Planetside 2 Performance And Texture Quality

[Shaan5]

I Recently started playing Planetside 2 and I noticed a few things 

 

My FPS was lower than I was expecting, I have an Overclocked GTX 970 and a i5 4690k at stock, and I was getting an FPS that went from the high 40's to the low 60's with everything on high although I should note that I was running Skype in the background, its not an issue with my PC either as all other games I have tried run great.

The low framerate was surprising as the texture quality(At least at high) was very low res.

I also experienced random black screens that would stop the game momentarily(Not caused by a driver crash or unstable OC)

 

Is any of this normal?

 

Thanks

[Mug]

And you're running at what resolution exactly?

[Shaan5]

And you're running at what resolution exactly?

oh sorry 1080p

[Mug]

oh sorry 1080p

Look at cpu and gpu usage during games, anything fishy going on?

[Shaan5]

Look at cpu and gpu usage during games, anything fishy going on?

 

k, I'll reply back in a few hours

[JerkyMcDilerino]

Max settings here with good acceptable frame rate of 70 - 90 in some cases.

[Shaan5]

it turns out that I had V-Sync on, when I turned it off, my FPS immediately spiked to 120!, the weird thing is though was that my GPU Usage was still fluctuating between 70 and 98, I'm also confused about how, with V-sync on, I get 48-60 FPS but without V-sync, I get over 100?

[Shaan5]

I'm still getting bad GPU usage though, My Usage goes as low as 40%

[R_Golden]

PS2 is a very CPU heavy game. If you want extra performance overclocking your CPU will do the trick.

[ninjacake00]

it turns out that I had V-Sync on, when I turned it off, my FPS immediately spiked to 120!, the weird thing is though was that my GPU Usage was still fluctuating between 70 and 98, I'm also confused about how, with V-sync on, I get 48-60 FPS but without V-sync, I get over 100?

V-sync takes your FPS down to the rate at which your monitor or other display can refresh it so there isn't as much screen tearing but in most cases it is completely fine for the setting to be changed to off.

[DEDRICK]

Texture quality went down the shitter after the OMFG patch, the game used to look so much better but the performance was terrible.  I wish they would release the high-res texture/normal/spec/bump maps again.  Put your textures on Ultra, the game doesn't use much VRAM, actually put everything max, but disable shadows.  If you enable shadows distance players will warp/jitter all over the place like this video

 

[Shaan5]

Texture quality went down the shitter after the OMFG patch, the game used to look so much better but the performance was terrible.  I wish they would release the high-res texture/normal/spec/bump maps again.  Put your textures on Ultra, the game doesn't use much VRAM, actually put everything max, but disable shadows.  If you enable shadows distance players will warp/jitter all over the place like this video

 

 

Oh Ok