Yeah, I'm not getting options for anything above 1080 either.
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XCOM 2 PC performance thread
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Yeah, I'm not getting options for anything above 1080 either.
My performance is pretty bad
Get around 35-42 fps in battle and around 20 fps in the base with drops to the tens.
r9 380 - i5 4460 - 8 gb RAM
Graphics on medium without AA and texture filtering
Or maybe that's normal with that setup, I don't know.
Get around 35-42 fps in battle and around 20 fps in the base with drops to the tens.
r9 380 - i5 4460 - 8 gb RAM
Graphics on medium without AA and texture filtering
Or maybe that's normal with that setup, I don't know.
On the one hand, multiple 970's should be able to hold 1080/60 with no AA and the settings the game provides.
On the other hand, disabling settings like Bokeh and SSAO doesn't extremely hamper the experience with the style of game it is and it plays great afterward.
I'm on a lightly overclocked 970 and have been getting ~56-60fps with one tick below max shadows, no AA, and bokeh DoF - all else maxed.
That's a hot tip my friend. I also had 2 invalid files.
Glad I could help. I installed the game on three PCs (living room, laptop and Surface) and had to verify the cache on every single one in order to get the proper resolutions to show up. Two invalid files each time. Ridiculous.
I had to force the game into "high performance settings". I did a clean install of my graphics drivers as well. I finally got it to run between 45-55 fps on high settings.
Overall though, the game feels incredibly sluggish.
LurkerPrime
Member
Dynamic fire effects positively destroy my framerate. Holy cow. Went from 60 to a rock-solid 24 while it was onscreen. With a 970.
The good news is that lowering decals to medium or whatever dramatically improved my framerate in the base view (antfarm).
The good news is that lowering decals to medium or whatever dramatically improved my framerate in the base view (antfarm).
None of my custom resolutions show in game. It goes from 1080p straight to my native 2160p resolution with nothing else in between the two, and nothing above 4K either.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Yeah, this game runs like shit for me. 970/ 3770k/ 16 gig ram. Constant 30-40 fps.
MickeyKnox
Member
i7 clocked at 4.6 and twin Titan (original) SLI, everything maxed with no AA and performance is all over the place, great one minute to the teens in the next, load times are completely crazy for an SSD with lock ups and stuttering. Kind of a mess right now.
Game is a lot of fun apart from that.
Game is a lot of fun apart from that.
Quote
Member
You really can't find a rig much better than that. Geeze, still strange performance.
Yea c'mon. That's BS now. No way should you have any trouble.
Firaxis said:
BS
They were better off releasing the game on all platforms at this point. (I really just want controller support so bad :c)
too late brah..bought it and i am loving it...perfomance issues and all. when a game is good, its good.
KiefbladeMaster
Member
That happened to me last night, it only let me choose 720p. I restarted the game and it fixed the issue somehow.
Forerunner
Member
Game runs like complete ass on my pc.
i7-970
980
16 GB
W10
I'm talking about 10-15 fps even on the lowest settings. I verified the cache and I had two files missing, so I fixed that but it still didn't help. Going to verify it again and probably try an older driver.
i7-970
980
16 GB
W10
I'm talking about 10-15 fps even on the lowest settings. I verified the cache and I had two files missing, so I fixed that but it still didn't help. Going to verify it again and probably try an older driver.
FXAA, DoF on simple, rest maxed and im getting 1080/60 (or 1080/55-60 as usual with any game), but I havent played much yet
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
With SLI 970s?
Yes but SLI isnt working I believe?
Like I said ive only played a couple of missions. The worst performance is, bafflingly, on the screen when you level up your soldier, it drops to the 40s... like wtf its just 1 guy slightly animating and a stat screen lol.
I'm still considering waiting for a patch to fully dive into the game, partly because of bugs like the 5 second freeze after your turn or the aforementioned level up screen thing, but mostly because I dont have that much free time because of work and im still heavily into Darkest Dungeon (which in itself is a easier game to just play for like half an hour). Then again maybe ill boot up xcom later and then play it for like the 4 hours I have free, who knows
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Game runs fine for me (performance-wise) now after lowering AA and depth of field, but it's crashing after about 15 mins of play. Check the logs and there's all sorts of messages about not being able to find files or run certain scripts. Validated cache, reinstalled the game, reinstalled directx/dotnet/vc and still no luck. Turned off everything I could find, firewalls and anti virus included, unplugged extra controllers, monitored my temps, and nothing helps. 
Hem... I'm thinking I maybe shouldn't even bother buying it...
i5-4690K 3.5GHz
8GB RAM
R9 280 3GB
I was just hoping for a modest 1080 @ 30fps. Guess I need a new video card this Christmas.
Forerunner
Member
Nothing seems to be helping me, so I'll just wait for the first patch. I should have known this would happen. Firaxis pulled the same shit with Civ BE, that game had terrible performance and stability at launch.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Runs great for me. Everything maxed at 1080p, just with FXAA and I'm getting 60 - 80 fps without any crazy dips like some people are mentioning. I have V-sync turned off and am using a G-Sync monitor, though. i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz, 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, GTX 970.
I think it's a damn fine looking game.
I think it's a damn fine looking game.
publicpwnerer
Member
This game is running my GTX 680 to 97 degrees (Celcius), I decided to shut down the game before it got any hotter.
Definitely needs some optimisation, what a fucking joke. I have a 680 SLI, but the game doesn't support multi GPUs'. It's actually hard to believe that this is a PC exclusive.
Definitely needs some optimisation, what a fucking joke. I have a 680 SLI, but the game doesn't support multi GPUs'. It's actually hard to believe that this is a PC exclusive.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Weird to see such wildly varying performance reports seemingly regardless of hardware power.
Add xcom2.exe to EU's profile. Go to control panel and select xcom2. Change sli to afr2.
Done.
What?
Sorry been tired of explaining this a couple of times now.
It's a sli fix for xcom2.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/448b5u/sli_performance_tip/
The one I linked above doesnt use EU's profile in Inspector though.. Cant find the source for the one that I used.
Baloonatic
Member
-Open NVIDIA Inspector
-Go to the Enemy Unknown profile
-"Add Application To Current Profile" option near the top
-Select XCOM 2 executable
-Apply Changes
-Open NVIDIA control panel
-Manage 3D Settings
-Program Settings and then add XCOM 2
-Change SLI Rendering Mode to "Force alternate frame rendering 2"
I don't have the game and have no idea if it works but that's what they mean.
Apparently it diaables the cover icons :/
I think this is what I am most worried about. Those temps. My fan roars with this game. And for no good reason. I would expect my fans to go hard with skyrim or the witcher 3 (the only two games to make my acx 2.0 fans roar like a lion). But this?
...no.
For what it's worth, I'm having a decent experience locking it to 30 fps with RivaTuner (constant 33.3ms frametimes woo) on my ancient 7850 with most things on medium, and textures on high. Shadows are on directional only to avoid drops during camera changes, like zooming in on the ant farm. If you don't mind a locked 30 fps for a TBS game, then I'd say you shouldn't be afraid of buying it even with older hardware.
And can somebody explain just what the hell the shadow setting in this game actually does? There's directional only (low), static only (med) and all (high), but I have no idea what the difference is between directional and static. I see that the characters cast shadows on all shadows (high), but only on some maps. There are some maps in which all three shadow settings look completely identical, and I don't really get it at all.
Example of max settings:
EDIT: Okay, I've taken my own screenshots of the three different shadow settings at the isometric map, the main menu, and looking at the living quarters in the ant farm. You can take a look at it here: http://imgur.com/a/Gq74y. It goes directional/static/all.
And can somebody explain just what the hell the shadow setting in this game actually does? There's directional only (low), static only (med) and all (high), but I have no idea what the difference is between directional and static. I see that the characters cast shadows on all shadows (high), but only on some maps. There are some maps in which all three shadow settings look completely identical, and I don't really get it at all.
Example of max settings:
I don't see any shadows at all, which is weird.
EDIT: Okay, I've taken my own screenshots of the three different shadow settings at the isometric map, the main menu, and looking at the living quarters in the ant farm. You can take a look at it here: http://imgur.com/a/Gq74y. It goes directional/static/all.
KneehighPark
Member
Got an average of 60 fps in the tutorial mission, sometimes higher, occasionally lower (always staying between 50-70 for the most part) with everything on max except AA (FXAA), and DOF and AO turned off.
FX-8350
R9 280X
16 GB RAM
SSD
FX-8350
R9 280X
16 GB RAM
SSD
welp, this works and you can notice the boost in the ant farm and whatnot, but its impossible to play without cover icons (basically when you move the cursor to a cover location the icon showing if its half or full cover is simply gone) so its useless.
what a weird bug.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Meh.
Running at 1440p with all settings maxed, and vsync on and it runs great. 5 hours in.
If I turn Bokeh and SSAO down one notch, I can bump it up to 4K.
And the game itself is great. So..
Would say "don't buy it" just because you can't get 60fps at max settings. That's sort of silly.
It's a turn based game for Christ sakes. Not a twitch FPS. 60 FPS won't effect your gameplay, AT ALL.
bee
Member
personally i'm happy with the performance of this game, on a titan x i took 4k max as a starting point then dropped shadows to high and switched AA off, wasn't bad but i've since took decals down one notch and also put depth of field to simple, this gets me 40-45fps in isometric and 35-40 in cinematic camera which is fine with gsync, installed on an old ssd i have zero stutter and fast loading, the base screen could do with some more performance though
Shake Appeal
Member
I find the difference between running the game on Minimum settings and High (with FXAA/no DoF/no SSAO) is, like, 15 fps.
Granted my laptop is heading towards its third birthday and this is probably it's last AAA hurrah, but still.
Can you show your settings (I have a 660 as well) ?
Shake Appeal
Member
I happen to be idling on the Armory screen while doing something else, and I just watched the framerate, which was hovering around 40, drop into the teens for seemingly no reason for about fifteen seconds before climbing back up. No interaction from me.
Is this just my card overheating and throttling? XCOM 2 has it going north of 85C constantly.
Is this just my card overheating and throttling? XCOM 2 has it going north of 85C constantly.
SilentRage47
Member
Good performance here with 970/2500k all max FXAA. I play without vsync on a 144hz monitor, no tearing whatsoever. Framerate goes from 45 to 80 fps, but I'm having a pretty smooth experience.
Update on this, played couple more missions, one with bunch of fire and shit, still running fine.
Awesome! Downloaded the 2 files. Haven't launched it yet, but I'm sure I'll be good now.
edit: well, I went to launch it and Steam went through the validation again. It didn't download anything, but now when I load it up I still can't downsample. MSAA gives me no AA as well. Frustrating stuff. FXAA is okay, but it's been a long time since I've used it and the blurriness is really noticeable.
PeterVenkman
Member
I feel crazy for doing this but I think in gonna crank everything to high and down sample, while locking to 30fps. I can easily get 60fps with Bokeh off, but even with a frame rate lock in RTSS the game drops, stutters and hitches too frequently. If it were anything but a turn based game i wouldn't dream of it, but it's just so much more stable at 30.