You and that other guy with two 670s having problems. I don't get it. I'm running a 3570k at 4.2 and a 670 with everything on max and no slowdown in sight. Something is up. Maybe something with the i7s?
Borderlands 2 - PC Performance Thread
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The uploader has an i5, plus I'm not experiencing any issues with my 2600K system.
Deus Ex Machina
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Poimandres
Member
Core Duo 3.2
GTX260
2 Gig Ram
An old ass machine... and the game runs really well for me with all details on high, 16xAA, physx low.
GTX260
2 Gig Ram
An old ass machine... and the game runs really well for me with all details on high, 16xAA, physx low.
everything at maximum, getting some noticeable drops in enemy crowded areas but I dont know if I wanna sacrifice physx and such for some extra frames. Anything that is worth toning down (as in, barely noticeable) in exchange for performance?
game looks really good except for the antialasing. Im using the SMAA injector and as always it works fine but the text being somewhat deformed is a bummer.
game looks really good except for the antialasing. Im using the SMAA injector and as always it works fine but the text being somewhat deformed is a bummer.
Try lowering Ambient Occlusion or View Distance, those are the biggest hitters.
As far as the text I guess there's nothing that can be done at the moment, it's better than the in game FXAA though, that makes the text look worst imo.
I noticed in the ini that there is a setting for DX11 and some interesting options, like tesselation. Has anyone tried these? Do they make a difference?
(My game doesn't launch if I set it to DX11, and I don't really want to spend time trying to find the cause if it doesn't make a difference anyway.)
(My game doesn't launch if I set it to DX11, and I don't really want to spend time trying to find the cause if it doesn't make a difference anyway.)
the only stuff I messed with in the .ini was changing some values to make texture pop in disappear (as suggested by dizzy), it certainly works.
TyrantGuardian
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Sorry if it's been asked before in this thread, but has anyone managed to solve connection issues? Me and my friends can't connect to each other no matter what we've tried (including DMZ, verifying game cache etc). We've been able to play when we've found public host, so we can definitely connect, but not host. What's up with that?
Krappadizzle
Member
I get this same issue. No injectors installed at all.
Essentially what'll happen is that I can play for a few hours, and then BAM! Black screen with the music still running. I have to essentially Ctrl+Alt+Del to task manager and end session. Then, I go and verify integrity of the file, and every single time I get the black screen glitch I mentioned, I end up missing a file, have to reacquire and then reinstall the game. Only to have it happen again a couple hours later. It's really strange. My saves stay, and the game runs like butter otherwise. It's annoying as hell.
GTX 680
Core i7-920@3.8 GHz
6 gigs of Rame
Win 7 64-bit
I wonder if there is a fix, or it is being addressed.
I'm still having issues as well.
There's literally only 1 person on my friends list who I can play with
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same here, not happy
Felix Lighter
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Are these graphs with Physx on high? If so the HD7970 number is very deceptive because with Physx on high the game will run very smoothly 90% of the time but as soon as things get hairy the FPS drops into the teens at least with my i7 930 @3.9GHz. Maybe Sandybridge and Ivybridge CPUs overclocked near 5 Ghz can brute force the Physx load but not in my system.
Edit: Wait a minute, what the hell is this "Hybrid PhysX mod v1.05ff developed by "GenL"" they speak of?
Edit 2: Ehhhh, nevermind. After researching, it apparently requires a secondary Nvidia card. It just allows you to combine it with an AMD card.
Edit: Wait a minute, what the hell is this "Hybrid PhysX mod v1.05ff developed by "GenL"" they speak of?
Edit 2: Ehhhh, nevermind. After researching, it apparently requires a secondary Nvidia card. It just allows you to combine it with an AMD card.
I disagree, that's not picky.
50 fps cannot be smoothly displayed on a 60 Hz monitor without introducing judder. So dipping below 60 fps actually has a tremendous impact on fluidity.
Skyfireblaze
Member
I wondered about something I read on the Gearbox forum, does this work for anyone?
http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=150440
In my case I tried it with German so I have English text but German voice-overs but as soon as I do this I don't get any ingame voice or subtitles at all
I also tried it with Japanese as the poster to see if I did something wrong but it gave me the same results. It's really no big deal, I just wanted to try this because a friend who plays in German said the voices are hilarious and I prefer English text in my games.
EDIT: I just realized the post said I need a Steam version with all languages and I can select the full language over the Steam UI just fine but as soon as I download a language it will overwrite the other one, does anyone know what files Steam downloads so I can manually prevent it from deleting?
http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=150440
In my case I tried it with German so I have English text but German voice-overs but as soon as I do this I don't get any ingame voice or subtitles at all
I also tried it with Japanese as the poster to see if I did something wrong but it gave me the same results. It's really no big deal, I just wanted to try this because a friend who plays in German said the voices are hilarious and I prefer English text in my games.
EDIT: I just realized the post said I need a Steam version with all languages and I can select the full language over the Steam UI just fine but as soon as I download a language it will overwrite the other one, does anyone know what files Steam downloads so I can manually prevent it from deleting?
Yep, I went from 40-50 fps to 60+ after turning this off.
That's an unofficial mod for Physx that allows you to use a Nvidia card for Physx while using AMD as your main graphics card. I used it for a time and it's a little buggy with some games but really not too bad if you have a spare Nvidia card lying around.
I also had to reacquire that file every time. It's been a while since I've had this happen, though. I think it was mostly due to physx, as when I play with it on high I get that crash. It might suck, but until they get a fix try putting physx to low.
I do still get the underclocking, where it freezes for a second or two, but comes back. I did find a sort of fix to force the clocks to a desired rate here.
Other than that, I've changed AllowD3D10 to true in the ini (though it originally said allow d3d11, my card doesn't support dx11).
Felix Lighter
Member
Thanks, I was just digging into it and discovered that. It's interesting but if I'm going to add the headaches of 2 cards (which is something I've been actively avoiding), I'm going to want more benefit than just Physx effects.
I'm not seeing a single mention of the secondary Nvidia card they used for Physx in that article. Kind deceptive to say:
Without mentioning that the mod they used also requires an extra Nvidia card.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Whoa that's really lame of the article to wake false hopes, just as you I hoped they would have modded the driver instruction set somehow so AMD GPUs can atleast calculate a bit of the effects
Felix Lighter
Member
I just read the comments and this is what he said:
So, in my experience you can ignore anything mentioned in the article about Physx and AMD cards. He wasn't really using the mod properly (it requires a 2nd Nvidia card to actually accomplish anything) and the Physx calls were offloaded onto the CPU. He just didn't do enough testing apparently to see the massive framerate drops. I doubt it was anything nefarious but just a misunderstanding. I just wanted to clear that up if anyone had their hopes built up like myself.
So, in my experience you can ignore anything mentioned in the article about Physx and AMD cards. He wasn't really using the mod properly (it requires a 2nd Nvidia card to actually accomplish anything) and the Physx calls were offloaded onto the CPU. He just didn't do enough testing apparently to see the massive framerate drops. I doubt it was anything nefarious but just a misunderstanding. I just wanted to clear that up if anyone had their hopes built up like myself.
Thanks for this. I can really tell the difference between the FXAA and SMAA on the bed and breakfast board.
PhysX on medium on my rig seems to be fine until I hit an area like the frostburn canyon and I get in a major firefight with like 10+ spider ants with a shotgun causing tons of rock to fly up from the ground. Then it's still playable (barely) but I start entering the sub 20 fps zone. As neat as waving flags I can shoot triangles out of, watching goo melt through the floor from caustic barrels, and all those neat rocks bumping around all are (the only things I really noticed), I'm turning it back to low until I upgrade to an nVidia card in the 670+ range
For reference: i7-920 stock, HD5850, 6 gigs ram.
For reference: i7-920 stock, HD5850, 6 gigs ram.
Wait, what was this setting? I'd like to fix that too!
Posted this in the main page, but I'm really impressed that my aging i5 760 and 470 card manage to push this game to it's limits at 30+fps with fraps running. Particle effects look great, even if it's a little wacky;
My gif making skills suck - so I've included the original clip below
https://vimeo.com/49913585
My gif making skills suck - so I've included the original clip below
https://vimeo.com/49913585
I'm getting sub sounds through LFE.
That's sick!
I'm playing as Maya in coop with a friend. He has physx going on his 660m. I wonder if I can make him chug by doing this (I'm on AMD so no physx).
Sweet, thank you!
Huh. Well, that is baffling then. All my other games are working fine, this is the only one not putting out any bass.
It works great. Since using the tweak, the instances I've seen LOD pop-in is when loading a save for the first time.
Just tried it. The only issue I see is that I can see my gun the moment I click on the 'continue' option with a completely black background before I spawn in. I don't really care though, looks fine to me.
Did you check the in game sound settings? Maybe there is an option in there for 5.1?
Edit: Naw, there isn't anything in there for that, nevermind.
Edit2: Are you outputting through HDMI or splitting minijacks?
Cannon Goose
Member
I haven't had any trouble with 5.1 sound so far. I'm using HDMI from my 560 ti into my receiver and it definitely picks up the sub. I will say that the bass response seems a bit limited in this game compared to others.
gutterboy44
Member
Oh thank god! That little bit of texture draw in was driving me crazy. Where is this willowengine.cfg file?
Edit: nm, found it in the my documents my games section. Forgot that exists.
Cannon Goose
Member
Mmm, physics.
Delusibeta
Banned
Complain to Nvidia, some of their cards have similar issues. AFAIK TotalBiscuit has the same problem. New drivers should roll out in a couple of days which will hopefully fix this.
Dreams-Visions
Member
odd. no problems in my bootcamp.
