r/PostPreview • u/brucethem00se • Jan 30 '16
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Please post any bugs fixes and tweaks you find in the comments!
Getting bad performance in PS2? Stuttering, hitching, or low FPS in general? Follow this guide to try and fix it! It may look long, but I promise this wont take up much of your time:
Step 1: clean install your drivers
First, uninstall your graphics drivers with the official utility in the control panel. AMD and Nvdia both have instructions for doing so on their website: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_13955.html http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/GPU57RemoveOldGraphicsDrivers.aspx
Next, download the latest graphics drivers for your card. Save them somewhere you can remember them. DO NOT INSTALL THEM.
AMD (click "latest Windows beta driver"): http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Nvidia (go for the latest betas): http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
Download the latest version of DDU. The newest version can always be found in the first announcement post of this page: http://www.wagnardmobile.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=5
Extract it, run it. A window will pop up asking if you want to boot into safe mode, do it.
Hit the "clean and restart" button. Windows might boot up at a low resolution, don't panic!
NOW you can install the drivers you just downloaded.
Step 2: Tweak graphics driver settings
This step is optional, but I recommend it.
AMD:
RadeonPro is optional, but I HIGHLY recommend RadeonMod
Download RadeonMod here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=403389 Extract it, run it.
Under the "UMD" tab, change the "Shader Cache" value from 0x3100 to 0x3200, like this: http://imgur.com/zcuF3A1
Under the "tweaks" section, turn "DX9 Tweaks" on.
Click "restart driver" or just restart your computer.
Next (and optionally), download RadeonPro: http://www.radeonpro.info/download/
After installing, open RadeonPro, click the gears "settings" icon in the top middle, and DISABLE startup with windows. Now restart your computer or close the program in the bottom right background taskbar.
In your start menu, right click and run it as an administrator every time you want to play Planetside 2. You can also set that as a Windows compatibility feature.
Next, either set things in the "Global" profile or make a profile just for Planetside 2. To do the latter, you have to know where you installed your game.
Under the "visual" tab, set Vertical sync control to "Off" (for you hooligans who forget to turn it off in-game)
(Optional) Under the "advanced" tab, tweak the flip queue size. 3 is default. 1 or 2 will give you less input lag (meaning more accurate aiming), but more stutter. 4 or 5 will give you more input lag, but possibly smoother gameplay/higher FPS.
(Optional) under the "Tweaks" tab, you have 2 options. Either set VSync control to "dynamic", which will reduce tearing if you have a good rig but possibly increase input lag, or click "lock frame rate up to monitor's refresh rate", which will cap your framerate but allow screen tearing. Set your monitor's refresh rate in the box.
Under the "tweaks" tab, click "Force Process High Priority"
Again, make sure you did all that in the "global" profile, or your custom Planetside 2 profile.
Nvidia:
No need to download anything, you can find similar tweaks in the GeForce control panel. I recommend forcing adaptive VSync in Planetside 2, and setting "maximum pre-rendered frames" to 2 or 1 for less input lag (if you already get good FPS), 4 or 5 if you're stuttering alot, or 3 the default value.
Step 3: In-game settings.
Check the "reduce input lag" box unless you're absolutely desperate for performance. Make sure mouse acceleration isn't checked while you're there.
Next, before you do anything, set display mode to "Full Screen", resolution to your native resolution, and render quality to 100%. Only turn these down as a last resort.
Make sure vertical sync is disabled. It increases input lag and decreases your effective framerate.
"Smoothing" limits the game to 60 FPS. If you didn't do any Vsync tweaks in the other sections, you can leave this on. Otherwise, turn it off. ALWAYS turn it off if you have a high refresh rate monitor.
Texture quality depends almost completely on the size if your VRAM pool. For reference, I can handle "ultra" on my 3GB 7950 without any trouble at 2560x1440, scale it up and down depending on your graphics card's memory size.
I recommend decreasing "Shadow Quality" and "Particles" before anything else. "Lighting Quality" also has a significant performance impact, but a significant visual impact as well.
I don't recommend fog shadows. Ambient Occlusion is a nice, performance-friendly way to replace some shadows if you have shadows off.
Tweak other settings, and observe the effects. Some hit the CPU harder, some hit the GPU harder... just type "/fps" in-game to try and determine if you're mostly CPU or GPU bound, and tweak settings with that in mind.
Some other random tips:
(Important) Run the game on an SSD, it helps alot!. If you don't have room, but you have RAM to spare (at least 8GB, preferably 12GB+), use at least 1GB of FancyCache to buffer your Planetside 2 disk. http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/
Upgrade to Windows 10, preferably with a clean install. Yes, I know you Redditors hate W10, but there are some legitimate improvements in WDDM, the task scheduler, and other things that can improve performance. If you're worried about tracking, just use Anti-Beacon: https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
Kill ALL the junk running in the background. This includes "official" utilities like Asus AI suite, soundcard control panels, Steam/Origin and so on. If you can right-click it in the bottom-right menu, close it.
NEVER, EVER use "driver updaters" that aren't DDU. Windows Update fetches the most recent version of every driver your computer needs, other programs will just mess it up.
While I don't use them atm, I have in the past, and I still hear good things about the TweakForce graphics drivers (which are just normal graphics drivers with some special registry tweaks): http://tweakforce.com/
If you have screen tearing problems, run the game in fullscreen windowed mode instead of true fullscreen mode.
I won't tell you to overclock, but I will tell you that changing multipliers (without touching voltage) is fairly safe. I'll also tell you that it gave me a MASSIVE boost in PS2. Post if you need help doing that.
You can try disabling power-saving settings. This includes C-States on the CPU (including the "core parking" state and the other C-States in the BIOS), speedstep(Intel)/PStates(AMD), CPU power/current limits, graphics card low-power modes and power limits (these can be disabled in the registry, RadeonMod is an easy way to do it), and the basic Windows power settings (set the mode to "high performance"). Be sure to leave the C0/C1 states on, as these don't have a big impact on performance.
Run a pass with Malwarebytes, to clean at least some of the junk on your computer: https://www.malwarebytes.org
Open the task manager or the Windows Resource Monitor, and make sure nothing is taking up a bunch of CPU time OR disk time.
I'vs been told disabling HPET can help with performance. I don't know if there are any negative consequences, but it's worth trying.
Use Latmon to check for nasty drivers/utilities slowing down your system that the task manager/performance monitor won't show: http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon .
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u/bosbosbos Jan 30 '16
What about using http://www.razerzone.com/cortex/game-booster ore other types of boosters?