henke on 18/3/2017 at 12:18
With the Power plan changed I started up Adrift, to see if it would perform better now, but it w as still pretty laggy! After I shut it down I opened the Power settings again, and guess what people? The freakin Oculus Rift changes the power plan to High Power whenever you put it on, causing everything to get much laggier! Did some googling, could figure out how to keep the Oculus from doing that, but I did learn how to look deeper into the power plans. On Balanced the Minimum Processor State is 5% and the Maximum is 100%. On the High Performance profile? They're BOTH AT 5%! So I upped the Maximum to 100%, started Adrift again, and it was buttery smooth.
Jeez. Glad to have that sorted out, but now I'm wondering if I even needed a new GPU. :|
Sulphur on 18/3/2017 at 12:36
That is super weird, because on my rig the High Perf mode has both the min and max CPU state at 100%. Anyway, you're definitely more GPU than CPU bound for VR, so you'll see plenty of benefit there.
henke on 18/3/2017 at 12:51
Yeah, I know. And yes, something very weird going on with my Power plans. No idea how they got that way.
Anyway, just played a couple levels of Robo Recall. Super smooth, super good. :D
Gryzemuis on 18/3/2017 at 15:11
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Jeez. Glad to have that sorted out, but now I'm wondering if I even
needed a new GPU. :|
I think the 1070 is an excellent video-card. And worth the money. If you hadn't needed the power of a 1070, you'd probably need it later this year. Be happy ! If you have spare compute capacity, you can start enabling all eyecandy. And then run 4xMSAA or 8xMSAA. Or 4xSGSSA. Or use nVidia's Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). Lots of ways to use that extra power, if you think you have some spare.
I've been playing Dark Souls 2 during the last 1-2 months. The DS2 engine runs max at 60 fps, so I can't run it at 120 or 144 Hz on my monitor. I have 2560x1080 monitor. So I configured a 5120x2160 resolution in the Nvidia settings. And DS2 still runs at 60 fps at that resolution ! (I got myself a gtx1080, kinda as a present). It's like having 4xSSAA, but the impact on framerates is less, for some weird reason. Really looks nice. (Too bad DS2 doesn't support 21:9. So I'm actually playing at 3840x2160 in stead of 5120x2160). So the gtx1080 does improve DS2 for me, compared to my old gtx680.
henke on 18/3/2017 at 15:23
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
I think the 1070 is an excellent video-card. And worth the money.
Oh yes, don't worry. I'm happy with my purchase. :)
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Meanwhile I'm struggling to figure out why that card is call "DUAL". Dual GPU? Dual fans? Dual DisplayPort? Dual... what?
I believe it's the dual fans, yeah.
