---SOLVED!!---ESO graphics lag, GTX 970

[Kebast]

-- BIOS settings were the problem --

 

I’ve recently started playing quite a bit of Elite Sanctury Onslaught, and having some graphics problems at the start of each wave. I’m using an NVIDIA GTX 970 on an FX6300 AMD chip. This system runs every other game flawlessly (Final Fantasy XV being the most recent), and normally functions just fine for Warframe, except for ESO. I recently acquired Saryn Prime, and have been using her to focus farm. So I enter a wave, use 1, use 3, then start swinging my Cassowar a few times to spread the spores, then hit 4 when the counter gets up a bit. Usually by this point my frame rate has dropped to almost single digits.

I had the graphics setting all on/max, and turned those down a bit last night. It didn’t seem to make much difference. I had the June 2018 nvidia driver (398.11), but noticed there was a new one just recently (398.36), so installed that this morning doing a clean install.  Any ideas what might be the problem?

Edited July 4, 2018 by Kebast

[Kebast]

Turns out it was bios settings causing me problems. I disabled C1/E, C6, Cool N Quiet and now Warframe runs perfectly fine. 60FPS capped at around 50-70% CPU utilization.

 

https://imgur.com/a/q6JY2zn

Edited July 4, 2018 by Kebast

[DeckChairVonBananaCamel]

laptop or desktop?
what is your processor?
RAM?
only has problems with saryn?

[Kebast]

Just now, DeckChairVonBananaCamel said:

laptop or desktop?
what is your processor?
RAM?
only has problems with saryn?

Desktop, processor is listed there, FX6300 (3.5GHz. It will overclock stable to 4.4, but I leave it stock). I have 16GB of RAM, I’d have to check the RAM speed, but was near top of the line 2 years ago. So far, only an issue with Saryn, though I’ve not played much ESO. Just put my 4th forma into Volt Prime, so I’ll try that soon :).

I posted here, but now see there’s a performance bug forum section. I didn’t really know if this was a game bug or specific graphics setting issue...looking at that forum section, it seems lots of people are having performance issues with NVIDIA 9xx and 10xx cards.

[DeckChairVonBananaCamel]

1 minute ago, Kebast said:

Desktop, processor is listed there, FX6300 (3.5GHz. It will overclock stable to 4.4, but I leave it stock). I have 16GB of RAM, I’d have to check the RAM speed, but was near top of the line 2 years ago. So far, only an issue with Saryn, though I’ve not played much ESO. Just put my 4th forma into Volt Prime, so I’ll try that soon :).

I posted here, but now see there’s a performance bug forum section. I didn’t really know if this was a game bug or specific graphics setting issue...looking at that forum section, it seems lots of people are having performance issues with NVIDIA 9xx and 10xx cards.

oh whoops, lol, didn't see the processor there!

im I bit more familiar with intel processors, but from what I can gather from google its not a high-end processor.
Warframe's AI is already a bit of a processor hog and the ridiculous number of damage ticks being calculated across the entire map with saryns spores coupled with the greater saturation of enemies in the onslaught gamemode may be maxxing it out.

just in case, though can we get you to check a couple of things?

1. run the game with the "show fps" option turned on as that also shows ram usage, using that we can make sure there isn't a bug causing a memory leak
2. put all your settings to minimum and see if the same problem happens again, if it does not then we know that the performance issue is likely tied to a graphics option

[Kebast]

Thanks! I’ll give that a shot later tonight. I’ll check on CPU usage too. I know that processor is a bit old, but it really is a workhorse.

I have a new laptop with an i5-7700HQ and a 1050ti. I’ll check that machine too and see if the problem happens there.

[Kebast]

21 minutes ago, DeckChairVonBananaCamel said:

oh whoops, lol, didn't see the processor there!

im I bit more familiar with intel processors, but from what I can gather from google its not a high-end processor.
Warframe's AI is already a bit of a processor hog and the ridiculous number of damage ticks being calculated across the entire map with saryns spores coupled with the greater saturation of enemies in the onslaught gamemode may be maxxing it out.

just in case, though can we get you to check a couple of things?

1. run the game with the "show fps" option turned on as that also shows ram usage, using that we can make sure there isn't a bug causing a memory leak
2. put all your settings to minimum and see if the same problem happens again, if it does not then we know that the performance issue is likely tied to a graphics option

Is there some sort of Warframe stress test that I could run?

[Kebast]

Haha, nevermind...that was easier to find that I expected:

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Stress_Test

[Kebast]

This is my RAM:

^{G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)}

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314

[Kebast]

Here's a capture from my laptop...i5 7th gen with gtx 1050ti: Everything looks fine...FPS is capped at 60 and all CPU cores are near 100%.

[Kebast]

Here's a capture from the GTX970 machine...notice the really low CPU utilization? and the low FPS?

[Kebast]

Cores work...I fired up Folding At Home and everything jumped to 100%

[DeckChairVonBananaCamel]

2 hours ago, Kebast said:

Turns out it was bios settings causing me problems. I disabled C1/E, C6, Cool N Quiet and now Warframe runs perfectly fine. 60FPS capped at around 50-70% CPU utilization.

 

https://imgur.com/a/q6JY2zn

good stuff! sorry I wasn't much help

[Kebast]

37 minutes ago, DeckChairVonBananaCamel said:

good stuff! sorry I wasn't much help

You were! Got me looking at cpu usage, which ended up being the problem 😀✌🏼