Pondering performance ...

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danlit

Member
I have a new build, but am struggling to see why Pillars of Eternity performs so badly on it ... (very slow/jumpy)

Current build ..

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790 (3.6GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard Gigabyte H81M-D2V: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - 2 DVI, 1 HDMI, 1 DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
1st Hard Disk 500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE
2nd Hard Disk 1TB WD BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

Pillars of Eternity recommended requirements ...

CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz / AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
CPU Speed:
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Windows Vista 64-bit or newer
Video Card: Radeon HD 7700 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 14 GB


Any advice would be appreciated!!!
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
mantadog said:
First place to start is the drivers, are they up to date? Are all other games fine?
Click to expand...

And after you've checked that run the Windows Performance Monitor whilst you're gaming to get a record of resources usage whilst you're having problems. It's not too difficult to figure out how to collect a dataset with the Performance Monitor and how to view it, just be aware that by default the data collector only runs for 60 seconds (you can change this of course).

Once you have some hard data you can see whether it's resource shortage that is your problem or whether the problem lies elsewhere.
 
Warbloke

Warbloke

Bronze Level Poster
and after that (or maybe before all that)
- check you have connected your monitor to your actual 'GTX970 graphics card' at the back of the PC and not this motherboards onboard graphics connection which I see it also has.
 
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danlit

Member
Thanks for the input guys... turns out I'm a moron, and had a choice of 3 monitor inputs... I chose the wrong one.

Games are no fluid and beautiful!

Thanks!
 
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