fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hey, I was wondering if there's any fix for spikey and overall low GPU usage, I don't know whether it's on my side or just a horribly optimised game (I already know it is, but don't know whether this problem is related. I use a 560 GTX Ti, latest drivers.I get a constant 110fps standing still, every few minutes it'll drop to 30 and back up, but as soon as I start moving around to kill things and quest, this happens: http://i40.tinypic.com/1zfldhs.png . As you can see, there's a section 3/4 of the way through which shows me standing still in the game, then as soon as I move, it spikes all the time and every little spike you see, my fps drops to 30 fps and back up again, which causes it to jitter and freeze every couple of seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradewindNQ Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Post your other specs, it's likely not a GPU issue at all, just a side effect of another problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texel Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 What app is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradewindNQ Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 What app is that? looks like MSI Afterburner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warrenTU Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I think NVIDIA is working on a new set of drivers optimized for SWTOR. You also might look at your profile for the game, and make sure its not running anything funky it doesnt need to. Turning shadows off can help as well, they seem to not be well supported by NVIDIA's current drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 sorry, here are my other specs:i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz8gig ddr3 1600mhz ramp8p67 pro mobo500gb hdd I have all my settings on low and shadows off, I like games to run as smooth as possible even if it sacrifices high graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 What app is that? and yea, it's MSI afterburner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradewindNQ Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Kill the overclock and try it again. You don't need 4.4GHz to play SWTOR, stock 2500K can do it fine...need to eliminate potential sources of the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 ok, thanks ill try it after this episode of community has finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlebud Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) I have all my settings on low and shadows off, I like games to run as smooth as possible even if it sacrifices high graphics. Shadows, even on max, look terrible anyways! Edited January 9, 2012 by Battlebud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradewindNQ Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 ok, thanks ill try it after this episode of community has finished I like you; you didn't even go for the usual "NO MY COMPUTER IS FINE, BAD GAME RAWR" argument that most people do when you suggest a change to their setup. To me it might be power related, cpu might be undervolting, What's your power supply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KetMalice Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 sorry, here are my other specs: i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz 8gig ddr3 1600mhz ram p8p67 pro mobo 500gb hdd I have all my settings on low and shadows off, I like games to run as smooth as possible even if it sacrifices high graphics. Man I have a computer set up just like that with a crappier processor. Not sure man, SWToR is really finicky though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 I like you; you didn't even go for the usual "NO MY COMPUTER IS FINE, BAD GAME RAWR" argument that most people do when you suggest a change to their setup. To me it might be power related, cpu might be undervolting, What's your power supply? Haha thanks, I like you too I have a 575W toughpower XT, my overclock is at 1.3V, according to HWmonitor it doesn't drop below 1.3V and usually sits around 1.31-1.32 when I'm playing . I'll be back in a minute, I'm rebooting now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psytic Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I had to take the OC off my vid card to get this game to run better. Seemed to make my card run hotter then other games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 I've just tested optimal defaults in bios, and it's exactly the same but with lower average FPS, because I'm not using my overclock any more obviously. My friend was at my house a few days ago with his laptop, and his laptop doesn't run the game very well but his GPU usage was at a constant 98-100% usage (it's an ATI card, maybe it's a nvidia thing? ;o) Oh, and in some areas, the usage is much better and the game is super smooth. There's a jedi consular/knight starting village and I had a constant 100% usage there, with no spikes, it was lovely. The only thing in my PC that isn't brand new is my hard drive, I'll probably upgrade that soon anyway, but could that be causing fps spikes and instability? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netami Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Ive noticed this as well. Something like 80-95% usage on my CPUs THIRD core only, and 30-40% usage on my video card. i7 920GTX48012GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradewindNQ Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Where do the spikes occur? Is it shortly after loading new zones or entering populated areas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Ive noticed this as well. Something like 80-95% usage on my CPUs THIRD core only, and 30-40% usage on my video card. i7 920 GTX480 12GB RAM forgot to mention that too, mine's exactly the same on my cores Edited January 9, 2012 by fissionchips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissionchips Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Where do the spikes occur? Is it shortly after loading new zones or entering populated areas? Anywhere really, it happens 100% of the time when entering new buildings/areas. And it's seemingly random when I'm just running about in the open, even without players there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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