ambar_hitman
Member
Well well well. This confirms that my GPU is the culprit and I was OCing my CPU *facepalm*
I have AMD Phenom II X6 OCed to 3.4 Ghz, 8 GB RAM and OCed AMD 6850. I am struggling to maintain 30 fps on lowest settings at 720p.
Dead Rising 3 PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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Well well well. This confirms that my GPU is the culprit and I was OCing my CPU *facepalm*
I have AMD Phenom II X6 OCed to 3.4 Ghz, 8 GB RAM and OCed AMD 6850. I am struggling to maintain 30 fps on lowest settings at 720p.
So through some crazy workaround I was able to get past the loading screen crash and got to play about 2 hours last night. Pretty much had everything on the lowest settings and the framerate was barely playable. Crashed once, then rolled back my Nvidia driver and it was all fine. All in all, not impressed with how this plays.
I've been able to get a mostly stable 30FPS with everything maxed out. It sometimes will hover around 29-28, depending on screen action. I only have a 4GB 760/i7-3770k, so not really rocking highest end for either processor or GPU. The cutscene drops are horrendous. I am not super sensitive to frame drops, so it doesn't bug me too much. I haven't gotten any CTD yet and have about six hours played. I guess I'm lucky in that regard.
I chose story mode first and it's fairly standard DR fare, so far, except for not really rescuing a ton of survivors. I'm only around level 15 right now, so I can't wait to get to 50 and bust some heads in the other game modes.
I chose story mode first and it's fairly standard DR fare, so far, except for not really rescuing a ton of survivors. I'm only around level 15 right now, so I can't wait to get to 50 and bust some heads in the other game modes.
ricardo_sousa11
Member
Laptops arent officially supported ?
...Wow....
...Wow....
Newly Vacant
Member
I just thought I'd add in my experience. With an i7 980 and a GTX 780 I have everything pretty much maxed including game quality set to full (at 1440p), with the exceptions being SMAA and motion blur. I'm getting a solid 30 fps, cutscenes included. When I disable the frame cap, its peaks at 35 to 38 fps. I just don't think this game was made to run much higher than 30 fps. It's fine, I guess. I'm just so used to 60 fps at this point; Dead Rising 3 is an underwhelming experience on a technical level. Maybe with a few driver updates and game patches things won't look so disappointing in a couple months.
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
Isn't that standard for most PC games ?
Dictator93
Member
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
I mean in the sense that, companies usual put a warning on the system requirements "Laptop GPU's may work, but are not supported". Games usually work fine but they have this small print on there.
ricardo_sousa11
Member
I never ever herd about that separation...Laptops and PC's are technically the same...how can they not be supported ?! Specially when most decent laptops today, top medium/high gpu's.
The laptop I used for work, could run BF3 on high settings very easily, how can they neglect amongst users on the same "platform".
MMBosstones86
Member
Quoting myself from the Steam thread. Hope this can help anyone else having these issues.
ussjtrunks
Member
So i try to start the game and i get
" Dead Rising 3 Stopped Working "
Any known fix for this, using nvidia gtx 660
As soon as i click the game in my steam library it goes to a black screen and gives that message
Tried rolling back drivers
restarting steam
restarting computer
verifying game cache
" Dead Rising 3 Stopped Working "
Any known fix for this, using nvidia gtx 660
As soon as i click the game in my steam library it goes to a black screen and gives that message
Tried rolling back drivers
restarting steam
restarting computer
verifying game cache
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
So i try to start the game and i get
" Dead Rising 3 Stopped Working "
Any known fix for this, using nvidia gtx 660
As soon as i click the game in my steam library it goes to a black screen and gives that message
Tried rolling back drivers
restarting steam
restarting computer
verifying game cache
I have the same card. Once I got the goddamn thing running, it runs fine except for hiccups when there's tons of shit on the screen. I also always crash when I close the game too...but it still works otherwise <_<
MMBosstones86
Member
So i try to start the game and i get
" Dead Rising 3 Stopped Working "
Any known fix for this, using nvidia gtx 660
As soon as i click the game in my steam library it goes to a black screen and gives that message
Tried rolling back drivers
restarting steam
restarting computer
verifying game cache
read my post directly above yours
ussjtrunks
Member
lol this game
dont think I've ever had a game not even start beforehowd you get yours running?
ussjtrunks
Member
fixed it by moving the game to my c drive, no idea why it just doesnt like my 2nd hdd
ussjtrunks
Member
After playing a few hours heres what Im getting
Alienware X51
i7 3770 3.4
GTX 660
* Framerate locked @ 30 fps
* Settings 720p without motion blur, dof and subsurface scattering
* Gamplay seems mostly locked to 30fps with the odd dip to 27fps if i turn the camera fast or drive into a huge amount of zombies
* Shadows seem low res even at high, medium settings look awful
* Cutscenes vary they can play perfectly fine at 30fps or jump up and down between 22-30 fps, for some reason it seems to mostly happen when a zombie gets a close up shot
* In Afterburner it says my gpu usage is 40% which is odd i assume this is whats causing most of this, its possible that a driver update could solve everything
Alienware X51
i7 3770 3.4
GTX 660
* Framerate locked @ 30 fps
* Settings 720p without motion blur, dof and subsurface scattering
* Gamplay seems mostly locked to 30fps with the odd dip to 27fps if i turn the camera fast or drive into a huge amount of zombies
* Shadows seem low res even at high, medium settings look awful
* Cutscenes vary they can play perfectly fine at 30fps or jump up and down between 22-30 fps, for some reason it seems to mostly happen when a zombie gets a close up shot
* In Afterburner it says my gpu usage is 40% which is odd i assume this is whats causing most of this, its possible that a driver update could solve everything
War Raichu
Member
based on a recommendation on the Steam forums, I lowered the shadow quality and the framerate in cutscenes improved considerably. I'm thinking about giving 60 fps a second try.
Dick Justice
Banned
Shadows seem to have the biggest effect on performance apart from rendering resolution and ambient occlusion. Shame that even medium shadows result in ugly ass jaggy messes. Would still take that over an even more sluggish framerate though.
Soyongdori
Member
You have exactly the same spec as I do and I get the exact same fps with same resolution.
I think I'm gonna upgrade for new gpu (if I can with X51).
TheFNEffecT
Member
I noticed on my 295x2 that GPU 1 and 2 are both being used albiet only at around 40% utilization (Using Skyrim's crossfire profile as they mentioned on various forums), I'm thinking about trying that driver that came out for the 285 that was modified to work with the rest of the cards on Guru3d. I had read on the steam forums it helped some users...
for those interested it is here
Last night I was having a blast though, but I'd just chug to about 15 fps while driving with my buddy. I would alt+tab out and back in and the frames would jump up to high 70-80fps for a bit for a few minutes then just start crawling again. I noticed on MSI Afterburner my VRAM usage was all the way maxed out....I mean I'm playing with everything at max settings and all but hot damn....
Hopefully things get ironed out cause I'm really enjoying playing this game co-op with my buddy.
for those interested it is here
Last night I was having a blast though, but I'd just chug to about 15 fps while driving with my buddy. I would alt+tab out and back in and the frames would jump up to high 70-80fps for a bit for a few minutes then just start crawling again. I noticed on MSI Afterburner my VRAM usage was all the way maxed out....I mean I'm playing with everything at max settings and all but hot damn....
Hopefully things get ironed out cause I'm really enjoying playing this game co-op with my buddy.
TheFNEffecT
Member
Patch was just released right now (10mb).
Let's see what it does...
Edit:
Wow, seems to be a step in the right direction. It's absolutely way smoother vs before.
Let's see what it does...
Edit:
Wow, seems to be a step in the right direction. It's absolutely way smoother vs before.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
Ooo, I'll have to try it out.
Really? The patch notes make no mention of performance improvements. Anyhow, thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out later tonight.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
I haven't tried it yet, but is it possible that it's just frame time adjustments? I know digital foundry said that they were really erratic, and I know using the in-game cap/vsync is really juddery versus forcing a cap and vsync outside of the game.
TheFNEffecT
Member
Could very well be, I'm not sure. It still definitely isn't completely solid 60fps always but like I said it's more playable vs how it was prior on my setup.
Patch Notes:
Fixed an issue which caused game progress to not save or load correctly when Steam Cloud is enabled.
Fixed an issue which made it impossible to select native resolutions on some video card / monitor setups.
Fixed an issue which was causing the game to not shut down properly.
Windom Earle
Member
Finished my playthrough without a single crash. That said the game is heavily flawed and repetitive.
I'm running the same settings on a single R9 290 and getting only slightly worse results.
Have we learned if this game is CPU-bound?
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
It's bound somewhere since people are getting 50% GPU usage or less.
TheFNEffecT
Member
Here's my gpu usage, it flies everywhere...seemingly goes to less usage in situations where it would need more.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
Wat. This doesn't make any sense.
grandwizard
Member
Tried the new patch, played about half an hour and crashed.
Understandably so, considering the patch notes say nothing about resolving any issues with crashes.
I've seen similar things occur in the DayZ alpha. GPU Usage drops to nothing when looking at incredibly intensive scenery. Game is super CPU bound.
Brerlappin
Member
played a few hours post patch last night
1920x1200
GTX 770 2GB
i7 4770k @ stock
16GB ram
Max settings, motionblur off, everything else on/high
I don't think it dropped below 30fps, and for the most part hovered around 45-50fps. Performance was fine to be honest, 60 would've been nice but 45-50 will do until they sort out their shitty engine. The only thing that bugged me was texture streaming at times, there was some pop in, that shit I can understand cause I was driving at the time, but at one point it literally had scenery dizzolve while I stood still. Like I just panned the camera around me and a wall no more than a few feet behind me had to be re-drawn into the world
1920x1200
GTX 770 2GB
i7 4770k @ stock
16GB ram
Max settings, motionblur off, everything else on/high
I don't think it dropped below 30fps, and for the most part hovered around 45-50fps. Performance was fine to be honest, 60 would've been nice but 45-50 will do until they sort out their shitty engine. The only thing that bugged me was texture streaming at times, there was some pop in, that shit I can understand cause I was driving at the time, but at one point it literally had scenery dizzolve while I stood still. Like I just panned the camera around me and a wall no more than a few feet behind me had to be re-drawn into the world
rottingcore
Banned
Yep, just save/load issues and problems exiting the game.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/265550/announcements/detail/147813478037022675
The gameplay crashes seem to be a problem on the driver level for nvidia users, so I wouldn't expect a fix until Nvidia gets off their ass and does a hotfix or whatever, and considering this isn't one of their moneyhatted team green (tm) titles, I wouldn't hold my breath on them busting ass to get it working.
Birgitte2004
Member
This is a total assumption. It's just as likely that Capcom is using the drivers incorrectly in a way that non-NVidia cards handle better.
Which is enough for me personally. Enjoying the game crash free since rolling back drivers but I have to open task manager to get the game to close properly every time.
Though hopefully the crashes are addressed in a future patch.
Glad the cloud saving and exiting bugs were fixed. I was using an older driver anyway, so those were my main issues.
I think the performance complaints are a little off-base. With a lot of PC games now, cranking everything up is not guaranteed to give you 1080p silky smooth on a mid-range PC, especially when a lot of the effects provide diminishing returns. I'm fairly happy this runs close to 60 at settings I can live with given the somewhat crappy game engine they were stuck with for the PC port. I'm having a good time with it.
I think the performance complaints are a little off-base. With a lot of PC games now, cranking everything up is not guaranteed to give you 1080p silky smooth on a mid-range PC, especially when a lot of the effects provide diminishing returns. I'm fairly happy this runs close to 60 at settings I can live with given the somewhat crappy game engine they were stuck with for the PC port. I'm having a good time with it.
The game performs better on my system since the patch, even with everything on or at max. I have it locked to 30fps and it dips in places still but it is smoother, the framerate not nearly as sporadic as it was before the patch. I'm still holding off on playing the game though, to see what other improvements the devs might make.
ricardo_sousa11
Member
Can the game run on laptops ?! I dont even have it installed anymore, should I install it ?!
Did they announce that they have performance enhancing patches in the pipeline? Also, what are you specifications? I bought it a couple of days ago, but I am not in a hurry to play it.