High Performance Mode?

[Turismo98]

Okay so I'm playing a multiplayer mod for GTA SA, called MTA SA.

Thing is I'm playing on a server that has more than 700 players average, and my game is heavily modded, yet I'm pretty sure an R9 270x would handle it well, am I right?

 

Well not exactly, when playing in crouded areas, the FPS drops drastically from 60 to the thirties or twenties, which is pretty annoying tbh, and when I tried to take a look at the clockspeed on MSI Afterburner, it's stuck at 450 Mhz, which is the normal mode for the GPU, while the high performance mode is about 1070 w/o overclocks.

 

So my question briefly, how can I set a certain application to run on high performance mode and fully use the 1070 Mhz of my card

[Robbie09]

It could be anything

it could be thermal throttling itself check the temps

Or it could be bottlenecked

Or you could need to update the drivers

Or it could be the psu

 is there any microstuttering?

Need more info try a stress test and see what happens if its core clock is fine in stress test then it is probally the game

If its none of that then try disabling the ULPS

[Turismo98]

No you're not getting the full picture, my GPU runs fine on other GPU hungry games such as The Witcher 3/GTA V

My R9 270x seems to consider gta_sa as a low performance process and only requires 450 Mhz of the clock speed.

[MeDownYou]

No you're not getting the full picture, my GPU runs fine on other GPU hungry games such as The Witcher 3/GTA V

My R9 270x seems to consider gta_sa as a low performance process and only requires 450 Mhz of the clock speed.

That shouldn't make a difference, unless its set as a lower priority process and something else is using your GPU.

 

EDIT: also, this is possible to set, but I DO NOT recommend it. I use to do it on my celeron 440 for java programs as otherwise it would lag out if i had 2 instances open...(need those alt accounts playing..)

 

I'm not 100% but it seems like the coding of the game is messed up. 

[Turismo98]

That shouldn't make a difference, unless its set as a lower priority process and something else is using your GPU.

 

EDIT: also, this is possible to set, but I DO NOT recommend it. I use to do it on my celeron 440 for java programs as otherwise it would lag out if i had 2 instances open...(need those alt accounts playing..)

 

I'm not 100% but it seems like the coding of the game is messed up. 

 

Well you can't expect it to be that decent, this game was out on 2005 and I'm using a GPU that came out hardly in 2012.

How can I set this though?

[Robbie09]

No you're not getting the full picture, my GPU runs fine on other GPU hungry games such as The Witcher 3/GTA V

My R9 270x seems to consider gta_sa as a low performance process and only requires 450 Mhz of the clock speed.

Sounds like the mods messed up if its the only thing your gpu is underclocking or maby its not compatible

[MeDownYou]

Well you can't expect it to be that decent, this game was out on 2005 and I'm using a GPU that came out hardly in 2012.

How can I set this though?

Open up task manager, and click on the process and press P then your priority  (letters differ depending for this I'd do "A")  then "Y" for yes

 

Google has this incase you need more help http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Process-Priorities-in-Windows-Task-Manager

 

oh also...don't ever set as real time it takes priority over your OS even

 

Most likely it's not that but just that the mod is coded poorly.

[Elfuego]

In MSI Afterburner there is a way to force it to stay at max clocks.... You could try that...

[Robbie09]

In MSI Afterburner there is a way to force it to stay at max clocks.... You could try that.b

Be carefull doign that though because if can damage your card if not monitored properly

[sof006]

Its most likely a case of the fact that the game is so old it simply isn't designed to handle that much on the screen in one go thus the FPS drops.

[Turismo98]

Its most likely a case of the fact that the game is so old it simply isn't designed to handle that much on the screen in one go thus the FPS drops.

I'm pretty sure it works fine on other GPUs

My older HD 7670M runs it smother than the R9 270x

[sof006]

I'm pretty sure it works fine on other GPUs

My older HD 7670M runs it smother than the R9 270x

There is also a factor of the drivers being different. Different architecture can effect performance and the way a game works in many different ways, either for better or for worse.