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    p370em with 7970m cfx and crysis 3 - 45 - 60 fps , yet seems sloooow

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by pijeon1978, Mar 1, 2013.

  1. pijeon1978

    pijeon1978 Notebook Guru

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    Hi there,

    Running crysis 3 with i7 3630m , 8gb ram, 7970m cfx, at very high , FXAA, 13.2 beta 7 , 8 cores, getting 45-60, BUT every time the frame rate goes down from its usual 58-60 to about 50 , it feels like its going down to 20, even though i am still getting at 45 frames.

    Really distracting and annyoing as its obviously not the frame rate. Measured with FRAPS.

    Anyone else getting this with 7970m CF and crysis 3?

    Looks great but just cant play it when it feels like 20 fps every time the frame rate dips a bit

    PJ
     
    pijeon1978, Mar 1, 2013
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  2. Blair287

    Blair287 Notebook Geek

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    on a p150em 3740qm and a gt680m at high and 1x AA i get around 40 fps but on some missions it drops to 24fps, i think the drivers arnt ready for this game yet.
     
    Blair287, Mar 1, 2013
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  3. Red Line

    Red Line Notebook Deity

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    pijeon1978, weird, 13.2 beta 7 meant to fix this issue. Try "clean" installation of the drivers. Also, Crysis is pretty heavy on the CPU as well, may be it's bottlenecking somehow. All in all the game is badly optimized and have glitches. Future set of drivers and patches probably make it much more playable)
     
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  4. M3ezu

    M3ezu Notebook Consultant

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    Our Finnish hardware site tested Ares II and found out that there were severe frame time issues with crossfire in at least Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, and Max Payne 3. Another term used for it is micro stuttering and it does mean that your framerate dips below the reported values.
     
    M3ezu, Mar 1, 2013
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  5. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Well like Red Line suggested, with crossfire cards it's always worth checking out the latest beta set as they tend to focus on higher end setups in the latest games in these.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 1, 2013
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  6. Vozier

    Vozier Notebook Evangelist

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    i play crysis 3 in very high settings, only low MSAA and mediumblur, i get between 25 and 35 fps, but it feels very smooth and not slow at all ( i must say this is single palyer mode only).
     
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  7. Meaker@Sager

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    Crysis does tend to have a very small gap between average and minimum frame rates which means that a lower average should appear smoother than other games.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 2, 2013
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