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The Evil Within PC Performance Thread
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Chance Hale
Member
The hospital area is meant to look cold though, and it changes depending on the story moment. The rest of the game doesn't have a similar filter.
plumpblumpkin
Member
Hmmm wait, it's OpenGL? Shadowplay doesn't record that?!
At a full 4k, the game drops to 25 fps in some areas. For example, in the beginning when you wake up.
I settle at 3200 x 1800.
DarkChronic
Member
Glad to see I'm not the only one suffering that problem. Ha, I thought I was crazy!
I ended up leaving FRAPS on, left it in the top right of my screen, and cut out a small piece of black cardboard and taped it over the monitor to hide it.
PC gaming, y'all!
Yeah, but none of those textures look the same, right? Shame they look like shots of badly compressed youtube videos half the time.
luca_29_bg
Member
why if i change aspect ratio the gpu load increase ? O__O
Chance Hale
Member
I don't think The Evil Within looks like a typical idtech 5 game, there hasn't been a single time that I've come up to a wall and had it look like noisy garbage as you'd get in Rage and even Wolfenstein at times. Not every texture is perfect mind you, but it looks a lot different in general. Hell, there's actual lighting and you can interact with objects in the environment!
TheFNEffecT
Member
The client? I actually don't have it installed it just grabs everything from my steam profile.
That "magic technology", Carmack was pushing in this engine since before Rage was nothing short of a failure if IDTECH5 is the result. They might as well had made it in UE4, probably would have looked better and performed much better too.
Kurt Russell
Member
Shadowplay records OpenGL games if you set it to desktop capture mode.
paperspace
Member
That's hardcore PC-gaming right there.
Hopefully not, I've not actually started it up yet as I've not finished Alien, so I was basing that on other IDTECH5 games. Well, actually i tried to start it once to test the settings, but it always starts in windowed mode on my secondary monitor, which isn't really what I want.
ClaptoVaughn
Member
Over on the 3D Vision forums Helifax was looking into fixing 3D on TEW and found this little tidbit in regards to rendering in OGL or DX11
And
Gave a look..
Apparently is an OGL engine using a Dx11 context to draw...
I dunno who is playing here (either nvidia or the dev) but WHY THE FCK would you render an OpenGL context inside a DX11 one????
So unless we can make the engine render in OpenGL (the proper way) can't fix anything....
Btw CM mode is not working....
Looking in the dev console I see OGL calls...
My wrapper is being detected on launch but that's it.... it switches to DX11 after....
OGL renderer:
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OGL in DX11 emulated renderer ( Lazy port?!?!?!)
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Now I wish I haven't bought this ....
And
plumpblumpkin
Member
Ahh, thank you kind sir.
Apparently the problem was that The Evil Within doesn't have a True fullscreen mode and it was in Borderless windowed mode thus Shadowplay not working.
ClaptoVaughn
Member
That's probably the kind of answer he would give, though, if he ever addressed it.
What else is he going to do? Come right out and say they needed to chop the render area to improve framerates? The game runs like shit and they know it?
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
How do you enable vsync?
legacyzero
Banned
That's very strange. Why the hell did they spread all that FUD prior to launch?
That's good news then.
plagiarize
Banned
I doubt it. Their minimum would be lower if they were. My benchmark test was averaging higher than that, but with a lower minimum.
Two different sections of Chapter 4 with plenty of flashlight use...
Avg: 58.933 - Min: 45 - Max: 112
Avg: 75.182 - Min: 46 - Max: 96
Seeing minimums of 45 at 1080p with everything on high quite regularly. Playing with the framerate unlocked actually feels smoother than the '60' I was getting using the console command.
That is sad, really. So far, is the only thing that is getting me out of the very well done atmosphere. Sucks that i have to look around like a crazy person because of the ridiculous field of view.
It's my understanding that its already in vsync (30 fps default)
Console commands unlock them
+R_swapinterval 1 (60 fps vsync)
+R_swapinterval 2 (30 fps vsync)
+R_swapinterval 0 (unlocked, no vsync?)
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
The mystery deepens.
plagiarize
Banned
I had tried this earlier to see if using a D3D wrapper would trick the game into proper fullscreen (and to see how hilariously badly it ran through a wrapper). Got the same thing. Splash screen and then nothing different. I didn't realize what it meant though.
That is pretty dang bizarre.
Also I ran into this minor camera glitch in chapter 4...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBTo-iP1Q6g&feature=youtu.be
Try something like 2.0, or 1.9 for the aspectratio number. It's not all the way fullscreen, but it's a good compromise between the two.
r_skipglare 1 in the console does the same thing. 0 re-enables the effect.
Shadowhaxor
Member
Also don't forget that if Shadowplay starts bugging out that you also have OBS, that is if you're wanting to record the gameplay that is.
DarkChronic
Member
Yeah, I'm rocking 2.0 currently. Seems like a fair compromise right now.
Thanks. I tried those but I'm just not feeling it. I'll play it the way it's intended I guess.
I can still go back to playing 4:3 ratio games when I have to. Just takes some getting use to.
Somewhat unrelated question. I know this game doesn't support G-Sync. I have my frames capped at 80 globally. Aren't uncapped frames without any kind of vsync suppose to produce screen tearing no matter what? Does this game have something like that going?
EDIT: Some kind of vsync I mean. I don't notice any tearing at all.
wait, whoa. awesome. thanks! looks beautiful.
I enable R_swapinterval -0 in game and force vsync through driver, the performance is so much better this way for me.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
Clearly this game is built with 30fps.
With everything maxed, it's smooth with low temps.
Unlocking the 60, no matter how low I set it, it's hight temps, studder, and some crashes.
I'm content with 30 until Tango fixes this. (Hope they fix!)
The PC version even at 30fps max should be superior to the PS4, right?
With everything maxed, it's smooth with low temps.
Unlocking the 60, no matter how low I set it, it's hight temps, studder, and some crashes.
I'm content with 30 until Tango fixes this. (Hope they fix!)
The PC version even at 30fps max should be superior to the PS4, right?
mugurumakensei
Member
yea especially if you can downsample.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
What's downsampling? I honestly don't know!
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Will a factory OC'd 970 b e able to downsample from 4K -> 1080? I'm skeptical as to whether I'll be able to use Nvidia control panel to do this though, if this is all openGL stuff.
It's when you render at a resolution higher than your screen and let your GPU or display shrink it down to fit your screen. Gives you improved motion clarity, higher quality aliasing, and an overall much cleaner looking image.
Here's an example in RE5
luca_29_bg
Member
it's possible to put two command line in the shortcut on desktop ? I should use comma or something to separate them ?
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
Nice! I'm playing on a HDTV that goes no higher than 1080p.It's when you render at a resolution higher than your screen and let your GPU or display shrink it down to fit your screen. Gives you improved motion clarity, higher quality aliasing, and an overall much cleaner looking image.
Here's an example in RE5
Which means I probably can't do that.
Nice! I'm playing on a HDTV that goes no higher than 1080p.
Which means I probably can't do that.
Nope, you probably can! You just have to set up the resolutions in your graphics driver.
Corky made a tutorial on how to do that here.
Nice! I'm playing on a HDTV that goes no higher than 1080p.
Which means I probably can't do that.
That doesn't matter, you just need the GPU power to get decent performance while downsampling.
EDIT: What Alo81 said.
Chance Hale
Member
You can turn off the various hud pieces if you so desire.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
So do you guys think the way I'm playing, default 1080p/30fps max is better than the PS4 version?
I'm disappointed with the frame rate and 30fps lock.
Should I have just gotten the PS4 version since it's almost in parity with each other?
I'm disappointed with the frame rate and 30fps lock.
Should I have just gotten the PS4 version since it's almost in parity with each other?
Fairly certain the console versions are reporting some pretty low FPS dips. Would depend on your rig.