TW2 GPU usage problem.

having odd problems with TW2. It wasn't so bad in Chapter 1 but now that im in chapter 2 its gotten worse.

Basically my GPU usage will fluctuate between 50-99%, 99% giving me the best performance with little choppiness and slightly above 30 fps on average while my fps drops to 15 or 20 when it fluctuates. Now its consistently fluctuating and im getting super choppy gameplay. If i restart the game its perfect but it starts fluctuating again after a few minutes.

 

The only thing I can advice, assuming you tweaked your settings, is to go into Nvidia Control Panel/Manage 3d Settings and set these options:

- display mode to single display mode
- power management to Prefer Maximum Performance

Also you need latest 275.33 whql insalled and no 3dvision/controller driver installed. If you have both, you can still try to run gamebooster in gaming mode and leave it running in background.

Check also your CPU usage. If the usage is greater than the gpu (99%-85%) probably youre into a bottleneck and that sounds normal since you can expect a card like gts 360m to handle TW2 at high details.

 

My CPU usage peaks at 50% or slightly a bit higher when playing this. I dont know why but the game works fine for like 5 minutes with a high gpu usage and good fps. In areas where I'm supposed to get 50 fps I only get 20 when its at 60%. Its super annoying. I'm on latest drivers without 3d drivers (uninstalled them a while ago). My settings are tweaked to get the best possible quality/performance and I have it running at a lower resolution. Maybe its something about how the game renders or something. Blah!

 

Unfortunately the 1.2 patch doesn't address the poor performance of the game.
Anyway if you didn't update it, give it a go. The gpu usage problem is known even on desktops (I'm having same issue with my desktop rig which has plenty of power, check sig) although it's not that bad (like from 99% to 75-80%).
Well I see you did all the tweaks I adviced already, I'm sorry but I cant help you further.

Edit: just remembered that TW2 suffers from a bug using low resolution. Try to run the game at native res, use the high preset, but disable manually
- AA
- SSAO
- Blur
- Dof

See how it does.

 

Yup all of those are off. All i have on are pretty textures and forced AF. Some shadows as well. The odd thing is, I get 30 fps on these settings but if i turn a lot of stuff on the fps is only like 5 lower but the fluctuation makes it even more unplayable. I dont know why but this is such a great game and these issues are ruining it.