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Drastic frame rate drops with update June 23rd, 2016

quickbuckquickbuck Member Posts: 6 Arc User
Before the update I had a more stable 24fps-35fps, now it drops down to 6fps - even in empty instances - goes up to 35fps (max 57fps even) and drops again within a few seconds.
Warping into a map was always smooth around 20fps, now it's below 10fps.

Even in space I have now 10ish fps. I tried everything, setting the GFX to low let's me reach 15fps in empty space but that's it.

I see that the temp of my GPU hovers around 50F, before it was in the upper 60F. Seems it doesn't even utilize the GPUs proper because MSI Afterburner shows only 55% VID usage while dropping down to 10fps (and lower).

Just sitting in space with no change in view can spike the fps to 50 and down to 10. Never happened before.
Afterburner also tells me that when the drop happens the GPU memory usage maxes for both cards to 2500 MB, then goes back to 405 MB.

The up and down in fps is so irritating, I can't stand it.

i7, 16GB RAM, SSD
2x GT 750M SLI (no SLI has the same effect, just slightly higher GPU use on single GPU)
NVIDIA Driver:368.39

Answers

  • salvation4salvation4 Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    I just yesterday after patching set my ingame option to use only DX9 and damn I got a freakishly enormus boost to my frame rate to 60+ in nearly every single area whilst keeping everything on high with a temp at around 55..Even I am using the 368.39 driver..So I guess it something to do with the way STO handles dx11, something very wrong in the dx11 coding of the game..
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  • swatopswatop Member Posts: 566 Arc User
    I have disabled dx11 by default but I dont see any performance improvements at all.
    The FPS remains lousy.
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