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So, I've been playing Planetside 2 recently, and I've had MSI Afterburner running with the On-Screen Display enabled. I've noticed that my FPS dip  A LOT. I looked at if my GPU (MSI GTX 970 4G) was being ultilized, only 37-52% of it was being used, while my CPU (i5-4670k@3.4GHz) was only at 60-70%. So, I'm getting lower FPS while my hardware is not being used to it's full potential. I've read that Planetside 2 tried to balance the load between the two, but neither are being used to it's potential.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Go into the Nvidia control panel and change your power mode to Perfer Maximum Performance

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So, I've been playing Planetside 2 recently, and I've had MSI Afterburner running with the On-Screen Display enabled. I've noticed that my FPS dip  A LOT. I looked at if my GPU (MSI GTX 970 4G) was being ultilized, only 37-52% of it was being used, while my CPU ([email protected]<script cf-hash='f9e31' type="text/javascript"> /* */</script>) was only at 60-70%. So, I'm getting lower FPS while my hardware is not being used to it's full potential. I've read that Planetside 2 tried to balance the load between the two, but neither are being used to it's potential.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

Planetside 2 favors heavily single threaded performance. So even if Planetside 2 is being limited by your CPU, it's not being limited by your CPU's total performance, but by your CPU's single-threaded performance, meaning you have free cores, but PS2 is being bottlenecked on one of them, which is why your CPU usage won't hit 100% even if your CPU is the limiting factor. That sounds like it's the case. Frame dips in PS2 are usually CPU related. Have you overclocked yet?

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Planetside 2 favors heavily single threaded performance. So even if Planetside 2 is being limited by your CPU, it's not being limited by your CPU's total performance, but by your CPU's single-threaded performance, meaning you have free cores, but PS2 is being bottlenecked on one of them, which is why your CPU usage won't hit 100% even if your CPU is the limiting factor. That sounds like it's the case. Frame dips in PS2 are usually CPU related. Have you overclocked yet?

Hadn't thought about that. You're probably right.

 

I envy you for you connection, it clearly can't be a problem as long as you're not playing on the wrong server.

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Planetside 2 favors heavily single threaded performance. So even if Planetside 2 is being limited by your CPU, it's not being limited by your CPU's total performance, but by your CPU's single-threaded performance, meaning you have free cores, but PS2 is being bottlenecked on one of them, which is why your CPU usage won't hit 100% even if your CPU is the limiting factor. That sounds like it's the case. Frame dips in PS2 are usually CPU related. Have you overclocked yet?

No. I don't know what good idling temps are, and I'm super confused on how to do it. I'm really intimidated by it, becuase the BIOS on my motherboard (MSI G45 Gaming) isn't too clear on how to do it. I've wanted to for a while.

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Overclocking is what you need to do next, but you do NOT want to make changes blindly. You should understand what you're doing before you change anything. That being said, it's super easy because you have a K series CPU. Also, idle temps don't matter. It's full load temps that matter, and so long as they don't reach over 80-85°C, your fine. That's in Celsius, remember.

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Overclocking is what you need to do next, but you do NOT want to make changes blindly. You should understand what you're doing before you change anything. That being said, it's super easy because you have a K series CPU. Also, idle temps don't matter. It's full load temps that matter, and so long as they don't reach over 80-85°C, your fine. That's in Celsius, remember.

Should I just use OC Genie and OC it to 4.0GHz? Because I don't know how to do it anywhere passed that. 

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Should I just use OC Genie and OC it to 4.0GHz? Because I don't know how to do it anywhere passed that. 

Last time I heard of someone using a mobo OC utility it pumped way way way waaaaay too much voltage through their CPU, making it stay at 104 Celsius at modest load - even with a pretty substantial AIO.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/308575-friends-cpu-boiled-his-aio-cooler-story/

 

This story begins with my friend getting raped in the wallet by Fry's electronics.  He didn't know much about PCs and somebody told him to go to fry's and they would pick the parts for him.  I asked him about his parts, (it was a great PC, but he payed way too much for unnecessary things), lets just say he was using about, under load, 450 watts on an 850 watt PSU.  his pc consists of a 4790k, gaz97x gaming 7, and a gtx 970, for 1080p gaming.  So, when he built it dying light was released so we bought that and we started playing it, and a few days later he asked how to overclock.  So I told him how to put a mild OC on his 970(strix btw) and gave him +130 on the base, same for the memory clock.  He also wanted to know how to OC his cpu so I directed him to Linus's video.  He watched it and got confused, but claimed that he found some presets in his mobo bios and got a stable OC at 4.7, which surprised me a lot.  So, for the next couple of weeks we played dying light and other games, and now it is February 9, 30 minutes before evolve is released.  we both have already installed it and are waiting anxiously, and he asks me, out of the blue, what program he could use to monitor his temp, voltages, and frequencies, so i directed him to HWmonitor, by the people who made cpu-z.  I asked him what his cpu temps were, we were in the middle of playing some dying light, and he said 104.  (he has a corsair h105 aio loop) I asked him to read me it in celsius, assuming he read the fahrenheit.  THAT WAS THE CELSIUS.  HIS CPU WAS BOILING HIS WATER COOLING LOOP.  I told him to immediately turn of his computer and he did.  I asked him to feel the tubes of his cooler and he said that they were very hot, and later he found out in fact that his loop had boiled slightly, put since it was a closed loop that water condensed back into a liquid.  I directed him into his bios, now talking on the phone, and found out that the preset overclock he chose put 1.475 volts into his CPU.   :o    .  I was shocked his processor was still alive, and told him how to do a still decent overclock at 4.5 ghz with 1.3 volts.  

I guess the moral of the story is, WTF GIGABYTE HOW DO YOU ALLOW YOUR PRESET OVERCLOCKS TO GO ABOVE 3.5 VOLTS.

 

 

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Should I just use OC Genie and OC it to 4.0GHz? Because I don't know how to do it anywhere passed that. 

 

Should be suitable to get you started I guess. I have no experience with it, but 4.0 GHz is definitely an easy overclock. What cooler are you running? That matters a lot with overclocking, but your chip is a fairly low TDP so basically anything like a Cooler Master 212 Evo would be sufficient.

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Should be suitable to get you started I guess. I have no experience with it, but 4.0 GHz is definitely an easy overclock. What cooler are you running? That matters a lot with overclocking, but your chip is a fairly low TDP so basically anything like a Cooler Master 212 Evo would be sufficient.

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But first, make sure your CPU is the bottleneck here. Use HWiNFO and RivaTuner Statistics server and show individual core usage in OSD. If you see one core pinned at 100%, then your CPU is bottlenecking.

Also you can press Alt+F to see the game's performance stats on the bottom left. Either CPU or GPU in square brackets beside FPS tells you which one is bottlenecking, and the color tells you how bad is it bottlenecking.

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But first, make sure your CPU is the bottleneck here. Use HWiNFO and RivaTuner Statistics server and show individual core usage in OSD. If you see one core pinned at 100%, then your CPU is bottlenecking.

Also you can press Alt+F to see the game's performance stats on the bottom left. Either CPU or GPU in square brackets beside FPS tells you which one is bottlenecking, and the color tells you how bad is it bottlenecking.

http://gyazo.com/8bdd24656b58cb7aa1603f74bde612f3This is a screenshot of my OSD inside of a building, nothing really going on. GPU ultilization is slightly higher than before. And it the bottom left corner it says "FPS: 75 [CPU]"

It's preforming better right now. But in a different area of the map it was a lot worse. Like. 30-40 FPS.

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If it's a CPU limitation, it's likely not the area, but how many enemies/action is going on at the time.

http://gyazo.com/48c7a66a6fd2329df49dc5b6f869a622This one, however, has people flying from one platform way above to down below, and a lot of action going. Surprisingly the FPS isnt as low.

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Right now it just looks like you're hitting on VSync as neither the CPU or GPU is a bottleneck. Actually find one of those times were you hit a frame dip and see what your CPU usage is then. It's best to be looking at a graph so you can see the spike and everything.

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