Borderlands 2 runs poorly

[xFluing]

Specs are in sig

 

Yes, yes "welcome to the BL2 runs poorly club" so here's the deal:

 

It runs very well most of the time, I'm only having issues in large areas like Thousand Cuts and Tundra Express (and though large, The Highlands run smoothly) (and oddly enough in Sanctuary even though the city is small), so I have another theory: I'm having trouble when there's large areas with lots of stuff happening.

 

Before, I'd have PhysX on, and in Thousand Cuts it would drop in the low 20s, I've since disabled it and performance has improved, it drops to 45 now but still not perfect.

I've also disabled the cell shading which also boosted the performance by a lot, however I'm still getting these drops, which makes me suspect it's a CPU bottleneck.

 

I tried fondling around in the config files tweaking every single setting I could think of, but still did not have much success.

 

So I've come to the conclusion that this may very well be a CPU bottleneck at this point, even though my CPU is way beyond the recommended settings.

[TVwazhere]

15 minutes ago, xFluing said:

Specs are in sig

 

Yes, yes "welcome to the BL2 runs poorly club" so here's the deal:

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So I've come to the conclusion that this may very well be a CPU bottleneck at this point, even though my CPU is way beyond the recommended settings.

Are you running out of RAM? (actual ram not Vram)

[xFluing]

1 minute ago, TVwazhere said:

Are you running out of RAM? (actual ram not Vram)

I don't know, it may very well be a possibility, maybe I can set rivatuner to tell me if it starts writing to the page file, 4GB of RAM is starting to be limiting, however I'll soon change the whole platform so buying ram right now would just be a waste.

[Tabs]

Your memory and CPU are both bottlenecks right now. Assuming Windows' memory compression is on you're only left with 3GB or so for the game, and the compression itself takes some CPU cycles.

 

What resolution do you play at? Any effects that tax your CPU or increase your memory load will have increasingly large effects on your framerates, especially for an open world game like Borderlands, and especially on your minimums.

 

Any of the nVidia-specific stuff should be disabled, since even on nVidia GPU's most of it is CPU based.

[xFluing]

51 minutes ago, Tabs said:

Your memory and CPU are both bottlenecks right now. Assuming Windows' memory compression is on you're only left with 3GB or so for the game, and the compression itself takes some CPU cycles.

 

What resolution do you play at? Any effects that tax your CPU or increase your memory load will have increasingly large effects on your framerates, especially for an open world game like Borderlands, and especially on your minimums.

 

Any of the nVidia-specific stuff should be disabled, since even on nVidia GPU's most of it is CPU based.

Physx is disabled, so yes I have that off right now.

 

Yeah I thought my CPU would bottleneck, also I play at 1440p since I saw no difference between it and 1080p, so I thought might as well run in 2K

[Theguywhobea]

Yeah I notice the framerate dip at Thousand Cuts as well. I notice when looking at the ground the framerates goes up as well as GPU usage, but looking at the bandit camps tanks the FPS as well as the GPU usage, seems to be a definite CPU bottleneck.

[xFluing]

18 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

Yeah I notice the framerate dip at Thousand Cuts as well. I notice when looking at the ground the framerates goes up as well as GPU usage, but looking at the bandit camps tanks the FPS as well as the GPU usage, seems to be a definite CPU bottleneck.

Those CPUs you have in your sig should not bottleneck the game, unless there's something odd about that xeon

[Theguywhobea]

4 hours ago, xFluing said:

Those CPUs you have in your sig should not bottleneck the game, unless there's something odd about that xeon

Nah it's fine on the Xeon machine. The 6700HQ struggles at times though.

[ivan134]

CPU is the issue. I had issues with my i5. It's better when an i7, but it's still an issue in those areas.