GTX 680 bad FPS

[Vonzip]

What's your CPU & clock speed?

i5 3570k 3.40hz
Don't want to OC since it's too hot in Florida lol

[Steeps]

i5 3570k 3.40hz
Don't want to OC since it's too hot in Florida lol

What do you live outside or without AC?

[Daniel]

LOL good point there, Steeps...

Well, looks like a coding-fail to me in the GTX 680 drivers... OR, COULD be even worse, a design fail in some hardware of the 680 GPU or other components, which make the rendering of BF2 PR objects and whatever it is specifically on Fallujah (for example) that makes the fps get so low... Maybe another GeForce Bios for another GTX card may work better? No idea...

Lucky me with the GTX 570, previous gen... (I think though that I also just get around 60-80 fps on Fallujah, I know it's more than the 680 at this point, but on all other maps I get 90-100 fps... )

[camo]

does any one have any experience with the gtx 770? does it do the same thing?

[Daniel]

No, I bet it's too new and that all PR players are happy enough with their current cards... (so only if sb. here owns a 5 year old mainstream card, and WOULD upgrade to GTX 770, he had one... )

[Spook]

Bumping thread. Even without recording, my FPS should be higher than it is now. I talked to Neander from NEW. He has a GTX 580 with the same CPU clocks as me. Same nvidia driver. He gets constant 100 FPS in 1.0 and 0.98. Only when looking towards 100p mainbattle on a map, his FPS goes down to ~80 in 1.0.

If I look at mainbattle in 1.0 I get 26-40 FPS (AA lowered to 4x) in 0.98 I usually stay between 50-90, while Neander has constant 100. I already tried everything. I have no idea what the problem is. My GPU is not even getting warm while playing PR. Its like idling. The only thing left to do, is a complete OS reinstall. I did not reinstall my OS when I installed my new GTX. But I do not think that this will change anything.

Is there anyone out there with a GTX 680 who could tell me his average FPS in 0.98 and 1.0?

[Steeps]

I guess I forgot to mention that I do have a ASUS GTX 680. I will say I noticed a drop in FPS between 0.98 and 1.0. It wasn't game breaking, but it was a noticeable drop. Sometimes on Saaremaa I was at 40ish FPS.

And I have my i5-2500k at 4.4GHz (while living in Florida )

[Microwaife]

Is there anyone out there with a GTX 680 who could tell me his average FPS in 0.98 and 1.0?

Yesterday when i played 0.98 with my gtx 680 dc2t i had around 80-100 fps. It was only skirm on silent though.

[Spook]

Well thats normal. Silent Eagle runs fine. Try Falluhja. I got ~50-90 FPS there, depends where I am looking at.

[DesmoLocke]

does any one have any experience with the gtx 770? does it do the same thing?

No, I bet it's too new and that all PR players are happy enough with their current cards... (so only if sb. here owns a 5 year old mainstream card, and WOULD upgrade to GTX 770, he had one... )

My two GTX 780s don't like some of the more notorious FPS dropping maps like Fallujah. Drops down to 40 FPS are common and I blame the lack of support for older games (namely DX9) in the latest Nvidia drivers. My old 8800GT SLI setup ran PR just as well as my new setup.

Still beyond happy with my upgrade though.

[Daniel]

Wow... ur nrgy bill is also going to be quiiite happy with SLI... :/

Yeah, DX9 gets completely ignored by Nvidia since few months... -.-

[smgunsftw]

Does anyone here know how well the GTX770 would perform in PR1.0?

Also, has anyone tried using their integrated graphics and the graphics card at the same time when playing PR?

[LITOralis.nMd]

Also, has anyone tried using their integrated graphics and the graphics card at the same time when playing PR?

That is not possible except with the AMD FM2 series APUs in hybrid crossfire with AMD Radeon GPUs, i.e. A10-6800k and a Radeon HD6670 .

I run a GTX 670 OC'ed to GTX680 speeds , and I've been happy with my PR 1.0.X beta performance as a Beta tester. A few guys did some small tweaks that might just increase FPS in those few really bad spots (like Fallujah had to do with lookin directly at the clouds of smoke in the burning debris piles,)

[smgunsftw]

Would you guys recommend getting a GTX580 just for the sake of being able to run Project Reality at a higher framerate?

[DesmoLocke]

Get the GTX 770.

[iwingi]

Using a 670 Default Clock (941MHz)
along with FX-6100 OC at 4.1GHz
I am not running with 99FPS cap, nono, I have FPS drops down to 20-35 at times, average 50FPS. 80+FPS when I stare into the sky. Not what I was expecting... (Running all high full AA Vsync disabled)

[LITOralis.nMd]

iwingi we have similar system,
I have gtx670 slightly OC'ed to like 1020Mhz clock
and a i5-3570k at 4.5Ghz
and I'm still getting drops into the low 30's FPS on the worst parts of our maps.

I started playing PR with a Core2Quad Q9550 stock and HD5770 stock, so I just play through it and try not to think of my lighter wallet.

[Daniel]

Well, using my GTX 570 and i7 2600K (nothing OC) I get 40 fps minimum, mostly 50-70 fps... (And 20 % of time 70-100 fps)...

[Devo66]

I am sort of in the same boat but even worse. On my laptop I have the i7 3630Q and a GTX 670MX (3gbs of ram). It is really hit or miss my last couple of maps I was getting 15 fps way more than often than I was the week before. I did not change anything since then. Also it seems like the video setting are there for show as well because I changed everything to low and dropped the resolution from 1080 to 720 with no noticeable difference. It is really frustrating playing at 15-25 FPS, needless to say I have had some good mortar rounds haha.

I guess that DX9 might have something to do with it as my desktop has a be955 with a geforce 9800gt in it running .98 well with no where near the same average FPS.

I am really disappointed in the performance but its seems like everyone is having some issues. Anyone else have any other suggestions?

[LITOralis.nMd]

Devo, make sure you add C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 2 Complete Collection\PRBF2.exe or wherever you have your BF2.exe, there is also the PRBF2.exe, add that to your NVidia control panel to force use of the discrete GPU and not the integrated GPU.

I have a similar computer set up, and here is how I make it work:

Go to the NVIDIA Control Panel by right clicking on your desk top and clicking on "NVIDIA Control Panel".

In the default screen that pops up (it should be "manage 3D settings", and the "Program Settings" tab should be automatically selected), under "1. Select a program to customize:" hit the "Add" button.

From here, navigate to the folder where your steam games are located.

For me, it is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Battlefield 2 Complete Collection\PRBF2.exe

and for Origin it is located at PRBF2.exe it is C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 2 Complete Collection\PRBF2.exe

Select the folder for the game you want to use your NVIDIA card for, and find the .exe for that game (it's usually right in the main game folder). Select it and hit open.

Then, under "2. Select the preferred graphics processor for this program:" open the drop-down menu and select "High-performance NVIDIA processor".

Finally, hit apply in the far bottom right corner, and you should be good to go!

When you start the game from Steam, the .exe will be opened, which will now run with your NVIDIA card by default rather than your integrated card. I've noticed that most older games, when started, will use the integrated card by default. The method described above can be used for any .exe file, not just games in your steam library!