[SOLVED] I have a decent system and can't seem to run a 2D game

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Hi everyone,

The game in question is Aeternia Noctis and this are my specs:

Windows 10
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700x
Memory: 16GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

The game runs terribly bad. I have 6 or 7 FPS in the main menu, 3 or 4 FPS in the Famished Town (the first area) and 6 or 7 FPS in the Tear Road (the second screen). Interestingly, there is a very simplistic area where the tutorial happens (basically no background, only the lines for the level) and the game runs at 25 FPS or so there, not incredible but playable. That makes me think that there's a couple elements in the normal levels that are tanking my performance. Once I finished the tutorial an went back to the stormy first area, back to terrible FPS. I'm already in High Performance from the Graphics menu and reducing the resolution to 1280x720 does nothing.
This is not normal. I really want to play this and I'm going crazy trying to figure out what's going on here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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I've noticed it doing something similar with Phoenix Point but I've played Control, The Messenger and FIST Forged in Shadow with no issues. Also, I'm pretty sure Phoenix Point used to run nicely, that's why I tried older drivers. I'm starting to think that at some point my graphics card <Mod Edit> the bed because of the following.

Here's the Userbenchmark link: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49190589

30% is a below average score and I'm replacing the card for sure but Aeterna Noctis is a 2D game. Does the 3D card mean so much for its performance? I mean, it must, right? Is there any other explanation?

Also, how come an actual 3D game with physics and such like Control runs soomthly?

Thanks for helping me out...
You seem to be below the minimum specs bro:

  • MINIMUM:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 | AMD RX 570
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 20 GB available space
Your 1050ti, from a quick look around, is short about 20% lower performance than a 970 required.

You should be able to confirm this by opening the game in "windowed fullscreen" while having the task manager on the performance tab, see if the gpu is 100%
 
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You seem to be below the minimum specs bro:

  • MINIMUM:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 | AMD RX 570
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 20 GB available space
Your 1050ti, from a quick look around, is short about 20% lower performance than a 970 required.

You should be able to confirm this by opening the game in "windowed fullscreen" while having the task manager on the performance tab, see if the gpu is 100%

Isn't GTX 1050 higher than GTX 970?
Anyway, I launched the game, put it in windowed mode and the task manager on the performance says the GPU is at 5-10%. Since I'm checking it, the CPU is at 8-9%, Memory at 32% and Disc at 2%. This so weird...
 
Isn't GTX 1050 higher than GTX 970?
Anyway, I launched the game, put it in windowed mode and the task manager on the performance says the GPU is at 5-10%. Since I'm checking it, the CPU is at 8-9%, Memory at 32% and Disc at 2%. This so weird...

1050ti is a budget low end GPU, it really isn't very powerful. A 970 would effectively be %63 more powerful than a 1050ti this would be around %25 extra game fps as according to User Benchmark. Are your GPU drivers up to date?
 
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1050ti is a budget low end GPU, it really isn't very powerful. A 970 would effectively be %63 more powerful than a 1050ti this would be around %25 extra game fps as according to User Benchmark. Are your GPU drivers up to date?
I see. Well, I guess I'll have to upgrade my graphics card. Still, with the recommended CPU and 8GB RAM more than the recommended, shouldn't the game run a better than it does?
Yes, my GPU drivers are up to date and I've actually tried older ones but it didn't work.
 
I see. Well, I guess I'll have to upgrade my graphics card. Still, with the recommended CPU and 8GB RAM more than the recommended, shouldn't the game run a better than it does?
Yes, my GPU drivers are up to date and I've actually tried older ones but it didn't work.
Do other games run ok? The fact you have very low gpu usage seems to indicate something else is going on.

Can you run userbenchmark and share the public link to the results.
 
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I see. Well, I guess I'll have to upgrade my graphics card. Still, with the recommended CPU and 8GB RAM more than the recommended, shouldn't the game run a better than it does?
Yes, my GPU drivers are up to date and I've actually tried older ones but it didn't work.
I would run user benchmark as advised by sizzling and post back with the results.
 
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Do other games run ok? The fact you have very low gpu usage seems to indicate something else is going on.

Can you run userbenchmark and share the public link to the results.
I've noticed it doing something similar with Phoenix Point but I've played Control, The Messenger and FIST Forged in Shadow with no issues. Also, I'm pretty sure Phoenix Point used to run nicely, that's why I tried older drivers. I'm starting to think that at some point my graphics card <Mod Edit> the bed because of the following.

Here's the Userbenchmark link: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49190589

30% is a below average score and I'm replacing the card for sure but Aeterna Noctis is a 2D game. Does the 3D card mean so much for its performance? I mean, it must, right? Is there any other explanation?

Also, how come an actual 3D game with physics and such like Control runs soomthly?

Thanks for helping me out guys.
 
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I've noticed it doing something similar with Phoenix Point but I've played Control, The Messenger and FIST Forged in Shadow with no issues. Also, I'm pretty sure Phoenix Point used to run nicely, that's why I tried older drivers. I'm starting to think that at some point my graphics card <Mod Edit> the bed because of the following.

Here's the Userbenchmark link: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49190589

30% is a below average score and I'm replacing the card for sure but Aeterna Noctis is a 2D game. Does the 3D card mean so much for its performance? I mean, it must, right? Is there any other explanation?

Also, how come an actual 3D game with physics and such like Control runs soomthly?

Thanks for helping me out guys.
Actually the gpu looks ok, it’s being compared
to a 2060S which is the 100% baseline. When you look at the graph for 1050Ti’s it’s right in the middle. Small thing, your RAM is running at 2133 and not 2400mhz. Go into the BIOS and enable XMP / DOCP (whatever your board calls it).

I’m at a loss to why these games perform so badly. You are under the minimum spec and who knows what fps the minimum spec would actually provide.
 
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Actually the gpu looks ok, it’s being compared
to a 2060S which is the 100% baseline. When you look at the graph for 1050Ti’s it’s right in the middle. Small thing, your RAM is running at 2133 and not 2400mhz. Go into the BIOS and enable XMP / DOCP (whatever your board calls it).

I’m at a loss to why these games perform so badly. You are under the minimum spec and who knows what fps the minimum spec would actually provide.
Beat me to it with the XMP.. wont do anything for the FPS though unfortunately.
 
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Actually the gpu looks ok, it’s being compared
to a 2060S which is the 100% baseline. When you look at the graph for 1050Ti’s it’s right in the middle. Small thing, your RAM is running at 2133 and not 2400mhz. Go into the BIOS and enable XMP / DOCP (whatever your board calls it).

I’m at a loss to why these games perform so badly. You are under the minimum spec and who knows what fps the minimum spec would actually provide.
So, what are my options here? Because I feel like there's something weird and hard to diagnose happening. Would a better GPU make it better? I'm watching the Userbenchmark video on How to overclock the GPU but will it do anything? What else can I do besides hoping for a patch?
 
So, what are my options here? Because I feel like there's something weird and hard to diagnose happening. Would a better GPU make it better? I'm watching the Userbenchmark video on How to overclock the GPU but will it do anything? What else can I do besides hoping for a patch?
I could not find any benchmarks of that game so I have no way of knowing if your performance is right or not. This makes it very hard to answer as I don’t know if it’s a hardware limitation, if it is then an upgrade would help.

Overclocking is not going to help. Even if you managed a 10% overclocking as you are getting such low fps. For example an area where you currently get 6-7fps, adding 10% may not even get 7-8fps.

Where did the game come from? It’s not a pirate copy?

You could try a fresh install of the game. At this point I’m not sure what else to suggest.
 
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Just found this on steam -

Today should be the release of the new version, try and let us know if your game is running fine. We are contemplating more ways to optimize the game so people don't have this problem, as the game is quite VFX-heavy and puts a lot of stress on GPUs. We will make sure to let you guys know if we add more options regarding optimization.

The developer wrote that less than 1 hour ago to a disgruntled person with a worse system than you.
 
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I could not find any benchmarks of that game so I have no way of knowing if your performance is right or not. This makes it very hard to answer as I don’t know if it’s a hardware limitation, if it is then an upgrade would help.

Overclocking is not going to help. Even if you managed a 10% overclocking as you are getting such low fps. For example an area where you currently get 6-7fps, adding 10% may not even get 7-8fps.

Where did the game come from? It’s not a pirate copy?

You could try a fresh install of the game. At this point I’m not sure what else to suggest.
It's a legit steam copy and I've reinstalled it a couple times. Thanks anyway. I guess I'll try their support and see what happens.
 
Just found this on steam -

Today should be the release of the new version, try and let us know if your game is running fine. We are contemplating more ways to optimize the game so people don't have this problem, as the game is quite VFX-heavy and puts a lot of stress on GPUs. We will make sure to let you guys know if we add more options regarding optimization.

The developer wrote that less than 1 hour ago to a disgruntled person with a worse system than you.
Thanks for that find. I'll reply in that thread for sure. Found it. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1517970/discussions/0/3200369647697291444/
Funny thing, he's complaining about some stuttering but said the new patch fixed it. He's recording and the game runs well in a worse computer than mine! That's why I feel there's something wrong in my setup but can't find what it is.
 
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Actually, technical support just came back to me and recommended a format as their only solutions because the game works fine in worse computers. I'm gonna try that and see what happens.
 
Well, that actually worked. I have great FPS after the reset. I feel like I should have thought of that because it's not the first time I do it. Anyway, thanks for all the help!
More like it because this says the mim is a 950 video card.

Minimum
OS Windows 10
Processor Intel i5-4460
Memory8 GB
Storage20 GB
Direct X Version 11
Graphics Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/aeterna-noctis
 
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