performance on 960

[RevOneEight]

Just letting anyone interested know. For my 960 system, it looks horrible on medium, and stutters on high. Not waisting my time looking for the optimal setting. Think i'll just wait until i upgrade my card to play this. Will hopefully be a sale by then sinse most people say its way too short for the price. Liked the atmosphere though going through the house during the first half hour.

[dcba85]

Bullpoo, for me it runs on gtx 780m (which is a crappy laptop gpu) fine with rocksteady 60 fps on 1080p with high settings, dynamic shadow and shadow cache off, shadow settings on medium, render mode on interlaced.

So you 960 should run the game just fine, or you may have a crappy CPU or less memory I dont know, as you only told your GPU.

[Raoul[GER]]

set shadows to middle and ambient occlusion off. also reflections to variable

[RevOneEight]

i have 8 gig ram and i5 4670. i'll try turning off dynamic shadow and cache before i refund. thanks for the quick responses

[Ragnar]

Dude. It runs great on 960. (4GB VRAM) High-Very high. Shadow cache off. text detail or quality high the other can be very high. reflection variable, and the other lighting effect put it on low. everything else can be at max. Antianalising SSAA. HBAO+ everything on.

[RevOneEight]

yea thats for the other info. theres a lot of settings in here lol i'm sure i had something on i shouldn't have.

[Quuhod]

*EDIT - Do you have the latest driver? - 378.49

I have a 960 4gb, a good starting place is to try the suggested settings in GeForce Experience and see how fps is. Turning on Shadow Cache improves my fps, this setting is dependent on vram which you have plenty of so it may improve performance for you too. I tested all the settings throughout my playthrough and here's what I use to ensure a mostly steady 60fps -

Ambient Occlusion - SSAO
Antialiasing - TAA
Bloom - Off
Chromatic Aberration - Off
Depth of Field - Off
Dynamic Shadows - On
Effects Rendering - High
Lens Flare - Off
Mesh Quality - Very High
Motion Blur - On
Reflections - Variable
Rendering Method - Normal
Resolution Scaling - 1
Shadow Cache - On
Shadows - High
Subsurface Scattering - Off
Texture Quality - High
Texture Filtering - Very High
Volumetric Lighting - High

Also here's an explanation on all the settings and their impact on performance -
http://www.game-debate.com/news/21989/resident-evil-7-pc-performance-breakdown-and-most-important-graphics-options

It's worth persevering, the game is excellent.

[RevOneEight]

Originally posted by QUUHOD:

*EDIT - Do you have the latest driver? - 378.49

I have a 960 4gb, a good starting place is to try the suggested settings in GeForce Experience and see how fps is. Turning on Shadow Cache improves my fps, this setting is dependent on vram which you have plenty of so it may improve performance for you too. I tested all the settings throughout my playthrough and here's what I use to ensure a mostly steady 60fps -

Ambient Occlusion - SSAO
Antialiasing - TAA
Bloom - Off
Chromatic Aberration - Off
Depth of Field - Off
Dynamic Shadows - On
Effects Rendering - High
Lens Flare - Off
Mesh Quality - Very High
Motion Blur - On
Reflections - Variable
Rendering Method - Normal
Resolution Scaling - 1
Shadow Cache - On
Shadows - High
Subsurface Scattering - Off
Texture Quality - High
Texture Filtering - Very High
Volumetric Lighting - High

Also here's an explanation on all the settings and their impact on performance -
http://www.game-debate.com/news/21989/resident-evil-7-pc-performance-breakdown-and-most-important-graphics-options

It's worth persevering, the game is excellent. :praisesun:

thank you for this. My problems seem to have mostly gone. i had one stutter while playing last. I'll try these settings. And yes, there were quite a few settings that i was confused on.

[Itadaki]

i3 4170 3.7 ghz
GTX 960 2 GB
8 GB RAM DD3

EDIT: Shadows

here's my settings and it runs on 1080 60 fps stutter free :)

Ambient Occlusion - SSAO (HBAO+ eats too much)
Antialiasing - SMAA (look's beautiful, FXAA, TXAA is horrible)
Bloom - On (for realism)
Chromatic Aberration - On (for realism)
Depth of Field - Off (your eyes do this already, redundant)
Dynamic Shadows - On (for realism)
Effects Rendering - Medium
Lens Flare - On (I don't even notice this one at all lol)
Mesh Quality - Medium
Motion Blur - Off (makes me nauseous)
Reflections - Off
Rendering Method - Normal
Resolution Scaling - 1
Shadow Cache - Off (this guy gives me fatal error so I had to kill him)
Shadows - Medium (any lower and i will get lines everywhere)
Subsurface Scattering - On (for realism)
Texture Quality - Medium
Texture Filtering - Medium
Volumetric Lighting - Low

[z4v3k]

Stuttering is only caused by the texture quality being too high, for the gtx 960 use either low textures for 2gb vram or medium textures for 4gb vram.

[Quuhod]

Originally posted by SLO_z4v3k:

Stuttering is only caused by the texture quality being too high, for the gtx 960 use either low textures for 2gb vram or medium textures for 4gb vram.

The OP has 8gb vram, more than enough for High or Very High textures.

[z4v3k]

Originally posted by QUUHOD:

Originally posted by SLO_z4v3k:

Stuttering is only caused by the texture quality being too high, for the gtx 960 use either low textures for 2gb vram or medium textures for 4gb vram.

The OP has 8 gb vram, more than enough for High or Very High textures.

He's got 8gb of system ram for the cpu. Vram (video memory) is on the graphics card for the gpu, which stores textures and the gtx 960 supports 2-4 gb Vram.

[RevOneEight]

correct thats 8 gig of system ram. the 960 gtx i have is 2gb. which sucks for that being what the textures work. cause the textures are surprising bad with this game. None the less. its good enough until i get a 1060 or 70. The stutering is down to like once per session with it on high. i'll try medium, but i will probably deal with the random stutter over the textures looking worse.

[NicZerus]

Originally posted by Adrian:

i3 4170 3.7 ghz
GTX 960 2 GB
8 GB RAM DD3

here's my settings and it runs on 1080 60 fps stutter free :)

Ambient Occlusion - SSAO (HBAO+ eats too much)
Antialiasing - SMAA (look's beautiful, FXAA, TXAA is horrible)
Bloom - On (for realism)
Chromatic Aberration - On (for realism)
Depth of Field - Off (your eyes do this already, redundant)
Dynamic Shadows - On (for realism)
Effects Rendering - Medium
Lens Flare - On (I don't even notice this one at all lol)
Mesh Quality - Medium
Motion Blur - Off (makes me nauseous)
Reflections - Off
Rendering Method - Normal
Resolution Scaling - 1
Shadow Cache - Off (this guy gives me fatal error so I had to kill him)
Shadows - High (any lower and i will get lines everywhere)
Subsurface Scattering - On (for realism)
Texture Quality - Medium
Texture Filtering - Medium
Volumetric Lighting - Low

You can finish the game with this settings without problems? because on some parts the game stutter a lot .

[Itadaki]

Originally posted by NicZerus:

You can finish the game with this settings without problems? because on some parts the game stutter a lot .

Correction, shadow is medium setting sorry. Yes no stutter, finished normal and easy with these settings :)

[trek554]

Originally posted by RevOneEight:

correct thats 8 gig of system ram. the 960 gtx i have is 2gb. which sucks for that being what the textures work. cause the textures are surprising bad with this game. None the less. its good enough until i get a 1060 or 70. The stutering is down to like once per session with it on high. i'll try medium, but i will probably deal with the random stutter over the textures looking worse.

you would be fool to put a 1070 with that old i3 as you would not even come close to fully utilizing it in most games. even a 1060 would be held back quite a bit depending on the game.