With a gtx 570, i5 2500k, and 8 gigs of ram i'm getting 60 fps/1080p with everything at max except I have shadows at high, is that normal? I tried just all ultra and for the most part it's fine but if I just look at a certain thing or enter a specific room it tanks my framerate. The only way I could get it to be consistently 60 frames was to lower shadows down to high. Should I stick with that or would you guys recommend I bump shadows up to very high and knock ambient occlusion down one? I've never really had a keen eye for what ambient occlusion even does except be a performance hog so maybe I wouldn't miss out on just lowering that?
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BioShock Infinite PC Performance Thread
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endresults
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I really wish it would stop crashing. The introduction to Columbia loses its luster after the 10th trip through.
The new Nvidia drivers helped a LOT. 60fps with everything maxed but dynamic shadows (high) on GTX 680 at 1440p res.
The new Nvidia drivers helped a LOT. 60fps with everything maxed but dynamic shadows (high) on GTX 680 at 1440p res.
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Time to start over.......
People, this is why I never get past the first level.
I have a GTX 275 and I've been playing perfectly fine on Medium. I haven't really bothered with customizing the video graphics, but I'm sure there's stuff within the options where you can get more bang for your buck.
MvmntInGrn
Member
Looks like I'm not the only one then. Just started this up but DX11 a few moments after I saw Columbia. Updating drivers now. Did that fix the problem?
I haven't had a single crash (670 SLI), though I've been running the 314.22s from the off.
Nope.
Nope.
Spazznid
Member
Where are the saves located?
Chiming in here.
Alienware X51. I7 3770k. Gtx 660. 16gb of ram. 1080p
Game runs super smooth 60+ locked with everything on ultra aside from shadows and AO which are on high respectively. With fps unlocked fps shoots up crazy high but it tears like crazy--like vertical tears.
Did a ton of messing with the settings and I found that AO is the biggest performance killer as well as dynamic shadows. Turning them from ultra to even normal produced no visible effect to me--although I do not have a crazy eye for that stuff.
Edit: Not using the latest beta drivers. Using the set before those. Don't know the exact number since I'm at work.
Alienware X51. I7 3770k. Gtx 660. 16gb of ram. 1080p
Game runs super smooth 60+ locked with everything on ultra aside from shadows and AO which are on high respectively. With fps unlocked fps shoots up crazy high but it tears like crazy--like vertical tears.
Did a ton of messing with the settings and I found that AO is the biggest performance killer as well as dynamic shadows. Turning them from ultra to even normal produced no visible effect to me--although I do not have a crazy eye for that stuff.
Edit: Not using the latest beta drivers. Using the set before those. Don't know the exact number since I'm at work.
I have the following specs:
XFX 1GB 6780.
2.4ghz Q6600 Intel.
4GB DDR2 1066mhz RAM
Windows 8 64 bit.
Normal SATA HDD.
No overclocks, running on my Sony Bravia 26" tv at 1360x768 resolution (I know, I know PC-GAF and the master race will hate me, but I get by.. but its as high as my TV goes without it looking odd, awful and sometimes off the screen).
Running on everything on Ultra, with V-sync (Locked framerate) no tweaks in the AMD CCC. Dunno how many frames, but its smooth, looks amazing and rarely drops.
Might tweak with the distance objects and some of the fancier DX11 effects and shadows but it runs great.
Dunno if its just my computer, or if the low res has something to do with it, but man this kit i've had for 5 years now I think, and its a beast.
Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry3, Sleeping Dogs. All run nicely on a mixture of High/Very High/Ultra.
EDIT: More info -
I think im on CCC 13.2, Cap 1. Cant check as I am at work.
Small stuttering, but maybe some setting tweaks will help with that, not enough to ruin the game, especially when it looks this good. (Definitely worth it over the console versions I would assume, can't vouch for or against them.)
Hope this helps people with their decisions.
JRW
Member
Nvidia has no love for us GTX 480 users anymore, the new Bioshock drivers dropped my Avg. framerate 2-3fps vs. previous 314.21 driver (Based on running 3 different settings with in game benchmark).
EDIT: Oops... My GPU overclock settings reset to default when upgrading drivers, So my performance actually did go up with the new 314.22 drivers!
EDIT: Oops... My GPU overclock settings reset to default when upgrading drivers, So my performance actually did go up with the new 314.22 drivers!
boybrushdRED
Member
Oh, my poor 5850 am cry 
You'll be fine, see the 6850 comments.Oh, my poor 5850 am cry
Steam\userdata\[account id]\8870\remote\savedata.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
so nobody found a fix for the stuttering yet, I presume
good ol UE3
good ol UE3
duckysempai
Neo Member
Is that the raffle area? I'm having the same problem. I can't seem to progress any further. I can hear the music but there's nobody there. Sometimes objects don't seem to be loading further past this area too. I started a new game but the problem persists.
Gully State
Member
Oh, my poor 5850 am cry
Core 2 Quad + 5850 here...Benchmarked at very high and was getting 40-50 FPS with the low frame being 18. I've been playing the game on very high @1080 and it's been smooth. Thinking about upping the textures to ultra but the game looks gorgeous on very high.
IIRC, isn't a 6850 supposed to be worse than a 5850? I remember AMD changed naming conventions for the 6 series.
There's a DefaultbAimAssist cvar in XUserOptions.ini and a bAimingHelp cvar in XGame.ini. If setting them to false helps, I'll put a note in the OP.
Can anyone recommend some SMAA settings for SweetFX/Configurator? I'm somewhat new to SweetFX. I have Lumasharpen and SMAA on, but I don't know how I should adjust them. Single 680/3570k here, OC all around.
The SMAA doesn't seem very strong if that's the right word. Does the scroll lock command turn off the AA as well as shader adjustments? It's easy to spot the Lumasharpen, but the AA not so much.
The SMAA doesn't seem very strong if that's the right word. Does the scroll lock command turn off the AA as well as shader adjustments? It's easy to spot the Lumasharpen, but the AA not so much.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Thank you very much!I've got the same setup as well- 5770 and Phenom II X4
Just installed it and ran the Benchmark utility:
1920x1080 resolution, on Very High settings.
Not 60fps or anything but honestly, it looked really good with the only real noticable slowdown right at the start. Probably tinker with the settings some more, but for my 3+ year old 5770, it performed pretty well.
Now I just have to see how it fairs in the actual game.
Hmmmmm. Do I hold off until I build a new rig...
MvmntInGrn
Member
Installed new drivers now crashing a bit farther in.
Oh PC gaming why must you test me.
Maybe its EVGA Precision running in the background.
Oh PC gaming why must you test me.
Maybe its EVGA Precision running in the background.
Thanks!
Do you mind telling me what in-game settings you are using when you are playing through the game (i.e. not the settings that you are using for bull shot purposes)? Do you use the in-game AA or are you downsampling or both?
That no-clip shot you took is absolutely gorgeous.
yes, that's the area and i did the same as well, started a new game but the same thing happened, man this shit sucks
Correct.
Even the difference between the 5850 and 6950 isn't huge http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/512?vs=510
Bony Manifesto
Member
Looking at the specs of the the GPU, it only has 512MB of memory. Just a guess, but I suspect any textures with a higher resolution than low just won't fit into memory. If you turn all the other setting down will it let you select medium textures?
duckysempai
Neo Member
Did you change the edit the ini files? I did. Was thinking of reverting the changes and trying again. Only disabled the background streaming and increased the streaming pool size as was suggested though.
general_garcia
Member
I had the exact same issue. Changed my ini file back and went through that area, all was ok.
But now the stuttering is back. Changes obviously do the trick to some extent.
EDIT: I should say, I changed the file back and started a new game before going back through that area. Loading up from my save didn't work.
jim2point0
Banned
Haha. I don't think anyone change settings for "bullshot" purposes. At least I don't.
I think downsampling is really the only competent source of AA you're going to get in this game, sadly.
Contrary to popular belief, injected SMAA isn't that great. It's limited to 1x no matter what settings you use. I think the absolute max for the settings though... is this:
#define SMAA_THRESHOLD 0.05
#define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS 98
#define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS_DIAG 16
#define SMAA_CORNER_ROUNDING 40 // A lot of people leave this at 0 so it doesnt affect text
changing the memory pool shouldn't have any effect on that, background streaming on the other hand is a 2 sided coin, it could either help the game or brake it, seems this option does not work very well with this game
Didn't seem to work. I guess its a setting for controllers then? Thanks anyway!
duckysempai
Neo Member
I'll try that in a minute, thanks! I verified my files with steam and it said 3 files failed. It's now downloading another 1.2GB. Will test without reverting the ini changes first.
Thanks, I'll try messing with it. Will in-game FXAA hurt it or can I leave it enabled too?
Im downsampling from 1440p + Smaa from the SweetFx.
Thanks Kyle, much appreciated.
Thank you, that is what I thought, but I've seen a number of people mix the in-game AA with downsampling. I guess you would need to downsample from a higher resolution than 1440p to make the in-game AA redundant.
Also you should check this thread
I've been having an issue in Bioshock 1 and it is popping up in Infinite now so I'm guessing its related to UE. Whenever I go to or look at a spot on the map that's supposed to be really dark, everything goes completely black, including the HUD. What's going on and how do I fix it?
jim2point0
Banned
Dragon1893
Member
To people with 5850/6850, if you're fine with 30 fps my advice is to just lower the shadows to normal or high at most and max out everything else. At 1080p you'll get absolutely smooth performance (assuming you don't have a bottleneck with cpu or memory).