Low FPS and CPU usage Borderlands 2

stweedo

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I'm getting considerable FPS drops in certain areas in Borderlands 2 which leads me to believe that my CPU is bottlenecking me.
Majority of the time I stay at 60 w/ Vsync (or 100+ w/o) but it sometimes drops to 35-45 range which is really annoying.
CPU usage is ~50% when it drops.

So why would my frames drop when none of my hardware is being stressed?




Here are my specs:

Phenom II 955 @ 3.7Ghz
Asus M4n82 Deluxe Mobo
4GB DDR2 800Mhz
Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce
Ultra LSP-650W PSU
 

shinte122305

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I am getting the same exact thing on my PC i have the 7970 and i play all my games maxxed without a single error borderlands 2 at max settings runs perfectly smooth 60 FPS with vsync than all of a sudden in random zones i get frame drops and it stays low in the 25-30 than it randomly shoots back up when it feels like it and its annoying the hell out of me and i play skyrim, crysis 2, call of duty, battlefield all at perfect 60 frames so idk whats going on with this game......




 

stweedo

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For me it's not random, it happens when viewing the first town from a distance and a little in the town itself. Maybe the buildings are causing it? Idk

Kinda seems like the game needs a patch to fully utilize AMD processors, but I'm not sure.
What is your CPU usage when it slows down?
 

gamniac

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I have the same thing with my system and it's an intel i5 with XFX 6970..
Have no problems with other games,this game decides to go from 80/90 fps with vsync off to 25 fps at random spots and it comes back after a minute and it rises again to 60-70-80...

This is really weird.
 

stweedo

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Does this happen without moving your character at all?
When I walk and look around to somewhere without lots of buildings it jumps back up to 60+

Also can you check your cpu usage when your framerate drops and post back?
 

gamniac

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Yes.. no matter if i move or not it stays low up to a certain point,and then all of sudden it climbs again..
Not the whole though it start right after you cleared the pond section,and when you're suppose to find some audio log when approaching the section after you go under the gate and walk up to those few that are walking around up ahead.
In that section it's totally biscuit.

 

Pseudo_Soldier

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My RiG:
CPU: AMD 1100T 6core O.C'd to 4.0GHz
RAM: Patriot Gamer 2 Series 16GB 1600MHz DDR3
MB: Sabertooth 990FX
GPU: Crossfired XFX 6870 1GB BE Double D
PSU: Thermaltake 775W

Same thing even with the new CAP 3 from AMD for Catalyst which has BL2 in the list. I can look at a city for years and get 60fps but as soon as I shoot to attract enemies BOOM 11fps :eek: I had to quit after that.

Edit: I've tried disabling xfire no dice. Also after the 11fps when I quit and went to the main menu it said 22fps!
 

gamniac

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I find it hard to find a constructive indication of what the problem can be,it seems people have various frame rate issues in certain situations.

I can't even say if it's AMD/Intel or ATI(AMD)/Nvidia related.. it seems this game again suffers from frame rate issues,sometimes games have problems with Xfire or SLI configurations,but now this is not the case when various configurations show problems in a single card configuration.


This has to be on the software side.. and this what you get when games are build for a system that has one configuration across the board.(consoles obviously)














 

vintech82

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Do this, I found it somewhere

Go to Documents/My Games/Borderlands 2/WillowGame/Config

Open willowengine.ini in notepad and search for DynamicShadows under [SystemSettings]. Change it to false will give you your 60 fps back. Had the same with the annoying drops to 30 but this pretty much eliminated it. Smooth as butter.
 

SuperBossSauce

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I don't think it's an AMD issue.
i7 980 @ 4.67ghz
12g Kingston HyperX
GTX 590

I easily surpass the specs to run on ultra.
I'll run 100+ without vsync or frame locks.
Constant 60-62 with frame locks or vsync.
The strange thing is, some of the least graphical challenging areas (well, what appears to be) will cause a drop down to 25-40 for no apparent reason, then boost back up again when I walk away. I believe it's a software issue or a coding issue. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
 

itsnotme

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Open willowengine.ini in notepad and search for DynamicShadows under [SystemSettings]. Change it to false will give you your 60 fps back. Had the same with the annoying drops to 30 but this pretty much eliminated it. Smooth as butter.

I did it but the framerate problem isn't solved with it.
Changing other settings or lowering the video doesn't help.
It's annoying as hell since i have to quit the game and restart it.

My Pc:
940 BE
8 GB
AMD 7870
 

Meevinman

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Same problem, Settings all on high (AA x4), don't see any reason why this game would decide to decrease so dramatically during battles.

Sys specs

Intel i7 950@3.06ghz
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 16GB
1x Gigabyte Radeon 6970
1x Gigabyte Radeon 6950 flashed
Mobo: Asus P6X58D-E
PSU: Corsair HX850w

Have not experienced this with BF3
 

stweedo

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Well, I replaced my phenom ii with a 3570k and my problems with borderlands 2 went away. Same thing with prototype 2. Steady 60fps with no drops.

Not sure if it was the recent update or the hardware change, but I no longer have my original problem.



Thank you to all the people who tried to help me with this problem.
 

Rise and Shine

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Hmmm. Those processors, along with those high end cards make me suspect of a combination of two issues:
CPU bottleneck and game issue. Phantom CPUs do quite some bottleneck to the 670, so OCing it would be a parcial solution. Substituting the CPU would be ideal. And about the game, that can't be solved until new drivers and/or a new version of the game comes out that solves this.

Just my two cents.
 

stweedo

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There's no doubt in my mind that my old phenom was bottlenecking my 670, what's wierd is that the cpu wasnt being fully utilized in game (only %50).
 

gamaz

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If you shoot and your fps drops, try to set PhysX settings to "low". PhsyX is a Nvidia feature.

System: i5 2500k, 8gb 1600, 7970 OC

Runs perfectly. It only drops some fps if PhysX set to high^^

Hope it helps you :D

Greetings
 

wesnerd

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Hi,
Im having the same problem and although my system is a bit older EVERYTHING RAN SMOOTH until a day ago. I could run everything at max and still happily get 30-60 fps.
Now for some random reason framerates just start dropping like crazy never to return... I overclocked my 9800 GT a tad trying to compensate and was getting 100+ FPS but as soon as combat started framerates would drop to unplayability and even in the menu would hover around 22 FPS which is garbage. Not sure what has happened to the game but even with everything lowered its still doing it. :pt1cable:

Phenom II 955 @ 3.5
16gb 1600 ddr3
MSI Nvidia 9800GT
MSI NF980-G65
everything is up to date drivers etc just updated a week ago.

I AM BAFFLED BC IT JUST STARTED DOING THIS YESTERDAY!!!!! WTFFFF!!!!!!!!
 

gamniac

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i will try this..


* Edit:

In first instance this didn't do so much, so what i did was to make the vield of view smaller capped the FPS at 60 and turned off a lot of wistle and bells and this seems to make a difference.

Weird thing is i have no issues with other games when i turn these whistles and bells.
Anyway thanks man,you made investigate my issue further, haven't been playing much games lately so no biggie i will play it now to see if i can get into it.

Cheers.
 

Peacekid2

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After research on this topic i have found that thousands of people are having the exact same problem and the same fps (25-30) problems. alot of people have found its a bug with the view distance setting in the video settings of the game. a quick fix for this is to go into settings (while your having the problem) and change the view settings to low go back to your game run around for 3 seconds and change the view settings back to your normal configuration. I guess this is something that we alll will just have to wait for 2k games to patch. good luck and i hope this helps!

~Peacekid2
 

danieljg

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I get FPS drops when looking in certain directions in certain parts of the world. CPU usage never goes higher than 50% so I'm guessing the game only takes advantage of 2 cores? Is the game just not optimized well or is my i5 3570 not powerful enough?
 

QuickShow

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This seems to happen when you have multiple objects in both short and long distances. It does not have much to do with GPUs, especially those from AMD. Lowering PhyX from HIGH to LOW helps a bit but really not much. On my platform, overclocking the CPU seems to be more effective in reducing this problem than overclocking the video cards.

CPU: Intel i7-980
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Formula
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4GB * 3 1600 MHz
GPU: eVGA GTX 570 HD SC * 3-way SLI

The default clock of my CPU is 3.3 GHz. As I crank it up to 4.6 GHz, a lot of the lag problems are gone. But that's not to say that they are forever gone. During intense battle with many robots with objects at far distances the FPS still drops to around 30. It's probably an issue of the game or the engine.