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kimco:
most games on xbone/ps4 dont run at 60fps...and even at 30fps its not stable....no manner of engine optimisation would allow witcher 3 or battlefield in all its glory on the consoles run at a stable 60fps on these new consoles. the hardware is weak. so the we ask the question....why would the devs not reduce the graphic fidelity to achieve a stable 60fps.. simple cos graphics is a better seller than frame rates. imagine this on a game box or download page "mindblowing 60fps liquid smooth gameplay" instead of "mindblowing graphics with true to life fidelity" which one you think would sell?

competitive gamers are a niche crowd compared to casuals.people jux lovke graphics hence quad sli gpu setups nd xfires for jux 2k and 4k of the same game they could be enjoying on 1080p for far less money.

i'd love to have both on affordable hardware too

Can't wait to see what the XBox Scorpio with 6tflops of compute power can deliver when it gets released next year.

So my liquid-cooled reference R9 290X Top 10 MVP on wccftech - SINGLE GPU

erekking:
avg but no worries cos dis morning i used troubleshooting to find a compatible mode and its running fine now thanks

How did you resolve it? it may help someone else having the same issue.

kimco:
...nd most 60fps are actually mid 40s at best. they wud rather sacrifice frames for graphix...cos graphics sell games better than frames.

AFAIK, any game with a target 60fps that runs mid 40's has a game engine issue ie the developers haven't optimised the game. For instance Quantum Break had that issue on the PS4&XBox one. The developers then set the option to cap it at 30fps or leave it variable, a settings available in the options menu.
As for graphics selling better than frames, you'll have to hear what gamers on CS:Go think about that. Competitive players lower their screen resolutions to hit higher frame rates as that reduces input lag. It think it's a case of everyone has a sweet spot, I like to get both

Gunbiz:
which console do u have?

PS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHrQJF2sBg

chachanga:
This must be done very carefully and to the letter. Boards & CPUs are likely to fry & get burnt up if not well managed.

Na to buy fire extinguisher just in case lol.
Anyway, motherboard and CPUs usually have an operating limit so knowing what the maximum operating temperature allowed for the CPU will be a bonus. Intel info can be found at http://ark.intel.com/m/ Search for your processor to show limit.

ShokiScientist:
thank you very much sir!

most welcome sir!

erekking:
AC3

What antivirus software do you have? Have any files belonging to AC3 been quarantined by your antivirus software?

Sorry for the poor quality video

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5gP1lXvmMe5XzJQa0ZHUTBYZUk

Here's a short tutorial how to boost your CPU performance without overclocking.
Note:
1. I've used synthetic benchmarks so real-world situations may not have the same scaling.
2. My CPU is an Intel CPU with hyperthreading(HT), this may not work for AMD CPU and/or Intel CPU's without HT
3. I noticed a jump in idling and load temperatures so have adequate cooling in place as doing this may cause your CPU to thermal throttle resulting in a decrease in performance.
4. For my CPU, whilst the single core performance didn't see a a significant improvement, multi-core performance did.
5. Follow the steps and you shouldn't have any issue, deviate and you might end up with a non-working OS.

Results from my Asus Laptop , i3 2365M, 1.4Ghz. 2C/4T
Geekbench
Before: Single core 1007, Multi core 1849.
After Single core 1076, Multi core 2283 [6.8% and 112% up]
UserBenchMark
Before: Single-25.9pts; Quad-65.2pts;Multi-77.9pts
After: Single-33.3pts, Quad-92.9pts; Multi- 92.9pts [29%, 42%, 19% up]
3dMark(cloud-gate)
Before: Overall 1150 (GPU 1151, CPU 1148)
After: overall 1162 (GPU - 1164, CPU 1158) [Overall 10%; GPU-11%, CPU-0.8%]

Tutorial notes - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5gP1lXvmMe5SkdRT0o0SzNlV1U
Screen Shots - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5gP1lXvmMe5UWRzYmhEaGoxNzA

Video tutorial is being uploaded, 'twill take a while to update...I'll post when that's available.

kimco:
console gamers are a great example

Minimum console runs at 30FPS, some run at 60fps like Doom.
Much better overall than my laptop

ShokiScientist:
Good morning AK. Please which of these laptops do you think will perform better for gaming ? Thank you in advance.

The intel i3 paired with the Geforce 920M will offer slightly better gaming performance plus you have the added bonus of a higher resolution screen @ 1920x1080 with the Asus laptop for everyday tasks.

KazukiIto:
Intel core i3 @2.5GHZ
4GB RAM
VRAM 128MB Then
Win 8

Haba! You already have 80% faster CPU clock speeds. Did you get to sort out your VRAM?

KazukiIto:
I didn't have any issue with this game. Game ran like a market woman's mouth. I'm surprised at ur results. resolution 1366x768; quality

The ability to run smoothly with vary due to system specs/configs. What's your laptop model/specs

Title: Prince of Persia:The Two thrones
Resolution: 1024x768
Genre: Adventure
Comments: Not being able to play in windowed mode made this image very pixelated an gameplay wasn't nice though maintaining a high framerate.

Title: Battle: Los Angeles
Resolution: 800x600
Genre: Shooter
Comments: Not playable with an average of 13FPS. Also unable to play in windowed mode so with an ultrawide monitor image seriously pixelated.

Half way through this marathon, 20 more titles to go. Suggestions welcome. What you you guys like to see tested?

Intel HD Link - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5gP1lXvmMe5QVQxanJoREcxbG8

Just a recap, any titles below 20FPS is rated as unplayable on this Intel HD iGPU system running a dual core i3-2365M clocked at 1.4Ghz

Title: Far Cry 2
Resolution: 720x480
Genre: Action, Adventure
Comments: Unplayable with an average framerate of 19FPS. Game was launched in Directx9 to allow using the lowest setting but still remained unplayable.

Intel HD Link - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5gP1lXvmMe5QVQxanJoREcxbG8

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Mckandre:
it doesn't actually mean it will free a huge amount of ram but twill prevent most activities from interfering with ur game processes such as notifications and popups which I get often on my windows 10. if getting more ram space is the case i doubt if it applies to mine cos I ve more ram a game could ever ask for,my main problem is the background activities that are causing interference with my games. another way to boost some games is to set your game processes to realtime or high priority on the task manager,I did that on web of shadows and MOH Warfighter and I got a noticeable results.

Quantify and share these noticeable results if you have time but na iGPU clocked 1Ghz boost clock and a 1.4Ghz dual core CPU we they talk about here sha...nothing to write home about. I won't get hung up in trying to get 2-3more fps on a game that runs at 10fps...that 40% gains is incredible.

Mckandre:
u used Razer gamebooster? I knew that's the one u will come across, my bad I didn't specify on the particular type. I used Razer ones but I noticed it reduces fps on most of my high fps games. download iobit game booster, go to configuration and thick every processes except Explorer.exe. u will get noticeable difference. cheers

I think it'll be a futile exercise tbh, all these programs do reduce the amount of system memory being used, I've got 4GB which doesn't get maxed out and my virtual memory(pagefiles) runs of an SSD which is very fast. It won't benefit me in anyway.
The most it saved on my system was 0.3GB RAM lol.

Mckandre:
Also get the gamebooster app and disable ur antivirus processes.

I installed and tried gamebooster on 3 titles and it had a positive effect on the minimum framerate but negative on the average framerate which was almost consistent across the games I tried. I played the same scenes and captured the data over 5mins of game play each. Based on this, I'm Revo'ing razerbooster . I think it'll work best for PC users who just have sh1t loads of processes running in the background with tons of startup items. My PC runs with the bare minimum on startup and I think that's why it has a negative impact on my system.

purplekayc:
dnt like fraps much .i told you the recorded videos are too large they take a lot of space . a single recording of like 10 mins can weigh up to 40gb

I read that bro. I meant any game capture software (shadowplay AFAIK has the least impact) will reduce your framerate by 5-15FPS. But FRAPS can just log the framerate and output an excel file for comparison it doesn't need to record as well. This will you get the max framerate allowable by your GPU.Set a hotkey, check the boxes you want and whether you manually stop the process or automatically by setting a time limit.
See video link(not a data intensive video) - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5gP1lXvmMe5ZEpRR2ZWWDByNFk
Output will look like the photo, usually in C:/FRAPS/Benchmarks

purplekayc:
look at screen shots of some games i just bench marked
how do you configure witcher 3 and arma 3 to get 60 FPS?
Sure these ur settings wwork?

AH! One thing you mentioned was that your record with MSI, recording gameplay will have a huge impact on your framerate, around 10-15FPS lower. I used fraps to log the framerates.

purplekayc:
look at screen shots of some games i just bench marked
how do you configure witcher 3 and arma 3 to get 60 FPS? Sure these ur settings wwork?

For an AMD 290/290X, it will. You CPU will also have an impact on the overall framerate. Mines paired with an i7 processor.

purplekayc:
its a core i5 processor

Ok. If you in the UK, I can send it to you.

Mckandre:
@AKBliv010 ure yet to answer my question concerning the unlimited data thingy. i cant help it but noticed that ure having issues with most games that runs smoothly on my intel board,for u to get most out of ur system and to gain an increase fps on games,try disabling the antialising capabilities,post processing,shadows and vsync. with this few tweaks,ure sure to get upto 40% increase in fps. Also get the gamebooster app and disable ur antivirus processes.

I did bruv, I said I wasn't based in Nigeria. Most of the games are run on low settings though which disables AA,PP etc. Thanks for the tip, I'll try gamebooster and do some more comparison to see it's effects.
I test them on those where I'm getting playable framerates first though and see is it boosts

KazukiIto:
I can't remember. I will have to do trial and error. Thanks

If that doesn't work then it might be a case of creating a bootable USB to flash it, potentially.

purplekayc:
i hav efound away around it anyways:
i would use afterburner and fraps @ the same time

You mentioned you have a Havendale/Clarkdale mobo which CPU have you? I think I have an i7-870 laying somewhere in storage. Where do you live?

purplekayc:
thats the problem: its refusing to accept the click.i think a windows 10 version has been released

Using the same version?

purplekayc:
let me see your settings for msi afterburner
see mine and the frame rate button is refusing to display

Click on the tick beside 'framerate' to activate it then 'show in on-screen display' at the bottom. The video link I shared with you shows the steps.

Lana1:
I thought all Nvidia Gpu's from the 600 series and above support Shadowplay. I think Shadowplay is still the best game capture solution

You sir, certainly correct with that. Shadowplay is definitely one on NV strengths.