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#1 LoneSyndal

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Posted January 25 2013 - 02:21 PM

I was fiddling with some settings and managed to get a large increase in frames for higher settings on an underutilized Nvidia GPU (only with Unreal Engine 3 games).

For those who have similar issues, can you try the following additions one by one to see which works best for you (this is of course using default game INI's to do a real test).


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Nvidia Control Panel:



Open Hawken Profile:

High-Performance Nvidia Processor

Anisotropic filtering: 8x or 4x
Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application setting
Maximum pre-rendered frames: 3 or 4 (usually 3)
Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow

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Nvidia Inspector Elevated Settings Profile for "Hawken":



Ambient Occlusion compatibility: 0x00000026 (Warmonger)
Antialiasing compatibility: 0x000100C5 (Gears of War, The Last Remnant...)
Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application setting
Antialiasing - Setting: 4x [4x Multisampling] or whatever you prefer.

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HawkenEngine.ini / DefaultEngine.ini (under AppCompat)

**Add the following via copy-paste to the bottom of the list if there isnt one. Set CPUNumLogicalProcessors=amount of cores your CPU has**

[AppCompat]
CompatLevelComposite=4
CompatLevelCPU=5
CompatLevelGPU=4
CPUNumLogicalProcessors=8



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EDIT: If anyone has better suggestions to add to this list, do so and I will try it out myself.

Edited by LoneSyndal, January 25 2013 - 02:23 PM.

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#2 SS396

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Posted January 25 2013 - 03:15 PM

In my nvidia control panel I set:

(globally)
Vertical sync = off

in the hawken profile:

texture filtering = High Performance
Multi-display/mixed GPU acceleration = single display performance mode
SLI rendering mode = Force alternate frame rendering 2.


Granted some of these settings are SLI only but thats what I use.

Unfortunately I tried your [AppCompat] settings
and saw no real improvements as of yet.
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#3 cpl_bradders

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Posted January 25 2013 - 04:41 PM

I'd already set it up close to the above, and so can vouch for the settings - getting between 100-120 fps on an Nvidia GTX660ti overclockers edition :)

But sadly, as soon as I hit ctrl + F1 for the Nvidia overlay, boom - game crashes :(

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Posted January 25 2013 - 04:48 PM

View PostSS396, on January 25 2013 - 03:15 PM, said:

Unfortunately I tried your [AppCompat] settings
and saw no real improvements as of yet.


It's a setting I use for specific UE3 games that are known to not utilize the cores of the CPU, but run majority of the game under the CPU anyway. Its good for most laptop owners like me.
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Posted January 26 2013 - 12:17 AM

*Bump for needing feedback*

Recorded below is Ultra Settings while recording at full-size. But as you can see...it is much more playable.


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