300fps. Which means it not only looks much better than this game on low at 828x620res, It also runs way better.
And of course it can run CS:GO at 300+ fps. I am sad that modern games look crappier than those games AND run worse at the same time because of how low of the setting i have to play them on. I wish they would just use the optimisation techniques of older games for the low settings in modern games.

[Razin_Shah]

Originally posted by Nick33BC:

Originally posted by Tengku_Razin:

If you want 240fps and above, then your PC specs needs some serious upgrades.

This computer can run Black ops 2 at 2560x1440Res on high settings and get 300fps. Which means it not only looks much better than this game on low at 828x620res, It also runs way better.
And of course it can run CS:GO at 300+ fps. I am sad that modern games look crappier than those games AND run worse at the same time because of how low of the setting i have to play them on. I wish they would just use the optimisation techniques of older games for the low settings in modern games.

Its not just about the optimization. This game has a very CPU and GPU intensive destruction engine. I don't even know if getting 240fps is even possible in Siege. Certainly not with your PC specs though.

[Nick33BC]

Originally posted by Tengku_Razin:

Its not just about the optimization. This game has a very CPU and GPU intensive destruction engine. I don't even know if getting 240fps is even possible in Siege.

I don't know if you care but i will explain what i am talking about.

I understand about the destruction. and i understand it will tax a fair bit. But it should mainly impact the fps when the destruction is actually happening because there would be alot of entities. When no destruction is happening at all there shouldn't be such a fps problem.

Older games such as CS:GO and CoD:BO2 don't have real time lighting on anything but entities. Which means that all of the shadows, reflections and lights are attached to the map and not being run by your game. They are kinda "Painted on" in a way. Which means your computer only has to renders textures and only ever renders shadows or lighting on entities such as players or moving trees, ect, Which means you can still see the lighting so it looks good without your computer being slowed down by it.

Now it would create the problem of emp grenades not turning off lighting. And light not showing through blown holes in the walls. But it's a competitive game, So i could not give a **** about visual gimmicks. Lighting engines are one of the most taxing things in games.
I should do more research on how it works in this game though.

[Nick33BC]

Originally posted by Meme Man:

Originally posted by Wolke:

Well I've seen people play at 240 FPS at higher resolutions.
But I'd say both your GPU and CPU are limiting factors if you are aiming for 200+ FPS.

with a 970? lmfao upgrade that potato

Why reply if you can't even be bothered to understand what you are replying too? He is saying that he has seen other people with better computers play at 240 fps with better components, but that i would probably need both a new gpu and cpu to do that.

[SIlent]

Well at an ryzen 5 2600 with 70-90fps ive around 30% usage on CPU downloadms iafterburner and see if it says gpu 100% or cpu 100%