Borderlands 2 FPS drop when fighting

[WhiteH4cker]

Hi, I bought Borderlands 2 GOTY on steam summersale, VSYNC setting is on and max. framerate is set to 60FPS, but when I join fighting scanes I feel like fps drops to 25-30. My resolution is 1080p and the game's physx setting is set to "high", I know I will get better fps if I set physx setting to low but what can I do to get stable 50+ fps with high physx settings? I'm thinking to buy a used gtx 560 Ti near my R9 380 4GB to setup unofficial hybrid physx, if my power supply handles it? It gives 504watts on 12v+. Also I have a zalman 600-lx psu that gives 548watts on 12v+.

My system:
Fx6300 4.4GHz with Hyper 212 Evo
Asus M5A97 R2.0
12GB of DDR3 1333Mhz ram
Corsair VS550
Sapphire Nitro R9 380 4GB
250GB ssd+1TB hdd

Thanks😀

 

[17seconds]

Have you tried to disable PhysX or set it to low? That is definitely a performance killer with an AMD card in Borderlands 2. Even with an Nvidia card, performance will take an impact, particularly in outdoor scenes with a lot going on.

You could also take a look at your antialiasing settings. I suspect a CPU issue, and found that an overclock on the CPU helped with those intense battle scenes.

Definitely do some tweaking of your settings before trying the Hybrid PhysX option. I'm not sure your PSU is up to the task.

 

[burgessanthony]

It's very cpubheavy and would max my old i5 3450 which is somewhat more powerful than your cpu. Definitely overclock. Pau is fine for what you have with overclocking. Don't add another gpu.

 

[WhiteH4cker]

Have you tried to disable PhysX or set it to low? That is definitely a performance killer with an AMD card in Borderlands 2. Even with an Nvidia card, performance will take an impact, particularly in outdoor scenes with a lot going on.

You could also take a look at your antialiasing settings. I suspect a CPU issue, and found that an overclock on the CPU helped with those intense battle scenes.

Definitely do some tweaking of your settings before trying the Hybrid PhysX option. I'm not sure your PSU is up to the task.

It's very cpubheavy and would max my old i5 3450 which is somewhat more powerful than your cpu. Definitely overclock. Pau is fine for what you have with overclocking. Don't add another gpu.

Thank you all for your feedbacks
I'm already using my fx6300 with 4.4GHz clock speed since I bought the hyper212, which is I can go highest with my 4+2 phase motherboard. I get 30% more performance boost than stock fx6300. Looks like I need to change my cpu and motherboard, fx6300 can't feed the R9 380 4GB even with 4.4GHz. Would be a i5 2500k worth upgrade or should I look for something like i7 2600k? I rade about overclocking non-k skylake chips with z170 mobos but only with ddr4 ones, I could go for skylake if that could be supported on ddr3 motherboards.

 

[burgessanthony]

When playing, does your cpu max? You have to turn physx off as it won't run on the 380 and cup will cripple. It should then be playable. I'd go at least intel 4xxxk really to make it worth it.