Xianthar
STK Scientific The Initiative.
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Posted - 2009.07.30 16:42:00 -
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Originally by: Melanie Miss Hi all,
Lately I've been trying to make Eve performance better on my computer (in terms of pure fps). I've seen some guides and such on the forum, but most of them are outdated.
I've tried to clock my CPU from 2.1GHz - 3.6GHz (new cpu fan ftw), but in terms of fps the difference isn't really that much. I find this odd, because I've always heard that Eve is very CPU dependant. When I look at task manager, I find that the client(s) are using somewhere around 10-30% of the cpu (spiking up and down).
Does anyone know what might be my bottleneck? Can Eve run at more than aprox 100-130 fps at all?
My performance especially drops when using two clients. The difference between windowed and fullscreen isnt much.
I'm considering doing a more in depth study on how CPU affect the fps, but first I'd like to ask you guys if you know anything about what effects Eve performance?
My current system is: XFX nForce 680i SLI MB 2x OCZ Titanium Alpha 2048MB DDR2 PC8000KIT XFX GeForce 8800GTS 580M 640MB Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz NZXT ZERO (8 fans) Running on Windows 7
why would you want to go faster than 100-130fps? as long as you stay above the 30-40 fps range you likely won't notice, 60fps is ideal but this isn't a twitch FPS your likely would never know.
if you actually want smoother performance enable Vsync to lock it to your refresh rate (likely 60fps).
eve is cpu limited in large combat situations where performance actually matters (grid load with 800 ships on it)
for comparison i've got a Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz, GTX260, ubuntu linux, i see ~165fps with occasional spikes up to 200ish if i disable vsync, which i never do. If I do disable vsync i peg a CPU core thus CPU is the limiter at that point.
with vsync i stay at my refresh, 57fps 95% of the time, cpu at 5-10% of one core, it drops to 35-40 during very large fleet stuff. during normal use 2 clients will run at 57fps, 3 they all hover in the 45fps range, 4 down to ~30. I'm currently watching "In the Loop" ripping a dvd in H.264 and single client is still stuck at 57fps, all cpu cores at ~95% from the ripping process.
If you really want to upgrade something your GFX card is likely your current bottleneck but if you get something in the GTX series your cpu will become the bottleneck.
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