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[Makoto-Yuki]

The in-game counter says 60 but it doesn't feel like 60. Feels stuttery. Are there issues with AMD drivers?

AMD has frametime issues. So that might explain it. Fps might be saying 60 but if frametime isn't great it won't feel as smooth as it should. I saw an image graph showing it. The Vega 64 was all over the place while the nvidia card was more consistent. I'm on mobile or I'd try find the image...should be in here somewhere.

 

[jaaz]

Anyone try down-sampling using Nvidia's DSR setting versus the in-game setting? Which provides better IQ and performance?

I'm on a 2k monitor, so I would be down-sampling from 4k to 2k.

 

[ZehDon]

Anyone try down-sampling using Nvidia's DSR setting versus the in-game setting? Which provides better IQ and performance?

I'm on a 2k monitor, so I would be down-sampling from 4k to 2k.

I don't think DSR works with Destiny 2, due to Bungie wanting to keep everything in their engine.

For what it's worth, the performance of Bungie's internal resolution scale leaves a lot to be desired, and the visual improvement is minimal.

 

[jerry0wilson]

Trying the PC beta on my 4k tv and the resolution won't let me select over 1920x1200. I have updated the video card drivers and still nothing. Most other games run at 4k just fine. Any ideas?

 

[jdmonmou]

I'm not getting a consistent 4K 60 FPS experience even after lowering settings. It's 60 in slow spots but drops down as low as 30 when the action starts. Is anyone able to get a consistent 4K 60 experience. Was there anything special you did to achieve it?

My specs are:
1080 Ti
16 GB RAM
Core i7 5820K

 

[jaaz]

I don't think DSR works with Destiny 2, due to Bungie wanting to keep everything in their engine.

For what it's worth, the performance of Bungie's internal resolution scale leaves a lot to be desired, and the visual improvement is minimal.

Just tried it again and it shrinks the FPS meter just like it does in other games, but I can't tell too much of a difference frankly. Same with Bungie's internal resolution scaler for that matter.

 

[JaseC]

Two newbie questions: does FOV affect frame-rate, and is it just a preference thing or should I match it to some value with my resolution and screen-size (e.g, I'm running 2560x1440 27" 16:9)?

The higher your field of view, the more you're rendering at a given time, and, no, there's no magic ratio. The best value is that which you feel offers the best experience.

 

[shanafan]

Not bad!

i7-7700
GTX 1070
16GB RAM

My ASUS 24" monitor is 4K, and running Destiny 2 at 4K at 30 FPS is a pretty smooth experience. It's pretty decent! I have most of my settings on high, too. Glad I decided to give it a try.

 

[jaaz]

I'm not getting a consistent 4K 60 FPS experience even after lowering settings. It's 60 in slow spots but drops down as low as 30 when the action starts. Is anyone able to get a consistent 4K 60 experience. Was there anything special you did to achieve it?

My specs are:
1080 Ti
16 GB RAM
Core i7 5820K

That doesn't sound right. I get 80+ FPS on the first mission with the following specs and settings:

1080 TI OC
32 GB RAM
i7-6700k @ 4.5

4K, Highest settings except using SMAA, DoF to High and AO to HDAO.

Do you have the latest Nvidia drivers, 385.41? Those made a huge difference for me.

 

[WetPotatoBread]

Has anyone found a fix for the 100% CPU problem?

 

[boybrushdRED]

i7 7700 + R9 290 + 16 GB RAM

Highest preset on 1920x1080 res is in the low 40s to low 50s (vsync on)

Had to turn down AA to SMAA and AF to x8 to get a solid 60 (vsync on)

 

[Mupod]

Holy shit. My friend's 2010-era PC apparently runs this perfectly. I've played every co-op game with him since Diablo 2 so it was a bit of a downer that we might not be able to play Destiny 2 when it came out. But he was astonished how well it ran, even in the hub area. No regrets buying this now.

I'm not sure what his specs are but I believe he has an ATI 5770.

edit: his CPU is a i5 750. Good lord.

 

[Aomber]

AMD has frametime issues. So that might explain it. Fps might be saying 60 but if frametime isn't great it won't feel as smooth as it should. I saw an image graph showing it. The Vega 64 was all over the place while the nvidia card was more consistent. I'm on mobile or I'd try find the image...should be in here somewhere.

Thanks for the heads up. Just to add to this, I'm using a 3440x1440 ultrawide with an i5 3570k and an r9 390.

I get the exact same fps, regardless of settings, on 1080p.

EDIT: I'm guessing this is the picture you're talking about

 

[Pics_nao]

Playing this on my laptop.

1060
i7-7700 HQ
16GB Ram

Was fine in the beginning but started having major frame drops once I got to the middle of the Tower. Not gonna lie, game feels fucking great in 60fps. Shame that even on low I can't maintain it. Almost changed my mind about getting this now than a year from now.

 

[Berzerkiymc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZSHgUOmL4

Playing around in the Farm.

 

[MythicReclaimer]

Playing this on my laptop.

1060
i7-7700 HQ
16GB Ram

Was fine in the beginning but started having major frame drops once I got to the middle of the Tower. Not gonna lie, game feels fucking great in 60fps. Shame that even on low I can't maintain it. Almost changed my mind about getting this now than a year from now.

Is your AA setting set to MSAA? If so that's your problem as it's unoptimized currently causing it to at times cut your framerate in half.

 

[WetPotatoBread]

I'm having an issue with the smoothness of my mouse, when trying to aim my gun randomly stutters when turning. Anyone else having this problem? It's really fucking up my shooting experience, it goes from super smooth to skipping but it's really random.
Specs:
i5-6600k
1070
16gb of ram

 

[ProtoSound]

Is your AA setting set to MSAA? If so that's your problem as it's unoptimized currently causing it to at times cut your framerate in half.

I second this. I'm playing on a similar laptop but with an I7 6700 HQ cpu and have had no issues. At least none that are as noticeable as halving of the framerate

 

[jdmonmou]

That doesn't sound right. I get 80+ FPS on the first mission with the following specs and settings:

1080 TI OC
32 GB RAM
i7-6700k @ 4.5

4K, Highest settings except using SMAA, DoF to High and AO to HDAO.

Do you have the latest Nvidia drivers, 385.41? Those made a huge difference for me.

Yep, I downloaded the latest drivers. No where close to 80+ FPS. Mostly 40-60 with some dips into the 30s.

 

[Nekrono]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZSHgUOmL4

Playing around in the Farm.

Wait how do you access the farm? I thought it was only the strike and the two MP modes.

 

[SwordStruck]

Wait how do you access the farm? I thought it was only the strike and the two MP modes.

The farm was available for me this afternoon, not sure what the official times were or if it's still up.

 

[JaseC]

Wait how do you access the farm? I thought it was only the strike and the two MP modes.

It's been and gone. The window was 5pm PT to 7pm PT (it's now 9:15pm PT).

 

[Unknown Soldier]

That sucks, my game was still downloading when The Farm was available. I hope they bring it back for a bit later on.

The game itself looks and runs great. No problems with 4K locked at 60 fps on my 1080 Ti. AA set down to SMAA since MSAA is broken, and DoF knocked down a notch to High. Everything else left on Highest. Went through the intro mission and no problems maintaining 60 fps, even during that short part where you spawn with other players and fight waves of mobs in the shared quest area.

Frame pacing is no problemo on my 5820K running at 4.3. Smooth as butter the entire story mission. Gameplay felt great with M/KB, locked 60 fps, and very even frame pacing. Just me, my gun, and some bullet sponge guys with really long yellow health bars.

Damn, I'm getting close to doing a purchase of this for PC. I have GCU and it qualifies for that $10 gift certificate offer too.

 

[RickyRozay]

So I'm just wondering what were peoples fps when you landed into the inverted spire and jumped into the battle to the immediate right. I went from basically 90-140+ fps everywhere else to about 50.

 

[Spartancarver]

So I'm just wondering what were peoples fps when you landed into the inverted spire and jumped into the battle to the immediate right. I went from basically 90-140+ fps everywhere else to about 50.

Same here. 40-50 with 100% CPU usage on all 4 cores

 

[Spartancarver]

Has anyone found a fix for the 100% CPU problem?

Nope. Tried everything I can think of. Capped FPS, checked background processes, drivers, closed antivirus, checked power profile, CPU temps

Makes no sense

 

[Dictator93]

Can anyone direct me to the post per chance that shows how to play the game with OSD? I think I saw that referenced somewhere. It may mean offline play.. .but yeah, i do not mind that.

 

[JaseC]

Can anyone direct me to the post per chance that shows how to play the game with OSD? I think I saw that referenced somewhere. It may mean offline play.. .but yeah, i do not mind that.

You're probably thinking of this post. There is seemingly no surefire way to get the RTSS overlay and the game to play nicely together.

 

[shanafan]

Is it bad that I might play this at 4K but 30 FPS because it felt and looked that good? I played Destiny 1 on consoles, so I am used to the 30 FPS but that 4K upgrade over 1080 is pretty impressive. Nice how on PC I can easily switch between video settings to compare the differences.

 

[papersleeves]

I'm not getting a consistent 4K 60 FPS experience even after lowering settings. It's 60 in slow spots but drops down as low as 30 when the action starts. Is anyone able to get a consistent 4K 60 experience. Was there anything special you did to achieve it?

My specs are:
1080 Ti
16 GB RAM
Core i7 5820K

I get a locked 60 fps experience with the following specs / settings:

3770K @ 4.7ghz
16GB DDR3 @ 2002mhz
EVGA GTX 1080TI Black Edition OC @ core 2062 mem 12050


All settings at highest except using SMAA, DoF at high.

There isn't anything special I did. I'm using the latest drivers, but the one just before (384.XX) worked just as well for me.

Perhaps try to set your gpu in maximum performance mode in the Nvidia panel?

 

[SHAFT MASTER]

Gotta say that I'm pretty impressed with the performance of this game. Running this on medium everything with max fov and I'm getting a solid 60fps. My PC ain't no spring chicken either. Got an i7 920, some ram, and a gtx960. Probably helps that I'm running it at 1680x1050 but hey, two thumbs up from this gamer.

 

[Dec]

You're probably thinking of this post. There is seemingly no surefire way to get RTSS and the game to play nicely together.

Ya I certainly tried AB beta 16 and RTSS beta 28 with Destiny and had no success. I'm also not on W10 insider preview.

Even Gamer's Nexus gave up and used another OSD.

 

[noomi]

I don't understand how DoF can cause such a significant FPS drop.

a 1080ti @ 1440p :

DoF on = sub 100FPS
DoF off = nearly 140FPS

crazy.... hope they address some of these settings. Also very VERY much hope that they implement TAA as an anti aliasing solution.

 

[Dictator93]

You're probably thinking of this post. There is seemingly no surefire way to get the RTSS overlay and the game to play nicely together.

Damn, I would love to analyse the performance of settings in the game... but meh. Cannot :/

I don't understand how DoF can cause such a significant FPS drop.

a 1080ti @ 1440p :

DoF on = sub 100FPS
DoF off = nearly 140FPS

crazy.... hope they address some of these settings. Also very VERY much hope that they implement TAA as an anti aliasing solution.

Do you mean DOF completely on to the highest setting vs. completely off? Or the difference between High and Highest?

I have not really loaded it up to look, but I would imagine the highest settings is either a different sprite or diffusion based bokeh than the "high" setting, or it is perhaps like Full Screen Resolution.

 

[Eduardboon]

How was performance for everyone at the farm when compared to the strike?

 

[Renekton]

I was horribly CPU-limited during the prologue, the i5-4690 can swing wildly from 32 to 100 based on load.

Can't wait for the upcoming i7 release.

 

[franklyshankly]

I was horribly CPU-limited during the prologue, the i5-4690 can swing wildly from 32 to 100 based on load.

Can't wait for the upcoming i7 release.

I never dropped below 60 with a 4670k. At highest settings, with DoF at high and HDAO, 1080p with 125% res scaling. There appears to be some kind of bug causing some people to have way higher CPU utilization than others.

Hopefully it's something they can figure out before launch.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Anyone else getting like a pulsing blurriness thing going on?

Other than that she's running 4k completely maxed out locked 60 with 2x 1070 rig with a 1231v3 xeon (haswell i7 essentially).

 

[nOoblet16]

Damn, I would love to analyse the performance of settings in the game... but meh. Cannot :/

Do you mean DOF completely on to the highest setting vs. completely off? Or the difference between High and Highest?

I have not really loaded it up to look, but I would imagine the highest settings is either a different sprite or diffusion based bokeh than the "high" setting, or it is perhaps like Full Screen Resolution.

There's ~36% performance difference between Highest DoF vs High. I am 99% sure that it's just full resolution bokeh vs half resolution bokeh rather than anything else like different sprite or more accurate blur. Because the difference between them is hard to find unless compared side by side (even then it's very hard to find the difference).

What I'm interested to know about is what exactly is 3D SSAO?

 

[GamerKingFaiz]

Getting buttery smooth performance on my i5-4670k @ 4.4.GHz OC and GTX 970. The game auto set my graphics to all high except for shadows and something else.

I average around 80-90 FPS during this strike boss:
https://youtu.be/XrgnzoXa5EE

Similar performance during a multiplayer game of Countdown:
https://youtu.be/6G4OlCGOL8o

 

[Drame]

Intel Xeon 1230v3
16gb ddr3 @ 1600mhz
Gtx 780 slighty OC'd.

The game runs great even on older systems. Granted that I have most of the settings on medium to get most of my 144hz display, but hey the game looks pretty darn good even on lower setting and plays great. Excellent version of the game. Really fun to shoot things and dance every now and then. Might have to tinker around the settings that how high I can go with image quality without hurting the FPS too much.

 

[ParityBit]

How will this run on my machine?

i7 3770k stock
16 GB RAM
1070
UW Monitor @ 100 FPS

 

[Stormhammer]

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I was trying to use HDR on Destiny 2 last night and it only seemed to work if I had Windows HDR turned on in the windows display settings. The game itself brightened up, but everything else on my pc became extremely dull. Is there something wrong with Windows HDR, and should Destiny 2's HDR be able to be used without turning that on as well?

 

[RedlineRonin]

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I was trying to use HDR on Destiny 2 last night and it only seemed to work if I had Windows HDR turned on in the windows display settings. The game itself brightened up, but everything else on my pc became extremely dull. Is there something wrong with Windows HDR, and should Destiny 2's HDR be able to be used without turning that on as well?

I wouldn't mess with HDR unless you're willing to roll back to 378.92.

Seems to be a mess for every driver version past that.

 

[Dictator93]

There's ~36% performance difference between Highest DoF vs High. I am 99% sure that it's just full resolution bokeh vs half resolution bokeh rather than anything else like different sprite or more accurate blur. Because the difference between them is hard to find unless compared side by side (even then it's very hard to find the difference).

What I'm interested to know about is what exactly is 3D SSAO?

Well that solves a good mystery

Yeah I am definitely curious about 3DAO as well, it is still listed as an SSAO type in the options... I wonder how much of it is "screen space".

 

[AaronMT86]

User conf saved in %appdata% worth keeping for the retail release

 

[jetsetnickradio]

Yeah. There's a setting for that at the bottom. It's the % scale labeled render resolution. 720p is between 66 and 67% if you set the window resolution to 1080p.

I know I'm late replying, but I appreciate the response

 

[JaseC]

How will this run on my machine?

i7 3770k stock
16 GB RAM
1070
UW Monitor @ 100 FPS

Assuming ultra-wide means 2560x1080, you'll likely have to make a few concessions to ensure a consistent 100fps, but if 60fps is acceptable, then you shouldn't have any trouble with the Highest preset (minus MSAA).

 

[feel]

The in-game counter says 60 but it doesn't feel like 60. Feels stuttery. Are there issues with AMD drivers?

I'm having an issue with the smoothness of my mouse, when trying to aim my gun randomly stutters when turning. Anyone else having this problem? It's really fucking up my shooting experience, it goes from super smooth to skipping but it's really random.
Specs:
i5-6600k
1070
16gb of ram

Something weird like that was going on for me, in the biggest open areas the image sort of skipped/stuttered when I rotated the mouse even though it still controlled with perfect precision and the framerate counter wasn't dropping.

 

[ZOONAMI]

So no one else with pulsing blurriness? This was in the intro campaign part, on the ship. Maybe there like explosions going on so things were supposed to be shaking and blurry but it seemed so over the top I wasn't sure if I was having graphical issues.