What settings impact performance the most?

[moneer]

Hey PCMR. I recently got a gtx 1050ti, and I'm kind of underwhelmed by the performance. I'm not even on high settings 1080p on doom and witcher 3 and I'm getting all kinds of stutters and 40-50fps.

I have a xeon 3.0 ghz quad core and 4gb ram. Can the ram be the issue? Or is it my settings? What ways can I tweak the settings in both nvidia control panel and the games to get a good balance between graphics and fps?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Hey PCMR. I recently got a gtx 1050ti, and I'm kind of underwhelmed by the performance. I'm not even on high settings 1080p on doom and witcher 3 and I'm getting all kinds of stutters and 40-50fps.

I have a xeon 3.0 ghz quad core and 4gb ram. Can the ram be the issue? Or is it my settings? What ways can I tweak the settings in both nvidia control panel and the games to get a good balance between graphics and fps?

That RAM is what is murdering you. The stuttering is from your system hitting the virtual memory on-disk.

To answer your original question, it depends on the system build. On a sane build, usually your culprits for performance are Resolution, AA setting, draw distance, and shadows, in that order. Imbalances on your build can cause differing affects, such as not enough ram causing issues with texture sizes as an example (lower texture quality on your build, should get you less hitching). Slow cards with more memory (think 6GB 1060) can cause more issues with resolution than with texture sizes, say at 4k as an example.

For yours, right now lower texture quality and draw distance, that should alleviate a lot of your issues for the short term. But abso-fucking-lutely get more RAM in that build. Figure out what RAM your board can take and get 2x4 (8GB), 3x4 (12GB, if supported), or 2x8 (16GB) and you'll have a lot less issues.

 

[moneer]

That RAM is what is murdering you. The stuttering is from your system hitting the virtual memory on-disk....

Thing is my board only supports ddr2 ram which is expensive af nowadays. I'll try to at least get 6gb. It supports max 4x2gb sticks.

I'll look into the draw distance and texture detail levels. Or try to make the page size a little larger. Getting ram is my last resort I suppose.

 

[TheELF]

Thing is my board only supports ddr2 ram which is expensive af nowadays.

3Ghz xeon of that era...I think you are getting good FPS.
Use msi afterburner to see CPU and GPU usage.

 

[nerp]

TFW you copy/paste your reddit post on AT forums and forget to edit out PCMR.

 

[TechBoyJK]

TURBO

 

[moneer]

3Ghz xeon of that era...I think you are getting good FPS.
Use msi afterburner to see CPU and GPU usage.

I'll use that and see the usage

TFW you copy/paste your reddit post on AT forums and forget to edit out PCMR.

I actually thought all pc gamers like to associate themselves as pcmr? Lol. I didn't post it on reddit I thought it was a universal term to describe pc gamers

TURBO

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EDIT:

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So I was able to find a working 1gb stick from an old dead pc. So far. I'm really impressed. Just 1 added gig made doom run much much smoother. Plus I tweaked the settings related to vsync and it seems to run very smooth right now.

And using msi afterburner, I found that at the lower resolutions, cpu usage was around 70-80 and gpy was at around 50. So I bumped it up to 1080p, and now both are at around 90-100 and ram is near the 4.5gb mark.

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUGGESTIONS!!!