Unsadisfactory frame rate. Software, hardware or setting?

[Nyrii]

(04-10-2014, 11:17 AM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: Well, a 280x is ~670, so why did you just hop sides? No substantial performance boost would be gotten from getting the equivalent GPU from a different company.

If increasing the IR causes an issue, then you might be running into an NB, GPU, or VRAM bottleneck. The lattermost is, by far, the most likely, since, iirc, the HD 7800 series cards (270, 270x now) had higher effective memory bandwidth than the 7900 cards (280, 280x now), and the 7800 GPUs were definitely not the best on the block for memory speed.

Though, I don't see how it could be happening at such a low IR. Maybe... well, looking at the settings you have in your sig, did you turn off LLE on thread, and turn off force texture filtering? And, with your hacks, try turning off Skip EFB Access.

The 670 stopped working and I never owned a Radeon before so I went for it. I turn off LLE thead by default now as it caused hanging with WW.

I just tried playing Mario Kart again with the settings on my sig (minus LLE on thread and force filtering) WITHOUT any graphical enhancement, so Native res, no AA, 1x AF, no post-processing, no PPL and no scaled EFB, and I still got major drops in Kart and <60 frames throughout the race. How is that a gpu issue?

(04-10-2014, 11:17 AM)rokclimb15 Wrote: What's your exact dev version revision? The reduced performance at higher IR indicates a GPU bottleneck. How are your GPU clocks/temps looking?

1356. HWinfo only gives me gpu temps, how can I check?

(04-10-2014, 11:25 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Change framelimit from Audio to Auto

From what I saw Auto gave me a very small performance boost but audio stuttering from <60/60 frames was horrible. Audio still gives stuttering just not as bad. OpenAL with 'Audio' gives no stuttering at all but gave me a performance hit of ~25fps.