Setting recommendations for perfect framerate?

[Maskeno]

So nvidia gfexperience is recommending absolute maximum settings at 4k.

The in game bench puts me at high on 1080p.

Neither runs smoothly, especially in cities. Has anyone experimented enough to get a perfect 60 fps? It's fine if it's at 1080p, but I'd like to sacrifice as little as possible visually. I'm just looking for recommendations, I'm aware there might be several ways to accomplish it, I just want opinions of the best ones.

Specs:

Evga ftw3 1080ti hybrid
I7 7700k
32gb ddr4 3200mhz
Samsung Evo 850 1tb ssd.

All watercooled, Temps aren't reaching any higher than 50c. It's a brand new build, completely tweaked and optimized for gaming running exactly as expected on all other games.

[Kleerex]

Turning off frame counter would be a good start.
Why it's always guys with 1080's complaining about performance in all games? Is that GPU so bad?

[Maskeno]

Originally posted by Reloaded:

Turning off frame counter would be a good start.
Why it's always guys with 1080's complaining about performance in all games? Is that GPU so bad?

I'm not looking for criticism. I get headaches from frame drops. That's WHY I pay for the beefy cards. Either contribute to the conversation or move on.

[Maskeno]

And I realize the danger of feeding the troll here, but given what I've seen the problem seems to rely mostly on the cpu. The 1080ti is a wonderful card, but when you spend that kind of money it sets a certain expectation. Getting less than a steady 60fps becomes a little insulting, so naturally, you'll hear more from owners on bad ports and such. Imagine buying a Ferrari and having the throttle stick. You still have a Ferrari but you're not getting the full joy of the experience. It's frustrating.

[c313]

Originally posted by Maskeno:

And I realize the danger of feeding the troll here, but given what I've seen the problem seems to rely mostly on the cpu. The 1080ti is a wonderful card, but when you spend that kind of money it sets a certain expectation. Getting less than a steady 60fps becomes a little insulting, so naturally, you'll hear more from owners on bad ports and such. Imagine buying a Ferrari and having the throttle stick. You still have a Ferrari but you're not getting the full joy of the experience. It's frustrating.

The game isn't optimized good. The best hardware can't fix that. There's a reason every build they do they increase the performance. Eventually they'll get it

Best advice I can give is to tweak settings lower, but in Cities, especially Alexandria.. It won't matter. You'll experience dips often there.

[WarpGuN]

a i7 8700K solved most of my fps drops in major settlements

[Maskeno]

Originally posted by c313:

Originally posted by Maskeno:

And I realize the danger of feeding the troll here, but given what I've seen the problem seems to rely mostly on the cpu. The 1080ti is a wonderful card, but when you spend that kind of money it sets a certain expectation. Getting less than a steady 60fps becomes a little insulting, so naturally, you'll hear more from owners on bad ports and such. Imagine buying a Ferrari and having the throttle stick. You still have a Ferrari but you're not getting the full joy of the experience. It's frustrating.

The game isn't optimized good. The best hardware can't fix that. There's a reason every build they do they increase the performance. Eventually they'll get it

Best advice I can give is to tweak settings lower, but in Cities, especially Alexandria.. It won't matter. You'll experience dips often there.

I've more or less accepted that I won't be able to max it, but I would like to see a stable framerate given that. You're saying a solid 60fps isn't possible?

[Maskeno]

Originally posted by WarpGuN:

a i7 8700K solved most of my fps drops in major settlements

I'm planning on jumping to one soon. Though I'm not particularly enthusiastic about "most"

I can handle midline graphics if I have to, but frame drop really bother me.

[Kleerex]

If you have that much money, I suggest spending it on a CPU with at least 12 cores. I've seen comments here that this game use 12 cores on Ryzen 1950X (that's a $999 16-core CPU). Yours is a 4-core CPU, which is greatly bottlenecking your "beefy" GPU.

[Maskeno]

Originally posted by Reloaded:

If you have that much money, I suggest spending it on a CPU with at least 12 cores. I've seen comments here that this game use 12 cores on Ryzen 1950X (that's a $999 16-core CPU). Yours is a 4-core CPU, which is greatly bottlenecking your "beefy" GPU.

You're still contributing absolutely nothing to the conversation. "Throw more money at it" isn't an answer. I've provided my specs and asked a question based on them. You're clearly trying to make an incredibly useless point. Might I suggest you go give yourself an aneurysm and let the adults talk now?

[Kleerex]

I said that your CPU is bottlenecking GPU. You bought that PC pre-assembled, right? Unfortunately this game will eat it for breakfast, and there isn't much you can do aside from lowering graphics settings.

By the way, Nvidia has released a new graphics card based on Volta architecture. It's called Titan V.

[Maskeno]

Originally posted by Reloaded:

I said that your CPU is bottlenecking GPU. You bought that PC pre-assembled, right? Unfortunately this game will eat it for breakfast, and there isn't much you can do aside from lowering graphics settings.

By the way, Nvidia has released a new graphics card based on Volta architecture. It's called Titan V.

No. I built it myself. You're embarrassing yourself.

[Nate]

Try 50Hz. Under display tab, change refresh rate from 60Hz to 50Hz. And use 2160p for resolution or alternatively select 1080p and under resolution modifier, increase it to 200%.

Under graphics tab, select High preset (with some settings on Very High like AO, shadows if you like). And make sure to enable Dynamic Resolution and choose 60fps.

Now try to run the benchmark/game and see what kind of avg frame-rate you get.

[Maskeno]

You're deliberately ignoring everything I've said to assert irrelevant point based on some sort of preconceived notion.

This entire post is literally asking what I should turn down to get the frame rate to bearable levels for me. So far you've asserted that 1080 ti cards must be bad because you hear their users complain. (funny enough, I hadn't complained, I'm only asking what I should turn down or off, you asserted "my frame counter")

You've asserted that "because I have the money" I should buy a thousand dollar cpu. I don't have the money, the gpu was less than that. Even if it wasn't, I'm not spending 1k for one, poorly optimized title. It's more practical to just take my whacks and turn down settings. You know, the point of the thread.

You asserted that I must've bought it pre-built. Not sure why or based on what. I can only assume it was meant to be an insult.

Then you mentioned the 3000 dollar titan v. (because naturally if you can afford an 800 dollar gpu, 3k is no big Thang) that isn't even designed for gaming, meaning the gains would be incredibly minimal for the price increase. Once again, I can only surmise you brought it up to make some kind of point. Badly.


This wall of text is all just to say I've reported you for harassment. I asked you to move on several times now as you clearly have no interest in moving the conversation forward in a non-toxic wastedump sized manner. Please analyze your mindset. You're clearly an incredibly toxic and unhappy person.

[Maskeno]

Originally posted by Nathan Ray Drake:

Try 50Hz. Under display tab, change refresh rate from 60Hz to 50Hz. And use 2160p for resolution or alternatively select 1080p and under resolution modifier, increase it to 200%.

Under graphics tab, select High preset (with some settings on Very High like AO, shadows if you like). And make sure to enable Dynamic Resolution and choose 60fps.

Now try to run the benchmark/game and see what kind of avg frame-rate you get.

I saw your suggestion for this regarding i5 bottlenecking. That more or less locks the framerate to 50 though doesn't it? I'm really seeking a solution that ends with a solid 60 fps, even at the expense of some other eye candies. I get terrible headaches.

Its sounding like that might not be possible at all though according to some of the responders here. :/

[Sir Noob Wulf]

Originally posted by Reloaded:

I said that your CPU is bottlenecking GPU. You bought that PC pre-assembled, right? Unfortunately this game will eat it for breakfast, and there isn't much you can do aside from lowering graphics settings.

By the way, Nvidia has released a new graphics card based on Volta architecture. It's called Titan V.

And it costs Twice as much as my PC xD