Gigabyte R9 270X FPS Drop

[yasitha2]

I have the following system
Gigabyte R9 270X 2GB
I3-4150
8GB RAM
Screen - 1360*768
When I try to play Advanced warfare in High-Ultra settings game randomely freezes for about 0.5s. FPS drops to about 5
Why is this???
Is it due to the VGA card??

 

[unknownofprob]

This issue is common with advanced warfare and the R9 270 Series graphics cards, and it seems to be an issue with Activision. If this is the only game which is effected, you know where the issue lies, if this is across multiple games we can explore other possibilities. If you haven't upgraded to the latest AMD driver, that would also be recommended - found here -

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

before updating any driver of AMD's use the clean driver uninstall utility -

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx

 

[yasitha2]

This issue is common with advanced warfare and the R9 270 Series graphics cards, and it seems to be an issue with Activision. If this is the only game which is effected, you know where the issue lies, if this is across multiple games we can explore other possibilities. If you haven't upgraded to the latest AMD driver, that would also be recommended - found here -

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

before updating any driver of AMD's use the clean driver uninstall utility -

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx

I have the latest driver

 

[unknownofprob]

Well to answer your question it isn't an issue with the Graphics card if it is only that game effected, problem lies with Activision and associated drivers.

 

[yasitha2]

Any recommended settings to run COD:AW on my rig??

 

[unknownofprob]

issue still occurs when playing on low settings? Just noticed the "High-Ultra settings" in your original post, and curious to what your CPU/GPU usage is currently at.

 

[yasitha2]

Texture options :All HIGH
Shadows : On
Shadow map resolution: Normal
Depth of field:Medium Quality
Motion Blure : Medium
Antialiasing :SMAA T2X
Supersampling : 2X
Bullet impacts : Off
Screen : 1360*768
These are my settings

There was random freezing at start but settles with time it seems. b But no problem with crysis 3 completely maxed out. What do you guys think??

 

[unknownofprob]

seems to be fine, does the FPS drop also occur when all of the settings are as low as they can go?

 

[yasitha2]

seems to be fine, does the FPS drop also occur when all of the settings are as low as they can go?

No. When setting are low its not there. Is it due to 2GB VRAM??

 

[unknownofprob]

Seems you are hitting that 2GB Vram barrier, as from what I can see from your uploaded settings it should hit 100% (got pretty close to it at one point), and would explain the FPS drops at random times.

Only way to avoid this issue is to tone down the settings until max Vram usage is not over the 100% usage cap, which to yourself you would know when this is achieved as there won't be those FPS drops.

 

[yasitha2]

unknownofprob Thank you very much for your continuous support.
If you go through the above image you will see game uses 2GB VRAM completely and some amount of shared system memory (400MB).
I will reduce the settings and post the image. It seems to me to reduce freezing i will have to reduce graphics settings to a great extent.
And this is in a 1360*768 display. I wonder what will hapeen if I use a fullHD display.

It seems to me that a R9 270x with a 2GB memory is useless. If it has atleast 3GB then its fine. What do you think??
Thanks again for your support.

 

[unknownofprob]

Some R9 270X's have 4GB Vram (3GB is associated with 384-bit memory busses), and that would be of a slight benefit to the case of your scenario. However the GPU core itself is already struggling, so the Vram although would help, would not make an ecstatic difference to the gameplay. The higher the resolution, the worser the effects become at the same settings. Looking at the Dynamic memory, I wouldn't as such say it used it completely, but without a doubt it will hit it's cap.