What is up with the performance of Planetside 2?

Miffy · 2012-12-10, 10:18 PM

Seriously I have 6 cores and 6 threads, there is one core at 90%, 3 others are like 20-40% and the others are doing nothing. Yet the ALT+F says I'm CPU bottlenecked? The game shows as using 19% of my CPU........???

So my GPU usage is odd because MSI Afterburner shows the usage at 99% for both cards under SLI. I have no idea why the usage is so high for both? Not even BF3 has usage that high :\ I'm using the latest official drivers, which are the latest as no beta driver has been released since.

My FPS is around 80 at the warp gate but like 35 anywhere else but my usage never drops apart from when it is loading? What is going on? I swear when I had SLI off my usage was like 40% for a single GPU, I'm using 680SLI.

My Ram usage is 2.5GB Ram and I have 16GB and Windows only uses 2.6 atm when the game isn't running, so no chance of it being a ram issue lol. I'm also running off an SSD so it isn't like the lack of transfer speed from a HDD or anything......

I don't get why performance sucks.

Alareth · 2012-12-10, 10:33 PM

It's DX9.

DX9 was written before the proliferation of multicore cpu's and wasn't designed to use them. If there were DX10 or 11 versions of the client a lot of the cpu bottleneck issues would go away.

**CyclesMcHurtz** · 2012-12-10, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by Alareth

It's DX9.

DX9 was written before the proliferation of multicore cpu's and wasn't designed to use them. If there were DX10 or 11 versions of the client a lot of the cpu bottleneck issues would go away.

DX9 does have a few big differences in the threading model and other architectural changes but to say that using DX11 would "fix" things is vastly oversimplifying the issue.

[Sent from the outskirts of the Oort cloud]

basti · 2012-12-10, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by CyclesMcHurtz

DX9 does have a few big differences in the threading model and other architectural changes but to say that using DX11 would "fix" things is vastly oversimplifying the issue.

[Sent from the outskirts of the Oort cloud]

Question: Why DX9 in the first place?

Goku · 2012-12-10, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by basti

Question: Why DX9 in the first place?

This I guess. Though I doubt many of those systems can even run this game TBH.

RSphil · 2012-12-11, 07:17 AM

iv seen alot of these post and tbh i have no problems. 130+ fps and during huge fights down to around 40 ish fps. i have a 6 core at 4.4ghz. most cores work at around 20% some peak to 30-50% sometimes.
game runs fine and no problems, bar the odd screen flash then i have to restart game.

rTekku · 2012-12-11, 08:16 AM

Give this a shot.

Chefkoch · 2012-12-11, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by rTekku

Give this a shot.

Improve your Performance in Planetside 2 - YouTube

Wow thanks will try that

BorisBlade · 2012-12-11, 11:10 AM

Honestly the real bottleneck isnt so much the cpu as it is the memory, thats why you dont max out your multiple cores but still show as cpu limited. Its very important to get the fastest memory your system can support.

The DX9 thing sounds good if you think it supports more people, but as has been pointed out, if you cant run DX10 or 11 then your system really cant run the game anyway, atleast not at anything but lowest settings, low res, and not in big fights. You may lose more people due to the lower performance than due to not having DX10+. and yes i know just using DX10+ will not solve the performance issue, but it would help.

Can't wait for the seperate DX10/11 client at some point. WoW did it, and many others do too, so its really not a huge deal.

Although to be honest the performance is at the bottom of my list of problems with the game, i dont even hardly play much anymore. Just doesnt have the suck you in and make you never wanna quit feel that PS1 had, feels like more battlefield and that never stays fun for more than a few weeks or a month or two.

duomaxwl · 2012-12-11, 11:35 AM

Even my new i5 would drop to below 30fps (though barely) before I o/c'd it to 4ghz.
I heard from somewhere that January is going to have a nice optimization patch, I guess only time will tell.

Ghoest9 · 2012-12-11, 12:11 PM

Its fair to say dx1o or 11 would make for a game that ran much better for everyone with a modern computer.

Alareth · 2012-12-11, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by CyclesMcHurtz

DX9 does have a few big differences in the threading model and other architectural changes but to say that using DX11 would "fix" things is vastly oversimplifying the issue.

[Sent from the outskirts of the Oort cloud]

Let me ask this, quite a few games offer the choice of different DX versions when launching. Is this something that will be possible for PS2 in the future?

Voodeux · 2012-12-11, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by duomaxwl

Even my new i5 would drop to below 30fps (though barely) before I o/c'd it to 4ghz.
I heard from somewhere that January is going to have a nice optimization patch, I guess only time will tell.

I'd love to read more on this if you can remember where you read it and could drop a link.

VaderShake · 2012-12-11, 12:48 PM

My performance is fine...why do you ask?

Ps.

Voodeux wins the "Creepy Sig. Award"

duomaxwl · 2012-12-11, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Voodeux

I'd love to read more on this if you can remember where you read it and could drop a link.

Twitter and I don't get along, so I had to copy and paste, but there it is.