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PlanetSide 2: Optimize Performance

PlanetSide 2 developer (CyclesMcHurtz) has spoken up about tweaking your setting to maximizing CPU/GPU performance in this thread: "Multicore optimisation tracker". To save you time from reading drama from the non-developer comments, I will quote the most relevant paragraphs. Note: Use Alt-F in game to turn on FPS monitoring.

"The ideal point *RIGHT NOW* is to adjust your settings at the warp gate so that the CPU/GPU indicator flips back and forth as you are looking in different directions and then tweak it up just a little bit so the GPU is fairly steadily the limit."

"The three things I've seen affect the CPU the most consistently are: Audio channels (lower channel count can sometimes help), Shadows (lower quality can help some CPU's), and Texture Quality/Resolution (whaaaaaaaaaaaat?). Other things that affect CPU performance are straight-up bugs (and we've got a list of them to fix). This includes the performance drop for some when inside vehicles with HUDs."

"Pixels are a strange beast. If you have less than 1 GB of VRAM, watch out for using too high resolution or render quality. Using high-quality textures takes a large amount of memory for the CPU and GPU. If you have closer to the minimum amount of VRAM, this is not the option for you. The same goes for resolution. The way rendering works, you've got lots of pixels and lots of buffers. 2560x1600 is TWICE the number of pixels as 1920x1200, and twice the memory usage. This is why sometimes reducing the render quality on high-end cards with smaller amounts of memory helps. I recommend starting at 100%, noting the FPS, dropping to 50% and watching for a change. If you see a change, see if you can adjust it and find that tipping point. Render Quality is one of the few settings that changes instantly. Some of the others options really do require you to completely exit the game and restart from the launcher (not the server/character screen)."

"What I am trying to say is simply this: Watch the CPU/GPU meter. If it's flipping back and forth, you're pretty close to optimal graphics and frame rate. Tweak a setting or two and see if you can get it to just flip over without a significant change in FPS and then you're at the best looking game at the best frame rate. As we patch, you may want to fiddle with settings every now and again to make sure you're on the edge. As time goes by, we'll have better automatic settings as well (we hope) or at least better tools for helping you adjust things."

Fido
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:51:06 +0300

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