Poor perfomance on Squad

[Munch9]

Recently I started playing again Squad after some years, noticed that at the first hour game run smooth but after some hours it starts to have some issues with performance, under using both GPU and CPU, same for the memory. If I turn everything to low my FPS don't go up it just take down gpu,cpu, usage.

Already tried: 

Format

Change GPU energy management

Change overall energy management

Setting audio quality to low

Overclocking GPU,CPU, DRAM (since all my temps are low even stressed)

 

My setup:

i5-4670k 4.0Ghz
GTX 970 4gb Mem:3685mhz Core:1113mhz
2x4gb Vengeance DDR3 1600mhz
2x4gb Fury HyperX DDR3 1600mhz

Z97 gaming 5 mobo

Corsair RM750


 

[emosun]

if its happening over time I'd assume the ram is being loaded funny and hitting a dead end somewhere. you basically have too many sticks in the machine anyway for the amount of ram you actually have so bring it down to 8gb by taking two sticks out. see if the machine will stabilize with only 8gb of ram installed , try both pairs alone in the machine.

[Munch9]

14 minutes ago, emosun said:

if its happening over time I'd assume the ram is being loaded funny and hitting a dead end somewhere. you basically have too many sticks in the machine anyway for the amount of ram you actually have so bring it down to 8gb by taking two sticks out. see if the machine will stabilize with only 8gb of ram installed , try both pairs alone in the machine.

Tried, no results bringing it down just caused me stuttering.

[BlackManINC]

@Munch9

 

You might need to get a better CPU, one with no less than ten or twelve threads preferably. Squad is more CPU intensive, and the stuttering I experienced in Squad only went away for me when I upgraded from the old 8 thread I7-4790K to the Ryzen 7 3700X. Four cores is not going to cut it for a lot of games these days. A video game alone can use up to 6 threads. God forbid you try playing games like MS Flight Sim 2020 with that CPU. 

[Munch9]

17 hours ago, BlackManINC said:

@Munch9

 

You might need to get a better CPU, one with no less than ten or twelve threads preferably. Squad is more CPU intensive, and the stuttering I experienced in Squad only went away for me when I upgraded from the old 8 thread I7-4790K to the Ryzen 7 3700X. Four cores is not going to cut it for a lot of games these days. A video game alone can use up to 6 threads. God forbid you try playing games like MS Flight Sim 2020 with that CPU. 

Yep, I'm noticing that, besides the game itself not being optimised, my old system is suffering because of it's age.

I'll look forward to update to an Ryzen 3 3300x

[BlackManINC]

6 minutes ago, Munch9 said:

Yep, I'm noticing that, besides the game itself not being optimised, my old system is suffering because of it's age.

I'll look forward to update to an Ryzen 3 3300x

I wouldn't go that low either since some games alone will use up to 6 threads. I wouldn't go any lower than a Ryzen 5 3600. It may cost you a few dozen more bucks, but its not going to make or break your bank account. The R3 3300X may be a good CPU, but its still only got 8 threads, and like I said, I didn't have a good experience playing Squad with an 8 thread CPU on my old PC. It still stuttered like a cheap whore even though I had a good SSD. If you were just web surfing or using Microsoft Office, that CPU would be perfectly fine, but I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole for gaming or editing purposes, or anything else that can be CPU intensive.

[Munch9]

9 minutes ago, BlackManINC said:

I wouldn't go that low either since some games alone will use up to 6 threads. I wouldn't go any lower than a Ryzen 5 3600. It may cost you a few dozen more bucks, but its not going to make or break your bank account. The R3 3300X may be a good CPU, but its still only got 8 threads, and like I said, I didn't have a good experience playing Squad with an 8 thread CPU on my old PC. It still stuttered like a cheap whore even though I had a good SSD. If you were just web surfing or using Microsoft Office, that CPU would be perfectly fine, but I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole for gaming or editing purposes, or anything else that can be CPU intensive.

Understood

[BlackManINC]

@Munch9

 

One last thing you can try before buying a CPU is to try turning off 'Fully Load Textures' (I think is what its called) in the graphics settings. With such a low end GPU like yours, having that enabled will only make the performance worse, assuming you haven't checked this already.

[Munch9]

6 hours ago, BlackManINC said:

@Munch9

 

One last thing you can try before buying a CPU is to try turning off 'Fully Load Textures' (I think is what its called) in the graphics settings. With such a low end GPU like yours, having that enabled will only make the performance worse, assuming you haven't checked this already.

Already turned off...

[BlackManINC]

2 minutes ago, Munch9 said:

Already turned off...

Ok, well, then yeah, I'd get a better CPU with at least 10/12 threads for the headroom since that didn't work, the R5 3600 being the first choice. 

[Munch9]

Turns out that it may be the game itself. 

Just overclocked my CPU to 4,2Ghz, and got much better results in Warzone, a game that before the OC I was running at 50-60fps, and now the 0,1% low is 52,avg is 65, and it vary most between 60-80.

[Munch9]

Totally solved my problem.

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1293338687