For gtx 295 users

[goldkid80 10]

Seems like noone of us (owners of the GTX295 card ) got some solution to getting some decent FPS so i'll try to setup this thread for comparrison of the owners of the Gtx295

1 We gotta use the same mission and scenario my suggestion is the arma mark.

you can download it here

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=73610&highlight=arma+mark

2 we gotta post our settings our cfg and our results

3 we gotta discuss it and find some possible fix

pls don't post about other GFXcards there are allready enough threads about it but none of them seems to fix the problem for the gtx295

---------- Post added at 11:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:39 AM ----------

my score is with crysys.exe driver 186.18 vista 64

test 1 30.00

test 2 34.31

test 3 25.48

test 4 32.46

test 5 21.31

ofpmark 2871.85

cfg

adapter=-1;

3D_Performance=100000;

Resolution_Bpp=32;

Resolution_W=1600;

Resolution_H=1200;

refresh=60;

Render_W=1600;

Render_H=1200;

FSAA=0;

postFX=0;

HDRPrecision=8;

lastDeviceId="";

localVRAM=1995440129;

nonlocalVRAM=2147483647;

anisoFilter=2;

TexQuality=1;

TexMemory=3;

useWBuffer=0;

shadingQuality=7;

shadowQuality=2;

soundEnableEAX=1;

soundEnableHW=1;

difficulty="regular";

lastSPMission="ArmAII-Mark v1.0";

difficultyMP="regular";

lastMPMission="04: Superpowers";

headBob=0.19150202;

sceneComplexity=300000;

viewDistance=3000;

terrainGrid=12.5;

volumeCD=0.15501289;

volumeFX=2.0605497;

volumeSpeech=0.84494716;

gamma=1;

brightness=1;

fovTop=0.75;

fovLeft=1;

uiTopLeftX=0.22499999;

uiTopLeftY=0.22499999;

uiBottomRightX=0.77499998;

uiBottomRightY=0.77499998;

IGUIScale=0.55000001;

Edited June 21, 2009 by goldkid80

[moosenoodles 0]

You didnt even bother to post your machines specs as a whole... Would probably be a good start you know :D

[goldkid80 10]

doesn't seem to have a graet aspect in FPS

but for you ok

Xtreme QX6850 @ 3.8 CPU

8 Gig MISKIN DDR 2 1066 5-5-5-8

EVGA GTX 295

ASUS P5K-E\ Premium

X-FI Titanium PRO

BEYERDYNAMIC Headphone

850 PWS

SAMSUNG HD103UJ hdd

SAMSUNG HD753LJ hdd

SAMSUNG 6230 FUll HD 100 Motion+ LCD 42"

Hope this will give you the solution ;)

Edited June 21, 2009 by goldkid80

[Philll 10]

All mine were in the high 40's, with the last test only hitting 13.

Overall score 3937.

IMO the test is pointless though, I only experience lag and stuttering on missions with lots of scripting whilst being in or near buildings.

i7 @ 3.8ghz

GTX295

6GB DDR3 1333mhz

X58 P6TD

Windows Vista x64

Using crysis64.exe

language="German";

adapter=-1;

3D_Performance=-4194304;

Resolution_Bpp=32;

Resolution_W=1920;

Resolution_H=1200;

refresh=60;

Render_W=1920;

Render_H=1200;

FSAA=0;

postFX=0;

HDRPrecision=8;

lastDeviceId="";

localVRAM=1750458369;

nonlocalVRAM=2147483647;

With those settings I am good for SP missions 1 and 2 (so far) but not 3, campaign missions 1, 2 and 4 but not 3 (so far).

[BigSlongsDaddy 10]

i got asus gtx 295 all maxed settings apart from shadows what are on high also veiw distance about 3500 about 30 -40 fps 1080p rez using 182.50 nvidia drivers

my specs ;

asus gtx295 (stock)

q6700 9stock )

8gb ddr2 667mhz (stock)

p5w dh deluxe asus motherboard

ocz 1000w psu

2x 1tb hdd. sata 2

x-fi extreme gamer pro sound card.

display:

optoma hd70 projector

(native is 720p but useing 1080p to downscale to 720p , no jaggy edges , so no aa needed. )

[Jackdaniels 10]

I have set interface resolution to 1280x768 and the 3D resolution to 1600x960 and my game runs really quick and with no mouse lagg. Any other resolution lower or higher than the one I mention and my game plays horrible. Please try what I have said and let me know if this works for you. One other thing mt Anti alias is set to 2 in the config.

Edited June 21, 2009 by Jackdaniels

[goldkid80 10]

just tried the driver 182.50 no improvements at all

---------- Post added at 02:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:24 PM ----------

resolution doesn't have any effect

with the aa i see some improvements about framedrops but less FPS

[Jackdaniels 10]

just tried the driver 182.50 no improvements at all

---------- Post added at 02:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:24 PM ----------

resolution doesn't have any effect

with the aa i see some improvements about framedrops but less FPS

Well try what I mentioned in my post above yours.

[goldkid80 10]

sorry mate doesn't help

[Jade77 10]

My spec:

Vista Ultimate 64

Q6850 @3ghz

8gig DDR3

PNY GTX295

ASUS mobo

My fps is around 20, but the graphics are terrible, black blocks, graphics missing, constant flickering of sprites.

Tried 3 sets of drivers, including the new ones. updated DirectX, just reinstalling now to see if that helps, doupt it though

[Ka-Oz 10]

OS: Vista 64 sp2

Drivers : 186.18

arma2.exe" -nosplash -mamxmem=2047

Cpu : E6850 @3.6 ghz (400 Mhz bus)

Ram : 4GB DDR2 OCZ 800 Mhz 4.4.4.12 (400Mhz bus)

Mb : X48 DQ6 Gygabyte

Asus GTX295 (stock) the thing is cooking all other component in the comp so i wont even try ocing it

HD: 2x Samsunt 1Terra 7200 rpm 16mb cache Raid 0 freshly defragmented

2x Samsunt 1Terra 7200 rpm 16mb cache Raid 0 freshly defragmented

language="English";

adapter=-1;

3D_Performance=93750;

Resolution_Bpp=32;

Resolution_W=1680;

Resolution_H=1050;

refresh=60;

Render_W=2520;

Render_H=1575;

FSAA=2;

postFX=0;

HDRPrecision=8;

lastDeviceId="";

localVRAM=922484736;

nonlocalVRAM=1878181888;

best of 3 Mark test = 2848

i did numerous pass using various settings and well no, lowering interface and 3d resolution did not improve much the stuttering or markII test .

lowering to 1280x1024 + 1600x 900 fillrate only boosted performance by 10% but the quality loss is to huge

edit : ----- Ignore this comment i did a typo renaming the exe ------ using crisis- crisis64.exe did lower my scores by almost 30% (i have added an arma2 profile in my nvidia setting panel with all options to default)

using the -winxp launch parameter reduced my scores by +-10%

i have to say, my gameplay experience is realy a big deception due to bad/low graphic performance. and no the cpu doenst seem to be the bottleneck as its usage is 75 to 90% and very rarely 100%

Edited June 21, 2009 by Ka-Oz

[NoBF2boy 10]

i think the problem is, that the engine only use 1 gpu, you might want to check that with everest or other programs, which show GPU usage.

[scottw 0]

When you said you tried crisis.exe and crisis64.exe is that a typo? as that wont work it needs to be spelt crysis.exe or crysis64.exe.

[Ka-Oz 10]

When you said you tried crisis.exe and crisis64.exe is that a typo? as that wont work it needs to be spelt crysis.exe or crysis64.exe.

Oups yes typo i did running the tests too so i reran 4 set of 3 Mark II test

^language="English";

adapter=-1;

3D_Performance=93750;

Resolution_Bpp=32;

Resolution_W=1680;

Resolution_H=1050;

refresh=60;

Render_W=2520;

Render_H=1575;

FSAA=0;

postFX=0;

HDRPrecision=8;

lastDeviceId="";

localVRAM=922484736;

nonlocalVRAM=1878220800;

crysis64. exe -nosplash -mamxmem=2047

2137 - 2751 - 2864

arma2.exe -nosplash -mamxmem=2047 (with nvidia panel arma2 profile all option left on default)

2562 - 3159 - 3091

arma2.exe -nosplash -mamxmem=2047 ( mem timing lowered to 3-3-3-10)

2891 - 3166 - 3354

arma2.exe -nosplash -mamxmem=2047 ( mem timing lowered to 3-3-3-10) + FSAA=2;

2595 - 3269 - 3281

conclusion :

1) i still get a beter result using an arma2 user created profile using all default option into the nvidia panel. my previous typo error shows that adding and using a nvidia profile indeed enable sli

2) on the 3rd run i lowered my memory timing from 4-4-4-12 to 3-3-3-10 (my comp is not 100% stable at these timings) and well the result is stuning. my main issue was that the game was realy choppy i mean it didnt feel fluid at all. when i lowered the timings that feeling totaly dissapeared. now i actualy can enjoy looking left and right with my trackir without feeling some sickness due to blury/choppy motion. ill just crank up the memory voltage and pray for stability and that the sticks will not burn ^^

3) setting FSAA to 2 didnt affect the performances much, the only big difference was on the first run

Edited June 21, 2009 by Ka-Oz

[kklownboy 43]

i believe you have to use the -winxp flag to use multigpu. If your in Vista or win7,the crysis.64 is only good for 64bit system and would be XP64 at this time for multigpu.

[Ka-Oz 10]

i use vista 64

and seems the -winxp parameter doesnt affect the game anymore since 1.02

arma2.exe -nosplash -mamxmem=2047 -winxp ( mem timing lowered to 3-3-3-10)

2653 - 3255 - 3301

arma2.exe -nosplash -mamxmem=2047 -winxp ( mem timing lowered to 3-3-3-10) + FSAA=2;

2631 - 3180 - 3318

one thing i would like to look into is the securom protection

it is not the first time in the game industry that a poor implementation of the securom protection to the exe and the game data by the editor result in bad/poor performance and especialy in very variable performance result rendering the the same scene over and over like we can see here.

Edited June 21, 2009 by Ka-Oz

[kklownboy 43]

did you redo your Nvidai CP arma2 profile?

[Ka-Oz 10]

all test using arma2.exe are using the Nvidia CP profile i manualy added and i left all option on default. all global settings in CP are also on default

[kklownboy 43]

all test using arma2.exe are using the Nvidia CP profile i manually added and i left all option on default. all global settings in CP are also on default

its real easy to see the frame jump if SLi is working, the intro will be double fps or so using fraps?. Some settings in your default may not be good for 1.02? i have had succse in the CP tweaking out the sli. AFR2 maybe a better choice. copy your arma2.exe and rename to some new dxgame with hdr, set it up in the profile, try the -winxp flag with that in V64 or win7...

[themaster303 22]

its strange i still have less vram that arma2 finds. i can only set low or normal in grafik settings. should be more of v-ram.

i have no clue. somebody know the solution ??

language="German";

adapter=-1;

3D_Performance=-4194304;

Resolution_Bpp=32;

Resolution_W=1920;

Resolution_H=1200;

refresh=60;

Render_W=1920;

Render_H=1200;

FSAA=0;

postFX=0;

HDRPrecision=8;

lastDeviceId="";

localVRAM=204664832;

nonlocalVRAM=204664832;

thats my systeminformation:

NVIDIA Systeminformationen-Bericht erstellt am: 06/21/2009 21:32:22

Name des Systems: THEMASTER-PC

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Prozessor: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz (3204 MHz)

Betriebssystem: Windows Vista Home Premium, 64-bit (Service Pack 2)

DirectX-Version: 10.0

GPU-Prozessor: GeForce GTX 295 (GPU 1 von 2)

Treiberversion: 186.18

Stream-Prozessoren: 240

Kerntakt: 576 MHz

Shadertakt: 1242 MHz

Speichertaktfrequenz: 999 MHz (1998 MHz Datenrate)

Speicherschnittstelle: 448-Bit

Gesamter verfügbarer Grafikspeicher: 4476 MB

Dedizierter Videospeicher: 896 MB

System-Videospeicher: 0 MB

Freigegebener Systemspeicher: 3580 MB

Video-BIOS-Version: 62.00.45.00.02

IRQ: 18

Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

GPU-Prozessor: GeForce GTX 295 (GPU 2 von 2)

Treiberversion: 186.18

Stream-Prozessoren: 240

Kerntakt: 576 MHz

Shadertakt: 1242 MHz

Speichertaktfrequenz: 999 MHz (1998 MHz Datenrate)

Speicherschnittstelle: 448-Bit

Gesamter verfügbarer Grafikspeicher: 4476 MB

Dedizierter Videospeicher: 896 MB

System-Videospeicher: 0 MB

Freigegebener Systemspeicher: 3580 MB

Video-BIOS-Version: 62.00.45.00.01

IRQ: 16

Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

[Komponenten]

nvCplUIR.dll 2.5.383.06 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvCpl.cpl 2.5.383.06 NVIDIA Control Panel Applet

nvCplUI.exe 2.5.383.06 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvViTvSR.dll 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA Video and TV Server

nvViTvS.dll 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA Video and TV Server

nvDispSR.dll 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA Display Server

NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA Media Center Library

nvDispS.dll 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA Display Server

NVCPL.DLL 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA Compatible Windows7 Display driver, Version 186.18

PhysX 909.04.28 NVIDIA PhysX

NVCUDA.DLL 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA CUDA 2.2 driver

nvGameSR.dll 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

nvGameS.dll 8.15.11.8618 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

[goldkid80 10]

change the valor manually and use the cfg as read only

just tried al different settings in the CP and none of them seems to have an impact on the game altough crysis.exe enables the sli but only in the main menu ingame it doesn't enable don't now why but it simply doesn't.

tried to edit the cfg but without succes ingame we should be further testing

what would really help us is if BI told us their config they used

Edited June 21, 2009 by goldkid80

[goldkid80 10]

i just disabled SLI in the CP and it seems to not have any iprovements or losses in performance so SLI doesn't work. ( only in the main menu it does work )

We got 1 of the best video card but it's unussable in this game we are using a GTX 275 Hope you gonna fix this BI cause many people are using sli or crossfire these days.

[FraG_AU 10]

Ahh welcome to the woe's. Do a search through the endless GTX295 threads, some things may work..

Sorry without re-reading your posts make sure you have tried these

1) Rename your arma2.exe to crysis64.exe (if your using X64 OS or just crysis.. don't know if there is a difference in the end buy some people had more luck with the former)

2) -winxp in the command line.

3) Try and delete your .cfg files and reconfigure your settings.. I am 99% sure something in this regard was happening to mine..

4) Pray to your god it gets fixed soon.

[goldkid80 10]

does not help sli get's enabled in the main menu but once starting a scenario it's disabled :confused:

[Alienfreak 0]

How does the SLI load bar look when SLI is disabled?

I only see a bar on the left... and it has a green column thats expanding equally (or contracting) to the top and the bottom.

I have found no proper documentation for it yet :)